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Good morning, I'm Stanley Palisada. Here are the stories that made it to ANC's Rundown.

The Philippines officially appeals the resumption of the International Criminal Court's probe into the Duterte administration's drug war.

The Philippines' Senate President believes the push to amend the Constitution will not prosper in the upper chamber.

And Russian fighter jets reportedly down a U.S. military surveillance drone.

The Philippines officially appeals an International Criminal Court pre-trial chamber ruling which allowed the resumption of its probe on the Duterte administration's deadly drug war.

In its motion before the appeals chamber, the Philippine government asked the tribunal to suspend the ruling and reverse the pre-trial court's decision.

The Philippines claimed the probe would infringe upon the country's sovereignty.

It reiterated its argument that the ICC has no jurisdiction over the country after it withdrew from the Rome Statute.

The formal appeal was signed by Solicitor General Minardo Guevara, five assistant solicitor generals, and an international criminal lawyer.

Now, Philippine authorities claim more than 6,000 drug suspects were killed in police operations during former President Rodrigo Duterte's term.

Rights groups, however, estimate the figure could go as high as 30,000.

A Philippine lawmaker allays concerns over the bill seeking to protect human rights advocates.

Manila 6th District Representative Bienvenido Abante, Jr. asserts the Human Rights Defenders Bill will not hinder the government's efforts to combat terrorism.

The country's Anti-Insurgency Task Force earlier opposed the measure, saying it will make the Anti-Terrorism Act and other laws that prevent terrorism toothless.

Siguro kinakailangan nilang pag-aralan mabuti itong Human Rights Defenders Protection Act.

I mean, kailangan natin ito eh. Our country needs this.

The advancement of human rights and the security of the state are not mutually exclusive, neither are they anathema to each other.

We do not have to choose between human rights and security.

The promotion of the former does not erode the latter.

The Philippine Justice Department indicts suspended prisons chief Gerald Bantag and several others over the killing of radio commentator Percy Lapid and Bilibid inmate June Villamor.

Murder charges will also file Tuesday against Bantag's deputy, Ricardo Sulueta.

Justice Secretary Crispin Remulia said enough evidence had been gathered related to the case.

This is the evidence. Just follow the evidence. I think that if there is a solution for the filing of a case, it's because the panel of prosecutors have evaluated the evidence and they believe it to be sufficient to convict a person charged.

Thousands of people have been convicted on circumstantial evidence. Don't worry about that.

The Mabasa family called this development a welcome relief. Their legal counsel also laid down their possible next steps.

Wala pang jurisdiction yung importe nito. Kailangan mahuli muna sila at ma-arraign. Mag-lead sila ng guilty or not guilty and tuloy-tuloy na yan.

Yung pag-handle ng kaso nito on the part of the prosecution, since this is a case of people of the Philippines versus disabused, ang lead prosecutors dito dapat yung mga panel of prosecutors or sa DOJ.

As for Bantag's camp, they said they will file the necessary pleadings after reviewing the resolution.

Moving on, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri doubts the push to amend the 1987 Constitution will succeed in the upper chamber.

Zubiri claims the number of senators supporting charter change is not enough to pass the measure.

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives approved on final reading a bill calling for a constitutional convention to amend the charter.

Even if I would say, at this point in time I don't support it, but if I say I support it, I'm only one out of 24 members of the Senate.

To be honest, tamay sinabi ni Sen. Javiercito kahapon na apat at lima lang ang nabibilang namin na pumapabor sa charter change.

We need 18 votes to dance the cha-cha. I don't think we have 18 votes to dance the cha-cha. Hindi kami makasayaw ng cha-cha. Wala kaming numero.

Zubiri maintains there's no need to amend the economic provisions of the charter as the country has enough laws to boost the economy.

What else do we need to loosen up in the Constitution for economic provisions? Is it the ownership of land?

Because I personally am against the ownership of land. Why? People tell me, hindi naman nalang madalay ang lupa sa kanilang bansa.

Pero ang totoo niyan, kung bubuksan natin ang ownership of land, mamahal at mamahal ang lupa dito sa ating bansa.

Senate President Zubiri meanwhile shrugs off rumors of a looming leadership change in the upper chamber.

He says they received information the rumors were linked to his stand on charter change.

Last week, talks emerged Zubiri could be replaced soon due to his low output in terms of measures passed.

Ako'y naniniwala sa paggawa ng batas. It is not para miyan. It's about the quality of legislation that we pass.

And I also got it from another source dahil nairita daw yung mga pro-charter change sa akin dahil hindi daw ako sumasayaw ng cha-cha.

I'm an institutionalist. I believe in the institution. I really believe in the sanctity and the wisdom of having a Senate, a bicameral system of government.

And if it means my head, then so be it. I mean, so be it. But not on my watch.

Senate President Zubiri seeks a P150 daily wage increase for workers in the private sector.

Zubiri filed a measure Tuesday citing the effects of high inflation.

His move comes days after the Makabayan bloc at the House of Representatives filed a bill calling for a P750 across-the-board daily wage increase.

Kailangan natin bigyan ng ating manggagawa ng tinatawag natin living wage, hindi naman minimum wage.

Because the minimum wage is not a living wage. Napakababa ng minimum wage, napakababa ng sweldo ng ating bansa.

That's the whole truth. That's why we have how many million Filipinos? Twelve million Filipinos abroad.

It's because we don't pay the right or at least decent wages here in the Philippines.

Inflation has reached everywhere. And I think we have to address the problem of inflation by also increasing the economy.

All business organizations should know that the people are suffering.

The Employers' Confederation of the Philippines earlier warned a wage hike could force small businesses to fold.

The family of the victims of the plane that crashed in the Philippine province of Isabela appealing for help

While the owner of the aircraft and the local government of Isabela have provided financial aid,

the family says the amount will not be able to cover the burial costs.

Four of the six victims on the ill-fated plane was a mother and her three children.

Hindi po kami natatulungan sa Libby. Yun lang sana po inihina.

Pero sinamang nabibigay. Ngayon parang dawn po ang Pilimbulay malami.

In other news, a U.S. military surveillance drone crashes into the Black Sea after being intercepted by Russian fighter jets.

Now it is the first such incident since Russia's invasion of Ukraine over a year ago.

According to the Pentagon, one of the Russian jets struck the propeller of the drone, making it inoperable.

We are continuing to assess exactly what happened.

But I think based on the actions of the Russian pilots, it's clear that it was unsafe, unprofessional.

And I think the actions speak for themselves.

What we saw again were fighter aircraft dumping fuel in front of this UAV

and then getting so close to the aircraft that it actually damaged the propeller on the MQ-9.

We assess that it likely caused some damage to the Russian aircraft as well.

But Russia's defense ministry is blaming sharp maneuvering of the unmanned drone for the crash,

adding its jets did not come into contact with it.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer isn't convinced.

It is another reckless act by President Putin and his military.

And I want to tell Mr. Putin, stop this behavior before you are the cause of an unintended escalation.

We have seen this behavior from the Russian military before.

And it will not deter the United States from conducting operations over the Black Sea.

These aggressive actions by Russian aircraft are risky and could lead, I repeat, to unintended escalation.

The U.S. has routinely flown over the Black Sea since before Putin's illegal and reckless invasion of Ukraine.

And I'm confident our military will continue to do so.

China irked by the nuclear submarine pact announced by Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.

Beijing's foreign ministry says the three countries disregarded concerns of the international community,

adding they have gone further down a dangerous road.

It also asserts the U.S. should meet China halfway and bring the bilateral relationship back on track.

Australia, meanwhile, says it offered China a briefing over the nuclear-powered submarine deal.

We watch the global rules-based order being placed under enormous pressure in Eastern Europe but also in the Indo-Pacific.

And we are witnessing the biggest conventional military buildup that we have seen since the end of the Second World War.

And it's happening within our region. And it is not Australia which is doing that.

And we need to respond to this. A failure to do so would see us be condemned by history.

The deal is part of the so-called AUKUS project, first announced in 2021.

Under the agreement, America will sell to Australia three nuclear-powered subs with an option to buy two more.

A research fellow of China Institute of International Studies, meanwhile, says the deal violates multiple international laws

and deeply hurts regional peace and stability.

Actually, this is a very bad deal among the three countries.

It's not only a proliferation of nuclear technology.

Actually, it's one part of U.S. strategic deployment in this region.

The United States would like to arm Australia as one partner in this area to enhance the underwater warfare capabilities

and also to give more facilities to support the U.S. deployment of submarines in that region.

So I think such a deal among the three countries is really a challenge for the peace and stability in this region

and also a violation of the international laws.

But one Australia-based security analyst concerns around the nuclear submarine pact are overblown.

Justin Burke adds the deal is a response to the deteriorating security environment which Australia is in.

I think this reflects a deepening seriousness about security and defense in Australia.

That's a transition that's occurred really in the last 10 years or so.

And there have been several inflection points and several triggers for that,

not least of which the economic coercion that Australia experienced at the hands of China,

seeking all sorts of concessions in return for Australia being able to export a whole range of commodities to China.

So Australia has been awakened to the coercive actions.

In other news, U.S. President Joe Biden orders tighter gun control measures.

On Tuesday, the chief executive issued an executive order that reinforces background checks on gun buyers,

a move that the White House promotes as the most comprehensive policy Biden can enact without Congress.

The order also aims to strengthen federal support for red flag laws,

which are gun prevention laws that intend to stop gun sales to people legally deemed dangerous.

The U.S. records more than 40,000 gun-related deaths per year.

It will accelerate and intensify this work to save more lives more quickly.

First, this executive order helps keep firearms out of dangerous hands.

As I continue to call on Congress to require background checks for all firearm sales.

Second thing it does, the executive order ramps up our efforts to hold the gun industry accountable.

It's the only outfit you can't sue these days.

It does that by calling out for an independent government study

that analyzes and exposes how gun manufacturers aggressively market firearms to civilians,

especially minors, including by using military imagery.

We're taking a quick break.

Still to come, Facebook's parent company is laying off 10,000 employees.

That's next on The Rundown. Stay tuned.

You're back on The Rundown. Facebook parent Meta set to axe 10,000 jobs in a second round of layoffs.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the cuts are part of a wider restructuring

that will also see the tech giant scrap hiring plans for 5,000 openings.

He tells employees the company needs to operate more efficiently

to prepare for what he described as this new economic reality.

Meta in November slashed more than 11,000 jobs or 13 percent of its workforce at that time.

This month, the world marks three years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.

In the years that passed, lives are reshaped and normalcy is redefined.

Rafael Bosano gives us a look back at how the Philippines coped with the ongoing health crisis.

We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.

It was this statement that shook the entire world to take the threat of COVID-19 seriously.

But a month before this, on January 30,

the World Health Organization has already declared the novel pathogen

as a public health emergency of international concern.

It was also on the same day that the Philippine Department of Health

confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in the country.

The days that followed would test the mettle of two medical fellows

who faced the Chinese couple tagged as patients 1 and 2.

We dealt at that time in January kasi hindi ka na-mention na kalat talaga.

So, parang challenging also because the protocols kept on changing every day.

Dr. Mai Vigalon was a senior fellow then at the San Lazaro Hospital,

the country's referral facility for infectious diseases.

With her was another fellow, Dr. Brynn Dagok,

who attended to the male patient in the intensive care unit for an entire week.

More than anxiety, he recalls, it was the adrenaline that took hold of him.

But fear began to envelop him when he was tasked to perform a medical procedure.

The disease progressed fast based on the patient's x-ray results.

From visible infiltrates in the lungs on January 27,

only a portion of the left lung was left visible three days later.

Dr. Dagok was removed from ICU duties a week later to be quarantined

after developing symptoms of the disease.

He eventually tested negative for COVID, but the following months would pass

and the number of healthcare workers afflicted with COVID-19 would increase.

Some wouldn't even make it.

Data from the DOH show that more than 32,000 healthcare workers have already fallen ill.

127 of them succumbed to the disease.

In the last three years, the country has lived through at least four surges of COVID-19.

In August 2020, at least 14,000 cases were reported per week,

prompting a group of healthcare workers to call for a timeout and recalibration of government response.

A more transmissible variant of the SARS-CoV-2 also began to emerge,

causing a rapid rise in infections.

In April 2021, the surge was driven by the alpha and beta variants.

But things were about to get worse by September

after the most virulent variant Delta made its way to Philippine shores.

It was this variant that overwhelmed hospitals.

Tents were eventually set up, but even these weren't enough,

forcing patients to agonizingly wait until a bed was available.

Some died while waiting to be admitted.

Dr. Galon and Dr. Dagok admit there were times they thought of turning their backs on their profession.

Honestly, meron talagang times na gusto mo na magpumigil na lang.

Parang pinipiit mo nalang ang self-love to go to the hospital.

But then of course, one factor is ito naman talaga yung piniliin naming world

so we hang on to that all.

As 2022 opened, the virus shocked the world yet again with the Omicron variant.

But while this variant caused the highest surge globally, the disease was less severe.

It was at this time when a lot of Filipinos have already received the primary series of COVID-19 jabs,

with some even doubling their protection with a booster.

Eventually, the virus debilitating effects decreased.

Sa ngayon, we can say that everything is manageable.

Our hospitals are being able to manage our cases.

Wala pong masyadong mga kasong naitatalana mula sa ibang-ibang lugar dito sa Metro Manila.

While the COVID-19 situation in many areas has improved, thereby sparking economic activity

and even making the use of face masks optional,

one question remains unanswered.

Has the COVID-19 pandemic ended?

Rafael Bosano, ABS-TV News.

Filipinos can enjoy a long weekend next month.

Citing its principle of holiday economics,

the palace has moved the celebration of the Day of Valor, or Araw ng Kagitinga,

from April 9 to 10.

That is a Monday.

That means the five-day long weekend is upon us

with April 6 and 7, Monday, Thursday, and Good Friday, declared as holidays.

And before we go, a warning to netizens.

Going on Google today could make you hungry.

That's as today's Google Doodle celebrates the Filipino dish adobo.

It was on this day in 2007 that the word adobo was added

to the Oxford English Dictionary's quarterly update of new words.

The doodle artist Anthony Irwin says he tried to capture

the simple childhood joy of savoring food that feels like home in his artwork.

While not a national dish, adobo is a mainstay in Filipino meals

and a must-try for foreigners.

And that's the rundown.

I'm Stanley Palisado.

We'll be back with more news at 11.

Keep it here on ANC.