00:00The International Criminal Court is now in session.
00:08Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
00:19Former President Rodrigo Duterte and his lawyer,
00:24Attorney Nicholas Kaufman,
00:26are now talking in the Netherlands.
00:29Kaufman hopes that Duterte will be acquitted
00:31of the crimes against humanity
00:33in the International Criminal Court.
00:35It is possible to freeze the assets of the former president
00:38if the litigation continues.
00:40But according to his former Chief Presidential Legal Counsel,
00:43there is no legal basis for that.
00:45From the heart of the Netherlands,
00:47this is the news of Maris Umal.
00:53Former President Rodrigo Duterte
00:56was arrested in the Scriveningen Prison
00:58by his lawyer in the ICC,
01:00British-Israeli lawyer,
01:02Attorney Nicholas Kaufman.
01:04They talked for two hours.
01:06According to Kaufman,
01:08he hopes that Duterte will be acquitted
01:10of the charges against the former president.
01:26They will file petitions
01:28before the confirmation of charges hearing
01:30on September 23.
01:57As a senior counsel who has experience in the ICC,
02:00he will help to form a defense team.
02:02This will take more than a week.
02:05He is in the ICC
02:06if Kaufman will be confirmed as a lawyer.
02:09He also talked to Vice President Sara Duterte.
02:12Duterte should also be visited
02:14by the former Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea
02:16before 9 in the morning in the Netherlands.
02:19But according to the Embassy of the Philippines there,
02:22while at the reception counter,
02:24Medialdea's feelings were hurt.
02:26That's why he called a medic.
02:28He also called an ambulance
02:30that he brought to Medialdea's hospital.
02:32Medialdea's hospital was accompanied
02:34by one of his close relatives.
02:36Whoever is held guilty by the ICC
02:38is responsible for paying the victims.
02:41And while the case of a suspect is still rolling,
02:44he has the right to freeze
02:46his assets or property.
02:48Based on the ICC website,
02:50the Office of the President
02:52will collect financial information
02:54from a suspect
02:56at the beginning of the hearing.
02:58If the warrant of arrest
03:00or summons to appear is issued,
03:02a request for identification,
03:04tracing, and freezing
03:06of the suspect's properties
03:08can also be issued.
03:10The registry,
03:12or what the non-judicial functions of the ICC do,
03:14is responsible for finding
03:16and recovering the assets of the accused.
03:18And it will ask for the help
03:20of the state and intergovernmental organizations
03:22to recover those assets.
03:24According to one of the Filipino lawyers
03:26on the list of counsel of the ICC,
03:28there is a complication
03:30if the country is not in compliance with the Rome Statute
03:32where they will ask
03:34to freeze the assets of the accused.
03:36These assets, when it's in the Philippines,
03:38it needs the cooperation
03:40of the Philippine domestic authorities.
03:42If it's outside, if it's not a non-state party,
03:44it's not obligated
03:46to cooperate
03:48under the Rome Statute.
03:50But if the government has a political will,
03:52there is still a legal way
03:54to implement the freeze if the ICC asks for it.
03:56Palacio said,
03:58If there is an issue
04:00or the ICC will issue an order,
04:02we will teach it,
04:04we will give it
04:06to the appropriate authority if needed.
04:08The former Chief Presidential Legal Counsel,
04:10Salvador Panelo,
04:12has no legal basis for the freeze order
04:14and will not freeze it
04:16because the former President is poor.
04:18In the last SAL-N issued to the public
04:20in 2017,
04:22there is a net worth of more than P28 million
04:24to the former President.
04:26His last SAL-N were not published.
04:28According to the ICC,
04:30sometimes the accumulated assets of the accused
04:32do not suffice because of the scope of the incident
04:34to the men.
04:36But the court has a trust fund
04:38that can be used for various kinds of support
04:40for the victims.
04:42From The Hague, the Netherlands,
04:44here is the latest news for GM Integrated News.
04:48Two former members of the Davao Death Squad
04:50may have witnessed
04:52the crimes against humanity case
04:54against former President Rodrigo Duterte.
04:56They are Edgar Matubato
04:58and former Davao police officer
05:00Arturo Lascañas.
05:02Matubato, a self-confessed hitman,
05:04was convicted in a Senate hearing in 2016
05:06for his murder from 1998 to 2013.
05:10He was one of the first members
05:12of the Lambada Boys,
05:14formerly known as Davao Death Squad,
05:16led by Duterte when he was the mayor of Davao.
05:20Lascañas was the team leader
05:22of Davao Death Squad.
05:24Because of his fear,
05:26Lascañas denied Matubato's testimony
05:28in 2016.
05:30But in 2017, he pleaded
05:32to confirm the killing of DDS
05:34under Duterte's first order.
05:36Lascañas said
05:38they were given up to P100,000
05:40Duterte said
05:42Matubato was lying
05:44that he did not personally know him.
05:46Lascañas was called
05:48a storyteller
05:50and he is a liar.
05:52But in his testimony in the Senate hearing
05:54in October,
05:56the former President said
06:10My Death Squad
06:14Death Squad
06:16But not the police
06:20They are also the gangsters
06:24The other gangsters
06:26I ordered to kill them
06:28because if you don't kill them
06:30I will kill you now
06:32In the report of the New York Times
06:34in 2017,
06:36Lascañas was in the custody of the ICC.
06:38Matubato was also written by
06:40the New York Times of another country
06:42using another name
06:44with the help of a private organization.
06:46In the testimony of ICC Assistant to Counsel
06:48Atty. Cristina Conti,
06:50Matubato is now in the custody
06:52of the ICC.
06:58The cold weather continues
07:00in some parts of the country
07:02because of the return of the cold.
07:04This Wednesday,
07:06the lowest temperature
07:08was 15 degrees Celsius in La Trinidad, Benguet.
07:1015.4 degrees Celsius
07:12in Baguio City
07:14while 22.6 degrees Celsius
07:16here in Quezon City.
07:18According to the forecast,
07:20the whole Luzon is still affected
07:22while the easterlies in Visayas and Mindanao
07:24are affected.
07:26The easterlies are experiencing
07:28hot and humid weather
07:30in some parts of the country.
07:32According to the forecast,
07:34the heat index will be
07:3637 degrees Celsius in Poron and Puerto Princesa
07:38in Palawan
07:40and Zamboanga City.
07:42The heat index
07:44will be 37 degrees Celsius
07:46in Zamboanga City
07:48while 36 degrees Celsius
07:50here in Quezon City.
07:56This is the GMA Regional TV News.
08:00Hot news from Luzon
08:02brought to you by GMA Regional TV.
08:04A child in Lawag City
08:06was trapped in his car.
08:08Chris,
08:10how is the child's condition?
08:12Connie,
08:14the two-year-old
08:16is in good condition.
08:18Using a stone,
08:20the police broke the mirror
08:22in the back door of the car.
08:24According to the child's guardian,
08:26he left the child in the car
08:28with the aircon on.
08:30The car was locked.
08:32He asked for help from the police.
08:34Possibly, the child played
08:36with the keys of the car.
08:38The child was in the car
08:40for almost an hour.
08:44A truck collided with another truck
08:46in Asingan, Pagasinan.
08:48You can see the impact of the truck
08:50on the road
08:52of Barangay Dupac.
08:54When it reached the intersection,
08:56another truck suddenly collided
08:58with another truck.
09:00The truck overturned
09:02and the front part of another truck
09:04was broken.
09:06Two drivers and a pedestrian
09:08were immediately taken to the hospital.
09:10According to the police,
09:12both sides have already talked.
09:16The International Criminal Court
09:18is now in session.
09:20Rodrigo Roa Lutel.
09:29Just like Alice Goh,
09:31it is possible that the Philippines
09:33also went through the same situation
09:35as the former Presidential Spokesperson,
09:37Attorney Harry Roque.
09:39The Bureau of Integration explained
09:41in a Senate hearing yesterday
09:43that Roque went through the same situation
09:45last September 2.
09:47He arrived in the United Arab Emirates
09:49on September 4
09:51based on the confirmation
09:53of the Philippine Embassy there.
09:55Last week, Roque was seen
09:57arresting former President Duterte.
09:59Roque plans to apply for asylum
10:01in the Netherlands.
10:03According to him,
10:05Roque only has an application.
10:07He said that he should be proven
10:09for political persecution
10:11or imprisonment here in the Philippines
10:13in order to be given asylum.
10:15It is a matter of how it will happen
10:17if there is a lot of evidence against Roque.
10:21The Department of Justice
10:23is the body of the government
10:25that approved the habeas corpus petitions
10:27of the children of the former President
10:29Rodrigo Duterte
10:31in order to bring him back to the Philippines.
10:33The Office of the Solicitor General
10:35also refused
10:37the government's petition.
10:39Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulia
10:41also confirmed
10:43that they have already commented
10:45on the petitions
10:47but he refused to detail it.
10:49Before this, the OSG said
10:51in their Manifestation of Recusal
10:53that they will not be
10:55an effective body
10:57because of their position that
10:59the International Criminal Court
11:01in the Philippines has no jurisdiction.
11:03They also said that the justice system
11:05in the country is already working.
