Senate President Zubiri resigns as Senate President; Escudero set to fill in vacated post

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Senate President Zubiri resigns as Senate President; Escudero set to fill in vacated post;  PBBM, distributes land titles to farmers in Tacloban, Leyte;  Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi dies in helicopter crash;  Villages in Brazil remain isolated due to flooding

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00:00 Good day, I am William Theo and this is PPV News Now.

00:05 An emotional Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri announced his resignation as Senate

00:10 President earlier today.

00:12 Zubiri will be replaced by Senator Francis "Cheese" Escudero, who took his oath today.

00:19 Senator Joel Villanueva also quit his post as Senate Majority Leader.

00:24 Senators Nancy Binay, Sunny Angara and JV Ejercito also followed suit by resigning from

00:30 their respective committee chairs.

00:32 I failed to follow instructions from the powers that be.

00:37 Simple as that.

00:38 I've listened to all my colleagues throughout my Senate presidency and again I listen to

00:43 them today.

00:44 As we head into a new period for the Senate, I fought the good fight.

00:53 President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. fulfilled one of his campaign promises.

00:58 The President led the distribution of land titles and support services to over 5,400

01:04 agrarian reform beneficiaries in Tacloban City, Leyte.

01:08 The Department of Agrarian Reform has distributed more than 15,000 hectares of land to nearly

01:14 10,000 beneficiaries nationwide.

01:17 He said there are still a lot of farmlands to be distributed in the whole country.

01:22 This to strengthen the rights and protect the welfare of more Filipino farmers.

01:30 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahman and other officials

01:38 were found dead Monday at the site of a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran, state media said.

01:45 Search crews found the wreckage Monday, a day after the helicopter crashed in bad weather

01:51 near Barzakhwan in Iran's east Azerbaijan province.

01:56 The passengers were traveling back to Iran from an event just across the border with

02:01 Azerbaijan.

02:03 Iranian media said the crashed helicopter was one of the three transporting Iranian

02:08 officials back from the event, where they inaugurated the Khoda Afarin and Giz Galassi

02:14 hydroelectric power plants.

02:17 Iran's constitution says if the president dies or is incapacitated, the vacant post

02:22 is filled out by the first vice president, a position currently held by Mohamed Mokhber

02:29 until a new presidential election is held within 50 days.

02:36 Floods in Brazil have devastated communities and killed over 150 people, with more than

02:42 500,000 displaced from their homes.

02:46 Many villages also remain isolated.

02:48 VOA's Jan Bochart reports from southern Brazil.

02:53 Hi, I'm Jan Bochart here in Sao do Brasil, where floods have destroyed entire neighborhoods,

03:02 towns, villages, and killed more than 150 people in the last two weeks and left more

03:08 than 500,000 people displaced here.

03:12 This place where I am now, called Arroyo do Meio, as you can see, the connection between

03:18 this town and the main cities in the area was destroyed by the water.

03:23 There was a big bridge here that was completely destroyed by the floods when the river was

03:29 more than 20 meters high.

03:32 As you can see, people here, they need to use this makeshift bridge made by the army

03:37 to cross to their places.

03:40 It's a difficult situation here and shows how it will take time for things to normalize

03:45 here because a lot of little villages are still isolated because they don't have connection.

03:51 The rivers destroyed everything.

03:53 I'm Jan Bochart from Sao do Brasil for VOA News.

04:03 This is William Thio.

04:04 Stay informed, get ahead, get the news right here.

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