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"nightline" producer alex waterfield and abc's alex marquardt went undercover in the philippines with the authorities, planning a high-stakes raid. >> [ laughs ] >> tonight, in a far-flung part of the philippines arthur benjamin is in a good mood... >> all the pretty girls running around -- i'm good! >> ...laughing, drinking, ogling the girls dancing on stage at this bar, which he says he owns. this is your life? >> in a nutshell, pretty much. [ laughs ] >> benjamin is a 49-year-old american suspected of having sex with underage girls and selling them for sex out of this bar called crow bar. but as he drinks, benjamin has no idea that at that very moment... >> the first target is gonna be in the crow bar. >> ...filipino and american authorities are just a few miles away... >> see you out there. good luck. >> ...plotting a raid that will bring his world crashing down. >> okay, we're ready. >> this is the story of arthur benjamin. we travelled to subic bay, a beautiful part of the western philippines, where benjamin has been living for 25 years. but our journey went deeper, past benjami

>> stand by as we are following this typhoon in the philippines. start with storm chaser james reynolds in the town of santa ana. thank you for joining us. we of course wish you safety as you do the work you are doing there. if you could tell our viewers what you are seeing and where you are right now. >> hi, george i can tell you right now in the town of santa ana the wind and rain are steadily building up. they have been the last couple of hours. expecting a peak in dangerous and ferocious conditions in about two or three hours from now. it's really going to be a -- place to be, george. >> talk to us about people in the area. have most people found a safe place to ride out the storm or gotten out of the way entirely? >> reporter: yeah, from what i have seen, people today have been finalizing preparations, closing up shops and boarding up windows them hotel i'm in for instance has been evacuating residents from the beach front area. further inland. people here are taking it seriously. the government issued the highest storm warning. >> i know you

and we reports from one of the islands where philippines are being harassed by chinese fishermen. >> one of the largest islands in the south china sea and philippine government controls it along with eight other disputed islands, in 1956 a philippine national discovered this island he was later thrown in jail by former philippine president marcas and forced to hand over the island in 1974 and 200 people have been living here since the early 70s it's a community that is relatively self sustaining with a health center, a school, a police statute shurnl and even an air strip and have been living here for many years and that is slowly changing. fishermen like him are being harassed by much bigger vessels from china and inching ever closer. >> translator: they use cyanide so there is no more fish in the area and cannot go out far because we are afraid of them. >> reporter: the south china sea is believed to be home to rich oil and gas reserves. it's worth billions of u.s. dollars in annual trade and several countries agree and china's actions seem to be the most aggressive and it claimed

philippines composite ended down by almost .7 of 1%. indonesia was up by .6 of a percent. >>> consoles and software are selling better overseas for nintendo. the company has announced its first profit in four years. nintendo officials say the firm posted an operating profit of about $206 million for the business year that ended in march. they say the weaker japanese currency helped boost profits on the sale of the home video console and game software in the u.s. and europe. overall sales fell 3.8% in yen terms from the previous business year to nearly $4.6 billion. officials say that's because sales of the 3-ds game console were lower than expected. >>> japanese telecom operators softbank is taking a stake inia ma da. official -- in yamada. softbank will buy a 5% stake in yamada. softbank officials hope to improve their sluggish sales. yamada reported lower profits for the year that ended in march. the idea is to create a new business by linking yamada's home business with softbank's business. >>> work continues rebuilding from the 2011

in 1956 a philippine national discovered this island.r thrown in jail by former philippine president and was forced to hand over the island in 1974. around 200 people have been living here since the early 70s. it's a community that is relatively self sustaining. there is a health center a school a police station and even an air strip and residents say they have been living peacefully here for many, many years but that is slowly starting to change. these are troubled times. he says fishermen like him are being harassed by bigger vessels from china and they are inching ever closer. >> translator: they use cyanide so there is no more fish in the area and cannot go out far because we are afraid of them. >> reporter: the south china sea is believed to be home to rich oil and gas reserves. it's worth billions of u.s. dollars in annual trade, several countries claim it. but it's china's actions that are seen to be the most aggressive. it claimed at least seven reefs in the area and patrols and blockades of vessels are deemed provocative. >> i d

well, breaking news now in the philippines. where the government and the city of valenzuela says at least 72 people are dead in a fire at a footwear factory. george cahiles from cnn philippines joins us on the phone from valenzuela. thank you for joining us. tell what caused the fire, how is it possible that so many people, 72, hatch lost their lives? [ indiscernible ] >> the government says if the numbers are right they're no longer expecting that number to rise. one possible cause, that investigators are looking into is the possible spark from the alleged repairs of a ground floor of that factory. the spark, allegedly, from chemicals producing rubber slippers. and managed to see inside the burn structure, several body being dropped down from the second floor. also saw numbers of the police, gathering evidence at the scene. now fire officials say the that -- that, through observation they have yet seen violation of the building. regulation about fire code. they're looking into possibility that one of the fire exits was blocked

manny pacquiao of the philippines has won six. pacquiao fought his way out of poverty to become a global star. charmaine deogracias has the story. >> reporter: the two fighters spoke to more than 900 reporters to publicize their may 2nd match. the price is said to be at least $200 million, a record for a boxing event. pacaccio has a record, 56 wins and five losses with 38 knockouts. the 36-year-old boxer is a hero in the philippines. >> i hope this fight is going to be not only to entertain people but to give an inspiration to all the people around the world. >> reporter: pacquiao's home island of mindanao is said to be one of the poorest parts of the country. some people here are excited about the fight. >> translator: i want to cheer pacquiao all the time. i can't do any work. >> reporter: pacquiao bought the gym where he used to train before his big fights. he made it free of charge for boys with similar backgrounds. vince is 16. he wanted to follow in pacquiao's footsteps. so he took up boxing four years ago. vince says he'll

he told them his purpose is to clarify that it belongs to the philippines. the country has effective control of some of the spratly islands, but titu is the only one with a runway. government officials have deployed troops and are urging filipinos to move there. the population stands at about 120. titu is only 25 kilometers from a reef where chinese workers have been engaged in a land reclamation project. philippine military officials say china may be planning to build a large-scale runway there. >>> many japanese companies are releasing their latest earnings reports this week. gene otani from our business desk joins us now. gene, tell us what's happening. >> well today we're talking about shipmakers and not potato chips. renaissance electronics has been struggling since it was launched five years ago. the company has finally posted a profit. officials at renesa say cutting staff and shutting down plants helped the firm record a net profit of more than $680 million for the business year ending in march. it's the first time renesas has been in the black since

thing caught by the fill philippines in the last 24 hours or so a massive cloud circulated and it's to be a typhoon and there are clues to look for and that is sequence and you should see in the middle of it a little eye, that is the eye which is the most violent thunderstorms are and at the moment they are going in the middle islands of the philippines and these are the current figures for it. it circulates staying where it is the clouds of course much bigger now and circulating heart and around the eye of thunderstorm you have winds of 200 kilometers per hour and gusts of 250 at the moving and it's moving northwest and it will curl up where it will get sometime later on saturday early sunday, probably at the peak by this time and category three or four where it will be windy and gusting at 270 or 220 and the winds are not the only damaging thing and rain and worst still quite possibly is the tidal and storm surge that comes with the heart of the storm and the waves. they are already up to about 11 meters in height. so battering waves and the lift to the pacific that comes in the i

and also is smart in business politics and acting in the philippines.gainst floyd mayweather has been described as the fight of the century. it is expected to bring him hundreds of millions of u.s. dollar earnings. for the people here though it does not matter what the outcome of the fight will be. he is a symbol of hope a living proof that even in this poverty stricken country dreams still do come true. al jazeera, city in the southern philippines. >>> plenty more for you on that and the stories we are covering on the website and the address of that is al jazeera.com. wildfire. >> we are going to explore the intersection of humanity and doing it in an unique way. this is a show about science by scientists. tonight "tech know" journeys into the jungle, this is one of the iconic animals of costa-rica with post cards of this thing. a beautiful and fragile place on

about 20 of them begin to move in toward the philippines. 10 make landfall out toward the philippines every year. you talk about this year. the month of may. intensity. activity picks up. culminating in july and august for peak season. active weather. pick the eye out. the tip of it where it made landfall on sunday afternoon across the region of the philippines coming in with winds. we know sparsely populated. damage isolated. major impacts felt across receipt under. lot of ice, torn fields. severely impacted. 62 commuters, stranded they were trying to get out. the storm of the region. unable to got out. wind. 260 kilometers. that would put category 5 equivalent. catastrophic damage, expected, if this were a densely populate read under. storm pulls away from the philippines. makes landfall in 24 hours as a tropical feature losing its characteristics. tokyo with rainfall in thec couple days as well. and storm system. low probability, forming the next day. that becomes high proability. one after another. that time of year. where you begin seeing these multiple times per week a nother on

philippine economic growth is going through a three-year exports fell.ng expectations of a 6.6% gain. philippines joining its neighbors indonesia and malaysia suffering from slow worrying numbers --slowing growth. visa fifa -- has taken swift steps. let's have a look at what is moving on the markets at the moment. let's go to yvonne. yvonne: overall, looking better than yesterday. in the green. you mentioned the philippine gdp. the stock exchange they're not looking good the past week. shares down 1.5%. a six day losing streak. the longest since december, 2013. this on the heels of the gdp data. ing neighbors like indonesia and malaysia reporting slower growth. the nikkei, gains in asia. hang seng down about 1%. group, the home developer, trading suspended today. why, according to the officials there. the stock has more than doubled this year compared to the 19% gain we have seen for the benchmark. three brokerages including goldman sachs have cut their recommendation on evergrande. let's talk about movers. japan, one stock. sell texting and a measuring

the philippine government controls it along with eight other disputed islands.tomas a pill piano national discovered it. hitu. he was later thrown in jail by former president ferdinand marcos and was forced to handover the islands in 1974. around 200 people have been living here since the early '70s it's a community that is relatively self sustaining. there is a health center, a school a police station and even an airstrip. and residents say they have been living peacefully here for many, many years. but that is slowly starting to change. these are troubled times. he says fishermen like him are being harassed by much bigger vessels from china and they are inching ever closer. >> translator: they use cyanide so there is no more fish in the area we can't go out far because we were afraid of them. >> reporter: the south china sea is believed to be home to rich oil and gas reserves. it's worth billions of u.s. dollars in annual trade. several countries claim the spratlys. but it's china's actions that are seen to be the most aggressive. it's claimed at least seven r

. >> harry, thank you typhoon makes landfall in the philippines. cuba's president helps pope francis to help end the diplomatic deep freeze with the united states. more on that, stay with us. >> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. >> welcome back. a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. morocco's state news agency is reporting that a fighter plane's gone missing while taking part in the saudi led coalition campaign against yemen. >>> migrant said they spent two months at sea in indonesia. >>> south korea's deference minister says his country will respond relentlessly against the submarine ballistic missile firing. >>> typhoon noul has weakened and moving towards japan. thousands of people have been moved to shelters. jamilla allen allendogan, reports. >> they're sloamthey're sloalg going back slowly going back to their homes sma

refugee can engine, which is interesting. >> precisely, unlike the philippines. the filipino press alludes to that in an article, the filipino daily inquirer. the philippines have an obligation to admit and protect asylum-seekers, being that it is a signatory to the convention. it also reminds people that the philippines hosted boat people fleeing from south vietnam in the 1970's. genie: let's move to africa, with the situation in burundi that is continuing. the president did survive the coup attempt last week, but the protests are continuing. >> despite the threats protesters are holding strong in burundi, so much so that the president has postponed the election by a week. this is playing high in the french press because burundi is annexed belgian colony. -- is an and-belgian colony. demonstrations are said to continue until the president steps down. he is speaking from rwanda which is where he has taken refuge. he is quoted as saying, "for 10 years the president has plundered burundi's riches and has put in place a militia at the drop of a hat." another french

the philippine government rated the storm the highest. the hotel i'm staying in has boarded up all of its windows. they're evacuating guests from the beach front area to more secure areas. they're boarding up and waiting for the storm. >> okay. james, you have an enormous amount of experience with storms in this region. how concerned are you that this could be absolutely devastating for that town and there could be significant loss of life? >> well, you know, the eye and the area around the eye, if that area passes directly other the town, there's going to be very extensive damage, especially to the buildings, more huts and shacks that a lot of people in this part of the world live in. hopefully everyone is hunkered down. there's not much time left. i'm really hoping for the best now. >> when do you expect the worst of the storm to hit? >> looking at the latest information coming in to me, i would estimate the next three to four hours. >> super typhoon noul intensified very quickly catching some people off guard. meteorologist derek van d

he has made his mark in business politics and even acting in the philippines. his fight against floyd mayweather has been described as the fight of the century. it is expected to bring in hundreds of millions of u.s. dollar earnings. for the people here, though it does not matter what the outcome of the fight will be. manny is a symbol of hope a living proof that even in this poverty stricken country, dreams still do come true. in al jazeera, in the southern philippines. >> prolific british crime writer ruth rendell has died at the age of 85. best known for chief inspect soar we canford novels. she died on saturday according to her publisher. she suffered a serious stroke in january. again, 85 years old. >> a reminder that the stories that you have seen today, we continue to update throughout the day. so take a peek at our website, aljazeera.com. again, that's aljazeera.com. keep it here. thanks for your time. >> hi. i am lisa fletcher. you are in thestream. dozens of checkpoints are popping up across the country, some as far as 100 miles from the actual border

s host one of the most popular radio shows in the philippines.sh and features predominantly foreign pop music. but if they don't play four local songs each other, they would be disobeying a government order. >> our job is to play what people want to hear. is it the right fit for our station, our market our image? right now to be honest it's pretty hard to fill. >> reporter: there isn't muck local music that sells to the general public. many musicians put it down to colonial mentality. western music is played so much here that only a quarter of royalties go to local come sewsers. but this doesn't mean local situations aren't out there. some of them want to see stronger government measures to protect home grown music and are pushing for a law that will give radio stations tax incentives to play more local songs. >> it has to be beneficial to them and we will also benefit. >> reporter: but they can't guarantee an audience. >> it's not something you can dictate to your listeners. you can try to influence them but in the end, we can try, but -- >> the

philippine nationalists who are eager for independence for the philippines and anti-asian exclusion us. -- exluclusionists. we will grant nominal independence to the philippines. by doing that, they will no longer be u.s. nationals, but instead aliens. foreigners. immigrants. they will then be subjected to immigration laws. you go from large-scale immigration from the philippines to a quota that only gives them 50 slots per year. these are the laws. the u.s. has a problem. as soon as we pass these immigration laws, these are transformative. we have never done this before. we're not sure how to enforce immigration laws. for example, the chinese exclusion act, passed this law in may. they are coming to san francisco. immigration officials who are really customs officials who have just been told, i the way come in addition to counting the barrels of cotton, you are supposed to enforce these new laws. the custom patrols are throwing their hands up and saying, what? how -- why? what do you want us to do with them? let's take the case of chinese merchants. they could still come. a ship load

in america that finds itself in the philippines.ost americans didn't know why we were there but knew we were there. america that had economic, cold tro, military interest far, far away from the imagination of abraham lincoln 30 years earlier. an america that had opportunities to be an asian power, but now new vulnerabilities and new blood on its hands. they were seeking to use force to protect their new interests in hopes they would need to use more force. these were all preventive wars. they were all preventive wars. wars fought to prevent what was thought to be an even worse possibility if we did not use force. the challenge is one we confront today. it is a norm is american capability. uncertainty of how to use that capability. it is an enormous benefits and triumphs. it's a. where -- americans in the late 1890's have the semi-design ideas you all have. you are better educated than your peers, you have more technology, you are winners because you are here. you are blessed to be able to be here. you did some things, but is also th

. >> in the philippines leaving local artists struggling to catch listeners ears. good evening, this is al jazeera america. i'm libby casey. >> and i'm antonio mora. we begin tonight in the u.k. where prime minister david cameron is pledging unity and a greater britain after he and his conservative party pulled off a stunning victory in the general election, secured 330 houses last night half of the houses houses -- over half the house he in parliament. >> before the vote, it was suggested the vote would be very close but securing a surprisingly easy victory. >> cameron says he is already working on a new approach to the european union. >> dana lewis joins us from london. preelection predicted a close vote it certainly didn't turn out that way. what happened? >> it sure didn't. 11 election polls said the conservatives and labor would virtually tie on election day. not even close. opposition parties marched confidently on, into utter defeat, all except the tories led by david cameron which scored a majority government. even britain's prime minister was skeptical at

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many in the philippines refusing to concede their homegrown hero was out fought. we to one high-profile sue port later on. up next, chinese manufacturing sector weakened further than originally thought in april. more on that when "asia edge" returns. >> checking some of the stories making headlines around the world. the number of people killed in nepal has risen to 7,250. at least double that number are injured and both totals expected to rise as remote communities are just now being reached. more aid and equipment is being flown in although nepal's only international airport has been shut to big planes. katmandu was built to handle medium-sized aircraft and heavy freighters carrying aid damaged the runway. the italian coast guard said nearly 4,000 migrants were rescued in the mediterranean sunday as good weather and calm seas persuaded more people to attempt a crossing. the flood of migrants shows no sign of abating. last year 170,000 people were picked up. that's a 280% increase on 2013. last month 800 people drowned when their boat capsized off libya. the victi

but also a member of the philippines congress. and put out a music video saying i will fight for you and appearing in movies and in television as well as coach and player on philippines basketball team here. now i managed to catch up with him in march before he moved over to lax lks for the last round of training, before the big fight in vegas. asked him a question or two about the upcoming fight. take a listen. >> this fight, is it going to be one of the most important fights in your career? >> yes. i can say one of the most important fight in my career, because it's been five years in the making. five years in the making to make this fight happen. and finally it's happening. so i think that the fans deserve it. >> now the mayor of manila set up a giant screens around the city. free screening live of the fight. it is going to be carried on many networks as well. for free for people to watch. you can even buy tick goats to the movie theaters to see the there are a lot of legend about manny pacquiao fights for example that there ar

. >> reporter: this is one of the philippines leading cartoonists. his work in the country's main newspaper has a huge following. >> i think it's starting to chaining. the comic industry is growing in the philippines. slowly they are starting to come out. intelentual cartoonist -- intellectual carr toppist, so it is no longer commentary. >> reporter: car topping for peace was founded in 2006. they are on a world tour to support political cartoonists, and says the trip comes at a critical time. in january 12th were killed in an attack at the magazine "charlie hebdo". the magazine was satirical, illustrating religion and politics. it planned the attack, it has not affected his work. >> we respect it. it's a strong light in my eyes. if i look in your light a blind. sometimes we have to think with a picture. we continue the other job with our pen, to continue the battle not against the beliefs, but the ignorance. ignorance is our bottle >>> cartoons are not meant to polarize, they are meant to build bridges. unlike france the century's old tradition, the

tpwut united states in an automatic position where philippines was a treaty ally and other countries our friends. it's difficult to stand by and do nothing while china bullies these other nations. if you're going to go in there you have to think about through. >> what will be accomplished by u.s. navy patrols through the artificial islands. i ask you more. >> it's going to give us an easier access to understanding what's happening in china. that's what we would like to have >> it sends a message to china to back off. >> they did not feed them. >> israel /* draft joe biden for president, super pact. ramming and up by the end of may-june just in case. i'm going to say that the iranian cargo sweup maybe a major showdown. >> it means we're going to be looking at a weak economy and much weaker than people thought for the rest of the year. >> consumer hanging on to their money because damaging psychology has taken old in the united states. the early evidence takes the form of flat consumer spending and consumer relief at the gas bum pump. they expect prices to be low are than today do you

i was born in the philippines. i was a 60 -16 year old child without a country and grateful when i landed on the shores of san francisco and i promised myself i would get back to the community. i feel like that everything i have done is giving back to this community i'm humbleed and honored for this award. thanks norman. >> at this time i would like to acknowledge the supervisor from district 8, supervisor wiener >> thank you madam president. colleagues i would like to honor mariea vulasen, so quh on up. born and raised in the philippines and immigrate today the u.s. she has been a member of the unit food and commercial wurbers uscw local 648 for 25 years and she has been a employee of wall greens. she is a active shop steward for many yeerbs helping many other usftw members navigate around their work. more recently marina served as a notion committee for 2014 contract negotiation with wall greens. we know it is a tough time for retail workers living in san francisco givethen cost of housing and cost of liveic in t

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you got a guy from the philippines that came out of nowhere and is doing big things. an icon in the philippines. >> reporter: whole lot of enthusiasm here at this restaurant. you can see they set up a table here to sell t-shirts and made up just for this fight and this is a lot about pride and it's a lot about being filipino. in fact, they just rolled out in the philippines some stamps with manny pacquiao's face on it so you can tell that this goes far beyond boxing. >> all right. simon perez, thank you. we are fair and balanced here at kpix 5 so here's the tale of the tape for the fight. all right. mayweather is bringing in a perfect record of 47-0. pacquiao has lost 5 times during his career but holds the advantage when it comes to finishing out opponents knocking ought 35 compared to mayweather -- 38 compared to -- knocking out 38 compared to pay weather's 26. >>> soccer youth are taking aim at levi's stadium again. a few days ago the 49ers dropped their bid to bit soccer fields tore parking. now they want to use the stadium as a designated smoking area set up next

and he was later thrown in jail boy former philippine president and was forced to hand over the island in 1974,. >>> a round 200 people have been levering here. it's the community thanks relatively self sustaining. >>> there's a health center, a school police station and even an airstrip, and they have been peacefully here for many years and, that is starting to change. >>> these are troubled times. he says fishermen are being harassed by much bigger vessels by china and they're coming closer. >>> they use cyanide because there's no more fish. and the south china say is home to rich oil and gas research. >>> several countries and it's china's actions are seen to be most aggressive. >>> it has claimed 7 reefs and it's patrols of other vessels have been deemed provocative. >>> i don't expect an an immiment occupation by the military, but they can implement of what they call the the cabbage strategy, to make it more difficult, and have more fishing boats go around the area and this is like a truck the chinese they're trying to achieve their objective without firing a single shot, this is

let's look at the situation across the philippines. we are expecting it to make landfall. we have a category 3 storm. winds of 205 k/hr. before it makes landfall 0600 g.m. t. it's likely that the storm will reach a category 4 status. as this happens, we will see damaging winds and rain. the worst is likely to be on the eastern side of the storm. the eastern side is worse. it will not be as bad as feared. there'll be a lot of rain, coastal storm urges and big waves, but it will move away. it will improve. hopefully this one not hitting the philippines too badly >>> still to come on al jazeera, with the formation of israel's new right wing government we ask palestinian students what it will mean for their future. plus police officers in new york city mourn one of their own. 25-year-old bryan moore killed in the line of duty. >> and find out why this was such an important match to tiger woods. stay with us. just because i'm away from my desk doesn't mean i'm not working. comcast business understands that. their wifi isn't just fast near the router. it's fast in the break room

. >>> rescuers end their search for bodies in a factory fire in the philippines. >>> india's prime ministerrrives in china for a key visit with his biggest trading partner. >> rival groups of soldiers in burundi are vying for control of the capitol. pierre nkurunziza has condemned what he calls the coup plotters. but he says that he will forgive soldiers who surrender. there has been fighting around the state media compound heavy gunfire and explosions have been heard across the city, and independent media out lets have been closed. there is confusion, however. al jazeera's malcolm webb is in the capitol. >> reporter: just a short while ago we heard very heavy fighting coming from over here from the area where the compound of the national radio and national tv are. understand that yesterday when the soldiers supporting the leader of the coup took key locations, they didn't force their way in they tried to negotiate their way in. but they failed to do that. so there has lately been heavy fighting there. there were forces loyal to the president who were heavily armed fighting back inside. the

the pilot as well as the ambassador dor of norway the ambassador of the philippines, the wife of thesador to pakistan also the indonesian ambassador to pakistan were killed in the crash along with the pilots. now according to eyewitnesses the helicopter came down on a school. in that school was closed because the pakistani prime minister was also due to arrive to inaugurate several projects. now according to the report the prime minister then decided to come back to islamabad, he has declare addai of mourning here in islamabad, and instructed the authorities to bring back the injured as well as the dead bodies back to islamabad. this is indeed a big tragedy. the military spokesman saying and conforming that at least two other diplomats including the polish and dutch ambassador that were injured in this particular crash. >>> u.s. department of agriculture has this week ordered 5.3 million egg-laying hens to be destroyed after avian flu was found in a farm of iowa. the flu is devastating farms across the american midwest as john hendren explains. >> reporter: across the american heartl

philippines is one of the world's biggest users of social media.e trying to track down tax invaders. australians -- interest rate cuts in last week's federal budget aimed at families and businesses all helping to boost melbourne institute of consumer sentiment above 100. a boost in polling for the government. indonesia is holding at 7.5%. of lender rules will help the faulting economy. this will allow first-time homebuyers the right to borrow. it raised more than 5% but reversed following that announcement. let's get back to takata. tumbling the most in six months. they have doubled the number of cars linked to faulty airbags. it is 34 million vehicles and the largest vehicle recall in history. we have been tracking the story since the gekko. -- get-go. craig, this is resulting in a massive number. craig: absolutely. you look back. the first recall related to these airbags was way back in 2008. they really started in mass couple of years ago and sort of kept rearing its ugly head. at this point, it is finally a situation where takata is no longer d

people inkilled 2 the philippines.t is expected to crack northeast, drenching central japan including tokyo. is underway at christie's in new york on a public also masterpiece that is picasso to be -- pablo masterpiece that is expected to become the most expensive sold at auction. a tribute tod as picasso's friend. christie's is predicting a winning bid of at least $143 million which would break the record setting from 2013 in the same auction room by francis bacon. in markets, the global bond route continues. treasuries at the highest level in years. oil dropped a third day in london among speculation that oversupply will persist. york,g on stocks in new mobile energy led energy shares to the biggest drop since january. it was close but no cigar for u.s. stocks after closing friday within two points of a record. they slept half a percent on monday -- slipped have a percent on monday. we are joined from pittsburgh by mark. in this environment right now, with the jobs report as you said where goldilocks data set pretty

but for you in the philippines you need to be watching this closely. moving west at 15 kilometers per hour, severe tropical storm status, not quite a typhoon just yet but another 10 kilometers per hour it will be up to fi toon intensity. it moves over the warm waters of the philippine sea pushing closer and closer to the islands here. and it does look like it could be impacting those of you here by saturday into sunday. still some time to watch exactly how bad the impact will be but if you are along the eastern seaboards of the philippines, you do want to be making those preparations now for the potential of being hit by a typhoon as we head into the weekend. now, i do want to pull back the picture and show the rest of you out here in eastern asia because you are also being impacted by some rough weather if you are in southeastern china we have this frontal area continuing to linger. that's expected to develop and push off towards the east impacting japan as we head into your thursday. north of that another low moving through eastern china, that's brin

philippines recovered from a four month low and is now at is up 1.1%. google executives have been watching with worry as rival apple has gained legions of customers through its iphone. now google has unveiled a range of upgrades and apps for devices running its android operating system. the executives hope the new offerings prompt iphone users to search. one app is google photos. it can back up and store photos for free. the idea is to save users time by taking over the job creating albums. the app recognizes where and when the images were taken and who were in them. it them automatically sorts them. google maps is getting an enhancement users can store their maps data and then use

the medium term we are seeing a strong rebound in jakarta and also the philippines index. jakarta did under perform last week in terms of earnings disappointments. japan is out of action as is malaysia and thailand so that may be exaggerating some of these moves to the upside seema. that's where we stand now. >>> joining us from the hague is martin. despite the slow down in chinese economic growth what's the catalyst here is it just a bet on central bank intervention? >> it's mainly excitement about future easing. it also feeds on itself. in china, it's mainly the retail investors that have been buying. they get more excited as the markets rise more but it's also

and this is really being driven, i think, but by the philippines and vietnam and the philippines especially has been very hard on the u.s. to try to engage the u.s. to become more involved in the information china's reclamation in the south china sea. >> john, with that in mind, those other countries, malaysia, the philippines, they all control real islands in the south china sea. couldn't the argument china make is all the good islands were taken, they just got there late? >> well, yes, i'm sure that's what the philippines and vietnam and others would claim. but as i said already, the chinese totally regards the south china sea within its dash line, which has been in place now since the 1940s. but that region is part of its own territory. so it regards other nations claims, it doesn't hold them in regard and it regards only -- claims. >> very quickly, do you see this as leading into some kind of shooting war? >> it could do. it could do. there is a risk and the more that china intensifies its reclamation of land and the more the u.s. certainly undergoes surveillance of what's going on, the

when manny fights the crime rate in the philippines goes down to zero.here's no crime because everybody is watching television. i wonder if anyone in the philippines is rooting for floyd mayweather. probably one jerk nobody likes. we have a doctor in the house, dr. phil. dr. phil who -- [ cheers and applause ] i'll never forget, one thing dr. phil said that stuck with me. no matter how flat you make a pancake, it's still got two sides. not only does he understand the human condition he understands breakfast, too. dr. phil over the years has turned so many lives around. today on his show, i don't know if you saw his show today, but he had a talk with someone that i think hit home -- it was a complicated situation. take a look at this. >> look. you have developed this pattern of acting out physically against other people. the only way it's going to stop is if you choose to stop it. so, i'm asking you, manny, why do you feel compelled to fight floyd mayweather? >> because i'm being paid millions, of millions, of millions, millions of dollars. >> you know, i

. >> the bodies of seven people killed in a helicopter crash in pakistan including those in the philippine and norwegian ambassador arrived in the capital of islamabad. military chiefs and government officials gather to pay their respects. the wives of the malaysian ambassadors were also killed. a technical failure caused the crash. >>> australian police detonated a bomb that they planned for sunday. they defused three homemade homemade devices and the suspect is due in court on monday. >>> the president of the philippines said it is important to uphold the right of the china sea on a trip to canada. >> we're hoping that everybody's obligations are gradfied so that there is theall governments in the area are afiring for. thank you. >> in the united states is calling on north korea to stop raising tensions in the region after it reports of a successful launch of a missile from an underwater submarine. images of kim jong-un preparing to watch a launch from a boat. but it's not clear when or where it took place. if true, it would violate sanctions banning it from missiles technology. >>> the

, i'm joined by dell rosario, a sports columnist at our sister network, cnn philippines. so, how are philippifilipinos g handle this? >> well, filipinos, obviously, we're going to be sad. we're going to be depressed thp pi guy is our national hero. we really look up to him. everything he does, we have an eye on it. this loss, some people might argue that he could have won, but honestly, i believe that the most he probably could have gotten out of this is a draw. i think floyd did his best to get the better of manny. i thought that probably won two more rounds than manny. and i think the result is a bit fair. filipinos won't probably take it the best, but i think that manny's stature here in the philippines, it won't go down. i think he's still an inspiration. it's going to be something that we're going to have to learn to cope with. and i feel that in maybe another day, maybe in a possible rematch, manny may be able to take mayweather out. >> reporter: you're talking about a rematch. do you think manny pacquiao will ever fight again? >> yes. i think that he still will fig

s host one of the most famous shows in the philippines.f they don't play four local songs each hour, they would be disobeying to government order. >> our job is to play what people want to hear. it is the right image for our station? right now it's pretty hard to say. >> as musically declined at philippines are, there is music that is sold to the general public. >> many put it down to a notion that if it's foreign it must be better. western music is played so much here that only a quarter of music royalties go to local composes. the majority goes to foreign artist the. local musicians feel a lack of support from music supporters. some want to see stronger government measures to protect homegrown music and are pushing for a law to give radio stations tax incentives to play locally produced songs. >> we have to meet somewhere else, somewhere in between that is beneficial to them and we will also benefit. >> legislation can't guarantee local artists an audience. >> not something you can dictate to listeners. you can try to influence them, but

great to have you with us from philippines. mani looking relax.t chance does he have how will he cope for the build-up out of this fight? >> to be honest i think that manny pacquioa is looking forward to the fight. it's one fight that he is looking forward to in the last five years. i don't think there'll be pressure on him. he'll go into this like he always has done. he'll try to back floyd into a corner and let him have it. >> both fighters the late to mid 30s. is it too late for manny pacquioa, and can it possibly live up to the expectation? >> definitely it's five years too late. but, you know it's a fight that had to happen it's a legacy fight. not just for floyd, but mani. the two fighters do not lose. this is their legacy. this is not just a superfight as i said earlier, it's something for the legacy. floyd said that he's the greatest of all time. he doesn't want to be 47. manny has been with a couple of fighters not in his class. this is the fight that he needs. that he is looking forward to. >> do you think it's important not just for the