like you to represent the philippines. the team was one of the lowest ranked in the world in two thousand and six when they made their international debuts consummating to the philippines they discovered it was a far cry from the premier league think when i went on the field i found a brick break that's how you train in your own stuff you get changed in the bleachers the stands and sometimes we were travelling on the cheap me just to get training. the captain that she won camp two thousand in the jeepney and is a captain and he was named his foot went for a drain on. all the good on you they. always have to work hard and you have to be toughened up. there wasn't any professional league in the philippines so players had all the time in the world to practice but that is how it was in two thousand and ten when they should go. down palami has long been a key figure in the national team management he's even pumped his own money into the team to help bring things up to scratch. when he first got involved he had a huge task on hi

in the philippines. >> aurora: in the philippines, three years. >> anthony: three years now. >> aurora: yeah. >> anthony: where have you worked? hong kong for five years. >> aurora: for five years, and then i went to america. i stayed there for almost 30 years. >> anthony: aurora is recently back in manila after most of her life spent abroad. what kind of work were you doing? >> aurora: i did the housekeeping, you know, and babysitting. >> anthony: the money she sent home put everybody here and many, many more through school, lifted them up to a more comfortable life. and you would have left family behind? >> aurora: yeah. >> anthony: 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. >> aurora: okay, okay, okay. bring in the food inside. >> anthony: many, many, many filipino women like you who had to leave their families, go abroad. >> aurora: yeah, absolutely yes. >> analyn: her three children. >> emy: children -- my eldest is about four years now in qatar, and the oth

standards is really low even overseas they can send it back to the philippines. the issue is that they paid him a high fees just to remit the money to their families. where cryptocurrency comes in the box and technology comes in already is that they can send back the money with crypto currency it's their family can exchange it in pawn shops where they where they live and the fees are so much lower and that is something that is already happening today and that is just going to develop and improve i believe. average among the filipino since home is one hundred dollars between two dollars of that. that money for their father. going is really a decentralized financial system this is needed government it doesn't have a central authority. interoperable it's brutal it's borderless basically it's an option for people who are excluded from the existing systems. it's a platform where people could send money from anywhere in the world to the philippines using because yes so a normal overseas for you know worker wouldn't know how to use keep going and you know that was one o

well to the philippines now where three church bells looted by vengeful u.s. troops during the philippine american war in one thousand one have been returned the belts were handed back to the philippines in a ceremony in manila on tuesday and they're now back in their hometown of from way reports. i. a symbol of the philippine independence display at home these antiquated bells were taken as war trophies by american soldiers from the small town of poland guy eastern samar for the pan american who are. people here say the bells evokes so much emotion because these feel like missing chess pieces in the could she says violent struggle for freedom from its colonizers the balinese massacre is the single biggest defeat for the american military during the philippine american war but for the philippines it is a reminder that over half a century ago a handful of filipino guerrillas armed with machetes fought and won against a superpower a reminder too for the current generation the filipinos will do whatever it takes to earn their freedom historian say thousands of pe

two years ago the philippines began a brutal war against the drug gangs in which thousands of people died human rights activists and journalists charged the police with illegal killings charges which president do tatting as vigorously denied my guest this week here in manila is his legal advisor salvador panel oh is the administration actively sanctioning and even encouraging mud on its own streets. savard open up welcome to conflict some thank you for having me your president says he's old and tired and he's going to hear again about stepping down in february said i've no more ambition who needs a president who's got no more ambition there's more of an expression of. we're just a excess variation and disgust over certain things that do not come out as he expected but is not stepping down who finishes turn he says guys i want you to know i'm thinking of stepping down because he just wants he has one so tell the people that is not the kind of politician that will cling to a position so you can't believe what he says not really everybody is entitled to express one's frustration or expr

in the philippines there's fifteen billion people younger and in the other twenty four and below and the are tech savvy they're not afraid of technology they're not afraid of these you know we're loot the kind of don't trust the banks. it's kind of like brewing you know like. we see the perfect store for this kind of technology that the cool. look the. main thing that i am a sticker in the watching space a part of a couple of companies and russian companies in the current lot. in emerging markets that there would be there's there's a call. it going to come from auction it will confirm that become political. leaders tend to get out of the service for him he is this. the feel so much power in the community and so much drives and passion for change and for development probably one of the biggest reasons is that the people feel what problems they have and they see how they can solve it they see this technology and they understand here's a use case for me to improve my situation they they experienced trouble first hand day experience problems but then politics and society first hand. leas

they can earn more there than they could in the philippines so even though their salary compared to the global standards is really low even overseas they can send it back to the for the. uses that they've paid family high fees just to remit the money to their families. where cryptocurrency comes in the box internal to comes in already is that they can send back the money with crypto currencies their family can exchange it in pawn shops where they where they live and the fees are so much lower and that is something that is already happening today and that is just going to develop. and proof i believe. the average amount for the filipino since home is three hundred dollars there would be twenty dollars out of that to get that money for their father. been going is really a decentralized financial system because it needed government it doesn't have a central authority to be. interoperable it's google it's borderless basically it's an option for people who are excluded from the existing systems. to supplant a form where people could send money from anywhere in the world to the philippine

report from inside one of the philippines most crowded jails. as night falls the inmates of miller says he jail a preparing to sleep waged into every inch of space these are the conditions in prisons across the philippines a country with the most congested jails in the world. the first time i set foot inside here i felt like i was being choked i thought where am i why am i here i shouldn't be here what is this place. prison populations have been growing at a rapid rate since president rodrigo detesting announced his war on drugs in two thousand and sixteen jails in the philippines were built to hold around twenty thousand people but today they're housing more than one hundred and forty thousand most of these people haven't even been convicted of upright bass still waiting for verdicts in their cases. there is no bail for drug offenses in the philippines those charged will stay here until the courts process they cases and that can take years but rights activists and lawyers fear that innocent people are being challenged and jailed for drug crimes

yeb saÑo, the philippines top, negotiator five years ago. this is yeb addressing the 2013 confeference just afteter the typhoon devasastatee philippipines. a sobering reminder to the international l community ththae cannot afford to wait on climate action. warsaw must deliver and should muster the political will to address climate change and build that important bridge toward peru and paris. it might be said that it must the poetic justice that the typhoon was so big that it span the distance within warsaw and paris. mr. president, we ask if not us, then who? if not now, then when? if not here, then where? bubut here in warsaw, we may vey well ask these same questions. what my country is going through as a result of this extreme climate event is madness. the climate crisis is madness. mr. president, we can stop this madness right here in warsaw. amy: that was yeb saÑo speaking as the lead climate negotiator for the philippines in 2013. through that u.n. climate summit, he wept, he fasted. the next year, the u.n. climate summit was held in l

we tried to put these allegations to the philippine national police but there was no response. to spending more than two years in jail waiting for a verdict dishonors says he agreed to plead guilty so he could be released and returned home to his family. but even after admitting to a crime he says he didn't commit and completing the eighteen month sentence he's still in jail. al jazeera manila calls are growing for the release of two reuters journalists who were among those named as time magazine's person of the year while lone and were arrested in me and maher exactly a year ago while investigating reports of massacre they were convicted for obtaining state secret documents and sentenced to seven years in prison or reports . to win is bringing up her three year old daughter without her husband journalist . one of two reuters reporters imprisoned in myanmar having me all cleared up our daughter started to ask why doesn't that he love us why isn't he living with us so i tell her he loved the phone much that's why he's working at the prison it was quietly while lone is also in ja

how deeply rooted is the philippines it is in the philippines i think the ideology behind this is very attractive to many young muslims like delay he told us that when he was in the jihadi training camp for a couple of months to receive training as he called it. foreign fighters mainly from neighboring indonesia and malaysia but also from arab countries and we do know that international terrorist organizations like al qaeda like this as they lose ground in the middle east increasingly looks like the green pastures and i think southeast asia with its many many unresolved conflicts i think is an area where the ideology has really. of dual the young man that we were just seeing pictures of there he has worked for i talked to him and he told you that he would do it again what are they fighting for. he feels he tells us disenfranchised he feels that he's not crazy pop. filipino society he is looking you know for a sense of belonging he's not a deeply religious person i think he's just an angry young men who is looking for a sense of purpose in life and he is very you know. he fell prey to i

the primary objective was to get to the philippines. i came through and i shall return. the statement is landing, also his intentions when he got australia. they make no mention of australia and they paid no heed to the defense of the nation in which it is still standing and he spoke only of an american offensive rather than an allied one. a few months later, after the submarine raid, arthur reminded them of the nature of the specific partner and the recording of the meeting occurred. they decided to point out the distinctions between the united states and united kingdom and their relationship to the responsibility of australia. australia was a part of the british empire. he said the us is an ally whose aim was to win the war and they had no sovereign interest in australia at all. the commander-in-chief said that although the american people were animated by a warm friendship, the purpose was not so much from an interest in australia, but rather its utilities against the japanese. they viewed the strategic importance of australia against japan. now, macarthur was not upf

we tried to put these allegations to the philippine national police but there was no response. to spending more than two years in jail wasting through verdict the son who says he agreed to plead guilty so he could be released and returned home to his family. but even after admitting to a crime he says he didn't commit and completing the eighteen month sentence he's still in jail. al-jazeera manila. there been chaotic scenes in hungary's parliament after some m.p.'s tried to block an amendment employment laws which critics have described as slave labor that he was released into the chamber in opposition politician saying the national anthem in an attempt to halt the vote of parliament approved the government backed amendment allowing employers to demand up to four hundred hours of overtime in the year employers will also be given up to three years to settle overtime payments and. voted to reinstate the sat prime minister renewal rate missing despite the president's approval it was dismissed by the president author polish service santa and october he was then replaced by mahinda

we tried to put these allegations to the philippine national police but there was no response. to spending more than two years in jail waiting for a verdict the son who says he agreed to plead guilty so he could be released and returned home to his family. but even after admitting to a crime he says he didn't commit and completing the eighteen month sentence he's still in jail. al jazeera manila. calls are growing for the release of say reuters journalists who are among those named as time magazine's person of the year while lone and. were arrested in nam are exactly a year ago while investigating reports of a massacre they were convicted for obtaining c state secret states occupants and sentenced to seven years in prison for ancillary reports. to win is bringing up her three year old daughter without her husband journalist. one of two reuters reporters imprisoned in myanmar having met all cleared up our daughter started to ask why doesn't that he love us why isn't he living with us so i tell her he loved the phone much that's why he's working at the prison choice it was quietl

a veteran journalist in the philippines has declared her innocence and says she will fight back after appearing in court on tax evasion charges rearrested says the case is politically motivated or news agency rapport has been critical of president robert going to tear his government who's branded it a real alan arkin has more from manila. maria ressa is one of the most prominent journalists in the philippines and also one of the most in battle. and the news agency she co-founded called rappler have been inducted on multiple counts of tax evasion the government also tried to revoke the agency's license to operate with their day calling rappler a feat use outlet. for maria and her supporters this is persecution from a government that sees journalists as the enemy we're going to hold but it makes me think that we must either be doing something right or we must be doing an investigation they don't want us to follow through with. we just keep doing our jobs you know we keep looking we try to maintain the news agenda recently but the government insists the warrant issued against media is no

danger to democracy in the philippines political freedoms of fast disappearing. participation and comes to your vote these are essential features of a modern democracy that is majority consensus rule with respect for minorities as a political opposition freedom of speech freedom of the press all citizens are subject to a constitution which protects such basic rights and a democracy protects itself through separation of powers and all people are equal before the law. in many places in the world's democracy is under threat last year citizens of as many as seventy one countries saw their political rights and freedoms massively compromised take the philippines here the political opposition is being systematically repressed. it's the drawing of a new day but it remains a dark day for democracy in the philippines. a prison in the south of manila senator lugar is being taken for. here she dared to criticize president rodney go to charity and says this is the payback senator german t.v. is all this just three telly ation against you. it's persecution pure and simple is m

i'm chris might be asked in the philippines a country grappling with the world's most congested. and russia's president wants twenty five years of the post constitution but many are saying there actually isn't that much to celebrate. by the skyline of asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. allard has been snowing in turkey it is now you snowing in the ukraine with this occupation here and everything is moving as you say but it's moving within colder now this is not a surprise and it's not new but the code is spreading so although turkey is having a fine day now it's still snowing in ukraine and that circulation no cecily wind is actually mashed to bring the cold along way south and west in fact there's a good old breeze coming out of the sudden baltic into the north sea london's temperature best is five paris for zero one i may be driven or it's ten it's raining so the rains come in from the atlantic we've got weather on both sides of year but this one is swinging in serie the atlantic biggest go to high to overnight there's more snow to come for the balkans as you

was joy in the philippines as church bells looted by u.s. troops more than a century ago hold again. and mexico's superstar boxset khanna says he's looking to make history when he steps into the ring for his big fights in new york city the. israeli army has demolished the home of a prominent palestinian activist in the occupied west bank protest as have criticised the destruction of needs houses collective punishment and said have been clashes with soldiers across the territory from amar a refugee camp on the outskirts of ramallah reports. the booms of sound bombs echo and the smoke of tear gas formed clouds above l m r a refugee camp on saturday morning israeli soldiers stormed the camp to demolish the meat home one of the sons is slim is in prison for allegedly throwing a cinder block from a roof and killing an israeli soldier last may despite being illegal according to international law demolitions of palestinian homes are a common tactic used by the israeli military human rights groups say it's an unjust form of collective punishment whe

similarly, if you went to the philippines, we are finding in the philippines, we are finding in the philippines that there has been an upsurge of terrorism there as well, and with similar increases. at the thing which most people don't realise about the philippines, they focus on mindanao and the islamic terrorist there, but there is also a communist group from the north of the philippines which is also launching major attacks. in fact, 168 towns and cities have suffered more than one death from terrorism in the philippines in 2017. it is remarkable. tell me, when you collate all of this information to release the findings today, what for you is... you say that there has been a dramatic drop in the terrorism threat, but, you know, when we look at the areas of most danger, what for you is the area that we should note that isn't as dangerous as we might think? well, this is going to be counterintuitive for most people, but the region which has got the least terrorism in the world is latin america. yet latin america has the highest homicide rates in the world. you wouldn't believe it, would you? a

the fight against so-called islamic state in the philippines as martial law was extended in the southern region of mindanao for another year we take you to the devastated city of and we talked with one young muslim ready to fight again yes also coming out. trying to break faith with the british people by trying to stage a. british prime minister theresa may makes it clear again she does not want a second referendum on. parliament. plan but first in january. it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with the fight against so-called islamic state in the southern philippines president. has extended martial law for another year there to counter the ongoing threat by armed militants last year city on the island of mindanao was the scene of a five month battle when government troops were deployed to quell an insurgency by militants allied to so-called islamic state. more than a thousand people were killed and half a million were displaced today the city of wise in ruins a team of reporters has just returned from the city with this exclusive report. this force the center today residents ca

we tried to put these allegations to the philippine national police but there was no response. after spending more than two years in jail waiting for a verdict bizzaro says he agreed to plead guilty so he could be released and returned home to his family. but even after admitting to a crime he says he didn't commit and completing the eighteen month sentence he's still in jail. al jazeera manila. calls are growing louder for the release of to reuters journalists who are among those named as time magazine's person of the year while learn and chaucer who were arrested in myanmar exactly a year ago while investigating reports of a revenge a massacre they were convicted for obtaining secret state documents and sentenced to seven years in prison for and slowly reports. to win is bringing up her three year old daughter without her husband journalist. one of two reuters reporters imprisoned in myanmar have in their own cleared up our daughter started to ask why doesn't god love us why isn't he living with us so i tell her he loved the phone much that's why he's working at the prison ch

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a senior journalist in the philippines has appeared in court over multiple tax evasion charges maria ressa says the case is politically motivated the news agency has been called fake by the government of president regard to test jamil and open reports from manila. maria ressa is one of the most prominent journalists in the philippines and also one of the most impact a lot media and the news agency she co-founded called rappler have been inducted on multiple counts of tax evasion the government also tried to revoke the agency's license to operate with their day calling rappler a feat use outlet to look out for maria and her supporters this is persecution from a government that sees journalists as the enemy we're going to hold the line but it makes me think that we must either be doing something right or we must be doing an investigation they don't want to follow through with. we just keep doing our jobs you know we keep looking we try to maintain the news agenda firstly but the government insists the warrant issued against media is not political persecution months after detector was s

this is the deputy news live from berlin the difficult legacy of the philippine struggle against a militant insurgency as martial law is extended on the internet for another year w. has an exclusive report from the devastated city of monrovia and talks to one young muslim greggy to fight for an islamic state also coming up is there no way out as calls grow for a second directed referendum theresa may is expected to warn is still highly skeptical parliament that it will do irreparable damage to british politics plus we'll look back at highlights of sunday's going to see the action after crashing out of the europa league midweek are the lads who broke back to their best against visitors minds all the goals coming out of. the ordinary. i'm sorry so misconducts good to have you with us we start in the southern philippines where the island of mindanao is facing another year under martial law after president rudd we go to terra to extended the measure last year murali city on mindanao was the scene of a five month battle when government troops were deployed to qual and insurgency by militants all

a veteran journalist in the philippines has declared her innocence and says she'll fight back off to appearing in court on tax evasion charges maria ressa as news agency rapper has been critical of the territory's government and has been branded a fake by the president jamila and again reports. maria ressa is one of the most prominent journalists in the philippines and also one of the most in battle out media and the news agency she co-founded called rappler have been inducted on multiple counts of tax evasion the government also tried to revoke the agency's license to operate with the dirty calling rappler a feat use outlet. for maria and her supporters this is persecution from a government that sees journalists as the enemy we're going to hold the line but it makes me think that we must either be doing something right or we must be doing an investigation they don't want to follow through with. we just keep doing our jobs you know we keep looking we try to maintain the news agenda recently but the government insists the warrant issued against media is not political persecution month

reporter turned online website editor in the philippines targeted by a president who doesn't want his behavior covered we are not against the government we are not against president detective but we do want to hold him and his government accountable for the tens of thousands of people who have been killed in the drug war for the impunity that we see online you are creating you had also a lot of the reporters recreating violence by not writing. the fake news is reacting violence analysts say press freedom is more vulnerable than ever because politicians on six continents are attacking the public's trust in the media but they add that in washington jamal khashoggi is murder on orders of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has congress and the public taking a very close look at the trumpet ministrations priorities alliances and values. this is a moment where one understands that from a foreign policy perspective the us has to demonstrate what it stands for and because shows she killing in the fallout has opened up much of the subtle debates we've had behind the scenes in the full

you know we we felt this this downturn in the philippines in july of two thousand and sixteen. right now well let's talk about a person terms of the global landscape for it is whatever power doesn't like. that's when president trump called c.n.n. and the new york times fake news a week later president to take in the philippines called rappler fake news from my experience fake nooses something that has been embedded on social media when social media was weaponized and it happened not during the campaign of president detected but after he took office it was in july of two thousand and sixteen the same month that the drug war began that social media was weaponized and exponential lies what the old definition of what fake news would be lies were embedded repeated exponentially when you repeat a lie a million times it's the truth. so what's your definition of fake news i mean i think that there's sort of a continuum there are spectral there is stuff that we have seen sort of what we in america called tabloid. journalism stuff that you find in the checkout counter that talks about al

another media story that's on our radar this week is unfolding in the philippines it's one we've been following for a couple of years now the case of president rodriguez do terror today versus rappler a news website that's been the president's bet now are for its critical coverage of his government's war on drugs and its online dissent from ation campaign. earlier this year a rapper's license was temporarily revoked and just last week the site and its founder maria ressa were indicted for tax evasion which raised more than a few eyebrows maria ressa joins us on the listening post now to discuss this case and president to take his approach to dealing with his critics in the news media ms ressa wrapper is not the first news outlet critical of a government to suddenly develop quote unquote tax issues we've heard similar stories in turkey for instance is the case against you and rappler politically motivated absolutely i mean i've run out of synonyms for the word ridiculous for the foundation of a lot of these multiple legal cases that we're now facing do you have any faith that the justi

again a journalist in the philippines says she is innocent after appearing in court on tax evasion charges but rearrest says the case is politically motivated her news agency rappler has been critical of president reagan to turkey's government who has been branded as fake. dog and reports from an ill. maria this is one of the most prominent journalists in the philippines and also one of the most him back a lot but he and the news agency she co-founded called rappler have been inducted on multiple counts of tax evasion the government also tried to revoke the agency's license to operate with their day calling rappler a feat use outlet with a lookout for mary and her supporters this is persecution from a government that sees journalists as the enemy we're going to hold the line but it makes me think that we must either be doing something right or we must be doing an investigation they don't want to follow through with. we just keep doing our jobs you know we keep looking we try to maintain the news agenda pressley but the government insists the warrant issued against media is not political pe

in the philippines president rode regal to church has declared a war on drugs has left more than twelve thousand people dead. but they're not the only victims tens of thousands of people are languishing in jail as court struggled to process a record number of drug runners. who i thought where am i why am i here i shouldn't be. what is this place. i'm steve on this episode of one east we investigate the shocking conditions inside the world's most congested jails and the inmates trying to survive them. it's early in the morning and a full moon is rising. in the shadows like thousands of bodies waged into every corner of every inch. welcome to manila city jail one of the most congested prisons in the world. we've been given extended access here to find out why childs in the philippines a so overcrowded and to meet the inmates who've been called monsters by their own government. so tell me about the jail missed the story here on the south side jair expressed in the area is the jails chief records office up even he is shocked by the conditions here right now based on the united nations minim

and joy in the philippines as church bells looted by u.s. troops more than a century ago a look at. how the winter monsoon when the northeast it's been blowing steadily now produce a lot of right down the east coast you wouldn't sigs from the great care that's not normally hard close but the persistent rain those eased off recently has produced several hundred millimeters and flooding there's more to come on sunday maybe especially on monday where as a cloud in china is doing virtually nothing or if anything with a lighter wind and still with daytime sunshine is warming up in shanghai i mean deed in hong kong. to the west this we've been watching the same sort of consequence in the northeast monsoon it's developed a lot of cloud and a spinner here tropical well maybe set in a tropical depression so it's in hot seeing the rain it's heading up now towards the coast of india too was under the dash and it was friday train beyond west bengal that's late season fairly heavy rain again flooding seems quite likely and the day after to feel not very warm seventeen not poor nineteen hundred b

but some in the philippines hope to change that. reporter: people in the town of atimonan head to church early on sunday morning it's just 6:00. they are united in their catholic faith, and in their opposition to a controversial construction project nearby. monsignor noel: it has been part of our advocacy to fight coal plants because it's harmful to people, harmful to the environment. coal is dirty. we just want people.ect our this iin keepingith the social teachings of the church that teaches us to care for the earth and care for those who are in the margins of society. reporter: after massthe conggation heato the sitof planned calreadbegun.plant ey keep a tailed recd of ha alreadytarted tclear faththe areaf trees.tors this wan fearshe plantill poon the lal drinkg water. monsignonoel: we a joining tht ha alreadytarted tclear faththe areaf trees.tors from fossil fuels. and that's a macro level approach. so, not just the micro, the town, we are protecting our people, we are joining the much larger picture for the protection of oucomm