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 enjoy themselves. the top floor is for hard, physical work. there is very specialist gym equipment there. it is already being used. it is about tackling the two elements to recovery, and it is all matt hampson‘s plan. it gives me something to get up for every day. and ifeel so proud of everything that we've achieved, and i just love pushing the boundaries, and trying to change the world a little bit for disabled people and people with serious injuries through sport, and just show them — hopefully show them the way. well, there were plenty of messages of support for matt hampson today. you have achieved almost the impossible. what you've done in the last however many months or years to fund—raise for this building has been absolutely extraordinary. mike tindall has been one of this project's biggest supporters. matt has been through dark days, at christmas, when we almost lost him, and we wouldn't have seen this come to reality. so he's always got to fight, every time. whenever he's back and healthy, all he wants to do is get out there, go and see people. rugby has a deep responsibility. other sports, too, where injuries are too frequent to be ignored. it took £1 million to build the centre, years of fundraising, and matt hampson is busy trying to find a way to build more of them. now it's time for our world. outside the philippines, 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 the highest crime rates in the philippine capital. there is a curfew here. if you are under 18, you need to be off the streets by ten o'clock. we are riding with police officers here in tondo, manila. what they are looking for its antisocial behaviour. ‘tambays,’ or loiterers. in the last month, we have seen thousands of people apprehended for drinking in the streets, smoking in public, or walking around without t—shirts on. in this crowded city, where many live in small, stuffy shacks, it's normal for people to socialise in the streets. but now duterte is determined to eradicate what he calls loitering. the philippines is infamous for its full—to—bursting jails. with the president's crackdown on antisocial behaviour, the situation is getting much worse. outside, a van arrives, seemingly filled with children. but the police are not as keen for us to film them. manila is the world's most densely populated city. 21 million people crowd in here, and life at the bottom is pretty tough. the district of tondo is where many new arrivals to the city go. but it is hard to move on from here. it has become the most populous area of the philippine capital. it is squalid, drenched in poverty, and at the sharp end of the president's more draconian policies. ricardo and russell live beside a heavily polluted river. they are both unemployed and, seemingly, basketball is their only escape. when it comes to authoritarian leaders, this is a country with a rich pedigree. archive newsreel: ferdinand marcos is the only filipino to be twice—elected president. he has now extended his second term of office by more than a year and shows no inclination to step down. in the 19705, the philippines fell into the clutches of a notorious dictator, ferdinand marcos, who declared martial law. the president today exhorted members of the judiciary to expedite action... he muzzled the media, closed down political opposition, and took control of thejudicial process. he and his wife imelda plundered the country's coffers to the tune of $10 billion, and set the benchmark high for corruption. imelda became a byword for greed, exemplified by her vast collection of designer shoes and dresses. eventually, the marcos family fled the country in 1986. now, some critics believe that history is in danger of repeating itself. president duterte came to power promising to root out the country's big social problem, drugs. much of myjob has been reporting on the fallout from this policy. in the last two years, the president's war on drugs has seen at least 4000 suspected drug users and dealers killed during police operations. it is notjust the war on drugs, but also the attacks on the constitution which many fear threaten democracy here. the president's biggest critic is a long—standing political opponent, senator leila de lima. as chairperson on the commission on human rights, she investigated an earlier killing spree. before becoming president, duterte was accused of controlling a death squad in the provincial city of davao, where he was mayor, responsible for more than 1,000 deaths and disappearances. in february 2017 the department ofjustice detained de lima following allegations of corruption by the president. many believe they are trumped up charges. i attended her recent trial. senator, bbc, are you innocent? i am innocent! the world knows that i am innocent. i am being persecuted. for now, the senator is being held in a detention cell in the national police headquarters infamous under the marcos regime for disappearances and torture. as a foreign journalist, i am not allowed to interview the senator inside her detention cell. instead, i have sent questions to her special adviser and she has responded by writing 21 pages of handwritten letters. in them, she details what life is like inside the detention cell and also why she believes president rodrigo duterte is bullying politicians. "being corrupt is not in my dna and no amount of lies or black propaganda can change the fact that i am innocent. duterte ran a death squad, the so—called davao death squad, responsible for the murder of at least 1200 individuals. once this criminal gangster from the backwater of a philippines captured the popular imagination, he transformed the philippine state into a gangster state." senator antonio trillanes is a staunch defender of the imprisoned senator. he led an allegation into enquiries that the president's son was involved in a drug deal worth $125 million. paolo duterte denied the accusation and issued a chilling warning. how do you assess the current health of democracy in the philippines under president rodrigo duterte? well, it's going to flatline at any moment when duterte decides to declared nationwide martial law or a revolutionary government. do you think that is likely? given the opportunity, he would pull the trigger. so we, the members of the opposition, are preparing for such eventualities. but he said he would not want to stay in office a day longer than he is democratically elected to be in office for. well, those of us who have profiled mr duterte would not give him the benefit of the doubt, or take his word. another stern critic of duterte is the country's top judge, chief justice maria sereno. in may, she too was unceremoniously removed from office. she believes the duterte administration is now threatening the very independence of thejudiciary. it does not like criticism. it shows viciousness against groups of people that it deems are its critics. it tries to show that the strong arm of the presidency is not beyond being used to oppress people. i think that is precisely the impression that this administration wants, that you cannot cross him, and if you cross him you are going to pay a high price for it. inside the congress building on the day of his recent state of the nation speech, nobody is disagreeing with mr duterte. harry roque is the president's spin doctor. once a darling of the left and a celebrated human rights activist, he is adamant there is no creep to dictatorship. some of your colleagues were shocked when you started working with president duterte because of his on the record disregard for human rights. well, he doesn't support the organised human rights community, but he has actually been exculpated from claims of mass murder by the un special rapporteur, who investigated the case of the davao death squad. he was completely cleared of liability. at most they were administrative lapses, perhaps. it was clear from the report that he was not behind the davao death squad. and despite this, people persist in accusing him of being behind, now, the drug—related killings. this is an interesting interpretation of the united nations' report into the davao death squad. i wrote to the un special rapporteur, philip alston, to see if he agreed with mr roque‘s statement that the president had been completely cleared of liability. duterte is taking no chances with other international bodies. in march, he unilaterally withdrew the philippines from thejurisdiction of the international criminal court. but the duterte government's attacks are not limited to political orjudicial opponents. the media is also in its sights. the rappler news website was started in 2012, it's staffed by ambitious millenials keen to expose human rights abuses. injanuary, the government revoked the company's media licence, claiming it was unconstitutional because it has foreign investors. the charges are incredible, and they are false. foreign ownership, i mean, we wanted to be independent, because if you get a filipino investor, there is political pressure, they can cave in much sooner, right? we haven't caved in, because we are journalists. the legal charges against the company were one matter. more disturbing were the threats on the internet. 90 hate messages per hour. when you get that many things, you have to work out if it's real, where it's coming from. rape threats were normal, death threats are normal. i've been called every single animal you could think of. this was meant to bludgeon you into silence. what i've learnt in the last year is that the only defence you really have is to shine the light. so we've gone ahead. pia ranada cut her teeth at rappler covering duterte‘s presidential campaign in 2016. she got a unique insight into the would—be president. he was a very different kind of politician. he was the type who would swear. he had his reputation of being a killer, someone who flouts the usual mould of a politician. so he was also very charming in his own way. he had his way with reporters, with media, with people around him. he was very charismatic. but the relationship turned sour when pia wrote an article alleging corruption within the administration. she is now barred from covering the president. my wings are clipped. i am very limited in my movement. also, my family is very worried about me because they see all the threats online and offline. i get e—mails with death threats and rape threats. so it has definitely not been easy. although the majority of the population seemed to approve of the president's strongarm tactics, you can still find those who openly criticise him. at the manila gay pride event, the punk group, male gaze, are not afraid to speak out. he makes misogynistic comments on a very regular basis. we want people to realise this is not something that can be normalised. the president right now is like obviously trying to manipulate the judiciary and the legislative bodies to bend to his well. so i don't know if you could call that a democracy. across town, there's an altogether different song being sung. at a party fundraiser, the president's supporters are charmed by his karaoke performance. and across the country, one recent opinion poll has his approval rating as high as 88%. thank you, president. many are drawn to his tough talking, zero tolerance style. it is not only the president who is keen to hit the right notes. perhaps it is coincidence, but in the philippines today, the marcos brand is undergoing a rehabilitation. the daughter of the man who stole $10 billion from the public purse, and who shares her mother's love of designer shoes, is keen to remind the country that a strong leader is best for the country. it all sounds reminiscent of another period in the philippines' history, when political freedoms were also deemed a luxury. president marcos backed his warning by sending marine units towards the camps where the military faction backing the opposition is holed up. under imee marcos's father, martial law was imposed on the country for over a decade. there were accusations of torture and extrajudicial killing. governor, howard johnson, bbc news. it's coming up to two years of president duterte's rule — do you see similarities between him and your father? not really. and why is that? they are both lawyers. that is about it. do you think that they have the same style of rule — some punitive moves under duterte and your father? not at all. you're asking the wrong person. thank you. if the daughter of the famous dictator is not the right person to ask, how about the son? ferdinand marcos junior, known as bong bong, is every bit as ambitious as his sister. he is currently jockying to become the vice president. if you come to power, would you rule the country in the same way as your father? i think we're getting ahead of ourselves here. i'm talking about the protest for the vice presidential election. i really haven't thought about that. thank you for are much, but if you elected as vice president, what would your style be? similar to yourfather? my father was never vice president. in every period in our history, there is a different sort of leadership. that is only defined by the circumstances that prevail at the time. so until we get there, it's impossible to say. the extent of bong bong's ambition remains unclear. but in the past month, president duterte has tipped him as a possible successor. some have said there is a fear of returning to an era of martial law under the dictatorship of ferdinand marcos. we are seeing attacks on judiciary, the media, and politicians. is that fair? terribly unfair. is democracy in danger? how could he be a dictator? he was constitutionally elected, democratically elected. whether or not you like him, he stays there until 2022. duterte's grip on power looks secure. despite his brutal war on drugs and the stifling of opposition, the majority of the country still supports them. since we interviewed senator trillanes, president duterte has ordered his arrest. since we interviewed senator trillanes, president duterte has ordered his arrest. injust one presidential proclamation, he demonstrated his executive and judicial powers. that is a dictatorship the matter how you look at it. —— no matter. the president's rule is increasingly authoritarian. with more years in power, the future for democracy here is looking bleak. hello. the rather warm for the time of year and humid air that became established across wales and england on tuesday will, in the day ahead, spread across northern ireland and scotland. it will feel noticeably warmer here. behind this weather front, a warm front, the leading edge of milder air. but that's coming with plenty of cloud, and to start wednesday it's a damp, and drizzly, and cloudy, misty, murky start across many parts, western parts, especially coasts and hills. it will be clear overnight in scotland and eastern england. there will be a chill around first thing, but the cloud will thicken here as we go on through the morning, which leaves us during wednesday with a good deal of cloud around. a few bright and sunny spells here and there, but still, along western coasts and hills, you could see a lot of patchy light rain and drizzle into western scotland and northern ireland. more especially, those outbreaks of rain affecting western and northern parts of scotland, the more substantial bursts of rain possible here at times. still with a noticeable breeze here, but not as windy as it was on tuesday, and particularly where you get to see some occasional sunshine, it will feel quite warm for the time of year, quite humid. and these temperatures are higher in northern ireland and scotland compared with tuesday. a weather front from the north—west on thursday, close to high pressure in southern parts, could be mist and fog to start the day, could be dense in places. more active weather into scotland, northern ireland and later north—west england and north wales, outbreaks of rain and a strengthening breeze and sunny spells in southern and eastern parts in particular, along with the cloud, but some bright or sunny spells and feeling warm and humid. this weather front stalls for a time on friday as it tries to push south across the uk, giving cloud and outbreaks of rain that may affect parts of northern ireland, southern scotland, especially northern england into wales. north of that, feeling fresher, in other words cooler, a few showers may be but sunny spells and south of it still rather warm and south of it still rather warm and humid and a few breaks in the cloud, but still the chance for early morning mist and fog. the weather system clears away on the weekend, drags its heels in england and wales on saturday, may still do in south—east england on sunday. we'll keep you updated. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: pulled from the rubble of indonesia's earthquake — rescuers are racing to help survivors, but the death toll is now 1,300 and rising. police are struggling to keep control as thousands grow increasingly desperate. here in palu, emotions are running high as survivors are still struggling to get hold of basic supplies like food and water. did donald trump help his family evade tax? 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