To do our jobs, but its saying that were fighting for our lives. And later in the program, the rebuilding of the deputy floods in boxes. The local in g o is reconstructing peoples homes using climate to find the materials. The hope is these houses in which time for new floods, celebrity the ib to expanded, youre welcome to the new news, a sure glad you could join us for the opinions gold has acquitted Nobel Peace Prize when nobody ever saw in a funny tax fraud. Case filed against her and the new sites you found it roughly the rest of it was clear on similar charges 9 months ago. She has long maintained that she and rep and i were targeted for the critical reporting on former president on the vehicle to test or rep look closely followed. The tape is also cut down on the needs of drugs that left thousands dead. The 10th is divisive 60, at the end of last year, he was succeeded by footman bone bone, marcos junior, who has framed himself as a mesh. So, uni file 3 guys. And joining us now for more of them of the law is nobel prize laureate and rep to see you, maria rest. Maria a very big day for you. How are you feeling . Great. Well, you know, nervous last night, but this morning my co founder and i were in the court and a relief. This is the 5th, the last of the 5 tax evasion charges that i faced along with rapper holdings. And now its gone. It took a long time, nearly 5 years, but now weve proven our it since that weve been acquainted and these were charges brought against you during the road trigger detailed to regime. Do you think you were essentially being targeted by the detective government . I have long stated, this is political harassment, an attempt to intimidate me and wrapped her from doing our jobs. This journalist straight, when you create a climate of fear its its, it goes beyond the Chilling Effect it became siberia, except we decided to push back. And because we did, i had 8 arrest warrants within 3 months in 2019, by the end of 2019 i had 10. So out of those 10 criminal charges 8 are now gone. And there are 2 left. One is the cyber libel case thats now with the supreme court. The 2nd one is essentially been remanded back to the prosecutor and then the big one still hanging over our heads is the court of appeals the, the s se decision that of could essentially shut rattler down at any time. So we continue to do our jobs, but at the same time were fighting for our lives, given via the way these 5 tax evasion cases have gone on how youre going to create it and all of them are you hopeful that the other 2 cases that i left, the online lab was curious if you are fighting and then the Closure Order against or apply these would potentially also be displeased and maybe theyd be ruled in your favor. As you know, ive learned that nothing is for sure until that happens. But i think what weve seen under this new administration is a far more a greater respect for press freedom. Wed certainly been now allowed back into the palace. Weve had cool duties. Our reporters can report, which is actually a great thing. And then weve seen the chart just go away, its just been slow. Its drained our resources, but we can continue doing our jobs. I go, i suppose the short answer is really that, yes, i remain hopeful. It is still far from perfect. But rule of law just as seems closer at hand, you did the color lifting of fear under the got into the dream of uh, knock us, do you really mean that the price is for young now in the philippines. Then under adrica today . I think lets say that the bar was set so low that the media, the journalist were under such attack. Like i said, it was beyond a Chilling Effect. We were under siberia, you had the Largest Television network in the philippines, a news room. I used to manage a 1000 journalist strong. Last its franchise, right . Thats like bbc losing its franchise. And thats on thinkable, the last time that happened was in 1972 little raps, or were only about a 100 journalist strong, you know, weve maintained, weve continued the fight, the phrase, we use this, we hold the line for our rights and were still here. And will continue doing our jobs investing the last a you had said that a win for 59 not go sonya, whats more, this information . Not just in the philippines, but across the world when it comes to elections. Has that happen . Is there more of this information now in the philippines, for instance, or its different in the philippines today, right. The attacks against me youre online, are more strategic. Theyre distributed denial of service attacks that began around december 2021. And then there were toxic back links, s e o driving news organizations down in search. But, you know, in terms of globally, weve certainly seen a rollback for news organizations all around the world, especially with the, with the rollout of general did a guy in november 2020 to will more this information come out during elections. Thats what were starting to see. Thats the fear in the elections that are critical in 2024, 2024. According to our data will really be a Tipping Point for democracy. Youre going to have taiwan in january, indonesia, the Worlds Largest muslim population. In february, youre going have perhaps reduced the u. K, will have canada perhaps, and then the you. And then of course, the united states, if the patterns, if the trends dont change as they are given the, the kind of corruption of our information eco system. When lies spread faster than facts on social media, and now you have Large Language Models generally the i not basically weaponized thing. It looks like our loneliness, well we have no idea what to expect during these elections. Id like to come back to the philippines and for them. Macros. Junior is the current president of the philippines, an advocate for press freedom. He says he is, and i hope he puts his words into action. What measures do you think need to be taken into philippines . During show that the press can do their job properly and that democracy is actually served as well. Weve certainly seen an improvement. You know, let me just talk from rafters perspective. We went from being banned from the palace, our reporter, in january, 2018. Along with, with myself, you know, im not even a reporter, but we were banned from the palace and then every single reporter over after through 2018 was banned from anywhere near president detector. All of that changed when Ferdinand Mark costs became president again, routes or had access. We were part of the pool at many times, being the Pool Reporter in the pool camera. And thats the 1st access was there. I think the 2nd thing though is that you still have attacks against journalist. You still have journalists in prison front to make home feel is, was 23 years old. When i, when i gave the lecture the nobel lecture in oslo, she is still in prison. And of course you have the main person who is the sample of president detected dialogue. He says, seen a sample on. She used a political example. This is sen laila, lima, former senator laila. Lima will spend most of her, her term, a senator in jail. She is now in her 7th year starting her 7th year in prison. So theres still a lot to be done. But is it better . And the last administration, not even a question where you live with the, for the time being tech, someone concerning us today. Maria rizza the Climate Change induced flooding impact. Hassan effected some 33000000 people across the country. Last year. More than 1700 people lost their lives and some 13000. Were in good schools, Health Centers and peoples homes for washed away and the flooding. Some parts of the country are still under water and heavy rains and the earlier part of this. Yeah, i added to the suffering in Southern Park hassan. How about a local in general, hes hoping to make a change. It is helping people build the climate prison and homes using locally source materials that are also Climate Friendly jump out and her family lost everything in the 2022 flats. They were already struggling with poverty and focused on southern st. Probing. Losing that much house, meet them, dispute and homeless. 6 months ago the family worked with the local in general to construct this new home. And then that into the office was standing here of the same support funding, but it was washed away by the floods. Got it forget me. It was all ruined and became debris paid. Im the group of mine gave wreck to the plastic time to take shelter memo well to augusta invited some of the took shelter in the room. But the, the, the house is a basic hot like structure meet example straws lie and clean the construction with the environment, the least sustainable Training Program run. By the end you teach people how to build their own, sent us that have made around 1000 houses. So far, lots of people are coming to us saying that they would also want to have such houses who could build on this houses. Ill give you the Construction Material called equivalent of 87. 00. Thats one thing for house meet with segment. Mike and savings for poor people struggling to rebuild their lives. The devastating floods in and dated october to focused on destroying more than 2000000 homes. First of all, we have the samuel looking for the poor. It says got to affordable. Secondly, we have to understand that whatever you brings a lot of side with all of you, my final expensive and kind of because youve got to make a for the without the end, you have had to construct 55000 houses. 50 items home was built before the flats and was left standing prompting many in the 80 got to copy its design. Partly to do that, we left the village. When the floods came, when we returned, the house was still standing. But critics point out the government, tricity and homes are not expandable to urban areas. The violets may be very suitable for a completely looked at it, please. It is not necessarily very popular or visible in the video and audio sort of in a guess. The other disadvantages that, that since it is a basic center, the further additions for multiplication of studies and this type of structure in the present form is not possible. Focused on is one of the top 10 countries most affected by Climate Change. Meaning it could be hit by more extreme, but the difference the country has to be think its repeating strategy and making climate tricity and homes could be to start and that does look like there. Theres most tories from the region on our website, dot com, forward slash asia, and as ever could follow us on facebook. And twitter and alcohol x can see are the same time tomorrow. The weve got some hot tips for your package. From madison to cities. Check on some great cultural memorials to boot travel regarding the boats winning fighting the we say never given the most exciting sport stories about peoples passions. And they drive every weekend on dw, the, the russia praise is a, its a new found closeness with china. As the 2 countries joining forces to rival the west, we ask how we even let trade relationship can ever actually be google in court. A long awaited case begins with pitts bins and that jobs against the Us Government and getting shot as a share of the harvest. 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