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Mabiliyati will be key to recovery because we have relaxed some of our quarantine methods and we have allowed more transportation to come out.

That's going to prove to be better for demand.

If we do follow the health protocols, the ability of people to move around will likely contribute better to growth.

Good morning, I'm Stanley Palisada here. The stories that made it to ANC's rundown embattled Negros Oriental congressman Arnolfo Tevez Jr. seeks a two-month leave citing security concerns.

An environmental group slams the Philippine government's uncoordinated response to the worsening oil spill in Oriental Mindoro.

And Swiss regulators throw a financial lifeline to Credit Suisse after the lender's share stumbled as much as 30%.

Embattled Philippine lawmaker Arnolfo Tevez Jr. seeking a two-month leave of absence from the House of Representatives.

In a letter to Speaker Martin Romualdez, Tevez cited security concerns for his request.

But House Secretary General Reginald Velasco says it's the ethics panel that will decide whether Tevez's request will be approved.

The House Committee on Ethics and Privileges met on Wednesday in a closed-door meeting to tackle Tevez's expired travel order.

The House Committee on Ethics and Privileges met on Wednesday in a closed-door meeting to tackle Tevez's expired travel authority.

Now it has given the lawmaker five days to explain his side.

Under the House rules, a member can be suspended or expelled for violating its code of conduct.

... Hindi naman natin litigate na may mga ganito nangyari na defiance ng order or dapat mag-attend talaga.

Last week, House Speaker Martin Romualdez said he already advised Tevez to come home as his travel clearance expired March 9.

Tevez is linked to the death of Negros Oriental board member in 2019.

Philippine police insist they acted legally in raiding the properties of embattled lawmaker Arnolfo Tevez Jr. last week.

Lawyers of the congressman had accused the police of planting evidence to pin him down on charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives.

Rafi Santos reports.

Police shot back at allegations of supposed irregularities when it implemented search warrants on the properties owned by Negros Oriental 3rd District Representative Arnolfo Tevez Jr. and his family last week.

Police spokesperson Colonel Gene Fajardo says everything was above board and in accordance to the standard operating procedures of the PNP.

Fajardo adds the warrants were issued on information that illegal firearms and explosives were inside the properties.

On the part of the PNP po, we stand with the statements po ng ating operating unit na they followed po yung protocol and procedures po doon sa pag-implement po ng search warrant.

In fact, ito po ay particularly yung doon po sa bahay po ni congressman Tevez.

Ang nag-witness po po doon ay yung mismong abogado po nila at present po doon yung mga barangay officials po ng barangay kung saan in-implement po yung search warrant.

Fajardo also stressed police wore body cameras to document the operation.

Doon po sa kanyang allegation po na siya po ay naharas.

Remember po, bago po nag-implement po ng search warrant and even bago po nag-apply ng search warrant po ay CIDG, ay meron po tayong isinampah na kaso relating to doon po sa 2019 murder incidents na nangyari po sa Negros Oriental

kung saan may isa po tayo na witness na nagsasabing may alam po siya sa naging pagpaplano doon po sa tatlong insidente na yun noong 2019.

At he was also the one who provided information na si congressman Tevez at iba pang mga malalapit sa kanya po ay meron po sa kanilang pag-iingat ng mga loose firearms.

The PNP had earlier filed criminal complaints against congressman Tevez himself and six people who were inside the raided properties for illegal possession of firearms and explosives.

So yung mga alalay niya po sir, kasama sa arrested, kasuhan, but he is included in both complaints filed.

The PNP-CIDG filed additional complaints at the Department of Justice against congressman Tevez and two of his children, Kurth Matthew and Axel Tevez, for weapons seized in an under-raid on their property in Bayawan City, Negros Oriental.

Rafi Santos, ABS-CBN News.

A witness in the assassination of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo claims she can identify one of the gunmen in the crime.

She already submitted her sworn affidavit, saying she is ready to testify against the late governor's killers.

Degamo is set to be buried today, Thursday. Malacanang has declared Thursday a special non-working holiday for Negros Oriental province.

The family of hazing victim John Matthew Salilig says the case of his death is now solved.

Their statement follows the indictment of seven members of the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity over Salilig's death, but they call for stiffer penalties for those involved in fatal hazing rights.

They add schools should also be held accountable for such incidents.

With regards to the death penalty, I am now in favor of this so that itong mga fraternities involved sa ganitong initiation rights will really observe.

Di na nila gagawin yan. Pag alam nila ganito na ang stiffer penalty that will be given, yung mga school authorities should also be, let's say, kung pwede nga,

makulong din sila dahil hindi nila inobserve yun at saka tinabayaan nila yung fraternity that exists in their university or school.

Justice has been served. A Quezon City court finds members of the Dominguez carnapping gang guilty beyond reasonable doubt in the 2011 killing of car dealer Venson Evangelista.

The full story from Zian Ambrosio.

Before the promulgation, VACC President Boy Evangelista was silently praying for the final decision of the Quezon City trial court on the case they filed against the members of the Dominguez carnapping group who were responsible for the death of his son Venson on January 2011.

Mixed emotions na ako. Hindi ko rin talaga pa. Pero I'm hoping na mananalo po tayo sa awa ng buong nasare.

Evangelista was already emotional when the court started to read the background of the incident.

In January 2011, two suspects arrived at the car shop owned by Venson's family where they requested to test drive an SUV that was being sold.

But the suspects stole the vehicle together with Venson. That was the last time he was seen alive.

The following day, January 14, 2011, the burnt cadaver of Venson was found in Camaratuan City, Nueva Ecija. A bullet shot was found on his head. He had a wound in the neck and his head was wrapped in packing tape.

Eventually, a suspect surrendered and pointed to Roger and Raymond Dominguez, leaders of a carjacking syndicate, as the mastermind of the crime.

As the court read its decision, Evangelista could not help but cry.

Venson, dinalam mo ako dito. Ang pag-aakaw ko sa iyo, the time is hanggang dulo lalabad tayo. We need to take the bullet just to see you get justice.

There were originally five respondents, the Dominguez brothers, Joe El Jacinto, Jason Miranda, and Ronaldo Talban.

But Raymond Dominguez died of COVID-19 in the New Bilibid Prisons in 2021, while Jacinto died of heart attack while in detention at the Quezon City Jail. But the Dominguez camp plans to file a motion for reconsideration.

We will have to review the records as well as the actual context of the decision so that we can file the necessary pleadings. There is already an unfair publicity that was generated against my client, so we cannot do anything because there is already some sort of adjustment.

Outside the Hall of Justice while Mr. Evangelista was giving a closing speech, a butterfly flew beside him. For him, it meant that his son was trying to make everyone feel his presence.

Anak, maligaya ka na ngayon, I'm sure, at nainabang kita. Ano mo anak, kung alam mo na, willing to die for you and even willing to go hungry para sa iyo, finally after 20 years. Salamat po.

Evangelista also thanked the police for her job well done. Zee Ann Ambrosio, ABS-CBN News.

The National Union of People's Lawyers slams the Philippine government's move to appeal the resumption of a probe into President Duterte's drug war.

On Monday, the Philippines formally asked the International Criminal Court to reverse a ruling which authorizes the reopening of the investigation.

Manila Solicitor General Minardo Guevara, who signed the appeal, insisted the country has openly recognized its responsibility to prosecute crimes related to the drug war.

But for NUPL's Attorney Cristina Conte, drug war-related investigations in the Philippines are clearly insufficient.

The investigations in the Philippines are clearly characterized by one, looking at individual culpability of low-ranking police officers.

Second, looking at the individual cases or killings or homicides or sometimes in the 52 reports, there were just arrests.

And then thirdly, these killings are not looking at the overall perspective of the killings. These cases have been cherry-picked.

They are not characteristic or an embodiment of what happened in the entire Philippines.

An environmental group slams what it calls the government's uncoordinated response to the oil spill in Oriental Mindoro.

Oceana Philippines now urges President Marcos to assign an agency dedicated to address the worsening environmental disaster.

The group also asked the chief executive to pay a visit to oil spill-affected areas.

More parts of the Philippines will experience rains today as a low-pressure area east of the Visayas moves closer to landmass.

State Weather Bureau, PAGASA, says the LPA was last seen 125 kilometers east of Giwan, eastern Samar.

PAGASA said cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms are likely over eastern Visayas, Catanduanes, Albay, Sosogon, Masbate and Dinagat Islands.

Flash floods and landslides are also possible.

Meanwhile, partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers and thunderstorms will prevail over Luzon.

Philippine lawmaker Gabriel Bordado insists now is not the time for amendments to the Constitution.

The Camarinesul representative is one of only seven lawmakers who voted against the bill seeking a constitutional convention to amend the 1987 Charter.

Bordado points out President Marcos himself said amending the Charter isn't a priority.

Medyo alanganin ang takbo ng ganitong resolution. Kasi hindi pa tayo nakakalabas sa pandemic. Nandoon pa ang efekto ng pandemic sa atin at nilugmukto ito ang ating ekonomiya.

We have to attend to other pressing needs. We have to address them immediately or else we will be in real trouble.

Several groups also calling on the Philippine government to focus on addressing pressing issues and concerns instead of amending the 1987 Constitution.

They issued that appeal in a protest Wednesday to mark World Consumer Rights Day.

Former lawmaker attorney Neri Colmenares meanwhile reiterated his support for a bill seeking a P750 increase in the daily minimum wage of workers in the private sector.

Gusto nilang sumayaw tayo ng tsa-tsa sa gitna ng gutom, sa gitna ng kababaan ng sahod, kawalan ng trabaho.

Sa gitna ng mataas na presyo nang bilhin, gusto nilang sumayaw pa rin tayo ng tsa-tsa.

The Philippine Transportation Department is planning to give fare discount to commuters. This will be done through a service contracting program.

Under that program, the government will shoulder the amount that will be deducted from the original fares implemented by public utility vehicles.

The program's budget is pegged at P1.2 billion.

Tinatanja, napaka paabutin natin ito noong mga six months. Ang diskwento ay doon sa level ng bago magpandemia.

So this means ang magiging minimum fare sa jeep ay P9.00. Di pa kaagad masimulan kasi hinihintay ang pondo. So ang pondo will come from BBM.

The Bureau of Immigration again warning Filipinos over call center scams abroad that have victimized aspiring overseas workers.

This comes after a Filipino woman was repatriated from Thailand on March 9 after she fell prey to a trafficking scam in Myanmar.

The Bureau says the woman was recruited through Facebook to work in a call center in Thailand.

The victim was told to post as a tourist there but was reportedly fetched by a private car and traveled 12 hours until reaching Myanmar.

She was reportedly forced to work long hours without a day off while being required to pay for her release.

The woman sought help from the Philippine Embassy in Bangkok which led to her repatriation.

We're taking a quick break. Still to come, the U.S. and Russia continue to trade barbs over the alleged downing of an American drone.

That's next on The Rundown. Stay tuned.

You're back on The Rundown. Another bank under threat of collapse as the U.S. banking crisis reaches Europe.

Shares of Credit Suisse plunged as much as 30 percent in Wednesday's trade after its largest investor said it could not provide more financial assistance to the bank.

The news sent banking stocks plummeting and regulators rushing to ease worries.

Swiss financial regulator FINMA and the nation's central bank issued a joint statement to assure the public Credit Suisse meets capital and liquidity requirements imposed on lenders.

But if necessary, the Swiss national bank is ready to provide it liquidity.

The institutions also insisted the U.S. banking turmoil does not pose a direct risk of contagion to the Swiss financial institutions.

Thanks to that assurance, Credit Suisse shares rose around 7 percent in after-hours trade.

Russia calls on the U.S. to stop what it called a hostile flights as an American drone was downed by a Russian fighter jet.

Moscow insists it has established limits on flights in the Black Sea at the start of its operation in Ukraine, which it says Washington had ignored.

I have heard representatives of the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff say that the United States will continue to fly wherever it pleases in accordance with international law.

But if you follow this logic, then the space around the United States has the same status as the space over the Black Sea.

And such defiant ignorance of this objective fact suggests that the American side is constantly trying to look for some kind of provocation to escalate its confrontational approaches.

The U.S. meanwhile says the drone incident shows Russia is increasingly becoming more aggressive.

This as it claims there have been similar incidents that involve other nations.

There is a pattern of behavior recently where there is a little bit more aggressive actions being conducted by the Russians.

We think we haven't completed our analysis as to why that's happening.

And it wasn't just involving us, there were some incidents earlier with the British and some other nations as well.

The United States had labeled the drone incident as reckless while Russia blamed the crash on the drone's sharp maneuvering.

Families in southern Malawi hold a funeral service for the relatives who died due to Cyclone Freddie.

Residents had to scoop water out of grave pits to bury the victims of the massive storm.

Malawi's disaster management said there was a significant rise in the death toll following the storm's second landfall Wednesday.

The number of fatalities now at 225. 41 others remain missing.

Malawi's president now appealing for help from neighboring countries.

Now three years ago the world as we know it changed when a virus out of China caused unprecedented chaos.

Rafael Bosano gives us a look at how COVID-19 has reshaped lives and how close we are to the end of the pandemic.

No one imagined that one virus would make the world stop.

It's these images of overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums and the eerily empty roads left with nothing but a moving ambulance that are extremely hard to forget.

COVID-19 has definitely left a mark on millions.

After three years of closely monitoring COVID-19 data, the Johns Hopkins University has decided to stop.

March 10 was the last update before it ceased tracking due to lack of data.

The Philippine Department of Health says while the spotlight on the disease has dimmed, it remains prevalent to this day.

The virus will likely not go away.

Neither will the pain of the families of the more than 66,000 Filipinos who died because of it.

But COVID-19's devastating effect has begun to wane.

Just a couple of months ago if you were to walk around the streets without a face mask you're sure to get flagged.

But now take a look around and you'll find a lot of people have decided to ditch them.

Hospital utilization rates are low and mobility is high.

In fact, the country is now open to all tourists.

Verheri explains looking at the pandemic entails looking beyond the situation of individual countries.

If you define a pandemic, it will comprise of several countries being affected by this illness.

Lahat pa rin ng bansa may mga tinatala pa rin mga kaso ng COVID-19.

And with that hanggang sa ngayon hindi pa natin tinatanggal or the WHO have not revised or amended or rescinded the declaration of this pandemic.

But the world body says the end of the emergency is inevitable.

We want to end this emergency in every country on the planet in 2023 and we can do this.

So what we are asking all member states, all countries around the world to do is to reassess their situation.

Have a fresh look at what you're doing and look at what needs to be adjusted.

So we need to strengthen the systems in countries around surveillance.

We need to strengthen the systems in countries around sequencing.

We need to strengthen the clinical care pathways.

We were able to adjust appropriately and accordingly.

And we can say that with all of this, mas napabilis natin ang pag-improve nung ating mga kinakailangan so that we are better prepared for the next pandemic to come kung sa kasakali.

The DOH says the country is now in the final stages of its long and arduous battle against COVID

and that victory over the pathogen will only be realized if everyone will put the right knowledge to use and make wise decisions every day.

Rafael Bozano, ABS-CBN News.

Switching gears now, NASA unveils a prototype of the space suit for astronauts on the next mission to the moon.

The suits are equipped with a light band, high-definition cameras, and upgraded mobility.

These were unveiled at the Space Center in Houston, Texas.

NASA, through its Artemis 3 mission, aims to put astronauts, including the first woman, on the moon by the end of the decade.

There's a variety of joints that we've put as well into the lower torso assembly.

And this is going to be a huge improvement over the Apollo suits.

The Apollo suits didn't have many of these types of joints that we've put in this suit.

So the astronauts will be more comfortable, have an easier time walking.

And before we go, keep an open mind and be willing to take risks.

That advice coming from Filipino jiu-jitsu athlete, Meggie Ochoa, as she dominates the world.

But Ochoa is not only boldly fighting on the mat, she also takes on the fight against child sexual abuse.

I started by teaching a shelter, the sport of jiu-jitsu, together with my teammates in our club.

So we just shared the sport with survivors of child sexual violence.

Actually, not all of them were survivors, but all of them were vulnerable children.

And we saw how the program grew and how it really helped the children.

Like deal with their issues, face their fears, even face their court hearings, which were really traumatic experiences.

We have relaxed some of our quarantine methods and we have allowed more people to come in.