promising filipinos changed from what they've seen over the past 5 years. my opposition against the killings, with the exception of repair dog all have supported the territory so called war and drugs and were even instrumental in the prosecution of members of the opposition. the filing of candidacy is scheduled for 8 days this month. but the commissioner election says the line up would be final. that's because it will still allow the switching of candidates until november 15 elections. you will be on the 9th of me next year. but it's already expected to be one of the most divisive and bitterly contested elections here, even in the country, long battered by political instability, jamal ali dog and al jazeera manila ah, the top stories around to 0, rescuers have been searching for survivors in southwest pakistan. where an earthquake is killed, at least 20 people. many of the dead were women and children. hundreds were injured and it's feared more people could be buried under the rubble. a city of hon. iron baluchistan province was worst, hit a 5.9 miles. jude quake struck at a shallow depths of 9 kilometers. a former us special envoy for haiti has described the deteriorating security situation in puerto prince daniel foot as briefing the house foreign affairs committee. after he resigned from his position in september over the treatment of haitian migrants at the southern border. thousands were deported without being given a chance to claim asylum and decision. he called in humane and counter productive. those was up stories. do stay with us al jazeera, the stream is up. next. i'll be back with more news after that. thanks for watching . ah ah. hi anthony. ok. the philippines elections ah, next may. but this week in the philippines has a lot of bows around the elections because candidates have to declare, if they're running by october, the 8th said to down the street, were asking who could replace present rodrigo, deter day? i know you have thoughts. opinions questions wrap had o comment section of yuki was right here. put your comment into youtube and i will do my best to wrap it into today's show. i'm can abandon alcove at 19 responsible in beer in the philippines. now considered in many rankings to be one of the worst places the me in or with me and amec, and make no mistake about it. it's because of variable governance that you got here . my family members here a who are real health care workers are not getting the protection that be the serv, from this government. and that's why i think passing a real bad anemic response budget is the most important election issue in 2022. our lives and our loved ones. slides are on the ballot. this is such an important election because it's such an important election. we have the 18 here for you. we have liam jose, alexandra. i am going to ask them to greet you to tell you who they are, what they do. leon, good to have you. please introduce yourself to the stream audience. hi fan me. good morning. from manila i am leon, one a journalist with rosler and i host our legal quad gas loft. the 3rd the line. good to have will i was a welcome back to the stream. pleasing my audience, who you are? what eating? i mosier. of all albert, i'm a policy think thank a researcher and statisticians. i worked for the government thing. thanks. get to happy and the sandra, welcome to the stream. please introduce yourself to our audience. i. hi kimmy. i'm this sandra cloud. you, i'm an academic, i'm assistant professor at the department of south and southeast asian studies at u . c. berkeley. all right, so i was gonna say candidates for the guess festival. how would you describe this current collection of one of the presidential candidates mishondra? you start, you can use one what a one sentence, your choice airs of dictators up to at least. oh, oh yeah, i was, i follow that children because you have thus the son of law for dean on marcus. and then i, the son of i off with somebody in an adopted son of sorts of a celebrity. oh, with a mayor of manila also so many children and the mother. oh my goodness, an egg wrap up. i us, your thoughts about what this collection of presidential candidates look like so far? well for a fact it's still incomplete because we are on a dramatic tail end of the filing of candidacy and everyone is waiting. if the daughter fred hadn't been there, they will run for president. me. your sire that there sort of as one more day to go further in the philippines. if you wanted to declare yourself to be president, you have one more day to do that. but tell us about this process this week. it's 8 days, 7 days. when you have to kindly and can you talk us with a little bit it has been certainly a very dramatic last 7 days for the philippines. a well the, the 1st candidates, the declared themselves of sanitary money back yell, for example in the mayor of the capital mary school moreno have already declared a but dramatic moments game. when the son of the dictate, they're afraid an unborn will mark us declared his bid for the presidency. and then 2 days later, his arch rival, the vice president and leader of opposition. lenny that obeyed the also declared. so it's been kind of a tense one week for the whole filipino nation and everyone is waiting for me or sire, who has i seen nodding, articulate a lot? yeah, well, as i was saying, because the, it seems like there love children who are trying to become president a though it because they're trying to broke to, to sort of protect the legacy of their, their, their parents and, and each of them are trying to project themselves us, us, us, us, i somebody credible enough. ah. 4 and we don't know whether we're, you know, i mean it's really, it's been a rather exciting sacrifice. i feel the excitement is coming off the screen watching you up to her feet. elsie takyo is on twits. have right now, let me share this with you. lasandra. i am an absentee photo. as pop, filipino, a selection will be the most controversial since 2016. i will make sure that my phone will be counting cassandra thoughts. yes, yes. you know, i am a 1st time absent the rotor as well. i just moved to the united states last year. and i think that this election is the most important election we've had in at least 20 years because it is effectively a referendum on mass murder. because that is the policy of that it there, that ministration is murdered. all sorts of people in its brutal war against drugs . and so if a do therapy is elected, in other words, it, sorry that there it is effected. it's the philippine people effectively saying that they don't mind a legacy of mass murder. and if they elect for an, an embargo junior, it's also the philippine of people saying they don't mind a legacy of human rights violations and theft and corruption. so part of this election is 3 about the future of liberal democracy in the philippines. it's also about the future by profession as a fee, as a historian of the philippines, because the mark was campaign, essentially an attempt to whitewash history. so this, yeah. yet, i haven't, i, i was just going to say, but i think most filipinos actually don't even think along the lines of human rights be there. do you think about 3 things? brush up about keith, which means bratcher sprites, us, but abolish jobs, keep ice income. so for them, i think human rights killings, i mean a bill matter as much. maybe if mothers to some people but not do a lot of people and for it. yeah. yeah. i think and i think precisely, that's the problem. if they don't think that human rights are game changer, that there's something wrong with democracy in the philippines. so this at least this, this, this week, this excitement that's happening in the philippines right now. as a politics. it's not just from the politicians. it's also from the photos who are registering. can you talk to me about registration and how the registration has been? extend it right. where from where we see it there. there have been long lions in law. the, the commission on elections is had to open satellite sites in laws just to accommodate the long lines of voters who want to vote. and i can see a lot the 1st time voters, they have not distinct 18, but it will be their 1st time to vote because for them we have just gone through the so called dark ages. so we have been around with one of the worst countries to be in the pandemic. so people are really both in for their lives as a ken said a while ago in your intro. call a pass. yeah. oh yeah. that go ahead. yeah, i just wanted to say that it should be emphasized that within us downward the worst get country and yet are by them. big response on a per g, d, b on a on a per capita level, i think has been one of one of the lowest. so there's a criminal level spending even amidst high credit ratings. the government refused to spend as much as it should on cobra relief. and just yet he and i was just wanting to share that personal story of if you lining up to register to vote. would you mind that? yeah, right. so i didn't have to line up to register to, but i wanted to transfer my vote to records because i hale from a province and i wanted to transfer here in the car. but also i did experienced the long lines i have had to go back for 3 days before a half. i can successfully transfer my voting records and that's one of a mark on the scenario because i know people who would line up for hours just to have their desk. do you registered to vote, but i can. the sense of willingness to, to break dissipate in the civic exercise is very palpable when you go out, especially with the delta various. so up michael henry using co spoke to us, hey on this room just a few hours ago. and he talked about that importance of voter registration and how important the voters are in this upcoming election. have a nice and have a look. the freebies has a very or electorate high voter registration and mean the more young filippino us will be showing up in the pools. this is precisely the reason why extending the registration period is very significant. a high voter turnout in the paper due to electrons. usher in exciting changes really being democracy. so you happy mentioning various different candidates? i wanted to take a look at 6 of the candidates. guess i'm gonna get you to do a line each for each of the candidates on youtube, for instance, an extra says a, b, b m will be our next president. aha, ever and i have no idea if you're right though not. but we are going to get our guest to take counsel through one by one these candidates and just just a single line to help us understand who's who let me start. sarah, detect a so it's, it's hard to describe her in one line, but continuation of the dairy to government, then land marcus, you also do finance. now on of dictator, the continuation of the dictatorship has that is your 10 now. many are brad b, the antithesis of the 30 b. figure of the opposition this. this person is no introduction. i've given you the the one manny patio. most successful filipino acid. sorry. it started. yeah. every everybody knows about the block. yeah. the boxing legend. and of course he's a senator of the police. he's been a senator since i believe 2016. correct. right. all right at lasandra, now you can wait to get started. you've got is go ahead. the mayor of manila with reputation for efficiency and pen philo locsin. that's yours as well as andre a former cup rodney himself as do bear the light. mm. so these are the main contenders. mishondra. do you feel that we may still see some surprises? ah, the biggest surprise we're looking at is a slee and said, sorry, the dirt there, whether or not she is actually going to run for president. because as, as of now, she's actually 5 her kind and see to run again for a mere devil. so that can still change. i think ian correct me if i'm wrong, she can still change up until early november. but we're not sure what are going to do. yeah, mid november, right. i think her father wants her to run alongside his aid, and for don signed it there, on bongo who would sense it would be the vice president. but this is not something the started there are that there, the comp seems to be very open to as i go ahead. yeah, well, it seems, well, a publicly, at least that's what she says about whether or not that's true, it's another thing altogether. so everybody's, you know, just guessing whether or not just going to run and change and change. all of a sudden she learned that she did suggest that just just going to have a, a campaign for a re election for us mayor of novel. but we don't know if anybody will game yet. it's the continuation of drama started by her father all the same 2015 because it's a peculiar process in our election that we can still substitute by part of the member. and this is precisely what president the 3rd the did in 2015. so people who have had to hear the news that she had filed her candidacy for me or not buying it currently. me and i have been gloomy. i don't know anything can happen. anything can happen, we were all sitting on the edge of our seats here a li and i, i've been following the live up thanks to finding a certificates a candidacy for 2022 philippines elections. october the 1st to 8th, 2021. it sounds boring, but it's anything bought because in not lost a little bit of a timeline. we had the vice president, lenny of a breed who at decay at seemingly at the very last minute. let's have a listen to how she made that announcement law, but not all. we need to liberate ourselves from the current situation. i will fight. we will fight. i am offering myself as candidate for president during the elections in 2022. i love them when the, when the do not on the long or they had the money machinery, an entire structure that can spread any story they want to project, but no amount of noise can bury the guy young a boon. and then the vice president is a different party from the president and the vice president candice's candidacy as president is going the opposite direction from the way to present a total. when jose can you explain to us this, this schism in philippines? politics. well, you know, i mean, yeah, we are, we are most, we have a multi, mike assist them in the philippines. but in puberty that's, that's only in theory because in practice what happens is that whoever wins the presidency that creates a political party. and then there is the opposition, you know, so that's, it really becomes a 2 party system in practice. so right now the vice president is considered be opposition. but, ah, you know, there are also other people within the different parties who can claim to be somewhat of petition or, you know, or somewhere in between. so, and, and, and perhaps that's, that's the attraction also of filipinos to do or to all of these candidates. because sometimes you don't want either of extremes, you know, you don't want the. busy one or one group or the other. that's why the a neutral party, like the mayor of manila, may be more attractive to most people. and emma, in, as i was looking at the numbers, based from the last survey conducted by one of the big, the well known. com pollsters. it seems like the mayor of many law may actually have a shock there. actually 3 of them will probably be, well, if i'm not saying that the vice president will not win, but it seems from the data that i'm reading that the main fight will be between money back. yo bobbo marcus, the son of the former dictator dead the late dictator and the. busy mayor of manila, ah disco moreno next heavenly to see what's happening on ye because he got some really interesting pundits happening here. andrew ryan wants to know will that be debates between the candidates? yes, certainly there will be debates between the candidates. we just don't know how they're going to be conducted, considering the pandemic. but we do hope that we will have us a hot debate as possible as we had in the last national elections. ryan is saying i support lenny roberto, she has proven her metal in the pandemic response. this sandra reaction. yeah, yeah. i don't think we should count on the vice president because remember this time before the 2060 election, the 3rd that was not a contender. so that you can elections are always full of surprises. and the vice president roberto just launched her campaign last night or yesterday morning. and things can change overnight in the philippines, especially since you start to re brand herself in a way that makes her look like a middle candidate make. she's not beholden to this administration, but she's also not beholden to the liberal party which was governing the philippines. you know, 6 years ago prior to tear gas, let's just ginger. yeah, yes. there are. what's nice about this is that, you know, when, when, when she came out yesterday, what she re branded herself are a different color. because you additionally, the opposition now has to be always considered yellow. and by a yellow ribbon, you know that that's the reference. and yes, it's about the aquinos, but unfortunately, that's also had the backlash on her and, and that's why she started to rebrand or recall or so speak. and it's quite interesting because, you know, even on my facebook. busy wall, i could see so many so many people changing colors and showing the barrier think, but of course, whether that's going to translate into volts is another thing. let's talk about st legally and again another move us along the issues that right just to add on vice president of better the reason why she declared too late with we she was trying so hard to unify the opposition. she didn't want a 5 way fight. oh, for her, the goal is clear, the not have a president the 3rd day or to not have a president marcus net. so i think beyond the filing of candidacy, there will still be ducks with senate there, bucky, our, me or a score possibly convinced them to be her v p or whatever combination that would give the opposition and much higher chance of winning to defeat that the ferry the or i'm marcos for the elections. i want to bring in a new voice into our conversation at sin c, guido we asked at, sent a little bit early on. what are that big issues people will be voting on and this is what he told us. the colby's been them, it should definitely be the main point of discussion in the future in storing the election. so the community quarantine has been in place since march last year, and yet the number of jesus remains to be high in the repercussions have been economically and socially damaging. in 2020, the philippines not only had the worst economic contraction, it's also our history, but also the worse, a more major south asian economies. so what should we do? well, should go back to the basics of testing the reason in isolation. we also need to run our vaccine rollout, which is actually slowed down in recent weeks. so i just want to show you audience watching it. and this, this, this image chance from bloomberg. it's the shift in the coven resilience ranking. and i lent is at the topic that machine the country at the bottom. the filipino face, of course, has horse. yeah. well, you know, everybody, all analysts in academics id always say that, that this, but there make, is it should, it's an issue and should be an issue. but whether or not that is in the psyche of, filipinos, i don't think so. unfortunately, i've been reading filippino stormwatch and even now, when all that, when you, when, when push comes to shove, ah, we tend to be very hopeful, and most of us tend to think, oh, you know, this one that make, it's not a problem until, of course, something happens within our families with a more friends, but generally with dental downplayed upon them. and i think it still is bradshaw and about keep up bryce's, income and jobs that will not the most, the filipinos, although those things are related to the pandemic. because the reason why there are no jobs and the reason why people are not making money is because of these for you are the shut downs and the read one of the reasons why we're also having an economic crisis that people feel it's because the government has under spent so we, we are under a real brutal regime office there in the philippines. i mean, comparatively, people are not worrying about the nation elsewhere. people are not worrying about that. they just want to spend, right? this is the new kind of macroeconomic paradigm initiated by the pandemic. but the philippines, this stocky in the 1990 s, it's sort of steer. it doesn't want to compromise its crating was to save it 40 the day. but if this isn't the rainy day, i don't know what is he and i want you to listen. have a listen, nancy ronald holmes, excuse me, at he's the president of post age of research and it's he sort of balances up the hopes of the electorate and the fears of the one that we and we have listened to ronald and then and me to respond on the back of this video, harris would be controlling the increasing by just reach commodities, increasing that be a worker's leticia my job to move about are the most important urgent concerns. beyond this human turn, political facing issues with administration and protecting the integrity in fighting got good option and he been in for training and something wrong with more than this issue. so if i did, i need to elections whether i'm being part of the sliding electro well, he did mention corruption and i was going to say that part of that got issue of jobs, prices and income would be corruption. because right now, our senate is investigation is investigating major corruption issues in the, in the procurement of our appendix supplies involving tiny suppliers and president that there it is. former economic advisor. so we, for talking about got election issues. yes, jobs will be dobson. prices will beat up most, but i think filipinos will also be carrying about corruption issues as well. desanto, if you could sum up your mood right now, just looking at the candidates that we know are running. who knows what's going to happen between now and saturday, the weekend for the philippines. so that's exciting. how would you sum up your mood watching from afar? i am extremely nervous because the stakes are high and the results of this election could be disastrous because it could spell a big, big, big dent on could have been liberal democracy, which is not something we need at this point. as i meant. yeah, i fully agree that they do that most of us would think that the stakes are just too high. you know, unfortunately, again, sometimes because we are taught us, rodney holmes, i said, suggested philip in a stand to be very optimistic about things and that's probably both a strength and a weakness on one hand up to helps us cope. but on the other hand, that also makes us bent to think of, you know, entertainment of our way of coping, you know, and perhaps the elections are also part of our entertainment. and me and finally, yes. same. i agree. i am really extremely nervous of for the upcoming elections and speaking as a journalist, whoever wins will have a significant effect on how our press freedom will be, will abs, he been, the largest network be reopened, that will my company shut down for good. we don't know. so again, it makes me extremely nervous. almost thing i need to do, i'm going to show you asked a so my laptop, the stream did a little survey of its own. an unofficial po, who do you think will succeed? rodrigo detached a as philippines present in 2022 at the bottom. esco moreno, the mayor of manila at next. we have at 12.3 percent. any were brideau the current v p as sarah to test a as an even to glad she's running yet. daughter over the present, eternity and then 56 percent it's. it's a knockout for manny becky. how, sandra, you're also laughing. are you surprised? i'm not surprised. i think on international viewership, we just assume that always it's so power it still poppies. hans, we're probably gonna beat everybody else in the philippines politics, but the reality is we are, we're at the ball medical, sorry, in the style j doug could be more powerful than fuck out which is scary. thank you . guess i really appreciate you analyses that was lasandra or say thank you to jose and jose to leanne as well. and to you for your questions. i appreciate you very much. i see you next time. will the street take everybody? ah ah ah, how many nukes is too many new to america has in many ways driven the arms race for parties are much more like the british parties down to the. there are fewer regulations to own a tiger, then there are its own a dod, how can this be happening? 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