Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested on an ICC warrant. He's accused of crimes against humanity for his war on drugs while in office. Duterte was detained by local police at Manila's international airport as he returned from a trip to Hong Kong.
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00:00Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested for alleged crimes against
00:05humanity.
00:06He was taken into custody on a warrant by the International Criminal Court as he arrived
00:11in Manila from a trip to Hong Kong.
00:14The ICC has been investigating him over his bloody war on drugs that saw an estimated
00:1930,000 people killed and for a spree of extrajudicial killings during his time as mayor of Davao.