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Philippines president accuses judges, mayors of drug trade involvement
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks at a military Camp Panacan in Davao City in southern Philippines on Aug. 7, 2016. Photo by Lean Daval Jr/ReutersPhilippines President Rodrigo Duterte...
View ArticleState-Sponsored Killings Births Human Rights Crisis in the Philippines
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Nearly 800 Filipinos have been killed as a result of an extreme anti-drug policy rolled out by newly-elected President Rodrigo Duterte.Since...
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News Wrap: U.S.-backed militias continue gains in Sirte
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: In the day’s other news: American-backed militias claimed new progress in capturing the Islamic State’s last stronghold in Libya. The militia forces say...
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News Wrap: Trump says he’s not flip-flopping on immigration plan
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump insisted today he’s not flip-flopping on his plan to deport some 11 million people living in the U.S....
View Article1,800 Filipinos Dead in Wake of Radical Anti-Drug Campaign
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Back in May, newly-elected Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the police and military to kill suspected drug dealers and users without...
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News Wrap: Siege near Damascus to end after 4 years; suicide bomb kills 11 in...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: The U.S. and Russia neared an agreement today that aims to reduce hostilities in Syria. Word of the progress came after an hours-long meeting in...
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Philippines human rights groups condemn extrajudicial killings
Watch VideoRead the full transcript below.HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: In the Philippines, in the two months since President Rodrigo Duterte took office with a promised crackdown on...
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Obama threatens to cancel meeting with Philippines’ Duterte
File photo of Rodrigo Duterte by Erik De Castro/ReutersVIENTIANE, Laos — President Barack Obama threatened Monday to call off a planned meeting with new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, seeking...
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Duterte lashes out at critics of drug war killings in the Philippines
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: And staying with the president’s trip to Asia, we look at a flash point created with Mr. Obama by the new president of the Philippines.It’s not only Rodrigo...
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News Wrap: Obama urges Americans to learn about other cultures during Laos...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: It’s an emerging question in the presidential campaign: Who would be the better commander in chief?Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will both make...
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News Wrap: As cease-fire starts, Assad insists he means to retain control
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: In the day’s other news: a cease-fire in Syria negotiated by the U.S. and Russia is now officially in force. It took effect at sunset, although government...
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News Wrap: Skies over Aleppo fall silent amid cease-fire
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: In the day’s other news, the cease-fire in Syria appears to be holding for the most part, despite reports of scattered violations.In the ravaged city of...
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News Wrap: UN criticizes humanitarian aid delays to Syria
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: In the day’s other news: The United Nations blamed Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad for delays in getting humanitarian aid into the country, despite...
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Philippines president compares himself to Hitler
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte gestures during a news conference upon his arrival from a state visit in Vietnam at the International Airport in Davao city, Philippines September 30, 2016....
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News Wrap: Alabama chief justice suspended for preventing same-sex marriage...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: In the day’s other news: A disciplinary court in Alabama suspended Chief Justice Roy Moore over gay marriage. The panel found he encouraged probate...
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News Wrap: U.S. blames Russia for DNC, election hacking
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: In the day’s other news: The United States formally charged that Russia organized the hacking of Democratic political sites and state election...
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This cancer survivor wants to stop kids in the Philippines from lighting up
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Turning a corner, after decades of health warnings, cigarette sales have fallen sharply in the United States and Europe, but multinational tobacco...
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News Wrap: Top Iraqi commander calls for surrender of Mosul
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: In the day’s other news: A top Iraqi commander called for the surrender of Mosul on day three of the offensive to retake the city.The general estimated...
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News Wrap: ‘Humanitarian pause’ begins in Aleppo
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: In the day’s other news: A Russia-Syrian humanitarian pause took effect in Syria in the besieged city of Aleppo. It could run as long as four days. Using...
View Article'America Has Lost': Filipino President Announces 'Separation' from U.S.
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview."Your honors, in this venue, I announce my separation from the United States," the infamously brash Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte said...
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News Wrap: Russia extends ‘humanitarian pause’ in Aleppo due to evacuation...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: In the day’s other news: Russia extended a pause in fighting in Aleppo, Syria, for a third day, to allow people to receive aid, that after the U.N. said...
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News Wrap: Supreme Court to hear first case on transgender rights
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: In the day’s other news: The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will take up the issue of transgender rights for the first time. The justices...
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Is there a line between Trump’s business and political interests?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJOHN YANG: Next, to a closer look at President-elect Trump’s business interests and potential conflicts that may arise when he takes office.William Brangham has more....
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In the Philippines, Duterte’s brutal war on drugs kills thousands
On Oct. 20, Filipino police shot and killed Florjohn Cruz, 34, at his mother’s home during a drugs buy-bust operation in Manila, Philippines. His family said they later found a sign at the house, which...
View ArticleState-Sponsored Killings in the Philippines
Since the election in May, Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has resulted in the deaths of more than three thousand people in the Philippines. Adrian Chen, a staff writer for The New Yorker, discusses the...
View ArticleIsrael: A Fragile Relationship, Food Trafficking in Venezuela, A Solo Pianist...
Coming up on today's show: On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry delivered an impassioned speech from the State Department, reiterating his support for a two state solution and appearing to...
View ArticleOn Patrol in President Duterte's War Against Drugs
This week marks six months in office for Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. Since taking power, the former mayor has lived up to his vow to crack down on drugs going after drug users, dealers and...
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Why Trump’s embrace of Duterte is raising alarm
Watch VideoWILLIAM BRANGHAM: Now: the president’s weekend phone call with the president of the Philippines and the uproar that has ensued.SEAN SPICER, White House Press Secretary: There’s a lot that...
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News Wrap: Nuclear missile that can reach U.S. from North Korea ‘inevitable,’...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: In the day’s other news: There’s word President Trump has retained Wall Street lawyer Marc Kasowitz in the special counsel investigation of contacts...
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News Wrap: GOP health bill would leave 23 million more without health...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOOODRUFF: In the day’s other news: The Congressional Budget Office issued its analysis of the Republican bill to replace Obamacare, a bill that passed the House...
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News Wrap: U.S. to exit Paris climate agreement, says Trump
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: From President Trump today, a declaration: The United States wants out of the Paris accord on climate change, and wants to negotiate better terms.Under...
View ArticleAttack in Manila Heightens Fears of Terrorism in the Philippines
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Gunfire and explosions were reported at a casino resort in Manila on Thursday. Amateur video captured by witnesses showed frightened people...
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News Wrap: Police unsure why attacker set deadly fire in Manila casino
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: In the day’s other news: U.S. employers pulled back a bit on hiring last month, but the unemployment rate still dropped, to its lowest point in 16 years....
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Tillerson to address the Philippines’ deadly drug crackdown
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Tillerson, Philippine leader confer amid North Korea worries
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (right) meet at the presidential palace in Manila, Philippines on Aug. 7. Photo by Erik De Castro/ReutersMANILA, Philippines —...
View ArticleMurderous Philippine Anti-Drug Campaign Shows Signs of Spreading to Indonesia
Last month, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo told his national police to ramp up their efforts to combat drug dealers. "Gun them down," he said, "Give them no mercy." Amnesty International has...
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5 important stories you may have missed
Mourners in the Philippines watch as Kian delos Santos, a 17-year-old student who was shot during anti-drug operations is buried in Caloocan, Metro Manila, Philippines on August 26. Photo by...
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Trump to travel to 5 countries in Asia in November
U.S. President Donald Trump meets South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 6, 2017. Photo by Carlos...
View ArticleFilipino-American Narratives Doing Battle
Gina Apostol, award-winning writer, explores the history of the U.S. in the Philippines in her new novel, Insurrecto (Soho Press, 2018).Tune in now: @GinaApostol, author of "Gun Dealers' Daughter,"...
View ArticleIBM Exported Surveillance Tech that Aided Duterte's Bloody Campaign in the...
After 9/11, surveillance tech is big business. The Intercept reported late last year that the NYPD, without the consent of New Yorkers, had developed a system that could identify a person by their skin...
View ArticleImelda Marcos is 'The Kingmaker'
Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield joins to discuss her new documentary, “The Kingmaker,” which tells the story of the former First Lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos, and premieres November 8.
View ArticleImelda Marcos Today
“The Kingmaker” traces the fall and rise of Imelda Marcos, the disgraced First Lady of the Philippines, who’s on a quest to bring her family back to power in alliance with President Rodrigo Duterte....
View ArticleThe Life of Imelda Marcos, Former First Lady of the Philippines
[REBROADCAST FROM NOVEMBER 8, 2019] Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield joins to discuss her new documentary, “The Kingmaker,” which tells the story of the former First Lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos.
View ArticleRamona Diaz Decodes the Motherland
Filipino-American filmmaker Ramona Diaz says each of her films is a “yearning for the motherland.” She says she's in a unique position -- able to “decode” the Philippines for the rest of the world....
View ArticleThe Nobel Prize Winner Maria Ressa on the Turmoil at Facebook
The roughly ten thousand company documents that make up the Facebook Papers show a company in turmoil—and one that prioritizes its economic interests over known harms to public interest. Among other...
View ArticleUncle SPAM
During World War II, wherever American troops spread democracy, they left the canned meat known as SPAM in its wake. When American GIs landed overseas, they often tossed cans of SPAM out of trucks to...
View ArticleFormer Mayor de Blasio Shares Advice for Democrats; The Election in The...
Coming up on today's show: Bill de Blasio, former mayor of New York City, draws from his experience and offers advice to President Biden and the Democratic Party on messaging.Adrian De Leon, assistant...
View ArticleThe Marcos' Return to Power in the Philippines
Adrian De Leon, assistant professor of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, discusses the election of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., gives context of the Marcos...
View Article519- Balikbayan Boxes
This time of year, right in the middle of the holiday season, there's a beloved, frenzied tradition playing out in Filipino households all around the world, with which reporter Gabrielle Berbey is...
View ArticleRodrigo Duterte’s Deadly Promise
When Rodrigo Duterte ran for the presidency of the Philippines and won, in 2016, the Western press noted the similarities between this unconventional candidate and Donald Trump—who also liked to...
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