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Narito ang mga nangungunang balita ngayong March 12, 2025

- Mga tagasuporta ni Ex-Pres. Duterte, inabot ng madaling araw sa pagtitipon; emosyonal nang ilipad ang dating pangulo papuntang ICC | Mga abogado ni FPRRD, magpupulong para planuhin ang mga susunod nilang gagawin | Atty. Torreon: Susunod sa The Hague si Vice Pres. Duterte

- PNP, naka-heightened alert sa buong bansa dahil sa mga posibleng mass action kaugnay sa pagkakaaresto kay FPRRD | FPRRD, sakay ngayon ng eroplano na patungo sa The Hague, Netherlands

- Mga pulis, nakabantay sa EDSA People Power Monument

- Mga kaanak ng EJK victims, nagtipon-tipon sa misa; umaasang makakamit na ang hustisya matapos ang pag-aresto kay FPRRD | Mga kaanak ng EJK victims at iba't ibang grupo, nagtipon sa Welcome Rotonda; hiling na mapanagot si FPRRD | Ex-Sen. De Lima sa pagkakaaresto kay FPRRD: "This is not about vengeance. This is about justice finally taking its course"

- International Criminal Court: Magkakaroon ng initial appearance hearing kapag nasa kustodiya na ng ICC si FPRRD

- VP Sara Duterte, binalaan daw ng kaniyang ina na baka siya na ang sunod na target ng ICC

- VP Sara Duterte sa pagbiyahe kay FPRRD sa The Hague: Parang state kidnapping 'yung nangyari | VP Sara Duterte, susunod daw sa amang si FPRRD sa The Netherlands | FPRRD, kasama sa eroplano si dating ES Medialdea; mayroon ding nurse at personal assistant

- PBBM sa pag-aresto kay FPRRD: "We followed all the legal procedures" | PBBM: Inaresto si FPRRD dahil sa hiling ng Interpol kung saan miyembro ang Pilipinas

- Davao City Council, nag-alay ng panalangin at nagtirik ng kandila bilang suporta kay FPRRD | Mga tagasuporta ni FPRRD sa Davao City, nagtipon-tipon para sa candle lighting | Davao City Mayor Baste Duterte, tinawag na desperado ang pag-aresto sa kaniyang ama

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00:00This is the first time I've seen you again.
00:08First news!
00:15The supporters of former President Rodrigo Duterte are going to start their programs following his arrest
00:21because of the case of Crimes Against Humanity.
00:24Yesterday, they gathered outside the Villamor Air Base where they brought the former President before he was flown to D.C.
00:31From Pasay, James Agustin has the first live news.
00:36James!
00:41Egan, a few days ago, after the program that was conducted by supporters of former President Rodrigo Duterte
00:48outside the Villamor Air Base,
00:51some of the supporters of the former President were very emotional when they saw the airplane leaving the Villamor Air Base.
01:05The supporters of former President Rodrigo Duterte gathered outside the gate 5 of the Villamor Air Base last night.
01:13Some of them brought a tarpaulin with the support of the former President.
01:18Duterte! Duterte! Duterte!
01:23Many police officers were also present.
01:26Before 11 p.m., the supporters ran to the steel fence next to the gate 5.
01:31That's where they found the airplane heading to the runway that the former President was riding.
01:36Some of the police officers who were supporting the airplane were confused.
01:41As the airplane flew, some supporters became emotional.
01:45The force of the PNP increased even more.
01:49Atty. Isarely Totorio, one of the former President's lawyers, arrived at the scene.
01:55They were hoping to get a temporary restraining order or TRO from the Supreme Court.
02:01The next move is we will have to meet with my fellow lawyers.
02:05I will have to meet with Atty. Martin Delgra and I will have to converse likewise to former Executive Secretary Medialdea
02:15and Atty. Vic Rodriguez and the other lawyers who are assisting us
02:19so that we can come up with a unified legal theory as to how we can defend well the rights of the former President.
02:27Senator Torreon and Vice President Sara Duterte were also talking.
02:32She confirmed to me that she is going to the Hague either tonight or tomorrow.
02:38That remains to be seen and I'm waiting for further instructions.
02:48Meanwhile, some supporters of the former President remained outside the gate 5 of the Billamore Airbase until earlier this morning before 5 a.m.
02:57But when they left, the police who were guarding the gates of the Billamore Airbase were also removed.
03:03But we noticed that because the height and alert status of the police is high,
03:07there are still police standing by if they need to deploy at any time.
03:12The organizers and supporters of the former President told us that they will have a program in different places today.
03:19That is the first news from Pasay City.
03:21I am James Agustin for JEMA Integrated News.
03:28The Philippine National Police in the whole country is on heightened alert
03:33because of the possible rallies and mass actions following the arrest of the former President Rodrigo Duterte.
03:38Duterte was arrested on a warrant from the International Criminal Court on the case of Crimes Against Humanity.
03:45This was based on the accusations of murder and abuse of human rights in the war on drugs of his administration.
03:52Duterte was accompanied by an airplane heading to The Hague, Netherlands,
03:57according to Atty. Martin Delgran, a member of Duterte's legal team.
04:02The former President was accompanied by the former Executive Secretary Salvador Mijaldea, a nurse and a personal assistant.
04:11The police are on high alert at the Edsa People Power Monument in case there are protesters there following the arrest of the former President Duterte.
04:20Here is the live report of EJ Gomez. EJ.
04:28You're right. Our authorities are on heightened alert.
04:31The police are on high alert at the Edsa People Power Monument in Quezon City.
04:36Earlier at 7 p.m., a police car with 70 PNP personnel from different stations of the Quezon City Police District arrived.
04:47It was followed by a team of Special Weapons and Tactics or SWAT.
04:51There were about seven personnel.
04:54They just formed here in the building we are standing in.
04:57According to the police we talked to, they don't have exact information about the time, program or rally of the supporters of the former President Rodrigo Duterte.
05:12But the police are still on heightened alert here at the Edsa People Power Monument.
05:17That's the latest. That's the situation here. There are no protesters or groups here in the building we are standing in.
05:24That's the first news from Quezon City. EJ Gomez for GMA Integrated News.
05:31Victims of extrajudicial killings are expected to face justice.
05:37The former President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested.
05:40They are being gathered one by one.
05:43Here's the first news, Tina Panganiban Perez.
05:50The pictures of the victims of the Duterte drug war are vivid.
05:54Their relatives gathered at a mass in a church in Payatas, Quezon City.
06:00Teresita Campo was brought to life by her daughter, Jonald, while she was stranded on the streets of Payatas on November 27, 2016.
06:10She did not know if it was because of the drug war, because she was killed and was not treated.
06:17I just followed my daughter who was lying on the street.
06:22She was cut in front of me. She was breathing.
06:25My daughter did not fight. She was just walking on the street.
06:29She was shot in the back. Three police officers shot her.
06:33It's a shame. It's a shame that Duterte was executed.
06:40Police suddenly broke into Maria Belen Daa's house on August 21, 2016
06:47and killed her daughter Marcelo Daa Jr. and four co-workers.
06:53The police came in with a gun and a chicken.
06:59One of them was just in jail.
07:04They were happy to arrest Duterte, who was found guilty of the murders.
07:11He was in jail. That's all.
07:15He paid for everything.
07:19The people there can put him in jail if they don't want him to be executed.
07:25This mass is a way to thank the former President Duterte for his arrest
07:30and to pray for justice for the victims of extrajudicial killings.
07:36It's a sad surprise that the warrant of arrest for President Duterte was over.
07:47It's possible that the case will continue in the International Criminal Court.
07:54This will be a year of jubilee, freedom and justice,
08:04especially for the AJK families who survived.
08:11In a separate mass in Sacred Heart Parish,
08:14there was also a message from Kian De Los Santos,
08:18a 17-year-old who, according to witnesses, was chased by the police
08:23and even though he was begging for mercy, he was shot in their anti-drug operation.
08:29My nephew was not brought to court.
08:32He was accused of many things when he was killed.
08:35Our President is fortunate because he will be given a chance to defend himself.
08:40According to one of the lawyers who helped in the complaint,
08:44the ICC is still looking for information.
08:47In the Welcome Rotunda, various groups and relatives of Filipinos in the drug war also gathered.
08:55Who can say that we, the poor, can arrest a powerful and abusive person?
09:03It's true that our loved ones are innocent.
09:07Why was he given a death sentence?
09:10Why was he given protection like Duterte?
09:15Why was he given hope to be jailed in a good prison?
09:20I cried when I found out that Duterte was arrested.
09:24I cried because I didn't know what to do.
09:29This is just the beginning. I hope it will continue.
09:34Former Senator Laila de Lima, who was jailed for almost seven years
09:39during the term of former President Duterte,
09:42and one of the critics of the drug war, also spoke out.
09:45Today, Mr. Duterte is being made to answer, not to me, but to the victims,
09:52to their families, to a world that refuses to forget.
09:57This is not about vengeance.
10:00This is about justice finally taking its course.
10:03This is the first news. Tina Panganiban-Perez for GMA Integrated News.
10:09Here are additional details about the arrest warrant of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
10:15According to the head of public affairs of the International Criminal Court, Fadi L. Abdala,
10:22the same warrant issued by the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber 1
10:26is for the incidents of murder that happened from November 1, 2011 to March 16, 2019.
10:34At the time that Duterte is in custody,
10:37the ICC will set a schedule for the initial appearance hearing.
10:44Vice President Sara Duterte was warned by her mother
10:48that she might be the next target of the International Criminal Court.
10:53Yes, my mother told me to be careful because you will be the next target.
11:01I am just thinking about the expenses for the lawyer.
11:04So far, the expenses for me have been prepared.
11:07Yes, my mother warned me about me as the next target for the ICC.
11:16Vice President Duterte arrived at the Villamor Airbase in Pasay last night
11:20to personally talk to her father.
11:23But she was not allowed to approach him.
11:25According to the ICC, she will follow her father to the Netherlands with their lawyer.
11:31Vice President Sara insisted that the arrest of the former President was wrong.
11:35She said that this is one of the government's tricks
11:38to divert the public's attention to the real problems of the country.
11:43President Bombo Marcos said that the arrest was against the commitment of our country to the International Police or Interpol.
11:51Vice President Sara Duterte believed that the arrest of her father,
11:58former President Rodrigo Duterte, was like a state kidnapping.
12:02State kidnapping?
12:05It's like that's what's happening.
12:08And all because they might lose in the midterm elections.
12:14Vice President Duterte was outside the Villamor Airbase in Pasay last night
12:18and she was not allowed to enter.
12:20There were also some supporters of Duterte.
12:22Vice President Duterte said that she will follow her father to the Netherlands
12:26where the former President will bring her.
12:28The former President boarded the airplane before 9 p.m.
12:32and left after more than two hours.
12:34The former Executive Secretary Salvador Mijaldea was also on the airplane.
12:40According to the lawyer of the former President Duterte, Martin Delgar III,
12:44the former President was also accompanied by a nurse and a personal assistant.
12:53President Bombo Marcos was accused of following the government's legal process
12:58in the arrest of the former President Rodrigo Duterte.
13:03The PRRD chief said that the arrest was an unlawful arrest.
13:08Well, we followed every single necessary procedure.
13:15We had a very good basis on which to serve that warrant and to really miswrite.
13:24We followed all the legal procedures that are necessary.
13:28So, I'm confident that if in further examination,
13:34you will find that it is proper and correct.
13:44The former President Duterte followed the request of the International Criminal Police Organization or INTERPOL.
13:53It is part of the obligations of the Philippines as a member of INTERPOL.
13:57The former President said that the government did not assist in the investigation of the ICC
14:02since the Philippines left the Rome Statute in March 2019.
14:08We did not talk to the ICC.
14:10They asked us for a lot of documents.
14:13We were not given anything.
14:15Who helped us to see our fellow countrymen who were being abused and used in a bad way?
14:26It was INTERPOL.
14:28That's why we should help each other.
14:38The former Mayor of Davao City, Baste Duterte,
14:41arrested his father, the former President Duterte.
14:45As a show of support to the former President,
14:47some Davao City residents prayed and lit candles.
14:52We have live news.
14:53Arjil Relator for JMA Regional TV.
14:56Arjil.
15:00Davao residents gathered in Rizal Park to hear the news of the arrest of the former President Rodrigo Duterte
15:07as a show of support to him, the former Mayor of Davao City.
15:15Following the arrest of the former President Rodrigo Duterte,
15:20the Davao City Council adjourned its session early in the morning.
15:25It was to conduct the candle-lighting ceremony in Rizal Park.
15:30They prayed and lit candles to show their support to the former President and the former Mayor of Davao City.
15:40He loves the country.
15:42He is pro-people.
15:44And to see him, to see things like this happening to him,
15:49that's painful for us because this should not be done to him
15:55because all he has really is for the future of this country and the future of every Filipino.
16:13He stood for us, and again, now in the time for us to stand for him.
16:21Let us protect former President Rodrigo Duterte.
16:27Let us protect our Mayor.
16:29Let us protect him at all costs.
16:33Some Davao residents also expressed their feelings about what happened.
16:38It is painful for us that our President was arrested.
16:42I am sorry.
16:44Of course, I don't want to hurt the people.
16:48I don't want to hurt him.
16:49I don't want to hurt his pride.
16:53In the evening,
16:58more than 1,000 supporters of the former President gathered for the candle-lighting ceremony in Rizal Park.
17:07And the supporters had pieces of paper that read,
17:11We stand for FPRRD.
17:14Some of the supporters of FPRRD were able to reach GMA Regional TV
17:20at Davao International Airport to go to Manila to support the President.
17:27I am happy to be back in Manila.
17:30I am happy that Duterte was arrested before he was arrested.
17:38According to the Davao City Police Office,
17:40not less than 1,100 people came to the gathering.
17:45The authorities were able to spread the news to ensure the security of the place.
17:50The gathering lasted until late at night.
17:53Meanwhile, through a Facebook post,
17:56the son of the former President, Davao City Mayor Baste Duterte,
18:02commented that he will never forget the issue of the national budget in the middle of his arrest.
18:09He also called it desperation.
18:12GMA Regional TV is also getting a statement from his relative.
18:19Aside from Davao City,
18:21the supporters of the former President, Rodrigo Duterte,
18:25also held activities last night in various places in Mindanao.
18:29Thank you very much, Argyl Relator of GMA Regional TV.
18:48For more information, visit gmapinoy.tv and www.gmainews.tv

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