Former BBC News Correspondent. Covered: 🇵🇭 Duterte’s “Drug War” 2017-2022 🇹🇭 Cave Rescue in 2018. Agnostic 💮 Interests: 🏔🤿 🏃🏻♂️📚⛵️🧘🏻♂️🚲
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Bongbong Marcos has steered away from tough TV debates and questions from independent journalists while election campaigning. BBC News asked: ‘Can you really be a good president if you’re not doing serious interviews?’
How Hollywood and US foreign policy helped shape Rodrigo Duterte’s brand of vigilantism (a thread) 👇🧵
I finally watched 1974’s Death Wish, a film former 🇵🇭 Pres. Duterte once referenced to explain his brand of rough justice. To watch it is to see the origins of the Davao Death Squad and Philippine drug war - which have resulted in thousands of killings. 1/
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A piece I wrote to process what we’re all witnessing.
Reconcling the man arrested, and the Duterte I covered at the height of his power
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🚨🚨 Follow the excellent @annaholligan for BBC News updates on Rodrigo Duterte at the International Criminal Court 🚨🚨
It was a pleasure to work on this video with the excellent @annaholligan
Have a watch to find out about a former president who has been arrested for crimes against humanity
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Situation in the #Philippines: Rodrigo Roa Duterte is in #ICC custody. A hearing will be scheduled in due course for Mr Duterte’s initial appearance before the Court. Learn more ⤵ icc-cpi.int/news/situation-p…
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Three years ago I covered the death of 17-yr-old Kian Delos Santos, the most prominent extrajudicial killing of the Philippine drug war. You can see the impact it had on his family / community in this short video
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The one victim of the war on drugs on my mind now is Myca Ulpina, killed with her father in 2019. She was only 3 yrs old. The youngest I’ve seen.
I received a bunch of death threats for making this doc about Rodrigo Duterte 👉🏼 youtu.be/YmwVhFu3E88?si=Ua85… #RodrigoDuterte #Duterte #DuterteArrest #DuterteLegacy #ICC
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Police in Philippines arrest ex-President Rodrigo Duterte under international warrant, issued in connection with his deadly "war on drugs" bbc.in/4iEkREL
What happened to #SaraDuterte: “We must protect Bongbong Marcos” and the #UniTeam ? 👇🏻
Quincy Jones is the nicest man I’ve ever interviewed. After the recording, he asked me to sit down and chat some more! We discussed working with Michael Caine, Paul McCartney... but, surprisingly, he kept asking about my life—my ethnic mix, my ‘gumbo.’ Lovely man. Rest in Jazz 🎺
Dunwich Dynamo completed ✅ 180KM of overnight pedaling from London to the Suffolk coast ☀️🌊 #dunwichdynamo #dunrun
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Congratulations @AttyLeiladeLima, finally released (on bail). BBC News won’t have to shout the questions at you next time! 😊
Cape Wrath Trail stages 3 & 4 - A’Chuil bothy to Shiel Bridge. The wettest, toughest hike I’ve done to date 👺 #capewrathtrail #hikingscotland
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The south eastern deep water entry point to Scarborough Shoal now blockaded by a barrier. This is the only part that deep hull boats can enter the lagoon. When I visited with @virmasimonette in 2021 we were shooed away from this entry point by a Chinese maritime militia boat.
Philippine Coast Guard shared a video showing an installed floating barrier in the southeastern area of Bajo de Masinloc Shoal.
Agency said this barrier was installed by the China Coast Guard. It prevents Filipino fishing boats from accessing the shoal & engaging in fishing activities.
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“…a disco musical about a brutal dictator’s wife? …Some say the show glazes over too many details & makes Imelda a little too sympathetic. But he insists that’s the point. The 🇵🇭 people were betrayed by their leaders & he wants us to feel that betrayal” on.ft.com/3QD7E4a
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“When Kian died I promised him that i will continue his dream to graduate in college. I have fullfilled that promise.”
-Krizzhia Delos Santos-Rosero, sister of 17-year-old Kian Loyd Delos Santos who was killed by police in Caloocan City, on August 16, 2017.
BREAKING: The @IntlCrimCourt Appeals Chamber announces authorisation to resume the investigation into crimes against humanity - connected to killings in Davao and under President Duterte’s ‘war on drugs - in the Philippines.
Today marks the seven year anniversary of the 2016 ruling in the Permanent Court of Arbitration that Beijing's claim to almost the entire South China Sea is groundless. Our 2021 film on the 🇵🇭 🇨🇳 battle for Scarborough Shoal remains a relevant watch: youtu.be/AghqhExbwnQ
BBC News travels to Scarborough Shoal to see if China is abiding by the 2016 Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling that found its actions there unlawful. We witness a continuing blockade vs Filipino fishermen by China’s Coast Guard & Maritime Militia. bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-57…