through the philippines from the northern part of the philippines down to the southern philippine island mindanao. and on the night of march 16th, fly australia and land on the morning of the 17th. 1500 miles through japanese air space -- almost completely the entire way. they make it without loss, there's not a whole lot of evidence that japanese knew that they were flying at that particular time, that they made it. mcarthur later said the escape of a commander in chief and his party through a situation like this is unique in the an nils of american history. and frankly i agree, it's one of the great, great adventure stories in the history of the united states military. mcarthur gets to australia, he issues a statement which has made him one of the more famous statements he's ever made. president of the united states, wanted me to break through the japanese lines for the purpose, as i understand it, organizing the american offensive against japan. primary object of which is the relief of the philippines. i came through. and i shall return. that promise to go back and liberate and drive

in the philippines? >> aurora: in the philippines, three years. >> anthony: three years now. >> aurora: yeah. >> anthony: where have you worked? hong kong for five years. >> aurora: for five years, and then i went to america. i stayed there for almost 30 years. >> anthony: aurora is recently back in manila after most of her life spent abroad. what kind of work were you doing? >> aurora: i did the housekeeping, you know, and babysitting. >> anthony: the money she sent home put everybody here and many, many more through school, lifted them up to a more comfortable life. and you would have left family behind? >> aurora: yeah. >> anthony: to go out there and make money. that's never an easy decision, a painful, painful choice. aurora's children, now middle-aged, are finally getting to know their mother. >> aurora: okay, okay, okay. bring in the food inside. >> anthony: many, many, many filipino women like you who had to leave their families, go abroad. >> aurora: yeah, absolutely yes. >> analyn: her three ch

has offered 60 scholarships for cambodians to study in the philippines, sponsored by the philippine government. moreover, we were there to strengthen our trade relationship between the philippines and cambodia. quiteade levels have been low, but we would like to strengthen that further to maximize both our membership in asean economic community where cambodians and philippines are members. rishaad: when we look at trade deals it does look like the tpp as floundering, to put it at a diplomatic best. what progress are you making with rcep? that is a more exciting agreement as far as we are concerned, because this involves an agreement concerning our region. this is an extension of asean. countries, china, japan, india, australia, new zealand, and korea, so what we expanding to do is to the regional partnership we have to go beyond asean. is an agreement that will account for half of the world's population and one third of the world economy, so it is important for us to have some but theon next year, philippines is determined with it would be an achievement if we were able to finish th

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the headlines: a philippine senator who's calling for the impeachment of president rodrigo duterte tells us she fears for her life, but won't be silenced. myanmar‘s leader, aung san suu kyi, calls an emergency meeting to discuss the rohingya crisis. i'm kasia madera in london. after three days of delays and disagreements, the evacuation of besieged eastern aleppo resumes once more. and the original showbiz celebrity, hollywood actress, tabloid star and socialite zsa zsa gabor has died at the age of 99. live from our studios in london and singapore. this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 1am in london and 9am in singapore and the philippines where there's a new twist in the controversy surrounding president rodrigo duterte. a philippine senator, who's calling for the impeachment of president duterte, has told the bbc she fears for her life, but won't be silenced. leila de lima, a former justice minister, said she'd taken on extra security since she began criticising the president's war on drugs. greg dawson reports. it was the promise to rid the philippines of its drug

jonathan head reports on the philippines' deadly war on drugs. the war on drugs is reaching all corners of the philippines. even here, in the jails. many of these men are already serving long sentences for drug use. in cells, so packed with bodies, it's hard to breathe. it says something about the extent of the drug problem here in the philippines that the police have had to come here and raid one of the biggest prisons around manila. there are clearly concerns about real drug problems here. the focus, as with so much of this campaign, are the people at the very bottom of the trade, not the people running it. at least here they can stay alive. but not here. the bodies of dealers and addicts are discovered every night in the slums of manila, killed either by the police or by shadowy hit squads. it started when this man, an outspoken crime fighting mayor was elected president in may. when he said he would kill drug dealers, he meant it. that's the lives of ten criminals really matter to me? if i am the one facing the grief, would 100 lives of this

until the philippines calls. a place that he has been before, a place that he has always enjoyed a place he has friends. and they hire him as their military advisor. and so in late 1935 they're going to be independent, 1946, advise and create the philippine army and who better than the outgoing u.s. army chief of staff. man known among the islands. arthur accepts, and then the fall of 1935, october, november, 1935, he leaves washington and as far as he's concerned, he's moving to manila, going to build a philippine army and live out his days in the philippines. fate has something completely different in store. >> you can watch this and other american artifacts programs by visiting our website. c-span.org/history. >>> each week, american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places to learn about american history. douglas mcarthur was a five-star general who commanded allied forces in the pacific during world war ii. at the mcarthur memorial in norfolk, virginia, we learned about his role during the war. the

philippines. helping women deliver their babies safely in indonesia. caring for the children of incarcerated parents in nepal. >> yay! >> and cleaning up rivers and waterways across the united states. >> just make piles every 100 feet. >> over the past decade, all five have been honored as the cnn hero of the year for their efforts. tonight we catch up with them to see where they are. this is "cnn superhero: above and beyond." ♪ >>> hey, i'm anderson cooper. it's the 10th anniversary of "cnn heroes." throughout the years we've celebrated remarkable individuals who found their own way to make the world a better place. as part of our ten-year celebration, we're honoring their commitment and courage to change the world. their stories of compassion and perseverance embody the best of humanity. these heroes saw a need and stepped up. they've changed lives. they've saved lives. each year at our annual "sncnn heroes," we reveal the hero of the year. tonight we catch up with five of the heroes of the year twro see how their lives have change, how their lives

let's talk about the philippines, and the new president. he is not that new any more, but relatively new. the papers are talking about the un human rights chief saying that they need to look into his past. the other story of 2016 which has dominated what we have been talking about has been the rise of strongman and in politics. —— strongmen and politics. this is perhaps the ultimate example, the most extreme strongman. i don't know if these are allegations any more, he has a p pa re ntly allegations any more, he has apparently said himself that while mayor of a town in the philippines, before he became president, he would ride around, basically rounding up and maybe shooting those who were involved in drug cartels. now, you know, we all want public policymakers to take a strong line... and be hands on. and be hands on, but this takes it to a com pletely hands on, but this takes it to a completely new level. and the un human rights chief is calling for an investigation. of course, the question is whether or not he could be impeached. app

there is new pressure on the philippines' outspoken president, rodrigo duterte. the country's independent human rights watchdog is to investigate mr duterte, after he claimed to have personally killed several drug suspects. it follows a request for the inquiry by the united nations. no surprise that mr duterte has responded angrily, calling the un stupid idiots. tom donkin reports. philippines president rodrigo duterte was swept to power injune ona duterte was swept to power injune on a promise to read his country of illegal drugs and those who trafficked them. his critics argue he has authorised police, vigilantes, and so—called death squads to shoot suspected users and dealers on site. by his own admission, the president himself says he has personally killed. earlier this week, the un cited that confession, calling for an independent human rights group in the philippines to act and investigate mr rodrigo duterte for murder. they agreed and will reopen an earlier investigation into the actions of the president. we are hoping with these new revelations and admi

- air attacks fell on the philippines. a dozen b-17out bombers were destroyed on the ground. this is not after the attack on pearl harbor. macarthur's headquarters had ample warning we were at war, and yet this extraordinary attack was permitted to occur. why did that happen? the questions are still being asked and have not been answered. i think it is likely what happened was macarthur and his that of staff were hoping if they did not make any sort of hostile to 20 japanese -- hostile move toward the japanese, that they might be spared. that is the most likely explanation. the commanders at the herpes and called -- at the air base had called manila. two perhaps launch airstrikes on japanese airfield. they were essentially grounded. they were not given any orders. macarthur was never held to account for that. i think it is somewhat of a mystery. time the american people and leadership in washington focused on what was happening in thephilippines, by then american press had chosen to show macarthur is making a heroic stand.

from the philippines, the latest? from the philippines, the storm has caused significant damage. as of today, the national disaster management council as reported about 25,000 families have been affected by the typhoon and a lot of houses have been reduced to the ground. how prepared were people for the typhoon? as early as two days before it, of people had been evacuated. provincial have declared a state of imminent danger, that is why there have been mandatory evacuations, so it is good that people have learned a lot, especially during the typhoon in 2013, so we can say that even though the national government has been prepared and has been more proactive in providing alerts to the communities. has the typhoon our past? yes, it is now about to leave the philippine area and a lot of storm warnings and signals have already been downgraded. what next in terms of the recovery? as of now, the department of social welfare and development is giving out relief items to affected communities. eight a few hours from now, our assessment tea m a few hours from now, our assessment team will

the philippines is being shaken by a one—man revolution. either you will kill me or i will kill you, idiots. he's a tough—talking former mayor who has vowed to wipe out drug dealers. his war on drugs has unleashed assassins like maria. when i got near this person who owed a lot to my boss i went up close and then shot him. every day the bodies of suspected dealers are discovered. more than 3,000 have been killed in three months. it's really tiring and scary hiding all the time. you don't know if the person right in front of you will inform on you or if he might be your killer. the police are raiding prisons and being forced to purge their own ranks. the war on drugs is really bloody and messy. and we all know that. this war is being fought in some of the poorest communities in the country. over the past two decades, the philippines has been swamped by the cheap and highly addictive drug crystal meth. it's known here as shabu. it destroys lives, breaks families and feeds a powerful criminal underworld. filipinos are among the world's highe

it's just before dawn on the philippine island of palawan. even at this hour it's hot, but there's no sign here of the trouble brewing a few hundred miles out to sea. i'm about to take off on a trip the chinese government has tried to stop. just 140 nautical miles from the philippine coast we spot new land. this place is called mischief reef. until a year ago there was nothing here, just a submerged atoll. now look at it. millions of tons of material have been dredged up to build this huge new island. then as we close to 12 nautical miles, this. down below we can see a pair of chinese navy ships. our pilots are nervous. they want to turn away. we're a civilian aircraft flying over international waters and yet we're being repeatedly threatened. so what we're getting is the chinese sending out that message, foreign military aircraft, unidentified military aircraft, leave the area immediately. in chinese and english, our captain replied saying we are a civilian aircraft, not a military aircraft, but it didn't make any difference, they repeated t

in the philippines, a push cart, a cart on wheels. seven year ago, when we met efren penaflorida, his non-profit had been pushing four of these carts for more than a decades, stocked with school supplies. volunteers brought the classroom to kids who were forced to drop out of school in the philippines. he was a teenager when he started the project in the slums to combat gangs and the bullies who threatened him at school. he hoped to engage kids through learning instead of violence. >> in 2009, when the cnn heros met me and the volunteers pushing the carts, people were laughing at us. they would discourage us. they'd say it's a waste of time. >> the cnn hero of the year is efren penaflorida. >> but after cnn heros featured us, it changed everything. >> you are the change that you dream, as i am the change that i dream. and collectively, we are the change that this world needs to be. >> efren says the heros recognition came at a time he needed support more than ever. >> after we were featured, people were like, you're doing a good job.

carrying out operations over a wide area of the philippines. america and britain, east asia is imminent. a new tester in the history of asia against. >> understandably bold news reel from japan in 1941 after the attack on pearl harbor. back with ian toll, author of "pacific crucible" on the 75th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. they were asking what part of the attack on pearl harbor did not go as planned? >> well, the attack went largely as planned fort japanese. there was one element of the attack, which was essentially not coordinated with the aerial attack, and that was a number of what were called midget submarines. these small two-man sub percent i believe so around with two small torpedoes attempted to penetrate pearl harbor, i believe two of them got into the harbor and fired on our ships and may have contributed to the sinking cap sizing of the battleship oklahoma although the crews didn't survive so there is some question and debate about exactly what those submarines achieved, but it was hoped that they might be able to rec

the way they treated civilian populations in deplorable in many china, philippines, and other places, and there treatment of prisoners of war was deplorable, and even disgraceful. but to say that that was a 15 year period japanese history when those things occurred, and that japan does not deserve to be judged based only on the experience of that 115 year period, would be much better approach. host: ian toll, i want to ask you about an article that was ,"blished in the "boston globe entitled "the paradox of pearl harbor." what is this all about? ian: the point i want to make in that article, and what is important is there is a paradox, , andhis is to in history especially within an event like pearl harbor, and that is we study these events retrospectively as historians very, very closely, and pearl harbor is one of the most exhaustively studied events in history. there were nine separate investigations producing hundreds of volumes of testimony. we have got to the point where we understand very clearly what happened, why it happened, what were the decisions in japan, where the effects

it's just before dawn on the philippine island of palawan. even at this hour it's hot, but there's no sign here of the trouble brewing a few hundred miles out to sea. i'm about to take off on a trip the chinese government has tried to stop. this place is called mischief reef. until a year ago there was nothing here, just a submerged atoll. now look at it. millions of tons of material have been dredged up to build this huge new island. then as we close to 12 nautical miles, this.

it will rip through the heart of the philippines close towards manila. the wider white circles show the track once it makes landfall. we will of course keep you updated. but it's a significant storm and it will cause some issues. 200—300 millimetres per day, which will result in flooding and some landslide. gusts of up to 160 mph, certainly want to keep a close eye on. how unusual is this? sadly, it is the third storm to arrive during christmas day. the last one was in 1981 and before that 1947. these were both category two and as i say nock—ten looks likely to be more powerful. you can get more on all our stories on the website. you will find full background analysis plus video and audio content. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: who needs a sleigh? why this father christmas has decided water—skiing may be the best way to deliver presents. security forces in tunisia say they have arrested three members of a terrorist cell linked to the tunisian who killed 12 people by driving a lorry into a christmas market in berlin. the interior ministry

the once crime ridden city is now considered the safest in the philippines. critics say that's because where he first began legitimizing killings. for now, law and order wears a pained facas without understanding why. >> translator: there's no justice when they killed him. i want to give him a proper funeral. >> reporter: my prayers are with you. >>> six months now since launching the war on drugs. >> it's one he's been campaigning for decades. he admitted overnight that during a speech that when he was the mayor of the city bob talked about, he personally gunned down drug dealers back then. first time he admitted to that. quite the campaign. >> the photos. >> the one -- >> heart wrenching. >>> coming up, what you won't be seeing on super bowl sunday. >> we'll be right back. >>> "world news now" ♪ >> the super bowl commercials like these have been making fans laugh now for a decade. >> apparently not this coming year. the company that makes the dorittos sits out the next game. here's why. >> do you see what i have to deal with? >> i know. >> for the last si

the philippine senator who wants president duterte impeached tells the bbc she fears for her life — but won't stop speaking out. and the original showbiz celebrity — hollywood actress, tabloid star and socialite zsa zsa gabor — has died at the age of 99. medical officials in the syrian city of aleppo say they've resumed the evacuation of people trapped in the rebel—held east. reports from the last few hours say five buses and an ambulance with about three—hundred—and—fifty people on board have been able to leave. evacuations had been on hold, after armed attacks on other buses being used in besieged government—held areas. here's our correspondent quentin somerville, and i should warn you, there are distressing images in his report. if only the ceasefire in aleppo hadn't collapsed, then this might never have needed to happen. they're doing the best they can here, but the al-quds hospital is barely functioning. these are not surgeons. there are none left in eastern aleppo, so nurses perform the operation. it's a caesarean. translation: the child has a birth defect. we immedi

. >>> philippine president rodrigo duterte says donald trump told him the philippines is going about their controversial fight the philippine leader and president elect talking on the phone. the u.s. has raised concerns about the philippines' handling of drug dealers which has included alleged government executions without allowing people to go to court. >>> the governor's race in virginia already firing up and could get some national attention. four republicans are in the race. prince william county board chair cory gillespie and frank wagner and rob wittman. one democrat is running. on friday all five made their pitches to the chamber of commerce as one of two governors races being held in 2017. experts say this could give us an idea of what voters think of their new president. >> virginia is likely to be seen as a referendum on the first was one of trump's most visible supporters and says his success in the race may be tied with what happens in the new administration. gillespie is considered the favorite among republicans and has an early lead. >>> 2019, that is probably the next

the philippine president. we'll have more of his shocking allegations coming up here on "cnn newsroom." with the xfinity tv app, anything with a screen is a tv. stream 130 live channels. plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. you can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. download the xfinity tv app today. ♪ >>> and welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm natalie allen. >> i'm george howell. this is "cnn newsroom" with the headlines we're following this year. u.s. president barack obama is retaliating against russia for alleged election meddling. the president ordered sanctions against six russian individuals and five russian entities, in addition 35 russian diplomats have been ordered out of the united states. russia has vowed to respond. >> the u.s. military said it is aware of movements by the leader of isis over the past few weeks. a u.s. official wouldn't say whether abu bakr al

shared in the philippines dropped to close at 6587. the central bank kept its key rate as widely expected. s&p asx 200 up over half a percent. financials continued their pull run. >>> u.s. president-elect donald trump is creating a new train to vamp a knew trade environment. the mood is seen as him following up on his promise during his campaign. the white house national trade counsel will advice the president on trade negotiations an assess u.s. capabilities. the mission also includes drawing up new jobs. he picked the professor at the university of california irvine. he said in a statement that that vary rojas documented how globalization harms u.s. workers. here's a look at some of the other stories we're following in business.. gentleman. >>> japan and britain have signed an agreement.t. the industryy minister met with his counter park to finalize the agreement. they'll promote plans for construction of a nuclear power station in the uk. executives at honda are eyeing a partnership with google to get self driving technology on the

laura: vigilante justice from the president of the philippines. many families will be making trips to visit loved ones this holiday season. for the public bus to new york's rikers island, it is a journey is like no other. the riders often visit family members incarcerated there. a photographer has been recording their journeys and their stories and he spoke to the bbc. >> when i was younger, i would see the bus stop and drop off inmates in the early morning, 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. 9:00 or 10:00 i would see a different group of people getting off the bus, and those are visitors for the inmates. it got me thinking about their story and how their loved ones ' incarceration affected them. what it does to families, children. rikers -- when you grow up in new york, it is always like the bogeyman. you are misbehaving in class, it's like, you know what, you will end up in rikers. you are taught that as a child. that is how the city raised us. this is a project about the city bus that runs to rikers, which originates in queen plaza, which i grew up a

we've had troubled relations with the philippines for quite some time and it looks like the philippines is going to defect to china and maybe to russia. what trump is trying to do is to reel it back in. this is a message to beijing, just as is his call with the taiwan president. so this i think is part of a deliberate policy which really is to take the initiative from china. too often we've let the chinese create crises. i think trump right now has decided that the united states should be in charge, not beijing. >> uh-huh. good point. stephen, when we talk about duerte's relationship between the u.s., been extremely rocky at times and as we already mentioned he is pursuing these possible alliances with russia and china. so given that do you think this chat by trump is fruitful, is really a good thing? >> i think it's certainly going to sort of add to the questions that are already taking place in asia about exactly how donald trump is going to approach the region. the obama administration spent the last eight years trying to improve relations with the philippines as a bull work against

troops to operate in the philippines. when you look at the greater drug war that entered the sixth month as of today, 6,000 people killed we need to look at where it began in the davao city in the philippines where he mayor declared war on drugs and where this self-proclaimed former hitman said he was acting on orders from the man who is now president committing murders after murders, sometimes innocent people. edgar says he and filipino president duterte have something in common, they both have blood on hair hands. i want him to pay for what he did for the many killings he ordered. if he bring back the death penalty i hope he is first and then i will follow. >> reporter: he said he was a part of a group known as the devout death squad. in 2008, a u.n. investigation found the shadowy band of assassins was committing hundreds of murders targeting street children and criminals, all during duterte's decades long run as the southern city's gun-toting crime-fighting mayor beginning in '88. i personally killed around 50 people,

the philippines season average of 20 typhoons per year. this is the largesest to hit the nation since the largest storm ever. >> tensions remain high between the u.s. and israel with the aftermath of the un security council resolution. the u.s. abstained in a where move -- and a rare move that has angered the government. joining us in studio, can you break down what these tensions between them? this row is continued with these ambassadors: u.s. behavior outrageous and shameful. we hadn't heard that in the lowest point of the relationship between obama and netanyahu. with irannuclear deal was reached, netanyahu was clearly furious. but the israeli officials didn't say this kind of thing. obviously these two men have taken the gloves off. in a sense, ater least not for obama. remains in office. this could actually have further becausences, this vote, there is supposed to be a conference held in paris in mid-january about middle east peace. it is clear the officials worry that conference is another attempt to isolate israel. >> i guess we are

a cnn exclusive who claims the philippines president ran a death squad. >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with breaking news in our world lead. a russian novelist once wrote of crime and punishment. today president obama did as well, handing out punishments for alleged cyber crimes for alleged hacking of the dnc and hillary clinton's campaign chairman during the 2016 race and sharing information gleaned from those accounts to allegedly influence the election and undermine confidence in the american electoral system. and for our campaign of harassing u.s. documents in moscow. we learned this afternoon that the obama administration identified 35 russians with diplomat status in the u.s. whom they believe to be intelligence officers or spies, declaring them persona nongrata, giving them and their families 72 hours to get out. the u.s. is also shutting down two russian compounds in maryland and new york and imposing sanctions on those inside russia believed to be behind the cyber attacks. they're naming names of individuals and agencies, includ

one country which really got tough on drugs this year was the philippines. its hard line new president campaigned for his election by promising to kill 100,000 drug dealers and criminals in his first six months in office. his controversial, tough tactics, which critics say turning a blind eye to extra judicial killings, led to an unprecedented rise in the murder rate. around 2,000 people we re murder rate. around 2,000 people were killed in just murder rate. around 2,000 people were killed injust the murder rate. around 2,000 people were killed in just the first two months of the crackdown. jonathan head reports on the philippines' deadly war on drugs. the war on drugs is reaching all corners of the philippines. even here, in the jails. many of these men are already serving long sentences for drug use. in cells, so packed with bodies, it's hard to breathe. it says something about the extent of the drug problem here in the philippines that the police have had to come here and raid one of the biggest prisons around manila. there are biggest prisons around mani

shocking admission from philippine president rodrigo duterte. the formerine -- mayor said he personally killed criminals during his time as mayor. >> if i can do it, i can't you? -- why can't you? i would just told the city looking for trouble makers. said he wantsrte to set an example to police. he's been accused of running vigilante death squads that killed hundreds of suspected criminals during his time as mayor, actions he had denied until now. duterte he was elected president on the 13th of may on promises of waging a bloody war on drugs. he is previously said he does not care about human rights and compared his campaign to the killing of millions of jews by hitler's. hitler. reporter: in september, rodrigo duterte testified on an inquiry killings, saying he killed an agent with a submachine gun during his time as mayor. the allegations were magog former death squad member who said he was ordered by duterte to kill 1000 members of his rival party. a confidence vote in the senate this wednesday, paving the way for his cabinet to take office.

the united states and the philippines have had a long relationship. the party is being tested by the new president of the philippines who was marched on his own beef and his war on drugs have also raised concern. as we hear from matt bradley. >> reporter: in the philippine, the drug war looks like real war. the count-- nearly 6,000 killed in a bloody attempt to shut down what he calls a pandemic. now, president duterte says he too killed drug suspects and pulling triggers on three men when he was a mayor. he's turning his site on america. >> we can survive without american money. he wants to end seven decades of american military corporation. >> on manila street, he has some fans. >> i like the guys, he gets things done. >> and i have talked to trump. he was very nice. very cordial. their parallel styles between the two plains speaking populous. critics in the philippines talking about impeachment. >> at some point people open their eyes and you cannot expect anything good to come out of an uneven man. >> for those swept up in duterte's drug war, it w

it's just before dawn on the philippine island of palawan. even at this hour it's hot, but there's no sign here of the trouble brewing a few hundred miles out to sea. i'm about to take off on a trip the chinese government has tried to stop. as we roll down the runway, we're all tense. no one has tried what we're about to do. we're now heading south—west towards a number of chinese—controlled atolls. these are places where the chinese have being doing massive land reclamation over the last year and a half. we really want to go for two reasons. one, to see exactly what the chinese are doing, and two, to test to see if the chinese would try to stop us because the whole of this area is, according to most countries, international airspace. just 140 nautical miles from the philippine coast, we spot new land. this place is called mischief reef. until a year ago, there was nothing here, just a submerged atoll. now look at it. millions of tons of material have been dredged up to build this huge new island. then as we close to 12 nautical miles, th

behind it, clear skies across the philippines. but this made landfall back on saturday into sunday into southern luzon as a very powerful typhoon. there has been several reports of casualties at this time. the good news, it could have been worse if not for massive evacuations out ahead of this storm system. first i'll show you some video we have coming out of southern luzon just to give you an idea of what i'm talking about, with the damage this brought as it came onshore. in fact, where this video is coming out of, about 60% of the infrastructure was destroyed due to winds and flooding and storm surge, winds in compels of 250 kilometers per hour at times. now crews are out there cleaning up, helping to get that power restored. and also helping to get that line of transportation open. because we have a lot of people who have traveled who were stranded over the holiday weekend. you have to remember christmas is a big holiday here in the philippines so a lot of people still want to get back home, maybe assess the damage. the good ne

it's just before dawn on the philippine island of palawan. even at this hour it's hot, but there's no sign here of the trouble brewing a few hundred miles out to sea. i'm about to take off on a trip the chinese government has tried to stop. just 140 nautical miles from the philippine coast, we spot new land. this place is called mischief reef. until a year ago, there was nothing here, just a submerged atoll. now look at it. millions of tons of material have been dredged up to build this huge new island. then as we close to 12 nautical miles, this. down below we can see a pair of chinese navy ships. 0ur pilots are nervous. they want to turn away. we're a civilian aircraft flying over international waters and yet we're being repeatedly threatened. so what we're getting is the chinese sending out that message, foreign military aircraft, unidentified military aircraft, leave the area immediately. in chinese and english, our captain replied saying we are a civilian aircraft, not a military aircraft, but it didn't make any difference, they repeated

it's just before dawn on the philippine island of palawan. even at this hour it's hot, but there's no sign here of the trouble brewing a few hundred miles out to sea. i'm about to take off on a trip the chinese government has tried to stop. just 140 nautical miles from the philippine coast, we spot new land. this place is called mischief reef. until a year ago, there was nothing here, just a submerged atoll. now look at it. millions of tons of material have been dredged up to build this huge new island. then as we close to 12 nautical miles, this. down below we can see a pair of chinese navy ships. 0ur pilots are nervous. they want to turn away. we're a civilian aircraft flying over international waters and yet we're being repeatedly threatened. so what we're getting is the chinese sending out that message, foreign military aircraft, unidentified military aircraft, leave the area immediately. in chinese and english, our captain replied saying we are a civilian aircraft, not a military aircraft, but it didn't make any difference, they repeated

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. >>> in the philippines, a powerful storm has made landfall. typhoon nock-ten forcing about 400,000 people to evacuate from their homes. they have been taking refuge in schools and churches. three people have e been killed. hundreds of flights are grounded and seaports are closed. let's get more detailsls from o meteorologist sayaka mori. what areas have been affected? and what should people be bracing for? >> the typhoon affect the the northern areas of the philippines. the typhoons are not too rare but it was the strongest typhoon on record to hit the philippines on record. but it moved over the south of luzon on christmas day as a very strong tide, the second high highest category on a typhoon scale. the system moved toward the west, and it was near manila today. it has weakened slightly packing winds of 180 kilometers per hour. the good news is the system is starting to pull away from the country but still strong winds are blowing over parts of luzon. the next start is going to be the south of vietnam as we go into later this week. in fact