and he found himself a philippine girl and half. yeah six months later she was in the very ones and they live happily she doesn't speak for you so i am talk to her but he's found love and it's more simple simple life what do you mean by the simple life you know where. i live where were bit more old fashioned where were there where there's. the man role where the man works if he works and he makes the all the money and and she is at home making making him dinner and breakfast and. cleaning so the traditional role exactly yeah traditional roles what do you think about the women coming here how do you think they see themselves in the society here you know it's very difficult because. especially the women from from asia they don't really have a voice here in the fire lines we don't hear what they think that much we don't hear them in the media but you know the media yeah what it is to. try yeah. and also. it's very easy for the media to you know just go after the bad stories you know the problems but there are really. many love stories

rodrigo duterte has been president of the philippines for two years. on drugs has cost thousands of lives. his human rights record has attracted international condemnation and prompted charges of authoritarianism. and yet he has an approval rating unheard of in most democracies. my guest today was, until last month, chiefjustice of the philippines. maria lourdes sereno was removed from the supreme court by her fellow justices. was that a victory against corruption, or a devastating, duterte—inspired blow to democracy? maria lourdes sereno, in manila, welcome to hardtalk. hello. hi, stephen. i'm glad to be with you. well, it is a pleasure to have you on the programme. i'm mindful that, just a month or so ago, you were the chief justice of the philippines supreme court. now, you are removed from the court, and you are perhaps the most polarising individual in your country today. are you relishing being in the political spotlight? to the contrary, stephen. there is nothing to really be joyful about my situation. but what is happening right now, with respe

i think, in independentjudiciary in the philippines? in the independentjudiciary in the philippines? i think, in the present context, this president came in very strongly, attacking many institutions. the attack on the judiciary was preceded by horse i'm a penny carried outwith, attacks on different institutions. you could see that at first he laid out the basic premise that, during his time asa basic premise that, during his time as a prosecutor, he was used to planting evidence and selling intrigue. so i think that resonates very well with what has been happening to some of our supposedly independent institutions. you could see this in the energy regulatory commission, in the commission of higher education, in the commission of elections, in the judiciary, and he also attacked the commission on human rights and the ombudsman. so these relentless attacks basically offered him a pattern of trying to wea ken offered him a pattern of trying to weaken democratic institutions. you say i have always stayed away from politics. you clearly did

there they were, on philippine television. incomprehensible images, gerfa's and kevin's passports, their half-packed suitcases. the stricken relatives they'd been visiting on tictabon, a small island at the tip of the southern philippines. gerfa, kevin and one of gerfa's young cousins, said the news reports, kidnapped by boat in the dead of night. >> i was thinking, no, that doesn't happen to us! >> well, nobody thinks it's going to happen to us, right? >> yeah. but my wife's heart is in the philippines. that's her family. >> reporter: gerfa was born in the philippines, had always felt safe there. her older sister married a u.s. navy sailor and moved to america in 1985. brought then 16-year-old gerfa with her, hoping to give her a chance at a better life. >> she was so excited about the opportunity. i remember she worked at little caesar's pizza and that was the greatest thing, to get a job. >> reporter: she had a son, josh, went back to community college to improve herself. and there she met a german immigrant named heiko. an

and he found himself a philippine girl and half. yeah six months later she she was in the very ones and they live happily she doesn't speak for you so i am talk to her but he's found love and it's more simple simple life what do you mean by the simple life you know where. i live where we're. bit more old fashioned where we're there where there's. the man role where the man works if he works and he makes the all the money and and she is at home making making him dinner and breakfast and. cleaning sort of traditional role exactly how to disenroll what do you think about the women coming here how do you think they see themselves in the society here you know it's very difficult because. especially the women from from asia they don't really have a voice here in the fire lines we don't hear what they think that much we don't hear them in the media but you know the media yeah. try yeah. and also. it's very easy for the media to you know just go after the bad stories you know the problems but there are really. many love stories out there re

one day decided to come to philippines and. he proposed to me and he wants to get married and what did you think griffith will have. it's into the same man how the piece chew. ten days after arriving in the philippines they will husband and wife. right. thanks so much. so thanks yes twenty. yeah but it's ok. thanks to. the late. fee thank. you. from billy knowing each other to today i've come a long way i got in. there and everybody knew what i brought up. along with their athletics on hand and they have two other children who's twelve and eight. i'm tagging along on this excursion while the boys try to catch lunch. with one camera. can trace his ancestry in the federal. back to eighteen fifty. they fished in these waters and they were the last and. like most here he's a man of few words what made you want to go all the way. to primary. school. so. why did. you must have said something right because. i think so. because. there's. nothing. the fish on biting today and when it comes to my questions neither is dan. oh yes men don'

it's the first rate of its kind in the philippines. and it made. the police found twelve children here the youngest was a nine year old girl. all of them had appeared on webcams for western costumes most of the children had also been physically abused. police arrested the pimps and their accomplices and seized credit cards and computers. the boys and girls were taken to a children's home to help them get back to some semblance of normality. but who knows whether they will ever recover from their own tale. it will be much more difficult to track down and arrest the five suspects international customers the victims have testified in court and have identified some of the people who abuse them but the legal. says could take years to complete. police in manila still have to sift through mountains of evidence. it's not clear whether any german suspects will be brought to justice. michael the man who photographed naked children in thailand is still awaiting trial it's been almost four years since he was questioned by police. but he has completed a therapy

it's the first rate of its kind in the philippines. and it made. the police found twelve children here the youngest was a nine year old girl. all of them had appeared on webcams for western costumes most of the children had also been physically abused. police arrested the pimps and their accomplices and seized credit cards and computers. the boys and girls were taken to a children's home to help them get back to some semblance of normality. but who knows whether they will ever recover from their ordeal. which it will be much more difficult to track down and arrest the five suspects international customers the victims have testified in court and identified some of the people who abuse them but the legal. says could take years to complete. police in manila still have to sift through mountains of evidence. it's not clear whether any german saw spanx will be brought to justice. michael the man who photographed naked children in thailand is still awaiting trial it's been almost four years since he was questioned by police. but he has completed a therapy

i am fairly ok and that philippines president of the regarded thursday says he believes in the competence and capability of women just not in all aspects of life we look at how filipino women are influencing society and whether present attorney's behavior is sexist or simply take it out of context you are now live in the stream and on al-jazeera you choose to leave your comments in that. time christine han i'm a professor at u.c. santa cruz you're in the street. present the dream go to target a strong governing style and crude sense of humor has often drawn fire from human rights advocates and feminists but on sunday he drew fresh criticism when he asked a married woman to kiss him on the lips during a rally in seoul south korea the woman says there was no malice in the act presidential spokesman how iraq contends it was a playful act in line with filipino culture which some filipinos might agree with. for me that was ok as long as the woman was ok with it it seems like she was the one who even requested it people are just putting malice to it but it was just a simple yes. it's hard to it

got sent to the philippines and mccarthy loved philippines. lou does a not. they got back in 1924 but her was one of the great jpmorgan financiers, the in america, and louise was often trying get his tones get mccarthy to the business community and andrthy was just army guy began to figure things out for him. reno, nevada,to and got a divorce. to grounds were there provide. she was the richest woman in america. he met her on the way to the ry pens. she was the same ship. >> and it serves him well up until including and then only failed at the chosen reservoir. but you seem to elude it was intelligence, that he expected 30,000 but there were 400,000. >> well, what actually, well, it is always, it is always kind of, you know, bugged me. how did mccarthy make this horrible mistake? wonders.s what ebb now, to be sure. g, you know, all of those, mccarthy's intelligence they are telling them they are over the border because mcdar think believe the know, at wake island we'll be able to wipe out have.ng the chinese after the incursion in october edgar moved in the fi

i am for me ok and i philippines president rather you go to thursday says he believes in the competence and capability of women just not in all aspects of life we look at how filipino women are influencing society and whether present attorney's behavior is sexist or simply take it out of context you are now live in the stream went on al-jazeera at you tube so leave your comments in the chat. hi i'm christine han that i'm a professor at u.c. santa cruz your industry. presently dream go to target a strongman governing style and crude sense of humor has often drawn fire from human rights advocates and feminists but on sunday he drew fresh criticism when he asked a married woman to kiss him on the lips during a rally in seoul south korea the woman says there was no malice in the act presidential spokesman how iraq contends it was a playful act in line with filipino culture which some filipinos might agree with. for me that was ok as long as the woman was ok with it it seems like she was the one who even requested people are just putting malice to it but it was just a simple yes. they turned

the philippines stock exchanges down nearly 50% year to date?d come today, when you look at the pressure equities are under, tighter monetary policy and the perception right or wrong that they are behind the curve does case.lp the plac e.m.'s are also under pressure. we have a chart showing that the philippines is on the record run of outflows. 23 from foreign investors, very close to entering a bear market come.ila, which could i would not be surprised if it comes at the open in about 45 minutes from now. yvonne: days, we also have something to think about with baht.ghthai where are we in terms of another rate hike for thailand? : a century all economist think that it is going to be 1.5%, that is nearing a record low. they will, with an updated economy.for the whether it is on growth were also on inflation, that is something to watch, more than the rate hike self. yvonne: thank you, david. don't forget our interactive tv function, tv go where you can watch us live and catch up on past interviews like the one that dave did with the philippines c

i am for me ok and the philippines president of the regarded thursday says he believes in the competence and capability of women not in all aspects of life we look at how filipino women are influencing society and whether present to tony's behavior is sexist or simply take it out of context you are now live in the stream and on al-jazeera you tube so leave your comments in the chart. and christine. your industry. presently dream go to target a strong governing style and crude sense of humor has often drawn fire from human rights advocates and feminists but on sunday he drew fresh criticism when he asked a married woman to kiss him on the lips during a rally in seoul south korea the woman says there was no malice in the act presidential spokesman how iraq contends it was a playful act in line with filipino culture which some filipinos might agree with. for me that was ok as long as the woman was ok with it it seems like she was the one who even requested it people were just putting malice to it but it was just a simple yes. they turned to his critics of the move is yet another example of

philippines president of three go to thursday says he believes in the competence and capability of women not in all aspects of life we look at how filipino women are influencing society and whether present to tony's behavior is sexist or simply take it out of context you are now live in the stream and on al-jazeera you tube so leave your comments in the checked. time christine hong i'm a professor at u.c. santa cruz your industry. presently dream go to target a strong governing style and crude sense of humor has often drawn fire from human rights advocates and feminists but on sunday he drew fresh criticism when he asked a married woman to kiss him on the lips during a rally in seoul south korea the woman says there was no malice in the act presidential spokesman how iraq contends it was a playful act in line with filipino culture which some filipinos might agree with. or believe that was ok as long as the woman was ok with it it seems like she was the one who even requested it people are just putting malice to it but it was just a simple yes. they turned to his critics of the room as ye

city southern philippines. farmers in northern india are demanding a fair price for their crops on a ten day strike they want traders to pay more for their products and they want financial aid from the government or than half of india's farming households are in debt despite numerous loan write offs by successive governments civilians are voting in an early parliamentary election a right wing anti immigration party has been leading the opinion polls former prime minister younis the uncertainties party are likely to win most seats but will have to find coalition partners to form a government immigration is a major issue civilians have seen hundreds of thousands of refugees pass through on their way to western europe calls for no election are being made in macedonia thousands of opposition supporters made their demands clear in the capital scorpio accuse the left wing government of ruining the economy since taking over a year ago protesters also alarmed at the possible change of the name of their country greece a

philippines the golden state warriors have won a second straight n.b.a. title and the third in four years they beat the cleveland cavaliers one hundred an aide to eighty five on friday to complete a four nothing series whitewash this was the fourth fear in a row that the warriors and the cavaliers met in the n.c.a.a. finals and it was by far the easiest of the battles for the warriors to win. steph curry bounced back from the below cost of four minutes in game three to score thirty seven points but it was kevin duran who had a twenty he was awarded the most valuable player for the second year running. this is great thirty four percent from the c.e.o. that they don't host series the whole playoffs i desisted been great. you know you know we set aside off with a championship so we've got a bunch of guys in the locker room that don't care about anything but just being better best for players every day when in the midst of the great history was made on saturday when south africa were led by a black captain for the fast time in a rugby test match and see achil

dug an al-jazeera to the power north about our southern philippines. and that is all useful from now more later joe thank you very much indeed now the sydney opera house is one of the world's best known buildings and steve coll earth knows it better than anyone else he helped to build it after emigrating from greece in sixty eight now he's heading for retirement after a lifetime of looking after the australia australian i call my name it's the scholars and i'm working in my means of the seed new york. i thought i made the sixty four i was nineteen years and i come to work. every morning for the last fifteen years. i was single out with the upper ninety six the i hate i start one of these beautiful build the the icon of the australian i come from a small island south of greece my face up when i start here you are seeing the drama theatre when they finish that i start on the scaffolding we had the lot of greeks lot i talian from ireland i met my wife and we met in late it's sixty eight the same year i started here of course we got the opera the hair was

but rob says the recent historic win of the philippine national football team the astros against the gittis john is inspiring it is the first time the national team has qualified for the asian cup the ask goes also rose in world rankings soaring nine places to one hundred and thirteen it may not seem much but it's the highest ranking the team has ever achieved thank. god thank you thank you. the philippine asco say they hope their qualification to the asian cup will inspire more filipinos to take up football specially in rural areas like this one because they say all they really need is an open field and the ball. but that's easier said than done in a current she were basketball is seen as a national sport football ranks much slower in terms of government for your team as we progress and as we continue to reap success we hope that this translates into interest in the national team and interest in the sport football has this reputation and image that it's a sport for the elite you know that the only the only country of ever is in the philippines you know you look at countries in south

dug an al-jazeera to the power north philippines and that is now. thank you very much indeed thank you very much for being with us this al-jazeera news out laura is here next. territorial. social. and ethnic divisions. the daily reality piece in some of france's underprivileged communities. the dear old world hears firsthand accounts from suburban president. over. paris. a divided city. conservation is helping kick his stove to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snowed up it's just the technology improves where we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests that more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international list of threatened species uncovering faulty forensic analysis by the f.b.i. more than twenty years ago reports being written without the knowledge or

one day decided to come to philippines and. yeah he proposed to me and he wants to get married and what did you think when if with him. it's into the same man as the peace chairman. ten days after arriving in the philippines they were husband and wife. right. thanks so much. so thanks yes twenty. yeah but it's ok. thank. you for late. fee thank. you. from billy knowing each other to today they've come a long way i got in. there and everybody knew what i brought up this way a bison. along with their athletics on hand and they have two other children who's twelve and eight. i'm tagging along on this excursion while the boys try to catch lunch. with one camera. can trace his ancestry in the fire. back to eighteen fifty. they fished in these waters and they were the last and. like most here he's a man of few words what made you want to go all the way. to primary. school. so. why do you. think. he must have said something right because. i think so. because the girls. will have. nothing. the fish aren't biting today and when it comes

similarly dugan al-jazeera to the power north about or southern philippines. the golden state warriors have won a second straight n.b.a. title on the third in four years they beat the cleveland cavaliers one hundred eight to eighty five on friday to complete a four nothing series whitewash this was the fourth fear in a row the warriors on the cavaliers have met in the n.c.a.a. finals and it was by far the easiest of the battles for the warriors to win. steph curry bounced back from the below cost of four minutes in game three to score thirty seven points but it was kevin duran who had a twenty he was awarded the most valuable player for the second year running. this is great thirty four percent from the c.e.o. i think the whole series the whole playoffs i dismiss his being great. you know you know we censored off with a championship so we've got a bunch of guys in the locker room that don't care about anything but just being better bass for plays every day and when it makes the environment great history was made on saturday when south africa were led by a blac

similarly dugan al-jazeera to the power north about our southern philippines. ok that's all the sport for now i'll hand you back to nick who has more of the day's news in london so i thank you very much indeed now after half a century the longest serving staff member at the sydney opera house in australia is called the day steve migrated to australia from greece and soon began work on the opera house construction well just weeks from retirement he reflects on his many years working inside one of the world's most famous. my name is the scholars and i'm working in my twenty's over the sydney opera. you know story and maybe sixty four i was in eighteen years and i come to work as five every morning for the last fifteen years. i was in love with the upper ninety six the i hate i start one of these beautiful build the the icon of the abstractly i come from a small island south of greece my face when i start here you are seeing the drama theatre when they finish that i start on the scaffolding we had the lot of greeks lot italians from ireland i met my wife and we me

city southern philippines. over eighty pieces of plastic rubbish have been found in the stomach of a dead whale in thailand after a five day effort to save the pilot whale vets dissected its stomach to find eight kilograms worth of plastic that's after it already spat out five plastic bags since being discovered in the southern province of song on monday forces have now launched campaigns to try to encourage people to use feel to recycle. italy's leaning tower of pisa is an icon in world architecture but it's not only one of its kind by dad also has a leaning tower but like much of iraq's rich cultural heritage building is suffering from neglect. has more from baghdad the block read sixteen sixty the year when the with zero mosque was built but this is all that's left of it the cracks in the arches and feeding tiles are reminders of the golden days of baghdad this is the victorian facade of the iraqi capital old government building it was damaged during the two thousand and three u.s. invasion and has been aban

linked group in the philippines is building its presence by recruiting children. france's war in the us it is only a few days to avoid a trade war leaving it up to washington to deescalate tensions over tariffs finance ministers from some of the world's largest economies say concerned and this is appointed by the u.s. president's new taxes on steel and alum in the john hendren reports from washington donald trump isn't backing down. with days to go before the g. seven summit in canada the economic alliance is fractured the allies are angry and openly talking about a possible trade war we we think this action is inappropriate we think it's absurd to consider canada a security risk the united states and therefore we've taken a targeted and considered approach to retaliation france's foreign minister also says unless the u.s. reverses its new tariffs on steel and aluminum from europe canada and mexico a trade war is just a few days away. at a meeting ahead of this week's g. seven summit in canada u.s. treasury secretary steven minucci and tried to his ways the allies

to the most i put rob says the recent historic win of the philippine national football team vs goals against the jackets on is inspiring it is the first time the national team has qualified for the asian cup the ask goes also rose in world rankings soaring nine places to one hundred and thirteen it may not seem much but it's the highest ranking the team has ever achieved thank god thank you thank god the philippine asco say they hope their qualification to the asian cup will inspire more filipinos to take up football specially in rural areas like this one because they say all they really need is an open field and the ball but that's easier said than done. in a country where basketball is seen as a national sport football ranks much slower in terms of government for your team as we progress and as we continue to reap success we hope that this translates into interest in the national team and interest in the sport football has this reputation and image that it's a sport for the elite you know that the army the only country of ever had that is in the philippines you know you look at sou

city southern philippines. farmers in northern india are demanding a fair price for their crops some are on a ten day strike they want traders to pay more for their products and they want financial aid from the government more than half of india's farming households are in debt despite numerous loan write offs by successive governments. two people have been shot dead in nicaragua as protesters fired homemade mortars at police roman catholic bishop begged citizens in messiah not to venture out police blame right wing groups for looting one hundred ten nicaraguans have died in two months of unrest. hurricane season is beginning in the caribbean and people on puerto rico fear they won't be able to weather another storm tens of thousands fled to florida of the hurricane maria devastated their homes eight months ago hundreds of men in hotels relying on government aid that will end soon and gallegos more from kissimmee in the weeks following hurricane maria more than thirty thousand storm weary puerto ricans register

the philippine asco say they hope their qualification to the asian cup will inspire more filipinos to take up football specially in rural areas like this one because they say all they really need is an open field and the ball but that's easier said than done. in a country where basketball is seen as a national sport football ranks much lower in terms of government for your team as we progress and as we continue to reap success we hope that this translates into interest in the national team and interest in the sport. has this reputation and image that it's a sport for the elite you know that the only the only country is in the philippines you know you look at countries in south america in africa you know football is the sport for the working class is the sport for the masses. in remote provinces but classes are often disrupted by gunfire and fighting. and the pair of football boots is the last thing on the boy's mind but they won't give up the dream of one day playing professionally on the proper grass pitch. for now they are happy as long as they have a ball at their feet. to the powe

city southern philippines. the leaning tower of pisa is well known but baghdad also has a. tendency to tilt it's not the only heritage building which is suffering from maintenance and neglect as a celebration of aid reports from the iraqi capital the sixteenth sixty the year when the busier mosque was built but this is all that's left of it the cracks in the arches and fading tiles are reminders of the golden days of baghdad this is the victorian facade of the iraqi capital old governorate building it was damaged during the two thousand and three u.s. invasion and has been abandoned since this is part of the ottoman military complex on the banks of the tigris river it's a decrypt state symbolizes the degree of iraq's rich cultural heritage. and many people nowadays are not aware of the importance of these sites and the reason is that recently iraq has faced violence and internal fighting which led to a weak government the conscription zone baghdad's old minaret are feeding the caliphs mosque compound is over a thousand years old built by the caliphs after centuries of war t

the philippine military declared the victory in october last year but the war is far from over because the mouthy appears to be regrouping this information is going for it we have had several intelligence reports that they're trying to recruit more members. and then training them it's a harder to fight because you're fighting for the hearts and minds of the people because the reserve did not die with the liberation of. the philippine military accuses the moutier of playing on the emotions of children especially those traumatized by the battle for morale we like fifteen year old ricky who lost his parents in the war now he lives alone moving from one evacuation camp to the next. and i don't know who to trust anymore i don't go. it's a sentiment shared by many young boys displaced by the war aid groups say they are the perfect recruit spur armed groups like them out and they need to be protected unless there are for hope of a brighter future they could be part of the hundreds of children in the southern philippines who are falling victim to the disciple of poverty and violence. jim dugga

city southern philippines. thousands of opposition supporters in macedonia have taken to the streets of the capital skopje to demand an early election they say the left wing government has devastated the economy since taking power a year ago they're also angry at the prospect of the country's name being changed i said only i and greece have been holding talks to resolve the twenty seven year old name dispute athens objects to the name because greece has its own northern province called macedonia and fears it name five territorial ambitions. thirdly new so-called government of change is officially taken over following three months of political turmoil in the country a coalition of the anti establishment five star movement gratian league party was sworn in on friday and the sun your go go reports from rome the union of the two parties one born out of necessity. a bride arrives for how wedding at a church in central rome a ceremony marking the beginning of her new life ahead as part of a married couple. elsewhere

city southern philippines. farmers in northern india have taken to the streets to demand a fair price for their produce. some of them are on a ten day strike they want traders to pay more for their crops and financial aid from the government more than half of india's farming households are in debt italy's new interior minister is valid to begin work on creating jobs and expelling migrants a day after the country's first populist government was sworn in earlier the new prime minister just a picante attended a military parade marking the founding of the italian republic and his first full day in office leads a cabinet formed of the anti establishment five star movement and the anti immigration league hansie. thousands of opposition supporters in macedonia have taken to the streets of the capital skop here to demand an early election they say the left wing government is devastated be economy since taking power a year ago were also angry at the prospects of the country's name being changed today only and recent bee

and so is the philippines. just want to talk about the philippines and just say we really have to do something tockly and assertively reestablish a relationship with the philippines. oddly enough, we have a higher approval rating among filipinos that are pulled in the philippines then we have approval rating in the united states. it is an odd problem. if i can get a 32nd footnote. footnote -- 30 second footnote. sea theouth china measure of effectiveness is what other people can do. nations,ps from other particularly japan, for example. so -- it matters not that we could still think every chinese boat in the water in the south china sea. that is the wrong measure of effectiveness in this case. there,t that we are not it seems like we are headed down the wrong road. it is not what we ought to be doing. >> over here. yes? >> a question for mr. donnelly. >> if you could introduce yourself and say where you're from. >> can you transfer that model of urban france to the presidency itself? is he more louis the 14th a

in thethese are philippines. that they were performing currency since last year, even for this year. that could be part of inflation. yvonne: i was going to ask you the peso. we heard from the indonesia central bank governor. seen the fact that we have this rally in the peso, to what extent -- what is the threshold for the central bank to tolerate further peso weakness? what theyou look at have been saying, they are saying it is not the level that they have been watching, more of the pace. it ultimately boils down to how 's decreases boil down. things will be the indicators to watch out for. to the extent of which we are expecting the philippines to grow even wider to average one point 5% gdp. last year was 0.8%. we are expecting cpi to go further higher and part of that is driven by the peso depreciation. it will find himself in a situation where it will come out and it will prompt them to do more in the monetary policy fun. they are expecting to more rate hikes over this year. yvonne: should we expect asia fx t

a big day for central banks, thailand and the philippines. this is "bloomberg markets: asia." ♪ rishaad: the question is could we see it bounce today? yesterday, an awful session, over 1000 stocks limit down by 10%. having its biggest fall for 20 months. in hong kong, the last time we had a bigger fall than this. lumpur, theuala nikkei off a fraction, almost waiting for something, aren't we? signal.aiting for in a we have this combination of maybe thisric, but is just the start of negotiating tactics between washington and beijing, but markets in asia more optimistic than the u.s. session. after theming trading report saying they have paved the way for a deal with goldilocks. a 20% stake in the restructured version of noble. the house will move to the final aages of a revamped, so maybe light at the end of the tunnel. let's each more details on how we are trading. expectationsmes to of how shanghai shares may start, futures higher, but easing off that advance. slumping to as two-year low, the second worst plunge for that benchmark. tech stock

i rode my bike and gave my school id, one in the philippines, wasn't even green but my grandfather said it is proof of my being here. that is when the woman looked at the green card for 30 seconds maybe and flipped it and said it is fake. she said this is fake, don't come back again. i totally was not this was in the mid-1990s, and even back then whenever conversations about legal people are fake papers or even these euphemisms come up people assume mexicans, the philippines were colonized -- my name is so spanish. and thought i was mexican and i was going to correct her, more than anything i thought she was lying. i rode my bike home and my grandfather worked the graveyard shift, home in the afternoon, garage cutting coupons, and that is what i found out what are you doing showing that 2 people, the green card? and this was in 1997, there was no internet. i couldn't look it up. i thought this was the power of media is so important. i convinced myself this was a mexican issue that was not about me at all and i found myself in a situation that i didn't know who to talk to, had no concept

and so too is the philippines. and i judge ust want to talk ab the philippines and just say, we really have to do something, you know, quickly and assertively to re-establish a relationship with the philippines that can get -- that can get back on a healthy footing. >> oddly enough, we have a higher approval rating among filipinos that are polled in the philippines than we have approval rating in the united states of people that are polled. it's an odd problem. >> rodrigo duterte. >> if i could get a 30-second footnote. i wanted to underscore something that general gregson said earlier which i thought was critical but we didn't talk about it that much. and that is, in the south china sea, the measure of effectiveness is what other people can do. it's the fishing rights of the locals, it's the transit rights of, you know, other ships from other nations, particularly japan for example, and also apropos ofinate nate's point, w become so -- i mean, the thing i wonder about is this obsession with lethality. it matters n

the philippines in her bank governor has laid out the case for a second straight rate increase.e cited broadening price pressures, tighter u.s. monetary policy and the currency slump. the peso plunged to a 12 year low this week. bond yields are at seven-year highs. he told bloomberg that wednesday's policy meeting will assess ways of reining in inflation which is -- what -- which hit 4.6% in may. perspective, it's lining up to our original anticipation that there will be an increase, but we inspect -- expected to go down by next year. chinese state television says kim jong-un has promised to update ties in beijing to a new level. it was his third visit to china in three months. pledge to keep supporting north korea. it's also a sign of chinese with the u.s.. the trump administration has withdrawn from the you in human council, the geneva-based criticismce growing of trump's policy of separating undocumented immigrant families at the mexican border. lawmakers have voiced opposition to removing children from their parents. >> what i'm asking congress to do is to give us a third op

philippines president appears in court for a vaccination campaign that may have put lives at risk. a bleak future for the children of gaza worries over how many of them fronting mental health problems. will show you why you're better off leaving racecourses to the professional. hello there across the southeast in parts of a.j. looks like we've got some pretty stormy weather on the cards over the next few days this whole region has plenty of cloud but it's behind me this bright white blob here just to the east of viet nam where we're seeing some of the worst of the weather currently just the last twenty four hours or so we've had one hundred seventy eight millimeters of rain reported that's enough rain to give us a bit of flooding and it's all thanks to a tropical depression that's just formed off the coast we're also watching another area just to the east of the philippines that looks like it's developing some kind of rotation now and it's certainly in a diverse area where there is positive development so they could well be another cycling developing here and even further to the ea

is there a proportion of the population a segment of the people in the philippines who. if you present a terror today is the the law and order president the man who is. trying to bring some improvement to the drugs problem and is looking up the streets well this is why he has support because he said he'll get rid of the problem of drugs and people feel threatened by drug says like people in european communities or in the united states may feel threatened by immigrants or migrants but of course their problems are usually due to other issues in the philippines there's terrible inequality there's an elite politicians who haven't moved in many decades since a detective just like trump says he's going to clear the swamp and he's going to arrest the near do goods and what we see though is a gravitation increasingly towards the positions of the military so in the second tier in office do tariff they has appointed mostly military people to civilian positions in government so the kind of creeping authoritarianism and maybe even martial law again as we can remember from the dictat

city southern philippines. orange was the color worn on a day of protest against gun crime in the united states demonstrators walked across the brooklyn bridge in new york some of the demos were held in chicago and san francisco on national gun violence awareness day so they should bell is a gun control campaign a from the is the kill taylor scholarship foundation she thinks that educating young men is key. people are now seeing how great of a problem this is across the united states it is unwarranted unnecessary the senseless gun violence that is happening with our children across the country it seems like every month innocent young lives are being taken for no reason so i think now is the time that people are really opening up their eyes and paying attention to what can be done to help the senseless blood shit the easy q taylor scholarship foundation is named after my father who was innocently killed in chicago on a friday night coming home from church he was targeted to be robbed and carjacked and unfortunat

we're talking about the philippines here.ling is finally there. asia's worsting stock market talking about the timing. where they plan to take this new tool in the market. that is coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: this is bloomberg markets asia. all right. take a look at how the philippines markets are performing given that we're seeing wreth selling across -- widespread markets selling. there seems to be discrimination from market to market. sophie: they are raising the event that we saw earlier in the segment. the worst losing streak since november 2016. that has brought the year-to-date drop to nearly 19% that is how the p.s.e. entered bear territory last week. they are finding some support after the chinese secretary said ip nation may have flattened out. policy makers will be closely watching the next rate decision. a few have gained against the dollar in the past week. when you sake a year to date view, it is down 7% against the green back. now at 53.41 against the dollar. david: yeah. speaking of bears, the b

it's a story in the philippines of a woman named jennifer laude, who's a transwoman that was murderedy a us marine. and it's really profiling her mother's fight for justice for her daughter.ies e f our festival this year, which is lights, camera, take action, d it really i thincialk ties, , here on my t-shirt. and ties back to frameline's mission of changing the world through the power of queer film. robert: yeah, and you have to say that there has been an evolution in terms of the way the community is viewed. and i would imagine then also the artistic representation. i mean, it almost seems to me like great that you can actually, like, focus on diversity within the community because i don't think people--they think of it almost as one sort of community. and now to be able to show all the different elements of it would be quite rewarding, huh? daniel: definitely, definitely. this year, a statistic that we're really i think proud of is that 52% of our films are directed or co-directed by women. so, we're also seeing more diversity behind the camera. and we're also seeing with this year

but rob says the recent historic win of the philippine national football team the astros against the gittis john is inspiring it is the first time the national team has qualified for the asian cup the ask goes also rose in world rankings soaring nine places to one hundred and thirteen it may not seem much but it's the highest ranking the team has ever achieved thank. god thank you thank you. the philippine asco say they hope their qualification to the asian cup will inspire more filipinos to take up football specially in rural areas like this one because they say all they really need is an open field and the ball but that's easier said than done. in a country where basketball is seen as a national sport football ranks much lower in terms of government for your team as we progress and as we continue to reap success we hope that this translates into interest in the national team and interest in the sport football has this reputation and image that it's a sport for the elite you know that the only the only country is in the philippines you know countries in south america in africa you k