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dollars in investments during its trilateral summit with the U.S. and Japan.

Another arrest warrant is out for fugitive Philippine televangelist Apollo Kibuloy.

Three sons of Hamas leader Ismael Hania are killed in an Israeli airstrike.

And a Vietnamese tycoon is sentenced to death in a multi-billion dollar fraud case.

Good evening, I'm Tony Velasquez.

And I'm Tia Gutierrez.

On our broadcast tonight, the Philippine President expects to receive a windfall of investment pledges

from his trilateral summit with the U.S. and Japan.

His visit to Washington comes as U.S. lawmakers file a bill

proposing huge changes to the U.S. and Japan's trade agreement.

military financing for the Philippines.

Katrina Domingo is in Washington with tonight's top story.

A historic and possibly one of the most momentous events in our history.

This is how Philippine Ambassador to the United States,

Jose Manuel Romualdez, described the trilateral summit of the Philippines, Japan, and the United States.

While the three countries are expected to amplify their commitment

to uphold the rule of law in the South China Sea,

Tokyo and Washington are also expected

to pour in at least 100 billion U.S. dollars in investments in the Philippines

to accelerate and surge high-quality infrastructure in several key sectors,

including energy, maritime cooperation, technology, and cyber security.

We're talking about 100 billion in investments in the next 5 to 10 years.

Perhaps even 5 years would probably be more appropriate

because of the fact that we have a lot of areas where we are putting ourselves

A lot of these investments are mostly, as I said,

in the semiconductor industry, which is part of our digital infrastructure,

which is also very important,

and also in the area of energy.

The more exciting part of the clean energy projects

that we're trying to lure into the country

is the small modular nuclear power plants.

The President is quite excited specifically about a company

that is going to be a part of the country.

We're going to be supplying these small nuclear power plants.

Ramualdez says while some U.S. companies are looking to bring in

small modular nuclear power plants,

the Philippines is also expected to benefit from Japan's growing production

of defense and security technologies.

Japan now will be producing quite a number of technological enhancements for defense.

And obviously because of our relationship

both in Japan and the United States,

we most likely will be getting some of that

or either we will be buying it

or we will be given an opportunity to be able to have it

as part of our defense modernization.

So that is where the major change is,

that the cooperation is so strong

that we can expect a lot of these types of enhancements

on the economic sphere,

but which also can include defense.

Despite this show of force from Manila, Tokyo, and Washington,

Ramualdez insists that the three allies are not looking to provoke any country.

We're not looking for any conflict with any country.

In fact, we're reaching out to the ASEAN region.

Again, it's a multilateral approach.

This is the policy that the President has spelled out to all of us.

U.S. National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby says

there is no reason for China to be a part of this.

China is trying to overreact to the multilateral strategies happening in the region,

specifically the recent quadrilateral exercises involving the Philippines,

Australia, Japan, and the United States.

This is about freedom of navigation.

It's about adherence to international law.

It's about proving the simple point

that we and our allies will fly, sail, and operate

wherever international law permits us to do.

And it does in the South China Sea.

And we did.

Ramualdez says all of these meetings and deals

are rooted on the Philippines' desire to do one thing.

We know clearly what we want to do,

which is to protect our territory and our sovereign rights.

And so all of these things that we're doing is precisely in that direction.

For so many years, the Filipino patience has been stretched to the limit.

And we're now at the point where are we just going to sit

and allow and see?

We just want to be given our right

to be able to explore our own environment,

our territory, the respect for international law.

Meanwhile, two U.S. senators on Wednesday introduced a bipartisan bill

to provide Manila with $2.5 billion worth of aid

to boost its defenses against Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea.

Reuters reports the bill allots...

$500 million a year in foreign military financing grant assistance

to the Philippines over the five fiscal years to 2029.

All of these projects and commitments are expected to be outlined

in a joint vision statement that three leaders will release

after the trilateral summit.

Aside from this historic meeting,

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is also expected to have

a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden

and a separate meeting at the Pentagon with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

The Filipino...

leader is also expected to meet with several U.S. investors

to convince them to do more business in the Philippines,

including several executives from tech giant Google.

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News, Washington, D.C.

China accuses the U.S. and Japan of smearing it

during a Washington summit of the two allies.

It says the two ignored China's grave concerns

on Taiwan and maritime issues

and seriously violated the basic norms of international law.

U.S. President Biden and Japanese Prime Minister

Humio Kishida earlier bared plans to restructure

the U.S. military command in Japan.

It is the latest upgrade in U.S.-Japan defense ties

and the biggest since the 1960s.

The move aims to make American and Japanese forces

more nimble in the event of a threat.

Biden insists the military upgrade is purely defensive.

China's foreign ministry insists there has never been a problem

with freedom of navigation in the South China Sea.

A ministry spokesperson gave this reaction

to the Washington summit of the U.S., Japan, and the Philippines.

Thanks to the joint efforts of China and ASEAN,

the South China Sea has basically maintained peace and stability.

Some countries outside the region, led by the United States,

are constantly forming small circles in the South China Sea,

to engage in confrontation in the name of cooperation,

flex their muscles in the name of peace,

and create chaos in the name of order.

China claims sovereignty over nearly the entire South China Sea.

Its coast guard and maritime militias

have regularly harassed Filipino fishermen

and Philippine resupply missions

to Manila's outpost in the West Philippine Sea.

China's embassy in Manila slams accusations

that Beijing has planted so-called sleeper cells

that threaten Philippine national security.

The embassy says the allegations are malicious and groundless.

It says suspicions about the secret Chinese agents

are mere fabrications.

The embassy urged the Philippines

to stop spinning false narratives

and arousing anti-China sentiments.

Suspicion over the existence of the sleeper cells

arose from the arrest of four Chinese nationals

in Palawan province.

They were issuing fraudulently acquired Philippine ID documents

such as passports with special resident retiree visas.

The U.S. Air Force insists

its ongoing aerial combat exercises with the Philippines

are not meant to target any current threats.

The details from Bianca Dava.

The Philippine Air Force on Thursday trained side-by-side

with the United States Pacific Air Forces

as part of the first iteration

of their mission to stop the sleeper cells.

The U.S. Air Force said

that the U.S. Air Force

has been conducting basic fighter maneuvers

at the BASA Air Base in Pampanga.

The drills allowed them to show their capability

and readiness to respond to possible threats in the region.

In the drills conducted today,

Americans flew four of their F-16 fighter aircraft

while Filipinos also used four of our F-A-50

lead-in fighter aircraft.

The air operation drills were conducted over waters

in the western side of the Philippines.

For today, for this week,

we have air-to-air exercises up until next week.

It will be composed of basic fighter maneuvers

to air combat maneuvers up until tactical intercept.

And then after that, after which,

we'll be having some limited air-to-surface.

We practice interoperability here.

So we're trying to prepare our pilots

in terms of the communication standards,

in terms of tactics, techniques, and procedures.

Philippine Air Force spokesperson

Colonel Maria Colada,

Consuelo Castillo said,

the COPE Thunder training is part of the country's preparations

for participating in international exercises,

specifically the Australian-led

Pitch Black Warfare exercise scheduled in July.

For the first time,

the PAF will send its F-A-50 lead-in trainer fighter aircraft

to the drills.

We're going to have our biggest participation so far

in the Pitch Black exercise

which is expected to happen in Australia

by July, July to August.

And,

if the previous years

of the Pitch Black exercise in Australia,

normally, we're just sending observers.

This time, we are planning to send fighter aircraft.

So, we're going to have large force deployment.

The U.S. Air Force stressed,

COPE Thunder is not directed towards the Philippines' challenges

to its territory and sovereign rights.

Instead, the exercise aims to strengthen

the two air forces' bilateral partnership

to maintain a free and open air force.

And, open Indo-Pacific.

And, we've been doing exercises like this

for many years now.

And, we'll continue to do so.

And, not because of any current things going on

in the world right now,

but just because both the U.S. and the Philippine Air Force

believe that as we work together

to make a free and open Indo-Pacific,

we prepare ourselves to operate

in a joint environment one day

for not any current project,

present threat,

but potentially future threats

that we might even not know about yet.

Aside from field exercises,

the Filipino and American airmen

also conducted subject matter expert exchanges

on maritime strike and anti-ship tactics.

The first iteration of COPE Thunder

will run until April 19.

A second iteration is scheduled in June.

Meanwhile, the Philippine Air Force

is expecting the arrival of more air assets

in the next two years

as part of Horizon 2

of the AFP Modernization Program.

This year, we are expecting more aircraft

coming in as part of our acquisition

and modernization program

under the Horizon 2.

So, may mga contracts na to.

And, for the next one to two years,

we are expecting them to come in.

We are expecting more blackhawk helicopters.

We are expecting C-130s.

Multi-role fighters,

which have been under the control of the U.S. Air Force,

have been able to come in.

The aircrafts that have been on the PAF's wish list

for quite some time now

are expected to be acquired under Horizon 3.

Bianca Dava, ABS-CBN News, Florida, Blanca, Pampanga.

Two Philippine Navy pilots are killed

in a helicopter crash in Cavite Province.

Raya Capulong has the full story.

A Philippine Navy training helicopter crashed

near a public market in Cavite City on Thursday morning.

Leaving two Navy officers dead.

The fatalities were identified as

36-year-old male pilot Lieutenant John Kyle Bores

and his 27-year-old female co-pilot

Ensign Izalyon Atacad.

Natagalan mam i-rescue kasi yung pilot na si Lieutenant Bores

is naipit ng windshield ng helicopter.

So, bumalok yung windshield.

Doon po sila tumama.

Doon po sila tumama.

Doon po sila tumama.

Doon po sila tumama.

So, severe po yung head injury

ng mga piloto natin.

Tapos, yung katawan nila

heavily injured po.

Sa isa taas po nung binagsakan.

Some witnesses say

they heard the helicopter's engine

sputtering before it eventually crashed.

Yung makina po.

Parang palyado po.

Yung narinig ko po yun,

sumabit po sa kanya po yung

helice niya po sa puno.

Pag tama po,

tinilit po talaga po ng

piloto na

diretso sa dagat.

Hindi po ko inaya.

Dito na po bumaksa.

Para po siyang palyado

yung sasakyan.

Bulok, bulok, bulok, bulok.

Gumagano.

Balibali ho yung mga ipil eh.

Nasagin muna yung ipil.

Siguro yung pilot noon

hinahanap ng magandang landing.

Eh, nung bumanggana,

pagkatapos na sa inyong ipil,

sumub-sub na kagad doon sa

yun, sa transay.

Doon kagad siya sumub-sub.

Baka bigla na humusok.

According to the Philippine Navy,

the R-22 Robinson helicopter

took off from Sangli Airport,

carrying the two victims who were on a trip.

They had to make an emergency landing

but it crashed near the

Cavite City Public Market.

The male pilot was rushed

to the Cavite Medical Center

but was declared dead on arrival.

The female co-pilot died

while being treated at the Bautista Hospital.

The Philippine Navy

emphasized that their aircraft

undergo regular inspection

and maintenance.

Authorities are investigating the possible cause

of the crash.

Rayo Capulong, ABS-CBN News.

Fugitive Philippine televangelist

Apolo Quiboloy is the target

of another arrest warrant.

The pastor and five of his associates

are accused of qualified human trafficking.

Willard Cheng reports.

The Pasig Regional Trial Court

Branch 159 ordered that warrants

of arrest be issued against

Kingdom of Jesus Christ founder

Pastor Apolo Quiboloy and his five

other co-accused for their case

of qualified human trafficking.

The case was filed by the

Department of Justice

last March 18 in Pasig

where the alleged crime was committed.

In an order dated April 11

and signed by Acting Presiding Judge

Reynelda Estacio Montesa,

the court denied the accused's motion

to defer or suspend proceedings

and stopped the issuance of warrant

of arrest, saying it was a prohibited

motion. The court also found

probable cause for the arrest of

all the accused. Quiboloy's camp

had argued that a motion for reconsideration

is still pending with the

Secretary of Justice.

But the court agreed with the prosecution's

response that it is not one of the

grounds stated in the Rules on Criminal

Procedure to suspend an arraignment.

The Department of Justice

welcomed the court's order.

In a statement, Justice Secretary

Jesus Crispino Remulia said

this is already the second wave of arrest

warrants issued against Quiboloy.

Following the arrest order issued

by the Davao City Regional Trial Court

Branch 12 on his child and

sexual abuse cases.

The DOJ also pointed out

the qualified human trafficking case of

Pastor Quiboloy involves a

non-bailable offense.

Quiboloy's lawyer has yet to respond

to the passing RTC's order.

But in an interview with ANC's

Head Start Thursday morning,

Attorney Isnaelito Torreon said they will

be filing a motion to quash the

warrant of arrest against Quiboloy

in his child and sexual abuse cases

before the Davao Regional Trial Court.

He also insists

Quiboloy cannot be considered a fugitive.

Yet, contrary to the statement

of the National Bureau of Investigation.

Torreon assured authorities

Quiboloy is still in the Philippines

adding that the pastor may actually be

open to extradition to the US

where he is facing charges of

sex trafficking by force, fraud

and coercion and bulk cash

smuggling.

As a matter of fact, pastor Apolo C. Quiboloy

may not be totally against an extradition

process. What he fears

is the illegal practice

of extraordinary rendition.

I cannot state for certain

if he will agree to this.

But in my previous

discussion with him,

well, if extradition may be

but extraordinary rendition

totally no.

The Senate Sergeant-at-Arms

has yet to locate Quiboloy in Davao

as he tried to carry out the body's

arrest order against the pastor

for skipping hearings called by the

chamber. Willard Cheng,

ABS-CBN News.

Up next,

Hamas admits it cannot

produce the 40 hostages'

needed for the first phase of a

ceasefire deal with Israel.

More stories when the world tonight returns.

We'll be right back.

We'll be right back.

It is unable to turn over 40 of its

hostages in exchange for a truce

with Israel. This revelation

was reported by CNN, which

cited an Israeli official and a

source familiar with the truce negotiations.

This has raised fears that

more Hamas hostages than was publicly

known may have died in captivity.

A proposed six-week truce

requires Hamas to free its hostages

while Israel releases a hundred

Palestinian prisoners.

The Israeli Prime Minister's office says

33 of the 129 hostages

of Hamas are already

dead.

An Israeli

airstrike in Gaza kills three

sons of Hamas leader Ismail

Haniye. The Israeli

military described Haniye's

sons as Hamas operatives,

but it could not confirm reports

that four of Haniye's grandchildren

were also killed. Relatives

say the airstrike targeted a

Haniye family reunion during

the Islamic Eid al-Fitr holiday.

A controversial law passed by

Ukraine's parliament aims to boost

the number of soldiers fighting Russian

invaders. The controversial law

changes the current recruitment process

by enabling the issuance of draft

notices through an electronic system.

A provision which ends a

soldier's tour of duty after 36

months was removed from the measure.

The law was passed as Russia

increased its attacks on Ukraine's

energy infrastructure.

A prominent Vietnamese businesswoman

is sentenced to death for plunder.

A Vietnamese court found

property tycoon Jung Me Lan

guilty of siphoning over

12.5 billion U.S. dollars

from the Saigon Commercial

Joint Stock Bank. The funds

were funneled through thousands of ghost

companies. It is the country's

largest financial fraud case

on record. Lan has

15 days to appeal the verdict.

One person is killed and five

others wounded by two gunmen who

opened fire on a crowd in

northeast Washington, D.C.

Authorities have yet to determine

the motive for the attack.

Our preliminary investigation indicates

the suspects exited a vehicle and

began shooting at people that were

outside here in the neighborhood.

Our real-time crime center began investigating

and provided images from cameras

in the area to aid in this investigation.

Those vehicle images have been

pushed out on our social media page.

The Asian Development Bank

lowers its growth forecast

for the Philippines this year.

From 6.2, the ADB now

expects the Philippine economy to

expand by 6%.

It cites upside risks to

inflation for the slight revision.

It says extreme weather events will

affect agricultural production

and food prices.

It's

slightly

downgraded.

Despite the downgrade, the ADB

still sees the Philippines to be among

the fastest

growing economies in the region.

Growth has remained robust,

driven by domestic

demand, consumption,

and investment,

as well as, I think, services

sectors continue to be very resilient.

The Philippine unemployment rate

drops to its second lowest level

in nearly two decades.

But the government now needs to entice

workers to rejoin the workforce.

Jackie Pascual tells us why.

The Philippine Statistics Authority records

the second lowest jobless rate

in almost two decades.

The agency says unemployment rate

in February 2024

drops to 3.5%

or equivalent to 1.8 million

Filipinos without work.

This is lower than the

2.15 million jobless Filipinos

in January and

2.47 million in February

2023.

Underemployment rate also dropped to 12.4%

from 13.9%

the previous month.

February 2024, the opening

of classes in Kuleyok

so marami ang

nagkaroon ng opportunity

para doon sa mga

activities. Nagkaroon tayo

ng planting

season, o di kaya harvesting

kaya nagkaroon tayo

ng mga employment

opportunities.

Wholesale and retail trade as well as

agriculture and forestry,

opened over a million new jobs each

compared to the previous month.

Accommodation and food service

also opened new jobs and

that's expected to continue as

hotels and resorts become in demand

due to the high heat index.

Substantial din yung dagdag

doon sa accommodation and food service

activities, mga 325,000

at construction,

230,000.

It is of course dahil mayroon tayong

summer vacation.

Malaki ang contribution naman

ng construction

lalo na itong mga panahon na to

kasi siyempre

naghahabol tayo doon sa bagong

magtagulan.

This job fair in Quezon City has

500 job vacancies in various

fields, attracting hundreds of

job applicants, a sign

organizer says, of an improving

labor market.

Hindi mawawala yung call center.

Hindi masyadong mawawala. It's a trend.

Ngayon, maraming

sales.

HRM, madami. It's because

maraming yung nagbubukas na hotels

and resorts. Nag-offer ng

from blue-collar,

janitor, welder,

to managerial levels,

supervisor, area manager.

Mapa, however,

says the labor force participation

in general has dropped

to 50.75 million

Filipinos with work compared

to 51.27 million

last year.

Karamihan dito ay nagsabi na,

ah, household family

duties, ito yung pinakamataas

at pangalawa yung schooling

na nagdagdag ng mga 400

thousand.

The National Economic and Development Authority

also says the government will prioritize

to encourage the workforce participation

of women, youth,

older people, and those

with disabilities by giving them

easier access to employment

or entrepreneurial opportunities.

NEDA also plans to explore

the potential of part-time work,

work-from-home setup,

and other alternative work modes

to help citizens retool

and upskill.

Jackie Pascual, ABS-CBN News.

Philippine investors

pull back at the resumption

of trading Thursday as they

digest the latest job sprint

and a lower economic growth forecast.

Michelle Ong reports.

Stock markets

dropped across Asia led by

Hong Kong and Australia, mirroring

Wall Street's overnight move as hotter than

expected inflation print for March.

Reinforce the view, the Fed will

keep rates higher for longer.

For the day, the PSE index

tumbled back to the 6,600 level,

down 1%, as net foreign

selling hit a quarter of a billion.

Don't panic.

I think we're still good so far.

The technicals are holding up.

The fundamentals are holding up.

This is likely just a knee-jerk

reaction. Again, it's quite

overdone in my opinion.

So I'm still a buy-and-dips

kind of guy and I think this is

the dip that we're talking about.

So just a bit more cautious

trading but still

be optimistic for the rest of the year.

In corporate stories,

Mondanissian Post's record

consolidated revenue for the full year

2023, growing 9%

to 80.2 billion pesos,

driven by broad-based

APAC-branded food and beverage volume

growth, which offset the softness

in the meat alternative business under the

Corn Foods brand. In all,

poor net income attributable to shareholders

of parent hit 7.6

billion. However, if you include

one-offs, reported net loss

for the full year was at 625

million, mainly due to

a non-cash, non-operating impairment

of assets in the meat alternative

business. Meanwhile, the company behind

Lucky Me Noodles and Sky Flakes will

be reallocating unused IPO proceeds

of around 229

million pesos to CapEx this

year for its APAC-branded food

and beverage business. Still in

earnings, Balay ni Frutas, which is behind

Balay Pandesal, Buko ni Frutas

and Frutas House of Desserts,

reports a 58% jump

in 2023 net income

to 59 million pesos

as revenue jumped just as much

to over half a billion pesos.

The company says Balay

outperformed all other food service firms

listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange

in terms of both revenue growth

and net income margin for 2023

despite inflationary pressure.

How? Through limited

price increase and a shift in product

mix towards higher margin

products. It also notes improved

food traffic, store network expansion,

repeat customers, and the introduction

of new products on the menu.

Michelle Long, ABS-CBN News.

Our final

word tonight is a quote from Winston

Churchill. There is at least

one thing worse than fighting

with allies, and that is to fight

without them.

And that is The World Tonight, the 11th

of April 2024.

I'm Pia Duchesne. I'm Tony

Velasquez from the Philippines.

Thank you. Mabuhay!

Mabuhay!