marc lives in mindanao. >> anthony: mindanao.cularly in the south of the country where marc navales lives and works. >> ben: mindanao has been war-torn for the last how many years? because of the radicalization of recent years, this growing specter of isis, mindanao is fertile grounds for that. >> anthony: now traditionally the argument against journalists arming themselves is that journalists have always been able to portray themselves as noncombatants. >> marc: yes. >> anthony: there was some presumption that they would not shoot you. >> ben: yeah. >> anthony: but these days, people seem to not make that distinction. >> ben: yes. dating back to the marcos years even. >> marc: since 1992, 77 journalists were killed. >> anthony: politics here can be deadly. just before christmas in 2009, the maguindanao massacre claimed the lives of 58 people. dozens of whom were journalists. it was the single deadliest event for journalists in history. marc was the first one on the scene with a camera. >> ben: there is no system of justice. ther

the philippines from the northern part of the philippines down to the southern philippine island mindanao. and on the night of march 16th, fly australia and land on the morning of the 17th. 1500 miles through japanese air space -- almost completely the entire way. they make it without loss, there's not a whole lot of evidence that japanese knew that they were flying at that particular time, that they made it. mcarthur later said the escape of a commander in chief and his party through a situation like this is unique in the an nils of american history. and frankly i agree, it's one of the great, great adventure stories in the history of the united states military. mcarthur gets to australia, he issues a statement which has made him one of the more famous statements he's ever made. president of the united states, wanted me to break through the japanese lines for the purpose, as i understand it, organizing the american offensive against japan. primary object of which is the relief of the philippines. i came through. and i shall return. that promise to go back and liberate and drive much of t

supposed to be over in one month after four years it had not ended and the most acute sign of this mindanao which way it was going but the system went into effect april 1941 and the main target was race with a huge stable of the japanese diet's.y have r as long as they have price their healthy but they don't have the of rice. it is imported and even then they have to denuded -- dilute it. but before 1941 all major to dard politician cities have a rationing system which was quite scandalous they cannot really questioned the authority because of the war economy and there is no independent press to speak of in 1941 with the manchurian it - - newspaper they were trying to boost their circulation t with the campaign but once you start that self-censorship it is difficult to turn back around but from now on we are criticizing you.you. so that was escalated and bye wr 1941 there was more regulations of the everyday aspects of people's life that they felt uncertain they also knew of going into china in the summer of 41 and that was retaliated by the american embargo so low they fell to that japan w