not least rappler itself.hut down, it continues to this day, it has millions of eye balls o n day, it has millions of eyeballs on it every single month. the philippines is not north korea, nothing like. well, who would want to be north korea? right? in the end, the philippines is also living under a climate of fear and violence stop in fact, when i last interviewed president duterte, when he was already president, i was one of four journalists that he gave an interview to in december of 2016, i asked interview to in december of 2016, iasked him interview to in december of 2016, i asked him that specifically i said, you know, mr president, now that you are in charge of actually protecting the constitution, is it necessary to use violence? and he said yes, he said it's necessary to use violence and fear. so while you see what looks like a multitude of voices, imagine that those voices, imagine that those voices also have a damocles sword hanging over their heads. during a pandemic, people were, based on their po

rappler is about 100 people, we‘re 63% women. the median age is 23 years old.ke 26 years old when he did that. so, no, i think that i don‘t have to encourage rappler to do investigative reporting. i think they are doing it on their own and all i‘m trying to do is keep the sky from falling. let‘s talk about international reaction and response to what is going on in the philippines right now. we have international ngos like amnesty international condemning what they call a policy of large—scale murdering, ‘murdering enterprise‘ as they call it. the un human rights 0ffice report saying there is near impunity offered to philippine security personnel, and we also see consistently over the last four years, donald trump has referred to president duterte as his friend, we have seen a very close relationship developing between duterte and the chinese government, and we see for example, that the international criminal court, which appeared to be ready to investigate what was happening in the philippines, has essentially been neutralised because the philippines has refuse

of rappler is accused of linking a prominent philippine business went to a criminal report from 2002 one of a number of lawsuits that maria ressa is facing which she says are intended to intimidate her and other journalists in the country rappler is known for its tough scrutiny of president rodrigo the 3rd day and has been critical of his war on drugs . the irony is i'm being i supposedly facing a charge of cyber libel but the charges themselves are libelous to what working journalists write so this shouldn't be allowed i will take this all the way to the end and we will win it because it's ludicrous. dozens of homes belonging to nomadic tribes in indian administered kashmir have been demolished local authorities say the community is illegally occupying forest land but the tribes argue they've lived there for generations as alexey o'brien reports. to those destroying these hearts and the himalayan forests there and wanted pieces of wood and cement. but to the back are well and good the muslim nomadic tribes who live here their home at least for 6 months a year as they move between th

that figure only represents a fraction of the true number of infections let's go live now to emanuel rappler who's in mexico city i suppose there must be concerns that the worst of this crisis is yet to come. that certainly appears to be the case will go over the latest numbers more than 108173 confirmed deaths mexico still accounts for the 4th highest death toll from cope at 19 in the world the bottom line is that mexico is still in really bad shape the big surprising news on friday is the change of tone from the mexican president who throughout the course of the of the outbreak here in the country has been criticized for downplaying the severity of the virus he's been criticized for not wearing a mask when appearing in public for questioning the efficacy of wearing a mask on friday morning he had a very different change of tone he came out saying people urging people to stay in their homes not go out unless absolutely unless it's absolutely necessary now a big concern right now here in mexico is occupancy at hospitals if you go outside right now you see the amount of people that are out in

this year though church and government officials are asking catholics to worship him instead i know rappler reports from mexico city. every year millions of peace. wolf flock to the mexican capital for the day of the virgin of guadalupe celebrated on december 12th. it's the largest catholic pilgrimage in the world and an important religious festival for many faithful catholics. this year however the coronavirus pandemic has put those celebrations on hold. get a natural house was among the last catholic pilgrims to visit the holy shrine before authorities closed it to the public. can't just be back my mother's in the hospital she's in very serious condition and i have faith that our lady of guadalupe will help me so that she'll be home soon. mexico city's national shrine houses an image of the virgin mary which according to a legend dating back to $1531.00 is said to have miraculously imprinted itself on a cloak belonging to an indigenous boy named one diego the day of the virgin of guadalupe is mexico's largest annual public gathering on any other year this area outside of the basilica of o