‘China can’t put barrier in West Philippine Sea’ – Marcos
Today on Rappler – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- Removed! Marcos says China can’t put barrier around Bajo de Masinloc
- Davao’s confidential funds spending soared to P460M yearly under Sara Duterte’s watch
- 10 cops who went AWOL joined Socorro ‘cult,’ says Surigao del Norte police chief
- ‘Same fate still looms’: Surfaced activists seek SC protection from military, gov’t officials
- Meta’s new AI assistant trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts
- Dua Lipa and Henry Cavill are spy-tastic in new ‘Argylle’ trailer
- TWICE’s Chaeyoung to be absent from ‘Ready to Be’ concerts in Bulacan
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/september-29-2023/
- Removed! Marcos says China can’t put barrier around Bajo de Masinloc
- Davao’s confidential funds spending soared to P460M yearly under Sara Duterte’s watch
- 10 cops who went AWOL joined Socorro ‘cult,’ says Surigao del Norte police chief
- ‘Same fate still looms’: Surfaced activists seek SC protection from military, gov’t officials
- Meta’s new AI assistant trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts
- Dua Lipa and Henry Cavill are spy-tastic in new ‘Argylle’ trailer
- TWICE’s Chaeyoung to be absent from ‘Ready to Be’ concerts in Bulacan
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/september-29-2023/
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00:00 Today on Rappler
00:12 The United States commenced the Philippines for removing barriers the Chinese had put
00:16 up in Scarborough Shoal.
00:18 Davao City's confidential spending ballooned from 144 million pesos to 460 million pesos
00:24 when Sara Duterte was mayor.
00:26 Police officials confirmed 10 AWOL cops had joined the suspected cult group Socorro Bayanihan.
00:32 Environmental activists, who said they were abducted by the military, seek the protection
00:36 of the Supreme Court.
00:38 MEDA says its new AI assistant was trained using public Facebook and Instagram posts.
00:43 The trailer for a fantasy spy thriller starring Dua Lipa and Henry Cavill is released.
00:49 And TWICE's Chaeyoung will be absent from the group's Philippine concerts due to health
00:53 reasons.
00:56 President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says the Philippines had no choice but to remove the 300-meter
01:01 floating barrier China placed in the West Philippine Sea, barring Filipino fisherfolk
01:05 from entering the Scarborough Shoal.
01:08 The marine life-rich shoal just off the coast of Masinlok, Zambales, provides shelter to
01:12 fisherfolk while they fish in the open sea.
01:15 Marcos says, "When we cut down the barriers, our fishermen were able to go in and catch
01:19 164 tons of fish.
01:22 That's how much our fishermen are losing if they're not able to go in."
01:26 A 2016 arbitral tribunal determined the shoal to be the traditional fishing ground of Filipino,
01:31 Chinese, and Vietnamese fisherfolk, meaning no fisherfolk should be barred from accessing
01:35 it.
01:36 Meantime, United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia Lindsay
01:42 Ford commends the Philippines for taking down the barrier.
01:47 The Davao City government's annual confidential expenses ballooned from 144 million pesos
01:53 in 2016 to 460 million pesos when Vice President Sara Duterte was the city's mayor.
01:59 Documents show the local government had set aside 144 million pesos for confidential expenses
02:04 in 2016, which was approved under the mayorship of Rodrigo Duterte.
02:09 During Sara's administration in 2017, Davao City's confidential expenses more than doubled
02:14 to 293 million pesos.
02:17 In 2018, it increased again to 420 million pesos and grew again in 2019 to 460 million
02:23 pesos.
02:25 It remained fixed at that amount for the years 2020, 2021, and 2022.
02:30 Based on its financial records appended to an annual audit report, Davao City's local
02:34 government had 2.69 billion pesos in confidential expenses from 2016 to 2022.
02:41 Davao City's expenditures in confidential fund spending are notably larger to that of
02:45 other major cities, such as Makati City, Manila, Quezon City, and Cebu City.
02:52 Surigao del Norte Police Chief Colonel Laudamer Laude says 10 cops who had gone on absence
02:57 without leave between 2019 to 2020 became members of the Socorro Bayanihan Services
03:02 Incorporated.
03:03 In a joint Senate committee hearing on the controversial SBSI, Laude adds, "Two non-uniformed
03:09 police personnel who had also gone AWOL are found to be members of the group, including
03:13 a retired Army officer and a former firefighter."
03:16 The police and personnel who had gone AWOL had been dismissed from the service.
03:21 Deputy Minority Leader Isa Ontiveros says members of SBSI had been manipulated into
03:25 leaving their jobs and relocating to the hilltop settlement in Sitio Kapihan, Barangay Sering
03:30 in Socorro Town, Surigao del Norte.
03:33 The SBSI is also accused of forcing children into marriage and military combat training.
03:40 Two environmental activists who went missing in Urayon, Bataan early September file a petition
03:45 before the Supreme Court seeking protection from members of the Philippine Army, Philippine
03:49 National Police, National Security Council, and National Task Force to end local communist
03:54 armed conflict.
03:55 Jonila Castro and Jed Damano recently surfaced after disappearing for weeks.
04:00 In a government-organized press conference, the two divulged they were abducted by members
04:05 of the 70th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army, contrary to the government's claim they
04:09 had voluntarily surrendered.
04:11 The petition details the timeline of abduction of the two activists.
04:15 They also seek a writ of amparo, which is a legal remedy for persons whose right to
04:19 life, liberty, and security were violated, and a writ of habeas data, which compels the
04:24 government to destroy information that could cause harm.
04:29 Meta Platforms used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train parts of its new Meta AI virtual
04:35 assistant.
04:36 A top Meta policy executive says the company excluded private posts shared only with family
04:40 and friends in an effort to respect consumers' privacy.
04:44 Meta also did not use private chats on its messaging services as training data for the
04:48 model.
04:49 This comes as tech companies including Meta, OpenAI, and Google have been criticized for
04:54 using information scraped from the internet without permission to train their AI models.
04:59 Meantime, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says a new generation of Meta's Ray-Ban smart
05:03 glasses will be available in October.
05:06 Priced at $299, the device incorporates the new Meta AI assistant and can livestream broadcasts
05:13 of what a user is seeing directly to Facebook and Instagram.
05:18 The official trailer for the upcoming fantasy spy thriller Argyle is released, introducing
05:22 us to a world where reality and fiction collide to create espionage and adventure.
05:27 Black Mirror nosedive actress Bryce Dallas Howard takes the lead as Ellie Conway, a spy
05:32 novel writer who usually spends her days cooped up in her room with her cat.
05:36 As time passes, her stories begin to foster an uncanny resemblance to the real-life workings
05:41 of an actual spy organization.
05:43 The cast is full of celebrity A-listers including Henry Cavill, John Cena, Ariana DeBose, Dua
05:49 Lipa, Bryan Cranston, and Samuel L. Jackson.
05:52 The film is based on the novel of the same name by first-time author Ellie Conway.
05:57 The movie premieres in Philippine cinemas on January 31, 2024.
06:04 Chae Young of K-pop girl group TWICE will not be attending the upcoming Ready to Be
06:07 concerts in the Philippines due to health issues.
06:10 JYP Entertainment says they, quote, "convey this unfortunate news with a heavy heart"
06:15 as they know fans were eagerly anticipating the show.
06:19 The agency also asks for fans' understanding, saying the decision was made to protect Chae
06:24 Young's health.
06:25 The eight members of TWICE will take the stage on September 30 and October 1 at the Philippine
06:30 Arena in Bulacan.
06:31 The upcoming Ready to Be concerts will serve as TWICE's return to the Philippines in over
06:35 four years, following their TWICE LIGHTS concert at the Mall of Asia Arena in 2019.
06:43 And that's today's wrap.
06:44 I'm Nina Liu.
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