a strong fit for human rights in the philippines and is something done. that mark the legacy of president detected now of course we're not saying that all the oh you know all of us we use less been not being bought in terms of a policy there have been some what would proponents would say you know good indicators of good news are shipped into fights for years and the hope that in the next 3 years i would continue to happen and the dominant theme the dominant issue that has marked the boss 30 years and i think will also mark the next the useless be. the abstract human rights violations of the philippines related to the problem ok graham on the web in singapore your thought is so that there's been a lot of concern over human rights and human rights situation in the philippines how has her draco to tete a fed in your opinion and his on his most notable promises well ira are logical code the comments are all my to come back shits on this panel perhaps what i could share is perspectives as i said i said in singapore not in the philippines nevertheless as a memb

recognizes philippine territory those islands are philippine territory. shown in the treaty of paris 8 in 98. so it's. ports are the chances this yes are the facts of this base becomes a flashpoint in the region. well the base. us of now it is still a low key installation its primary purpose most likely will be to monitor the area it will be a listening and a monitoring air post for the philippine military because that area of the island is in the middle of 2 channels channel and berlin tongue channel which are waterways that connect the east china sea to the solve china sea or portions of the rest of us we would call it here and that is a major interdiction point ok so. i will be frank here by saying that chinese military vessels for example can be monitored in terms of their ingress and egress all of that of the south china sea or is trying to see leading towards the central pacific so. the possibility of that playing a very big role in in monitoring those activities is quite high and of course there's always the potential for base improvement base impr

i was in the philippines when we heard about brandon being attacked. and we went to the general hospital and i wanted to show you a video that was taken at the general hospital and this is of his mother. before we left, i said -- he had six cardiac arrests. when we arrived, we heard that he had eight cardiac arrests. i can't believe that he had eight cardiac arrests and survived. he was alert and he smiled and (inaudible). >> i'm just so happy and my family and i are very thankful for the car that he is seeking here at the general hospital. we are very concerned for his safety. the assail enter is still out there and come back to finish the job. i'm hoping that -- >> supervisor yee: thank you. >> to help us evacuating brandon and bring him back home to san francisco awa and away from his perpetrators. the people who want to kill him. >> hello, i'm also from san francisco committee for human rights in the philippines and i will be reading a statement from aaron lee, brandon's brother. my name is aaron lee and i was born, raised and he educated in san fr

it comes from inside of the philippines have a listen to one woman one activist to. have a look. more than 2 years ago in manila the net cost to use an algerian was killed by armed men but she believes they were linked to the police the net blames president to so-called war and drugs for her son's death and she's become an activist speaking out against the campaign. killings should and the government should instead serve the filipinos according to government data more than 6000 people have been killed over the past 3 years an average of 6 every day. so this is a you hit tremendous reporting and you can see from within the philippines it's not just outsiders who are upset with the number of civilians who are dying but as people within the philippines how do you make sense of that because i know early we would talk about the popularity of the president but you also have activists saying this want drugs has to stop. sure so the drug war as of earlier has become abusive. really also. even the death toll has been a contest the figure of government saying that it's in the

tax forces for the philippines and philipines hash police. police. i have been carrying for him for over 12 hours a day as a nurse. i hope you can do everything within your power to help brandon. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is julie lee and i'm brandon's auntie. brandon was born and raised in sunset district of san francisco. he attended middle school and lincoln high school and san francisco state university. he is a caring, good natured kind-hearted person. i used to drop by saturday mornings after working a night shift and would fall asleep on the sofas. at that time, brandon was six or seven-years-old. and would always find a blanket to cover me to keep me warm. which was sick in bed, whoa come to my bedside and tell me funny things to cheer me up. i was very sad when he decided to leave his home in san francisco and relocate to another country. there was a bigger purpose. something he cared so deeply and passionately about. that made him leave his comfortable surroundings. for the past 10 years, he has been a human rights and environm

navy to the philippines paired the philippines had also been a spanish colony for some time. the philippines, also a sugar theucing colony, people in philippines had also been trying to resist and overthrow their spanish colonizers for decades. you see similar things going on in the philippines that you see going on in cuba. arrive, as part of the war, they appear to be allies. they appear to be allies of philippine independence. when americans arrived during the spanish-american war, they appear to be allies. are they helping the philippines like they are helping cuba? that is what the local people thought. they thought that until they found out about the treaty of paris. philippines has now become a colony of the united states. 1902,is why from 1899 to the philippine resistance now transitions to fighting the americans. here you have what we call guerrilla warfare on the part of the philippine resistance. they are a smaller force. and they, in many ways, fight the u.s. in ways that we are also going to study when we study the vietnam war. a lot about the philippine war is s

the philippines. and these are supposed to be students that are named for the states that were already part of the united states. and if you will in the back this is supposed to be an african-american cleaning the windows, an indigenous student and this is supposed to be a chinese student that are excluded entirely. this is what's summing up the stuff we're going to talk about in this class some of background. let's do the definition of colonialism. so mason, can you remind us the definition of colonialism that we're using in the class. >> colonialism is when a power exploits the lesser power and uses the lesser power's resources to strengthsen and enrich the greater power. >> we all remember, right? and this is a class about empire. so nations that engage in colonialism are empires. that's what we're talking about today. then you know last class we talk about progressivism, right? we talked about progressivism as a movement to solve problems. what i'm talking about today is happening simultaneous to

alliances in the region because the philippines is a key u.s. ally and if the philippines holds on to its repertoire under that there and pushes back against us it's also difficult for the united states to project power in the region and put the chinese you know keep the china in a bait so that's where the philippine sea richard had to thank you. we're not hearing much from people in india administered kashmir these days communications remain largely sealed off just over 3 weeks after india downgraded the region's autonomy is status but neighboring pakistan is making a lot of noise prime minister in iran khan has promised to bring up what he calls indian atrocities in a speech next month at the un general assembly and over the past few weeks pakistanis have turned out to protest india's actions in the muslim majority kashmir speaking out about it is for many both a patriotic and religious duty. they come to speak up for those whose voices have been muted thank you thank you thank you thank you the students made their own feelings clear chanting

and that is a good city after city and philippines. the entire is overtaken and overall the death for filipinos is 1.1 million. they died in world war ii according to government counties yeah japanese, much smaller, 1.6 million. which is more than two civil wars. world war ii and the philippines is the bloodiest if it that ever happened on u.s. soil. by a lot. and it is often not in u.s. history textbooks. often not in service of the united states. because generally when the u.s. history we are reading history of the mainland. were not reading the history of the entire thing. so the u.s. history that happened off of the mainland, don't always factor in. two stories we tell. the dean of the work, and the wreckage of manila, i have this account from a boy who was there. illiterate. he was just a young boy at the time and he met a g.i. whose handing out and gave ospreys and chocolate. and oscar looked at him and said, thank you very much. in the g.i. lifted oscar and we have this on from oscar's account was very confused. look to him and

malcolm: it needs the philippines pursuing the policies the philippines is doing now. before, the philippines was a front line state organizing international pressure against china in the south china sea, with some effect, including the 2016 ruling that invalidates china's claims under the -- china's claims. under the duterte administration, they pushed that aside and are not following the path china wants, joint development between china and other states, private discussions about territorial maritime disputes. so you could argue in one way, china has been able to flip the philippines on the south china sea. that is probably pretty big win that now vietnam is suffering from, because now vietnam is the frontline state against china in the south china sea. >> malcolm, thank you. malcolm cook, senior fellow at isaac institute joining us out of singapore. look at a move that caught apple's attention. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ we are back on bloomberg markets. plans to sell online devices in india after the government eases rules for foreign companies doing business is --

this is deja vu news asia coming up a powerful political dynasty in the philippines and mass murder and a verdict 10 years in the making look at a trial that's put the country's justice system to the test and china needs more pigs the world's biggest consumer and producer of pork faces a major shortage will visit the farmers and butchers battling the fallout of swine flu. i'm sumi so much going to welcome to news asia it is good to have you with us we start with what's been called the trial of the decade in the philippines a court test sentenced members of a powerful political family to life in prison for orchestrating a massacre 10 years ago it was a story that rocked the philippines around the world in 2958 people were murdered in an ambush on a convoy carrying a candidates family ahead of a regional election and $32.00 journalists were among those who were killed now it happened in maganda now province in the south of the philippines this is a region that is battling insurgencies and on rust the perpetrators members of a political dynasty who did not want to see their power challenge

using using the philippines as a manufacturing base or even the philippines stepping in you know as they take years that wouldn't exactly say there is a prague there is a product that china exports out the philippines say hey now it's an opportunity for us to explore it well first of all we have to be making it don't we and the main problem is that it's really hard to sell this as a winning proposition for the philippines because nobody knows what's going to happen with a trade war are we we have to ask ourselves are we in a better position than our neighbors to be able to take on this role of vietnam seems to be doing better than us in that respect and we've tied in the fate of our economy very closely to that of china a weekend the chinese economy this is our largest trading partner a big source of foreign direct investment a big source of inbound tourism for us is it really going to be better for us if they do badly so this is how this is one of the things that we have to ask ourselves if we started down to find yourself as one of the key winners of this trade war about amanda th

deciding to investigate the philippines for the campaign will how families get justice also. sexually harassed sent to prison. recorded calls and knowledge as to spend time in jail footage plus. a museum to take. japan's out of such museum as a glimpse into the world of human. parasites. welcome to the show it's good to have you with us 3 weeks back a 3 year old was shot dead by philippines police in a province near the capital manila the squad on an anti drug operation they say she was used as a human shield and her family says she wasn't but. death was called collateral damage by this man here. modeller also is a senator and a former head of the philippines police he's led the president to tertius so-called war on drugs but now the un has decided to investigate the un human rights council set up a preliminary investigation into the empty drugs campaign that has killed more than 6000 people in 3 years those are just government figures michael killing is another figure on the death list but it also stands out it's prompted questions such as the one the priest asked at michael

this is deja vu news asia coming up a powerful political dynasty in the philippines a mass murder and a verdict 10 years in the making look at a trial that's put the country's justice system to the test and china needs more pigs the world's biggest consumer and producer of pork faces a major shortage will visit the farmers and butchers battling the fallout of swine flu. i'm suzanne was going to welcome to news asia it is good to have you with us we start with what's been called the trial of the decade in the philippines a court test sentenced members of a powerful political family to life in prison for orchestrating a massacre 10 years ago it was a story that rocked the philippines around the world in 2958 people were murdered in an ambush on a convoy carrying a candidates family ahead of a regional election and $32.00 journalists were among those who were killed now it happened in maganda now province in the south of the philippines this is a region that is battling insurgencies and on rest the perpetrators members of a political dynasty who did not want to see their power challenged

he has no doubt that this was the philippine army that targeted him. we got to meet with his colleagues and his family and friends while we were there. they told us a number of them were also visited by the army on the same day, but they were not home. he had experienced escalating threats to his life from the military in the lead up to the assassination attempt. so this is a context in which brandon has been deeply involved in fighting for the rights of indigenous people in the philippines, human rights, defending their natural resources -- particularly against the proposed dam in the area where he works. he and his colleagues and friends feel very confidently that this was from elements connected to the philippine government. the police have told the family that they believe it was brandon's friends that did this, which is an absurd thing from what we saw and everyone we talked to. brandonant to turn to and his own words. this is over a year ago. in a video message released in july 2018, before the assassination attempt, he talked about t the threats

it comes from inside of the philippines have a listen to one woman one activist to. have a look. more than 2 years ago in manila the net cost to your son was killed by armed men but she believes they were linked to the police minette blames president of the so-called war and drugs for her son's death and she's become an activist speaking out against the campaign. extradition killings should and the government should instead serve the filipinos according to government data more than 6000 people have been killed over the past 3 years an average of 6 every day. so this is a new hatred of the us reporting and you can see from within the philippines it's not just outsiders who are upset with the number of civilians who are dying but as people within the philippines how do you make sense of that because i know early you would talk about the popularity of the president but you also have activists saying this one drugs has to stop. sure so the drug war as of earlier has become abusive. really also. even the death toll has been a contest the figure of government saying that i

he's one of the foremost authorities on southeast asia and the philippines and particularly the philippine-china relationship. to his left, just returned to washington to become the head of the u.s. effort of the observer research foundation. i first met him almost 30 years ago in japan. delighted to see how you've developed into an absolute first-class institute leader, but also a scholar and analyst on the region. and i met today lisolette, a senior fellow here at the institute. what's terrific about having her here is her work, as i was doing the background work, is really -- icks up the u.s.-china u.s., china and europe threat. i think it's more salient as we look at post-brexit u.k. and we look atle the role of france and other -- at the role of france and other european states in the indo pacific and look forward to hearing from her. and of course our chair and leader of this effort. so, format is very simple. three of our presenters have a power point presentation. they'll make their case. and then we'll go one rep through the other and then open it up for a qy and a and each of them will

i come from the philippines. if i'm going to use boxing as a metaphor think are just in round number and will go all the way to route the 12th if not more. one, the first reason is america's power and the resilience of its power and influence in asia is underestimate. look at much more observant analysis of america's power, i see michael has done a good job in his latest book, he talks about net power. a lot of people mistakenly think china is taking over because their gdp is a a large but the country is not just sign here, the picture ecological resources, human capital, a living standard free people, how much are you can. the technology you can dispose of. if you look at the data over the past 20 years you are noticing much convergence between china and the united states. u.s. has to go on a three or% to match china's seven, eight, 9% growth. if a look at technology, look at cutting edge technology u.s. is still way ahead. interesting observation by people that everyone is talking china crating wendling site to

health emergency to hit the philippines. after the measles and brick and build these together the lives of more than $1500.00 people what does that say about the philippines is. the philippine health care infrastructure is insufficient and it's got more bad news because for 2020 the health care budget has been slashed by about 10000000000 paso's or the women of about 175000000 euro this is going to affect the manpower that's needed by the health department for monitoring and surveillance programs of outbreaks that this one with polio and i think we also have a think about the vaccine scare is continuing to impact the public's perception of vaccines there's been a massive loss of trust in vaccines and in the public health care system now the budget that would have been used to fund education programs and information campaigns to bring back that trust has now been slashed the health care department definitely had its job cut out for it. was from manila thank you very much for that . thank you. in just a few words china's leade

a strong fit for human rights in the philippines and it is something done or said today. that marked the legacy of president detected now of course we're not saying that all that oh you know all of us we use less been have been bad in terms of a policy there have been some what would proponents would say you know good indicators of good news are shipped into fights for years and the hope that in the next 3 years i would continue to happen when it ain't a dominant theme the dominant issue that has marked the cost of the years and i think will also mark the next the useless be. the abstract human rights violations of the philippines related to the problem ok graham on the web in singapore your thought is so that there's been a lot of concern over human rights and human rights situation in the philippines how has her draco to tete a fed in your opinion and his on his most notable promises well ira are logical code the comments are on my to come back shits on this panel perhaps what i could share is a real perspectives as i said i said in singapore not in the philippines wher

in a contested area as it's well within the philippines exclusive economic zone but the philippine military is thinking ahead to the area of the naval forces or. the. very vast waters with other naval forces in the archipelago yummy the island is highly strategic it's facing a key waterway that connects the pacific ocean the east china sea and the south china sea. at a time when the administration is highly criticized for its. person. for. the philippine military has been. in the north. we have a responsibility. right braving the rough seas luis has been fishing here for more than 50 years he says a foreign poachers with larger fishing vessels have been. bullying local fishermen like him for decades he says he is grateful for the shelter that's been built here for them. and move them up i never imagined that this was possible in my lifetime before we were helpless as who watch for a nurse to throw dynamite in front of us food security is a growing issue not just in the philippines but in a region with competing claims over territorial waters and analysts see this may well be the next milegi

drano delegate also is a senator and a former head of the philippines police he's led the president to tertius so-called war on drugs but now the un has decided to investigate the un human rights council and set up a preliminary investigation into the empty drugs bin that has killed more than $6000.00 people in 3 years those are just government figures michael peanuts killing is another figure on that death list but it also stands out it's prompted questions such as the one the priest asked my close friend will when is enough enough. that he might have a final farewell is all that's left for michael's mother she's living a parent's worst nightmare her daughter was gunned down in a drug raid carried out by police kathleen michael pina was only 3 years old her father and the alleged narcotics dealer is said to have used her as a human shields when police entered the family's home on a drug raid micah has become the youngest known victim of the philippines war on drugs. police claim her father was armed and in the middle of a drug deal michael's mother says that wasn't so. what they're sa

no one wanted for you has reemerged in the philippines nearly 2 decades after being eradicated in the country. to find out why and look at what's being done to halt the outbreak also coming up. another weekend of hong kong protests follows a similar pattern but a warning from china does not president xi jinping indicate how much he's willing to tolerate. laskin flooding across japan as one of the last 60 years it's the island nation. i'm british welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us it's a threat the philippines thought it had ended when it did but it's back after 19 years for you'll at least 2 children have been found to have contracted the virus it has also been detected in sewerage in manila and a waterway in the south of the country the government has declared an outbreak and efforts are being made to immunize billions of children by some estimates 3 out of 5 children in the philippines and not immunized against a 4 year old boy is a highly contagious disease that spreads through person to person contact and immunization is the only way to prevent it. one of us has be

that was a preview of what might have been in the philippines. shortly after the united states under douglas macarthur went to take the philippines and particularly focused its attention on the city of manila. a cd containing a million people. it was at that point the sixth largest city in the united states. the united states forces first started by bombarding it and aiming for the japanese targets but aware they can't always discriminate friend from foe and then with the united states army came in on the ground hoping to dislodge japan from this city where the japanese had set up a fortified positions. and it started by doing it this ortiz away building small arms fire trying to dislodge the japanese from where they were called uheld up and quickly it t at the cost of the soldiers. it contains hostile japanese sailors were soldiers and the way that the head of the outcome of the commander of the division but it cometh to me, the thought of losing an american life to save the building was unthinkable, which makes sense. it's not a hard call to ma

if we give more of our for the locals but it must be under one flag the philippine flag. but if the autonomy dr fay it's more disaffected muslims could join radical outfits in addition after the loss of their caliphate in syria and iraq more foreign i guess five tests might also decide that mindanao is the new front. and joining me here in the studio is one of the authors of the report. it does monsanto thank you so much for coming in but your report mentions a struggle for autonomy on mindanao the government has promised after a referendum this autonomous state to the muslims of mindanao or to be valid in the next three years does that go some distance in diffusing the threat from islamic state i think that's what they're trying to achieve it is about winning the hearts and minds of people to support government in the end you know if you want to root out terror you need to be standing shoulder to shoulder which is government and its people which is not entirely the case in mindanao because there are grievances legitimate grievances they way back you know it is a long his

encouraging violence in the philippines the philippines president has asked for catholic bishops to be killed and for female rebels to be violently punished now is vice president. violent rhetoric like that is the wrong message from the president. it would have been back there if he had not. said. there's a sense of encouragement that. this would be binary. and in hong kong a mosque ban pushes protesters out onto the streets we look at how 4 months of these protests are already impacting local businesses. i'm british manager welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us has been described as nothing but a large scale monitoring enterprise and by official estimates it's claimed more than 6000 lives other statements that are out of policed double that and yet it continues its philippines president to so-called war on drugs a war now being investigated by the u.n. human rights council it's a campaign that's a broad term at loggerheads with his own vice president leonie robredo. she was elected separately from deter and this from another party in an exclusive interview with correspond

-philippine alliance. and that kind of verbiage has gotten old for the philippines they understandably want to know what will happen if they a real he is ka la tray kind of conflict with china, what would the united do.es scarborough is not a particularly reassuring episode u.s.-philippine alliance. o i think what he may be up to is really just trying to force a conversation that, again, revious administrations have managed to avoid to get more of sense of whatblic u.s. -- how far the u.s. really go in a potential conflict. and frankly, i think it would be trump ely easy for the administration to come up with a of ula of clarification obligations that might just sort of settle this whole thing quickly. so we'll see. dilemma so, amy, the the president by imself because they may convince the secretary of defense to give him more security commitment, something to closer to what we japan, successive administrations have set article 5 would apply in any scenario involving the force against japan. have never bee

coming up on the program on the trail of islam and state in the philippines an exclusive report from the island of mindanao and how the separatist conflict that is being exploited. plus. how a german became a social media china with a funny take on these chinese in-laws. welcome to. it's good to have you with us we begin today in the philippines where the scene behind me is what many expect to see in this island nation but this beauty hides destruction of the kind last seen in the country during the second world war from the ground this is the reality this is my hobby city after a five month battle between iowa's fighters and the philippines army fought in twenty seventeen located on the southern island of mindanao the battle in but obviously was one of the most violent chapters in a conflict that has seen the deaths of more than one hundred twenty thousand people it's been the struggle for autonomy waged by the island's muslim population a struggle that could soon be subverted by the imagines of islamic state. we are on patrol with the largest muslim rabid group in mindanao the moro

comes from inside of the philippines have a listen to one woman one activist sitting in a. more than 2 years ago in manila the net cost to your son was killed by armed men but she believes they were linked to the police monette blames president of the so-called war and drugs for her son's death and she's become an activist speaking out against the campaign. extradition killings should and the government should instead serve the filipinos according to government data more than 6000 people have been killed over the past 3 years an average of 6 every day. so this is where you hit tremendous reporting and you can see from within the philippines it's not just outsiders who are upset with the number of civilians who are dying but as people within the philippines how do you make sense of that because i know early we would talk about the popularity of the president but you also have activists saying this one drugs has to stop. sure so the drug war as of earlier has become abusive. ily also. even the death toll has been a best the figure of government saying that it's in the vicinit

if we try to give more authority and power to the locals but it must be under one flag the philippine flag. but if the autonomy drive fail it's more disaffected muslims could join radical outfits in addition after the loss of their caliphate in syria and iraq more foreign i guess five tests might also decide that mindanao is the new front. reports by d. w.'s underpaid his men and she joins me now in studio. just first of all i want to know how big of a threat is the so-called islamic states in the south philippines it's hard to put down in any numbers that we have seen isolated bombings we see isolated skirmishes authorities tell us there are fighters laying low in the jungle in the marsh lands but to give few concrete numbers that we can do what we do know is that there is a lot of attraction you still find sympathies among the population we spoke to a young guy let's call him up those he was part of the group that laid siege to be he's now also laying low and he says look if a life doesn't change i would pick up a weapon again so there is definitely some sort of threat there now the

the philippines military says it believes the ice and. us was behind the twin bombings president rodriguez attends as visiting some of the wounded in the muslim majority in the hole where the attack took place twenty seven people were killed. in the city which is close to a whole. there are reports that iso has claimed responsibility for the attack that's something that the philippine military has this missed its recent statements it's pointing to the notorious group and the government spokesperson says basically that there are already pursuit operations against several members of the group now no locoed armed group has claimed responsibility for the attack but it remains to be seen how this could impact the already very precarious security situation not just across mindanao but in particular these outlying islands in the southern philippines as you know where no is home to several armed groups in the southern philippines the more islamic liberation front the more national liberation front members of the private groups of local politician