Today on Rappler – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- Marcos rejects calls for independent Mindanao after Duterte’s remarks
- Families face uncertainty as search continues for 49 missing in Davao de Oro landslide
- Haley vows to stay in race following ’embarrassing’ Nevada defeat
- Pope sees ‘hypocrisy’ in those who criticize LGBT blessings
- Next stop for Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ film: Disney+
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/february-8-2024/
- Marcos rejects calls for independent Mindanao after Duterte’s remarks
- Families face uncertainty as search continues for 49 missing in Davao de Oro landslide
- Haley vows to stay in race following ’embarrassing’ Nevada defeat
- Pope sees ‘hypocrisy’ in those who criticize LGBT blessings
- Next stop for Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ film: Disney+
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/february-8-2024/
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00:13 President Marcos tells independent Mindanao advocates to drop it.
00:17 Families of landslide victims in Mako, Davao de Oro, anxiously await news as the search
00:21 for survivors continue.
00:23 Nikki Haley vows to stay in the Republican race following an embarrassing Nevada defeat.
00:28 The Pope calls out what he calls the "hypocrisy of those who criticize LGBT blessings."
00:34 And Taylor Swift's Erastur film will be released on Disney.
00:40 President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. urges advocates of an independent Mindanao to drop the agenda.
00:46 This a week after former President Rodrigo Duterte's statement on the subject made national
00:50 headlines.
00:51 "I strongly appeal to all of us here to stop this call for a separate Mindanao.
01:00 It is a great and powerful step for Mindanao."
01:01 The president adds the call for a separate Mindanao is doomed to fail, for it is "anchored
01:06 on a false premise, not to mention a sheer constitutional travesty."
01:10 He says the 1987 constitution does not entertain the concept of secession.
01:15 On January 30, Duterte asked former House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez to lead the movement.
01:21 Several Mindanaoan leaders, including BARM Chief Minister Ahud Ibrahim, also known as
01:25 Alhaj Murad, rejected Duterte's call for an independent Mindanao.
01:32 Families in Mako, Davao de Oro, anxiously await news about their relatives who went
01:36 missing following a landslide Tuesday, February 6.
01:40 At least 49 people are missing and feared buried, with 10 confirmed dead and 31 injured,
01:45 as of 2.30 pm on Thursday, February 8.
01:48 At least 758 families evacuated and sought shelter in evacuation centers in Mako town.
01:54 Search and rescue operations had to be suspended on Wednesday due to the threat of more landslides
02:00 caused by days of rain.
02:01 Apex Mining Corporation says it has so far accounted for 62 of its workers and is tracing
02:07 the whereabouts of 45 others.
02:09 It also claims the landslide happened in an area outside the mining site where it has
02:13 been operating, and it has merely served as a terminal for vehicles used by its workers.
02:21 Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley plans to continue her presidential campaign
02:25 against Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, this despite her outstanding defeat in Nevada's
02:30 primary.
02:31 Haley secured just 31% in the contest, even though she was the only candidate listed on
02:36 the ballot, with 63% of voters in the primary voting for none of the candidates.
02:42 No delegates read stake in the primary, making Haley's defeat more symbolic than meaningful.
02:47 Trump appears poised to capture all of Nevada's 26 delegates when the state party holds a
02:52 separate caucus on Thursday.
02:54 The former South Carolina governor pledges to fight on, telling supporters to gird for
02:58 a contentious pace of the campaign.
03:00 Trump faces multiple civil and criminal cases, including federal and state criminal charges.
03:08 Pope Francis says he sees "hypocrisy" in criticism of his decision to allow priests
03:13 to bless same-sex couples.
03:15 The Pope tells Italian Catholic magazine Credere, "Nobody gets scandalized if I give my blessings
03:21 to a businessman who perhaps exploits people, and this is a grave sin.
03:25 But they get scandalized if I give them to a homosexual."
03:28 LGBT blessings are authorized last month by a Vatican document called fiducia suplicans,
03:34 but it was met with significant resistance in the Catholic Church, particularly from
03:38 African bishops.
03:39 The pontiff said in August 2023, "No one should be denied a blessing.
03:44 Everyone, everyone, everyone."
03:46 Francis has made it one of his missions to make the Catholic Church more welcoming and
03:50 less judgmental.
03:52 Didn't get a chance to see the Erez Tour?
03:55 Here's your chance.
03:57 Pop star Taylor Swift announces the digital release date of her record-breaking The Erez
04:01 Tour concert film.
04:03 On Instagram, Taylor says the release will include, for the first time, the entire concert,
04:08 including her performance of "Cardigan" and four additional songs from the tour's acoustic
04:12 section.
04:13 The Erez Tour film has collected $261.7 million in the box office, making it the highest-grossing
04:19 concert film in history.
04:21 The tour itself, which resumed this week in Tokyo, is the highest-grossing concert tour
04:26 with more than $1 billion in ticket sales.
04:29 Taylor Swift's The Erez Tour will debut exclusively on Disney+ on March 15.
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