and the philippines calls the waters close to the shores, the west philippine sea. so even the name of these waters is in dispute. of the, in recent years, china has managed to expand its dominance by occupying these features in the south china sea. let's zoom in on one example. missed you 3. it also have different names in the philippines, china and vietnam. but we will stick with the international names. actually, the philippines have special rights here under international law. that's because states are entitled to explored natural resources, like fisheries and oil within 200 nautical miles of their coastline. it's called their exclusive economic zone that china has its own interpretation. in the mid ninety's erected, a number of hats here is claimed they were meant for chinese fishermen and ignored protests from the philippines. later bathing added concrete buildings in 2015 chinese dredging ships arrived. they took caro from the reast corps, pulverized it, and titled it up to create an artificial island. so mister brief went from this to this the, today it's a

yes. ..here in the philippines? yes, yes.lnutrition isn'tjust being undernourished. it's also over nourished. overweight and obese children are very difficult to diet. we really need to question why... why the standards are different for filipino children. for example, brazilian children, why...why is there no added sugar in the...in the solid foods for the united kingdom or even germany? campaigners from public eye, a swiss investigative organisation, lab—tested nestle�*s baby food products sold in asia, africa, and latin america. according to their findings, cerelac sold by nestle in the uk has no extra sugar, while the same product being sold in india contained an average of three grams of added sugar. in singapore, nestle promotes cerelac with no added sugar. but in the philippines, on average, 7.3g of sugar was detected per serving in one flavour. it's the highest amount among 66 products sampled in the philippines. a public eye report, which i'm sure you're familiar with, found that some versions of cerelac contain trip

the philippine side knows this fact very well. china is position is clear and consistent. more provocations lead to stronger counter measures. i think that should the philippines side stubbornly follow the wrong path. china will never back down. but finally, china and the philippines helping butting heads in the disputed waters over many years. both health territorial claims to the sea and accusing shoulder of violating maritime borders. the stand off, i've seen shiny shifts, use water accounting against approaching filipino vessels on multiple occasions. besides china. sea is disputed between several nations in the region, each claiming some part, all that the situation has exacerbated by us naval grills with allied countries such as the philippines. we heard from a leading figure out a chinese public policy research institutes besides washington's moves. am i to a proxy war against china? the chinese are these taking actually contra matters against of the philippine publication. and now over the posit 2 years since the, the, the marcos junior government and, uh, you know

so, how long have you been back in the philippines? in the philippines? >> three years.hree years now? >> yeah. >> where have you worked? hong kong for five years. >> for five years. and then i went to america. i stayed there for almost 30 years. >> aurora is recently back in manila after most of her life spent abroad. what kind of work were you doing? >> i did the housekeeping, you know, and babysitting. >> the money she sent home put everybody here and many, many more through school. lifted them up to a more comfortable life. and you left family behind? yeah. to go out there and make money, that's never an easy decision. a painful, painful choice. aurora's children, now middle aged, are finally getting to know their mother. okay, okay, okay. >> bringing the food inside. >> many, many, many filipino women like you who had to leave their families, go abroad. >> yeah, absolutely. it is. her three children. children? my eldest is about four years now in qatar. then the other one is two years, and then the other one is in hong kong. >> working conditions for ofw, particular

thank ou ve here in the philippines. thank you very much _ here in the philippines.for talking - here in the philippines. thank you very much for talking to l here in the philippines. thank. you very much for talking to me today about this topic. i wish you all about the best in the year ahead. you all about the best in the yearahead. let's you all about the best in the year ahead. let's turn to some other news from around the world. the world health organization has called on 0rganization has called on china to share data on the origins of the covid pandemic five years on from its start in the city of wuhan. the who said access to information to help understand how the pandemic began was a moral and scientic imperative. it said that without transparency and cooperation, the world could not prevent future pandemics. an us appeals court has upheld a $5 million verdict against donald trump, who was found liable for sexually abusing and later defaming the author and journalist e jean carroll. the ruling deals with an assault that took place at a new york department stor

is that what's continuing to keep the stream of nurses from the philippines to the u.s. going today or is this just like now cultural? >> well, i think it provides a historical foundation, but i would say it's partly cultural, but it's also a product of more contemporary u.s. immigration policy, such as the passage of the immigration act of 1965 which enabled so many filipino nurses to come and permanently work and settle in the united states because at that point the united states especially in inner cities and rural areas, they needed nurses. so these filipino immigrants, many of them women who were trained in the profession, now provided such an important service and we really have to recognize today and i feel that nurse unseen is such an important documentary because it humanizes these filipino nurses, these professional workers, and it shows their major contributions to our american healthcare system, which just wouldn't be working as well as it does without the labor and the contributions of filipino nurses. >> yeah. you're talking about the contributions to all o

we will remove these type of dismissals from philippine soil. as soon as the notary exercises over by malware towards the end of the year, the missile has not been removed and out. now the philippine government is sites oh, we are interesting acquiring those missiles phone united states. this is just a sly of hands. i mean, these missiles are not really in the operational control of the phillip, the military. they will be handled by the us military to target china because of the type of missile quit targets, much of southern china. and this is a serious security threat to china. this is why china is raising a, a very strong objection to us. the essentially continued to militarize a region about creating unnecessary publication that just that just justified fors. there's u. s. military deployment use asia. and the us is basically erroring out the threats of war against china through its proxy. the philippines, the south china sea, is a very busy waterway. and this is a very major part of the trade route for the global trade. and us claim that it

the people of the philippines held that the americans would help over throw spanish rule and the grand independence through the country. but the united states was by no means willing to give freedom to the philippines and side as just another colony. 1999. the filipinos began armed resistance to the new occupying american troops, were barely able to occupy the territory of the philippine republic. but that patriot started a desperate guerrilla war, washington was forced, as in new reinforcements and triple the number of its troops on the islands. the us army suffered heavy losses. the americans took 8 out of the population, general jacob smith, in revenge for the guerrilla attack on the garrison in the city of fall on ega. porter to kill everyone over 10 years old. the monstrous gulf of terror, according to the most conservative estimates, lead to the death of about 200000 philippine notes. the americans manage to suppress the guerrillas only 14 years after the beginning of the war. but the united states was not able to stop the national liberation struggle of the filipino peoples in 1

was this the decisive that the japanese were looking for or was that the philippine battle of philippine sea sometime earlier, or did japanese never get the decisive battle and just die a death of a thousand cuts? it just happens to be this one is a bit of a bigger one than some of the others. would combine. philippines and later the gulf as the biggest battle the battle because japan's air wing was wiped out in june. the great marianas, turkey shoot. so this led ozawa not having much in the way air power when he played his decoy card so then the airplanes just marauded on ozawa's force sank the su akaku which was the last ship from the pearl raid. three small carriers was but the two combination carrier battleships and hyuga escaped and we can only imagine if lee had been allowed go in amongst them they would have been gone anyway. so the air power wiped out in june. the surface power was wiped out in october. so you have the mighty. which was considered one of the joke. the it was one of the most useless things ever. she didn't have enough oil to operate she went back and, wound up on

the people of the philippines held that the americans would help over throw spanish rule and the grand independence to the country. but the united states was by no means willing to give freedom to the philippines and sides as just another colony. 1999, the filipinos began armed resistance to the new occupied american troops were barely able to occupy the territory of the philippine republic. but that patriot started a desperate gorilla war. washington was forced, as in new reinforcements and triple the number of its troops on the islands. the u . s. army suffered heavy losses. the americans took it out on the population. general jacob smith, in revenge for the gorilla attack on the garrison in the city of bile on ega. porter to kill everyone over 10 years old. the monstrous gulf of terror, according to the most conservative estimates lead to the death of about 200000 philippine notes. the americans manage to suppress the gorilla as only 14 years after the beginning of the war. but the united states was not able to stop the national liberation struggle of the filipino peoples in 1946. a

maria ressa is the nobel peace prize winning co-founder of the online news site, rappler, in the philippines. she has faced harassment and multiple arrests due to her investigative reporting and efforts to combat disinformation. - this is by design set up against facts and what keeps you scrolling are lies. - [margaret] jonathan munro is the global news director of the bbc, leading coverage of high risk conflicts from ukraine to gaza. - even when there are real personal threats, putting facts into the bloodstream is central to what we do. - [margaret] with threats to global media freedom increasing, what do these journalists say now? - [announcer] "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by robert granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, peter and mary kalikow, and by the following. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - maria ressa, alsu kurmasheva, jonathan munro. little live action on the front here. i wanna start by also disclosing to the audience. i am on the board of radio free europe/radio liberty. so alsu, you are a dual us russian

after the decades of the dramatic ordeal, the philippines was finally able to achieve independence. the, the walk, a town in ivory coast is little known outside the region. but for rivalry and the name conjures up memories of tragic events that plunge the ones prosperous country into 10 mile. the lunch is broken, lives the country, deep and crisis. the cause of it to the.

just kind of similar with the situation in the ukraine, the us, the will, i mean, the philippines, you know, setting of the old, maybe shapes, you know, a centrally alms to the how one, orlando, philippines and to charlie china basically decree to travel forward, trying their goal is basically to have a proxy walk through the philippines or all via that tie went against the chinese side to this, not russian authorities busted a must have fraudulent coal center network based in ukraine. the milton group targeted victims across the world, causing an estimated $300000000.00 in damages. for next, our documentary team, us, why officials in the printing and presidents office of the previous storage and government cupboard on the criminal enterprise that goes for the the sludge, all one word or phrase gives this little bit and that's really up to me. so what is the, what's the commend, immutable sort of thing. yeah. for us to put in your budget for example. so i see how she's going to get upset. so thank you for asking before, but the color of sabrina, i'm wondering just give gold sample of i

but i had cfos and ctos and ceos calling me from the philippines saying, "tell us about this." no! so deepfake, you know about the hong kong company where he was, the guy, the treasurer was on a call, a zoom call, with four different people and they told him to wire $25 million from hong kong to london. every single one of the four on the zoom call were deepfakes and they lost $25 million, right? so i think the first is, you know, definitely, these tech companies, and a lot of them, they're american, silicon valley driven. and tiktok, it's funny that america took action against tiktok, but not against the original sins, right? because this is part of the reason 71% of the world is electing illiberal leaders democratically is because they believe it. - and yet you support the tiktok legislation. - i support anything that holds the platforms accountable. - okay. - right? i have been saying this 'cause that's the medium term. this is not a free speech issue. if you think it's a free speech issue, most of the time that probably comes from a tech lobby. four out of 10 americans now get

[inaudible] the philippines has been extraordinary opportunity. giving 17 or 19 coast guard checks to what is going on the indo pacific that is a huge investment in the philippines what we are doing also talks i like to buy the out is. if a bashful group. adam left indiana university. >> the magicit touch. it's not just looking at happening now it's reflecting on the fan something that's happened is well aware of the incredible accomplishments of the past three years. for whatever reason they have not happened i will add yet. can i have my microphone back? >> now it will not work again. this is not just the alliance. i out when this the other day in the wall street journal. i think our security posture even as they were making major changes we have a theory you should do this butch we have a theory of the case we are executing.of diplomatic political side same thing. our international economic statecraft does not work needs to bel it's a weak link in the system. i am not talking about trade. everyone and you can never get a conversation internatio

is now the president of the philippines.mer philippine president rodrigo duterte. a leader who made crude remarks about william and a murderous war on people. duterte confirmed a death squad existed under his watch while he was a city mayor. during a foul mouth campaign he pledged to kill tens of thousands of criminals and joked about raping an australian missionary. it is partly why he is known as the trump of the east, and while he may not be president anymore his bloody legacy that transformed the country's politics is and it should serve as a warning of what can happen to democratic institutions when right-wing populists win power. it is something that the 2021 nobel peace prize winner and full bright scholar, the titan who faced multiple government threats, accusations and arrests when i asked how rodrigo duterte took control of the government and what he did to it. >> yes, i think you have to understand that the philippine constitution is patterned after the united states. we were a colony of the united states about 50

only two countries in the world ban divorce — the vatican and the philippines.pped in abusive relationships, or separated but unable to ever legally remarry. but activists hope that 2025 will see a change in the law. a divorce bill passed the lower house in the summer, but has been stuck in the senate since, where it faces strong opposition from conservatives in this deeply catholic country. stella sibonga from the divorce pilipinas coalition told me of her experience of trying to get a divorce for more than a decade. we are planning... inaudible i have been advocating for change since 2016. the house of representatives of the divorce bill on its third and final reading. looking inaudible this happens in 2025, it could empower so many of us to reclaim our lives and pursue happiness. our outdated marital laws, it is time to break free from the chains of our past and build a future full of possibilities. you've personally been trying to get a divorce yourself for more than a decade — could you share your story? since 2012, ifiled... it is really hard to get the di

forces in the philippines. her leaders hoped a swift offensive would intimidate americans into accepting japan's conquest. if not, the japanese reasoned, they would have time to consolidate their gains and establish a defensive perimeter in the pacific before america could recover and counterattack. this was the japanese plan that they began executing in a coordinated attack across many thousands of miles. on the morning of december 7th, 1941. now, let's head 5000 miles east to washington, d.c. and the white house. the time difference between hawaii and washington in 1941 was five and a half hours. it's only 5 hours today due to changes in international time zones. so in japan's attack on hawaii began at 7:55 a.m. it was 125 in the afternoon in washington, d.c. it was a sunday afternoon in the capital and only a few office staff were at the white house because it was a sunday. fdr is only appointment had been a half hour meeting with the chinese ambassador at 1230. after that appointment, the president ate lunc

their son, ferdinand marcos jr., is now the president of the philippines.mer philippine president, rodrigo duterte. meaning the two top leaders of the country are both offspring of former presidents. and problematic ones at best. rodrigo duterte was infamous for his autocratic tendencies, crude remarks about women and a murderous war on drugs that killed 7,000 people in the first year. duterte has even confirmed a death squad existed under his watch. to control crime when he was city mayor. during a foul-mouthed campaign, he pledged to kill tens of thousands of criminals and joked about raping an australian missionary. it's partly why he is known as the trump of the east. he's one of the many autocrats trump admires and the feeling is mutual. in 2017, duterte crooned a song for trump at a ceremony in manila. his bloody legacy transformed the country's politics and should serve as a warning for what can happen to democratic institutions when right-wing populists win power. democracy is at a tipping point, there and here, and around the world. something journ

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the actual position will be of the new america registration in the philippines coast guard as the keys in chinese vessels of aggressive actions in contested south china sea watches for sage, released by the philippines, shows one of its control ships being sprayed by a chinese vessels move to cannon for so keesing chinese ships of roaming and all the dangerous maneuvers on his case called says the philippine ships came dangerously close to its law enforcement saying that actions was in accordance with the no salacious flare up in the contested scamper. a show which both countries claim it and these quote has upheld the death sentence of ability and a real estate tycoon. behind the country's biggest bank fraud strong, my line has appealed against the ruling. don't just say head primes carry serious consequences. they also say they see no reason to reduce have penalty for embezzlement and bribery. patrick felt reports stone faced in silence from my lance awaiting the appeals court verdict on her death sentence. in april, she was found guilty of investing more than $12000000000.00 through

treaty ally but the philippines are and the japanese are.ven months these extremely dangerous and provocative actions in the south china sea against the philippines. some of those acts could even be considered acts of war and so we know that the chinese are prepared to go to war against the philippines which means they know that they've got to fight the united states because we have a mutual defense treaty with the philippines since 1951. cheryl: well, we've got a new president coming in. we'll have to get his thoughts on that. brazilian officials finding chinese nationals are working in, quote, slavely like conditions in a chinese ev construction site in brazil. the workers reportedly hired in china by another firm and were brought to brazil, long hours, forced labor, being kept in what authorities describe as degrading conditions and in a statement ev maker byd says it cut ties with the firm that hired the workers and are currently working with authorities. but i want to get your reaction because if this is happening at this plant, is this

in the bottom three, they find india, argentina, and the philippines are lagging behind.e what makes up a good retirement system. firstly, in those countries there is a public pension from there is a public pension from the government for the poor. they're looking at the poor a's. the recovery rate of the population is in the order of 85- 90%, population is in the order of 85— 90%, so most people aged between 15 and 64 a private retirement savings accounts. and thirdly the amount of money going in is a roundabout 12— 50% of a person's ways. so they not relying on the next generation to pay their pensions, they are putting money aside now for the future. singapore is a good example with the central provident fund. we need to be putting money aside for the future for the ageing population. we cannot rely on the next generation as we used to. find generation as we used to. and if we look _ generation as we used to. and if we look at — generation as we used to. and if we look at the _ generation as we used to. and if we look at the countries that are perhaps not doing quite so

caller: my father served in world war ii out of the philippine islands.s well, i had a cousin that was a tuskegee airmen, andrew turner. three other cousins that were in the 555, fire fighters that were paratroopers. i have many family members that i look back on and think of an honor as being defenders of our country. i'm so sad that so many of them are gone. the younger ones don't recall or remember the heroic moves they did to help our country. i just wanted to express it and say i am so honored to have them be family members of mine. host: this is from hawaii news earlier this week. a 100. 4-year-old pearl harbor survivor is back. he touched down in honolulu on tuesday ahead of the 83rd commemoration of the attack on pearl harbor. he's one of the few remaining survivors from the date and the only one left from the uss dobbins. his flight was met with water cannons and a band. what do you remember about that day? being scared. i wondered about my brothers, where they were. a musician and the navy band, he was starting a quiet day when the attack began.

in the bottom three, india, argentina and the philippines are lagging behind.r told me what makes up a good retirement system. firstly, in those countries, _ retirement system. firstly, in those countries, there - retirement system. firstly, in those countries, there is - retirement system. firstly, in those countries, there is a . those countries, there is a public pension government for the poor, they're looking after the poor, they're looking after the poor, they're looking after the poor age and secondly, the coverage rate of the work h population is five — 90% so most people aged between 15 and 64 have got private retirement savings account. and thirdly, the amount of money going in as around about 12 — 15% of a person's wage. so they are not relying on the national oration to pay their pensions, they are putting money aside now for the future, singapore is a good example with the central provident fund but we need to be putting money aside for the future for the ageing population. we cannot rely on the next narration as we used to. tt the next narration a

caller: my father served in world war ii out of the philippine islands.s well, i had a cousin that was a tuskegee airmen, andrew turner. three other cousins that were in the 555, fire fighters that were paratroopers. i have many family members that i look back on and think of an honor as being defenders of our country. i'm so sad that so many of them are gone. the younger ones don't recall or remember the heroic moves they did to help our country. i just wanted to express it and say i am so honored to have them be family members of mine. host: this is from hawaii news earlier this week. a 100. 4-year-old pearl harbor survivor is back. he touched down in honolulu on tuesday ahead of the 83rd commemoration of the attack on pearl harbor. he's one of the few remaining survivors from the date and the only one left from the uss dobbins. his flight was met with water cannons and a band. what do you remember about that day? being scared. i wondered about my brothers, where they were. a musician and the navy band, he was starting a quiet day when the attack began.

annexed the philippines.so even the family i have are shaped by the phenomena that she describes with these missionary diplomats. it's a broadly, i wonder if we collectively can think about how we can see legacies of the story she tells in this book and also how we might be able to see in unexpected places if only we pay attention. thank. thank you so much, melissa. and, you know, one of the great things about here and, you know, i read this book independently from everybody but you being in a class and you read book and when you're your classmates like picking out things that you picked like yeah i am smart. yeah. because i know it's only listening. all these people like our up here to have all these wonderful things like, yes i did read the book correctly because i yeah. so many of those things. so thank you all. so much for such a rich understanding of the book. i want to make sure i give emily time to respond. so i'm going to hold some of my questions. but there's one question that i want to ask the panel

, trying to see waters for just released by the philippine shows as patrol ship being sprayed by the water count. another chinese vessel also keeps chinese ships of rami and other dangerous maneuvers. china is postcards, says the philippine ships ignored warnings. mrs. law enforcement same their actions were in accordance with the law is the legislative off and the contested scholar to show which both countries claim to georgia and i would demonstrations in the capital of lisa. you have continued for a 6 night police would have lied in large numbers to disperse the process using tear gas and water kind of demonstrates as an angry about the government's decisions to delay talks and joining the european union. opposition also accuses the ruling georgia dream policy of rigging october's election to make sure he met bronco has their support from the protests in the police c. the night selling instability has become anything but quiet protest as gather near the parliament building over the government's decision to freeze b. u membership talks. it's been almost a week of the protest might

the philippines is set to build the world's largest floating solar farm on a natural lake is able to increase the share of its renewable energy. but his bond below reports from laguna providence, local fishermen, or were the projects costing the livelihood. as for the, as has been fishing when laguna lake for 5 decades on a good day, he says he can make around $50.00. that's 5 times the minimum wage. that will on a holiday to now the children are not working and this one is mad at you too. thanks to the sleep. i was able to pay for their education opportunity and, and put that on. but the for the fierce those days will be over soon. the government is set to construct solar panels on the lake largest in the philippines as part of a push to increase the share of renewables to half the countries entire power generation mixed by 2040 officials have cited to study the found an initial installation has become a breeding ground for fish of federal isn't convinced. no, no, we don't go no, no, i don't believe we can get new to say it to be closely guarded. to spray basically our government on

the government is set to construct solar panels on the lake largest in the philippines as part of a push to increase the share of renewables to half of the countries entire power generation mixed by 2040 officials have cited to study the found an initial installation has become a breeding ground for fish. alfredo isn't convinced. no, no, no, no, no. i don't believe we can get near the site. it will be closely guarded to see it spray weekly.

the philippines coast guard is accusing chinese vessels of aggressive actions and contest inside of the china sea waters. footage, released by the philippines shows is patrol ship being sprayed by the water. accounting of a chinese vessel is also a cheese chinese ships of rhyming and other dangerous maneuvers. china's coast guard says the philippine ships came dangerously close to its law enforcement, same their actions were in accordance with the law. it's the latest flare up in a contest in scarborough show, which both countries claim to georgia and i would demonstrate as have been protesting and the catholics to policing for a 6 night. they're angry about the government's decision to delay talks and joining the european union opposition also accused as the ruling georgia dream policy of rigging. october's election between method uncle has this report from the protest introducing the night time. instability has become anything but quiet protest as gather near the parliament building over the government's decision to freeze b u membership tools. it's been almost a week of the protest m

as you said the philippines in particular is a treaty ally.ve made clear the treaty,, the mutual defense treaty applies to the context of inh a there is been escalation from china in recent weeks and months and we are going to work with the philippines to defend their interests. these most recent chinese measure exercises follow a pattern in that they become bigger overtime, last a little longer and there's a few this is practice possibly for a boa constrictor scenario around taiwan come just to lower the antenna and effect of taiwan. what is your current, what's the administration's current assessment of china's aspirations as regards taiwan? is it still there preparing for the possibility but punting on a fundamental decision or use the danger increasing? >> this is a good question to address to officials in the prc. what are their intentions? i know what our view is. our view is we stand for the status quo and no country altering the status quo or no entity altering that status quo unilaterally. that means we are not for any attempt to forc