rodrigo duterte is best known for his violent war on drugs. i m just saying, if you create a problem for us, i will take you out. thousands of drug suspects have been killed by police and vigila ntes. of drug suspects have been killed by police and vigilantes. now, two years after being elected, critics say duterte s administration is attacking the very institutions designed to keep his power in check. and locking up those who criticise him. senator, are you innocent? the judiciary, thejudiciary, the the judiciary, the legislature, thejudiciary, the legislature, you harass those opposing you, and you try to pull them beyond your turn.” have been covering the philippines for more than a year, and little surprises me. even the children of infamous dictator ferdinand marcos are emerging as powerful players in their own right. do you see similarities between president duterte and your father? not at all, you asking the wrong person, thank you. as the president s grip on power t
president rodrigo duterte is best known for his violent war on drugs. i m just saying, if you create a problem for us, i will take you out. thousands of drug suspects have been killed by police and vigilantes. now, two years after being elected, critics say duterte‘s administration is attacking the very institutions designed to keep his power in check and locking up those who criticise him. senator, are you innocent? the judiciary, the legislature, you harass those opposing you, and you try to pull them beyond your term. i have been covering the philippines for more than a year, and little surprises me. even the children of infamous dictator ferdinand marcos are emerging as powerful players in their own right. do you see similarities between president duterte and your father? not at all. you re asking the wrong person, thank you. as the president s grip on power tightens, are we witnessing a return to the politics of dictatorship? night time in tondo, a district with one of
and left him paralysed below the neck. but since that day he has had one ambition, to build a place where young people with catastrophic sporting injuries can reshape their lives. joe wilson reports. this is matt hampson. this is his place. his message is written on the doorstep. it s nothing to do with the level of injury that you are. it s how you move on with your life, and how you find purpose. when matt hampson played rugby, he was exceptional, already picked for england s under 215 when in a training session, in a scrum, he broke his neck. what then? second rows, you need to lift your heads up a little bit. i first met matt when he started coaching rugby, but he had a bigger idea. and here it is, in a windswept field in leicestershire the get busy living centre. from the outside, you can see it is split over two levels. the ground floor is being used for a party today, but it is where young people with serious injuries can come with their families to eat, drink and en
sanchia berg reports. 600 cars roll off the line here every day at toyota s factory near derby, each one built to order. it works because the parts only arrive when they are needed, summoned at a day s notice from suppliers in the uk and europe, put straight onto the production line. there is no warehouse, so if the truck gets stuck the line can stop. a hard brexit and delays at the border would magnify that. if we crash out of the eu at the end of march the supply chain will be impacted and we will see production stopped in our factory. he doesn t know how long that disruption would be. hours, days, possibly weeks. that would be expensive for toyota, which has just invested a quarter of a billion pounds in this plant to build the new corolla here. it would reduce our competitiveness. sadly i think that would reduce the number of cars made in the uk and that would costjobs. they are calling for free movement of goods between britain and the eu as the prime minister outlined i
hurricane irma continues to devastate the caribbean. we have been getting pictures in from all over. what you see here is the caribbean islands being battered by a category 5 hurricane. that s the highest possible level which makes irma the most powerful atlantic storm in a decade. this is the island of saint martin officials warn most of the area is all but destroyed. this is antigua, very severe, home to 80,000 luckily the islanders escaped major damage to their homes, and there have been no fatalities. in puerto rico, more than half of the island s 3.5 million residents were without power amid heavy downpours and strong winds. look at the scene is facing them as irma swept through, heavy downpours and strong winds. and anguilla and the british virgin islands have also been hit by the extreme weather. the hurricane sustained wind speeds of 285km/h, reducing buildings to rubble and left at least ten people dead. barbuda has been the worst hit. the tiny island there, as