the philippines has close links with the usa. it was an american colony in the early 20th century, which is our basketball 1st made its way to these shores. but new arrivals here still face a baptism of fire, where there was a serious call to shark. i thank my parents. it's him every day because they spoke to me and the girl got home so i could get along with guys, i could understand what they're saying. i can understand the coaches when they're talking to me. 3 but it really is a lifestyle change when you come out everything changes. so i went from not having water where you live a you have to go to all pump to get water to having a car before. and now i got to ride on a jeep to get around. so you have to go through those sacks and prices. you have to go through those hardship to her to really see if you're, you're meant to be here and stay while the journey from the u. s to the philippines has become more common, no player from the philippines has ever made it to the n b a. so why has this basketball mad country never produced

with a look at the basketball phenomenon in the philippines. of course, you always get more news on our website, d, w dot com and following us for all the latest and instagram and twitter at g w. news am i am super office in great avenue with us actually much with with india, a lend of contrasts of ambitions of inequality. 75 years ago, mahatma gandhi peacefully led the country to independence. what has remained of his vision? where does the world so cold, largest democracy stand and where is india headed in? this is the moment to unleash on violet bars. gandhi's legacy starts august 6th on b, w. o . o, o, a jerome tang lives in one of the world's most passionate basketball, hotbeds, not boston or ally, but half a world away in the philippine capital manila, despite a lack of international success and participation on the world's biggest states, the nb, basketball essential to philippine life and so his family, we follow pro, play a jerome to find out more about family and basketball in the philippines. early morning in manila with a new basketb

the philippines will always be tied to the united states. whether it's about exporting labor to the united states or foreign direct investment or trade. you can have to disconnect from the united states at the same time. there is a question of political survival and that a question of relational politics here. china dos give opportunities to the market government to do our. ready leech through particular for and projects birth through like foreign project meant to some other more the financing and, and as much as i agree that as well. and this goes back to infrastructure, and as much as i agree that it's fluid and i've done feel work here both in the out and then start to finish my ph. d. there is always a question of how do you, why do you look at, how do you extend your power as the president? and to me, that goes back to having foreign financing, whether it's a budget deficit strategy or it's a public private financing. it's all about toward the local, at least to keep production power. denila is he going to be in a way or another, oversh

how the family ties are very strong in the philippines. it's common for your parents to be your idols. so in a way, people expect you to also followed the footsteps of your dad. it's not just about family though. when the whole nation is in love with basketball, stars have the chance to become gods. it is religion in the philippines, basically it's iep grieve, sleep, basketball. it is a way of life basketball. it is really a way of life makes is covered to ron's career since the 2 were at college together at della sal university in manila. but jerome had already made a name for himself before that ah, during his time in high school, he was one of the most, if not the most sought to recruit. when he was going into college, he was like under bron james. that's how hype he was. if i'm not mistaken, john scored a 104 points in the game. that's how, that's how he was. despite estella career and high school and college, jerome is yet to win a title after 4 years in the p da. changing that will require even more dedication . yeah, we're going pain

richard, what does the revival of the marcus political dynasty mean for the philippines? well, in many ways, this marks are decades long frustration of ordinary people with a dysfunction of the supposedly democratic system that replaced the markets dictatorship after $986.00. i mean, that revolution was supposed to bring about the progressive order. it, what happened was the liberal, all the works in the country. what happens was political dionysus in the countries who opted the revolution. and hence, we had a lot of functions. i mean the philippines, as one of the most concentrated growth on earth for q, reaches families to come 76 percent need to create the growth in 2011 up to 83 percent of the philippine congress is dominated by political dynasties. i mean, these are mind boggling numbers. and of course, the pandemic in recent years has also made the poverty gains and developmental gains also. they were reversed in many ways. so the return of the market, this is really counter lucian. it's. it's a way by which the mark, this is we're able to exploit people's frustratio

the philippine constitution is like the u. s. we have a bill of rights press freedom is and shrine freedom of expression, freedom of speech, right. and what we have experienced in the last 6 years is like having a bulldozer try to push you back because the end goal of any autocrat dictator to be, is to have everyone voluntarily give up their rights. because then they're not autocrats or dictators. it's the people who want it. well, we sound the alarm, there is a concerted effort to, to push back to, to have us to force us to give up these rights. and that we're not going to voluntarily give up our rights. how do we do our jobs? we just keep doing our jobs. it's certainly much harder. but for me, you know, this, i don't think it's in the philippines alone. press freedom in the last 10 in the last decade. as you know, i think if you look at c, p j's own own, and r s, f's own indexes, you can see that it's rolled back beyond that. the freedom. oh, my gosh, another study, freedom house has shown that democracy itself has rolled back

philippines wants to be friends with everyone. but there are certain countries that have turned the cold shoulder on the philippines. we saw the fall in foreign direct investment, for example, under the deterred administration. and that was related also to the, to the investor economy and the investor confidence in the philippines, which i think has suffered because of the human rights violations, extrajudicial killings, and the brutal drug war under the terror there. let's see how marcus junior can improve the globe or global reputation of the philippines under his administration, by being friends to all but not forgetting all of those human rights violations, as well under his own father's administration. while the world is certainly watching anna santos a thank you very much for your insights today. thank you janelle, for having me. and finally for years, venice has complained about over crowding during tourism season. now it's doing something about it. the italian canal city will start charging tourists sophie to visit. it will also require visitors to register before they come, official se that's necessary, and

the philippines has one of the concentrated growths on earth.3% of the philippine congress is dominated by political dynasties. these are mind boggling numbers. however -- poverty gains were reversed in many ways. it is counterrevolution. it is a way that the market has been able to exploit people's frustration, and now they are back in powder -- they are back in power and remain important forces in politics. >> this is someone who will face huge challenges ahead, given the landslide victory, do you believe they will feel confident enough to pursue a political agenda? >> i think he will likely be able to push back against the backlash against his policies. he was elected by 31 million philippine voters, he has a strong base and a strong coalition of elites around him. he has his own type of policies that are a spinoff, infrastructure and a strong face against the opposition. he will focus on a different set of agendas, to some degree. i believe he will have some degree of popular mandate to push forward his own policies. he could face potential

it's a nightmare ah, seeing the son of the dictator become the 17th president of the philippines. ah, it's on the margin of, of the to our viewers watching p b s or the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with the one question, nato and g. 7. leaders are not answering when could the war in ukraine come to annette today, wrapped up a week of high level summits and high stakes assumptions. g 7 leaders vowing unconditional support for ukraine and it's war with russia and nato leaders saying that the alliance is prepared like never before in case the war widens. but what about preparing for a possible peace to day before he boarded air force one to fly home? he was, president biden told reporters at the nato conference in madrid that washington and its allies are committed to helping ukraine pushback washing forces for as long as it takes. now, does that mean months should we be bracing for a war lasting into 2023? to those questions biden and his counterparts offered no answers. we have this report tonight from that nato summit in spain, pump m pa

she covers of the philippines and follow that speech for us. on a mark says 1st state of the nation address, open on the economy. what did you make of his speech? chanel? it was all about the economy. and after months of motherhood statements from his campaign about unity and bringing the nation together. finally, we saw what was like a checklist on the things that he was going to do to revitalize the economy. there were 19 legislative priorities that he set out, but i think what really stood out to me the most was like how it was progressive in terms of its focus. there was a lot of mention about technology both as a way to digitize the philippine economy and bring it forward and also as a contributor to the economy. the digital industries also climate change and addressing it as o, u. one of the things that affect the economy, and thirdly was how to achieve all those things by reforming tax collections and making tax reforms. interesting though, is that the mention of tax reforms is also while marcus junior is facing tax evasion, charges himse

the philippines from the mid 1960 s to the mid eighty's. almost half of it on the marshal law. thousands of people were tortured, murdered, or disappeared. this wall of remembrance has the names of more than 300 people who fought against his dictatorship. this manchester was one of those who disappeared under the former president's reign. it's a nightmare saying the son of the dictator become the 17th resident of the philippines. it's an imaginable marcus junior takes over from rodrigo to take them another controversial leader known for his bloody war against rocks and his attacks and critical media. his daughter, though, was service marcus, his vice president, creating a merger of 2 political dynasties. that is a partnership that some feel with further reduce their freedom, making their life in the philippines even harder. we have a special guest now. maria russel, she's a filipino journalist and author. and she's also a nobel peace laureate. the 1st person from the philippines to win the nobel peace prize. you joins me the night from her.

in the philippines. you have to remember that the war on drugs was really categorically targeting a lot of the poor young men. all right, they live in enchanted communities. and in these communities, they would be gone down in their homes, for example, by mass vigilantes. or sometimes they would go missing. you know, what we've spoken to relatives who would the hunt for their, for their loved ones for a whole evening. and finally, find them in some morgue. now their bodies would not be released to them if they didn't sign off on a medical certificate that just said another cause of death, like a natural disease like odd pneumonia or something like this. so that was the predicament that these families faced. now what would you do if you had leg you wanted to claim your lower body of your loved one. you were scared. you didn't have money to pay for it. proper autopsy. that's. that's what introduced sign off on this paper just to be able to grieve on words. what is it been like for the relatives of these peo

the news asia. glad you could join us. for more philippines president rodrigo, to test a so called war on drugs kim to thousands. the government sees a little over 6000 people, were killed in major to met anti drug operations rights groups. however, dispute both claims that of legitimacy and the number of those killed. it prompted the international criminal court to open an investigation into the drugs wall. but some consult filipinos are already carrying out their own investigations. and their findings are troubling. each of these skeletons has a story to tell the story of a war on drugs. the philippine government fought over the past 6 years. officially some 6200 people were killed by police for dealing with drugs. the true toll is nearly certainly much bigger and the expiration, oh, don't work with them. okay. and i am just so happy that it was, they were not loss. they were not lost. so 2 bullets game with that. i examining the remains of some of the people who died forensic pathologist, raquel for tune made a shocking discovery. in 7 case

and he would like to see the philippines being food self sufficient, rice self sufficient. adrian, bobby low reporting live that from manila. many thanks. need not to be the head of the roman catholic church is in canada to apologize in person for the role the church played in running residential schools for indigenous children. hope processes in the city of edmonton forties, cooling his pilgrimage of penance, more than a 150000 children were forcibly removed from their families and sent to schools where many faced years of abuse. at some 1st nation, leaders say they feel excluded from the pope's trip to canada. i think the visit is long overdue. maybe something had happened many, many years ago. maybe the start of reconciliation would have started again. that's a part of the problem we've had with the church is that they have not been really including us in the proper planning of this house has been very unilateral, and we don't feel that it has been about survivors. it has been more about the church. danielle morrison is a lawyer, an advocate for survivors. she says that a

the philippines has been lagging in that regard . and so he said that there is a need to improve the employability of filipino students to strengthen the science technology and engineering and math subjects in the country. and then he also mentioned that he would like to build nuclear power plants. there is actually a nuclear power plant that was built by his father, but this has not been in use was never used. and so this is quite a controversial issue. restarting this nuclear power plant and building more nuclear power plants. so what's likely to be the reaction of his critics to all of this? well, it's hard to see right now what would be the reaction from his critics because the speech is still ongoing. critics wanted him to mentioned concrete steps with regards to how he would solve the economic crisis in the health crisis. and so far, he's laid out some concrete steps. and so that is something that the critics would be pleased with. but the critics, especially the protesters, will gather and not far away from the house of represe

still to come on the programme, we head to the philippines where protests are expected, ahead of thethe nation address later today. we'll be speaking to someone who is expected to attend those protests, in a few minutes. see you coming down the ladder now. it's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. a catastrophic engine fire is being played tonight for the first crash in the 30 year history of concorde, the world's only supersonic airliner. it was one of the most vivid symbols of the violence and hatred that too apart the state of yugoslavia, but now, a decade later, it has been painstakingly rebuilt and opens again today. there has been a 50% decrease in sperm quantity and an increase in malfunctioning sperm unable to swim properly. thousands of households across the country are suspiciously quiet this lunchtime as children bury their noses in the final instalment of harry potter. the us considers declaring a climate emergency as firefighters in california struggle to contain a wildfire they call explosive — which is spreading fast. russia's foreign minister — who's on

it's the northern philippines, toppling buildings and triggering land slumps. tremors force the evacuation of buildings in the capital, manila, and us fire fighters. res hopes of saving yosemite national park. a giant blaze threatening its action. trees shifts, direction, evacuation, orders are still in place though for thousands of rest. ah, ahead of us, welcome to the program. russian energy company gas problem has followed through with its plans to reduce gas supply to germany through the north stream. one pipeline. germany's gas network operator confirm that flows have dropped just 20 percent of their normal volumes on wednesday morning. the costs will make it difficult for germany to fill its reserve tax before the winter. germany is already at the 2nd stage of a 3 level emergency gas plan for the carts could trigger rationing. germany's cabinet is expected to address the energy crisis. ad aids meeting in berlin today. so let's cross now to d. w. chief political correspond melinda crane, who was at the chancellor frost, where this meeting is taking place today. molina, what does this

oh, here in the philippines, there's a stigma against farming where people perceive it to be associated to poverty on sustainability and failure, which is quite terrible with it's really important to change the stigma so that more young people can get into farming. because our average age of farmers is that around 57 years old there's a lot of that isn't strictly what people perceive as the stereotype of just pointing out in the sun. there's always a lot more aspects to it that can be integrated from just sticks from science to mathematics. young people can actually make a change and innovate and positively impact communities along the way. and i think that you just have to start small and start now and start local. mm. who's with ah, with ah, no south asia reservoirs, the himalayan glaciers. they're melting at breakneck speed. and pakistan in particular is on the brink of trout, agriculture, human lives, security are all under threat. mm. pakistan's battle for water. in 30 minutes on d, w, it was supposed to be the emperor's place of residence. the homes allan palace sicilian holes in

the philippine government filed 10 arrest warrants against me. i've had to post mail 10 times just to do my job. last at least 7 of those cases, a still active. and with the arrival of do 30 successor fernando mark as junior into office and do turn to his daughter. his vice president, ratcliffe, editor, will be keeping her lawyers busy for some time to come. thanks flow. below, tristan is a land of contradictions. it is pakistan's largest province and its least populated . it is rich in natural resources, minerals, gold, coal, gas. and yet the bulge people are the poorest in the country. it has been the sight of a separate struggle ever since pakistan came into existence. yet it is barely covered in the domestic news media. not for a lack of try. for decades below, journalists have risked their wise to report on topics such as corruption in local government to the resource grab to the pakistani states involvement in the kidnapping and killing of vulture activists. a few reporters from the pakistani mainstream media have tried to cover the region t

at least 5 people are dead after a powerful earthquake hits the northern philippines, toppling buildings and triggering lab slides, tremors force, evacuation of buildings in the capital. manila plus england moves closer to claiming that crown at the u. europe football tournaments, both nations team advances to the final after beating sweden, their opponent will be decided in a match today between germany and from ah, i'm good how both as well come to the program, ground staff, a germany's largest airline, and flag carrier loved turns up on strike, that is forced the company to cancel over a 1000 flights. nearly all this is sulu sons as hobbs and frankfurt and munich. i've been scrapped starting today. the disruption is impacting travel plans for more than a $130000.00 passages worldwide in the coming days. workers are demanding a pay increase to cope with rising living costs. holiday plans and business trips put on hold. no one left to work, the counters would be left hansa passengers at frankfurt airport, or stuck with almost no ground staff to help them and their luggage reached their

and whatever that the call was, it's impossible to ukrainian philippine fighting for their freedom for ages will not win. this was the person bloody occupying war. he and going from the people on the street to people in power. there's been, of course, a lot of political unity people backing florida me as the lensky the president does . that unity that we've seen seem to be holding up it see, it's definitely holding up with regards to our everything that concerns the war with regards to a foreign policy with regard to weapon deliveries, demands will, weapon deliveries from the west with regards to russia. but of course, there are cracks and there are a people accusing zelinski of monopolizing power. there are, there is discontent with the role of the opposition can play in this situation where much power lies with the executive. there are quarrels there. for example, a ukraine has deprived an oligarch off his of his citizenship, but there have been, there have been attempts to, to prevent opposition leaders from leaving the country by blocking their exit, et cetera, et cetera. these thi

his hometown is in the northern philippines. he has already coordinating with the you know, the relevant agencies. he's orders relieved in rescue workers to the site. really good as well. those will be affected by the quick and he's scheduled to fly to the northern philippines. that's one of the low with all the latest there from manila. thank and he's really generic drug make has reached an agreement in principle to pay over full $1000000000.00 for its role in the us opioid epidemic. if the deal is finalized eva would be the latest major company to reach a settlement over the crisis o periods of killed more than 500000 people in the u. s. i've passed 20 years now. the settlement wouldn't require even to admit any wrongdoing. in the case. iowa attorney general tom miller's office was directly involved in these negotiations. he says the u. s. federal drug administration should face some serious questions. i think some really serious question should be asked to be up the 8 concerning this. ok, you know, basically what happened is i

how does that apply to japan and the philippines? that's with china want is a kind of like instead of fighting everybody basically taken a few of these guys and the message goes around look, sometimes you're going to be put under the hot microscope and it will go poorly for you. the americans will talk a big game but magical. it's better to cut a deal. that's a very real possibility. at cutting remark about the ties fairly or not but he said they bend before the wind blows. it's an expression that applies to almost pre-much every country, which is they will see where the wind is going and if they think they're going to be left out to dry a will cut a deal. >> so, as the united states puts its strategies together to determine that kind of attack, deterrence theory, which i'm not a scholar, canada divides itself into these thoughts about deterrence by punishment, applying as more punishment than it at you can withstand and get them to deter, and then deterrence by denial. denying an objective, , the objectives of the enemy. your book es

fidel ramos, the former president of the philippines who's now seen as one of the most effective leaders country ever had, has died. and the american actress, nichelle nichols, best known for her ground—breaking role as lieutenant uhura in the original star trek, has died age 89. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in the uk where england have won a major football title for the first time in more than fifty years — with victory in the final of the women's european championship. they beat germany at wembley stadium in london by two goals to one. the match, which took place before 87,000 fans saw england substitute ella toone score the opening goal for the lionesses in the 62nd minute. germany's lina magull was on the recieving end of a low cross from teamate tabea wassmuth before she guided the ball to the roof of the net — bringing the germans back on level terms. chloe kelly then scored england's second goal in the final few minutes of an agonising half hour of extra time. queen elizabeth has paid tribute to the england team, describing

the philippines raising their policy rate 75 basis points. ere waiting a couple of weeks, but they came before the meeting. let's flip the boards and have a look at our global macro movers and see those headlines play out. top, singapore, philippines. top, singapore, philippines. yields pushing higher. this is a market that investors and traders are banking on the next headline that drops. and it is precisely that. rishaad: inflation moving higher of course as well as we got the cpi print where the fed was saying that the hot inflation report suggests that interest rate hikes of at least 75 basis points may well be needed later this month. they spoke exclusively to bloomberg. prices have not peeked despite the shock and report. >> it was uniformly bad. there was no good news in that report at all. inflation remains unacceptably high. we at the fed have to be very deliberate and intentional about continuing on this path and raising our interest rate until we get and see convincing evidence that inflation is turning a corner, is on a downward pa

so it was measured by the us g s at magnitude 7 point one, but measured by the philippines baseball g agency at a bit stronger. at 7.3, it happened close to 9 in the morning, so people or the out in the streets, there were in traffic. they were already in offices. and so a lot of the people working in offices, they were evacuated out of their buildings. people obviously were still steeping, aroused their steep. this is very quick that was spelled by millions, not only felt in the northern philippines again, all the way to manila, a large area. now there are already initial reports with damages. there was a hospital that had partially collapsed in the province of abra. i've already seen photos of damages cracks on your road. there are a lot of walter collapsed. i saw a vehicle. it had been crushed by a wall that had collapsed. this was in the residence in nearby beacon city, but there are no casualties, reports of casualties as of yet. now this earthquake is very reminiscent of the earthquake that happened back in 990 that earthquake left over a 1600 people dead. the fact that the eart

i went the fema driven cabin every corner of the world and so she can feel free the form of philippine president fidel ramos has died at the age of 19 fall papers for head of state between 19921990. 8 ramos was one of the leaders of the 1986 pro democracy uprising, which toppled footed on marcus priyanka got to take a look at his life and legacy that they wanted to make. the day before individual or collective endeavors is to indeed he was called the kingmaker because of his ability to endorse would be precedent for his own presidency as seen as the most successful and stable in recent philippine history. fidel ramos was a graduate of the west spine military academy in the united states. upon his return, he joined the philippine army and served in the korean and vietnam war deal. ramos was a cousin, a former precedent for the non marcos who appointed him as head of a joint police and military agency which was established during the marshal all years in the 1970s. the presidential election of 1986 was marred by allegations of large scale fraud. i came here to go. so far, ramos effected

the philippines is in the middle of the rainy season and rains a lot in the mountains. that could weaken the ground and cause landslides. authorities setting up evacuation centers and advising people to leave their homes. many are still very worried about aftershocks. last night we heard reports about people spending the night outside their homes because they felt it would be safer. >>> tokyo prosecutors have raided the headquarters of a major business retailer in connection with a ssible bribery case involvinge sponsorship of the tokyo olympic and paralympic games. prosecutors on thursday searched the main office and a subsidiary office in tokyo. they suspect they may have given former games member large sums of money as a bribe. they are denying any wrongdoing. a company he headed allegedly received at least 330,000 dollars in consulting fees since september 28. they sold suits and other items with olympic raining on them a stormy sponsorship agreement. >>> japan's education ministry wants to boost the number of foreign students. the figure has dropped significantly s

obviously, schools in offices suspended in the northern philippines. but even here in manila, trains have been stop. and so there is a long queue of commuters riding the bus is here, as a maintenance operators are checking on the viability of the commuter trains. here in metro manila also, office buildings evacuated, their checking damages in these office buildings, both private and government office buildings. i've, i've seen initial photos of the damages there seems to be extensive damage in the northern philippines. abra, it's not a heavily populated, not heavily urbanized province, but there are neighboring provinces and cities that are heavily populated in heavily herbalist and major roles have at cracks. ah, what at least one major road is now impassable due to a landslide and i've seen homes that have partially collapsed. there was a bell tower, a church bell tower, that the crumbled an orchard at lee. so far there are no, no rewards of casualty, but we will see we will continue to monitor and run water. hello, there. life ross from manila europe