Welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i m mariko oi. the headlines: voting gets under way in the philippines as the country decides who it wants to be its next president. and i m karishma vaswani, live in manila where more than 18,000 posts, from president to town councillor, are upforgrabs. we ll be hearing from an academic who can give us some of the background to this divisive election. our other main headlines: more than 60 people are believed to have been killed after a russian bomb hit a school in eastern ukraine. a new leaderfor hong kong the man who oversaw the crackdown on protesters becomes the region s chief executive.