Today on Rappler – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- Journalists in Manila slam China’s manipulation claims: ‘Barefaced lie’
- Iloilo City placed under state of calamity due to whooping cough outbreak
- 6 workers presumed dead after crippled cargo ship knocks down Baltimore bridge
- Most Filipinos not in favor of amending the Constitution – Pulse Asia
- UN expert says Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, calls for arms embargo
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/march-27-2024/
- Journalists in Manila slam China’s manipulation claims: ‘Barefaced lie’
- Iloilo City placed under state of calamity due to whooping cough outbreak
- 6 workers presumed dead after crippled cargo ship knocks down Baltimore bridge
- Most Filipinos not in favor of amending the Constitution – Pulse Asia
- UN expert says Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, calls for arms embargo
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/march-27-2024/
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00:00 Today on Rappler
00:13 Journalists slam China's claim that embedded media manipulate their work to project the
00:17 Philippines as a victim.
00:19 Iloilo is placed under a state of calamity due to a whooping cough outbreak.
00:24 Six are presumed dead after a cargo ship knocks down the Baltimore Bridge.
00:29 A Pulse Asia survey reveals most Filipinos are not in favor of amending the constitution.
00:35 And a UN expert says the threshold indicating the commission of genocide in Gaza has been
00:40 met.
00:44 Journalist groups in the Philippines slam China's foreign ministry and its embassy
00:47 in Manila.
00:49 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying claims journalists who embed in the
00:53 Philippines resupply missions to Aung and Chol manipulate their work to project the
00:58 Philippines as a victim.
01:00 The Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines say this claim is "a bare-faced
01:05 lie."
01:06 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines says it takes offense at the insinuation Hua
01:12 first made.
01:13 Hua posted a series of graphics painting the Philippines and the journalists who join resupply
01:18 missions as troublemakers.
01:20 FOCAP adds a free and independent press reports not only what they are told, but what they
01:25 observed, framed by historical and political context.
01:32 Iloilo is placed under a state of calamity on Tuesday, March 26 due to the outbreak of
01:37 pertussis or whooping cough.
01:39 The declaration comes after the City Health Office Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit
01:44 officially recorded a total of 16 suspected cases of pertussis with seven confirmed cases.
01:51 The city government says it can use the calamity fund to procure medicines, vaccines, and to
01:56 strengthen measures and responses against the disease.
01:59 Quezon City earlier declared a pertussis outbreak after logging 25 cases.
02:05 Other areas in the country also reported cases of the disease.
02:10 The Health Department describes pertussis or whooping cough as a "highly contagious
02:14 bacterial respiratory infection."
02:17 This means it can easily spread among people by airborne droplets either through coughs
02:22 or sneezes.
02:26 Six workers are missing and presumed dead from a bridge that collapsed in Baltimore
02:30 Harbor in Maryland early Tuesday, March 26.
02:34 A massive cargo ship, crippled by a power loss, rammed into the bridge.
02:38 A trestled section of the 2.57-kilometer span almost immediately crumpled into the icy water,
02:45 sending vehicles and people into the river.
02:48 Rescuers pulled two survivors to safety, one of whom was hospitalized.
02:54 Officials say the survivors and the six missing were part of a work crew filling potholes
02:58 on the road surface of the bridge.
03:00 U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says the closure of one of the country's busiest
03:06 shipping lanes will have a "major and protracted impact to supply chains."
03:14 A Pulse Asia survey reveals support for amending the 1987 Constitution has dropped significantly
03:20 over the past year.
03:22 From 41 percent of Filipino adults supporting charter change efforts in March 2023, there
03:28 are now only 8 percent in favor of the move.
03:31 The survey reveals 88 percent of Filipinos are not in favor of amending the Constitution,
03:37 a 43-percentage point increase from the 45 percent who opposed in 2023.
03:42 A big majority, or 74 percent, of Filipinos say it should not be amended now or any other
03:48 time, a significant increase from 31 percent in March 2023.
03:54 The survey results were released just a week after Resolution of Both Houses No. 7 was
03:59 passed by the House of Representatives after weeks of holding marathon hearings.
04:06 Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied
04:11 Territories, tells UN Human Rights Council she believes Israel's military campaign in
04:17 Gaza since October 7 amounted to genocide, citing more than 30,000 Palestinians killed,
04:23 among other acts.
04:25 She also calls on countries to immediately impose sanctions and an arms embargo.
04:30 Israel, which did not attend the session, rejects her findings.
04:35 Israel's diplomatic mission in Geneva says the war is against Hamas and not Palestinian
04:39 civilians.
04:41 Albanese is one of dozens of independent human rights experts mandated by the UN to report
04:47 and advise on specific themes and crises.
04:50 Her views do not reflect those of the global body as a whole.
04:56 And that's today's Wrap, I'm Cara Oliver, thank you for watching.
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