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Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:   - Tiangco demands that House budget panel release 2025 small committee report - German embassy joins call for justice in unsolved murder of Bacolod activist - Israelis stage nationwide protests to demand end to Gaza war and release of hostages - Trump tells Zelenskyy that Putin wants more of Ukraine, urges Kyiv make a deal - BINI files complaint over spliced video of members trying Filipino street food  https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/august-18-2025/

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00:00Navotas City Rep. Toby Chanko asks the House to release the 2025 Small Committee Report.

00:20The German embassy in Manila urges Philippine authorities to bring the killers of human

00:24rights defender Zara Alvarez to justice.

00:27Thousands of Israelis join a nationwide strike urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

00:31to make a deal with Hamas to end war.

00:34U.S. President Donald Trump urges Ukraine to make a deal with Russia to end the war.

00:38And PPOP girl group Bini files a complaint over the spread of a spliced video.

00:45Navotas City Rep. Toby Chanko asks the House Appropriations Committee to release to the

00:50public the 2025 Small Committee Report containing the names of its members as well as the changes

00:55they made in the Budget for Transparency. During the first committee-level budget

01:00deliberation in the plenary on Monday, August 18, Chanko called for the immediate release

01:04of the signed Small Committee Report. New Appropriations Panel Chairperson Mika Swan Singh

01:09said Chanko's request would be taken under consideration, but the Navotas congressman

01:14argued it shouldn't be.

01:15Madam Chair, why should it be put under consideration? This is of public record,

01:19this is in accordance with our rules, that all committee reports must be given to all members.

01:25Sun Singh explains that she wasn't the committee chair when the Small Committee operated,

01:29so the request needed to be reviewed. Her predecessor, Zaldiko, reportedly resigned for health reasons,

01:35though his resignation followed the backlash over the 2025 budget. The Small Committee handles budget

01:41amendments in closed-door meetings. This has been a long-standing practice in the House since 2010

01:46and has been criticized for the lack of documentation and transparency.

01:51The German Embassy in Manila and the Catholic Bishop urged Philippine authorities to bring the

01:56killers of human rights defender Zara Alvarez to justice. This as family, friends, human rights

02:01advocates, and church groups commemorated the fifth anniversary of the killing of Alvarez in

02:05Bacolod City on Sunday, August 17. Alvarez was shot and killed near her boarding house on Santa

02:12Maria Street in Barangay Mandalagan, Bacolod on August 17, 2020, at the height of extrajudicial

02:17killings under former President Rodrigo Duterte. Germany says the case of Alvarez was a reminder of

02:22the dangers facing human rights defenders. The embassy says in a statement,

02:27quote, Germany firmly believes that a vibrant civil society, where defenders can operate without fear of

02:32reprisal or red tagging, is essential for thriving democracy. Human rights groups allege Alvarez was

02:39among activists killed under the military's Oplan Kapayapaan, which critics denounced as the piece

02:44of the graveyard. Thousands of Israelis joined a nationwide strike to support families of hostages

02:51held in Gaza, calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a deal with Hamas to end the war

02:56and free the remaining captives. Demonstrators waved Israeli flags and held photos of hostages on

03:02Sunday, August 17, as whistles, horns, and drums echoed at rallies across the country.

03:08Among those who met with a family of hostages was Israeli Hollywood actress Gal Gadot.

03:12Before the Sunday strike, some businesses and institutions said they would let staff join

03:16the protest, which was organized by the hostages' families. The Hostages' Families Forum,

03:22which represents many families of captives held in Gaza, says, quote,

03:26There is no time, not for the lives wasting away in hell, nor for the fallen who may vanish in the

03:31ruins of Gaza. Opposition leader Yair Lapid, who attended the rally in Tel Aviv,

03:36also expresses support for the protesters.

03:41US President Donald Trump says Ukraine should make a deal to end the war with Russia because,

03:45quote, Russia is a very big power and they're not. This after a summit where Vladimir Putin was reported

03:50to have demanded more Ukrainian land. A source says after the two leaders met in Alaska on Friday,

03:56August 15, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Putin had offered to stop most of

04:01the fighting if Kiev gave up all of Donetsk, a key area Russia wants. Zelensky rejected the demand.

04:08Trump also agrees with Putin that a peace deal should be sought without the prior ceasefire that

04:13Ukraine and its European allies had demanded. Zelensky, meanwhile, says Russia's unwillingness to

04:18pause the fighting would complicate efforts to forge a lasting peace. He says in a post, quote,

04:23stopping the killing is a key element of stopping the war.

04:28P-pop girl group Bini is filing a criminal complaint over the spread of spliced clips of

04:32their controversial video trying Filipino street food. Bini's legal counsel,

04:37Attorney Joji Alonso says the case falls under Republic Act 10175, also known as the Cybercrime

04:44Prevention Act under sections 4B and 6 covering computer-related offenses, and the rule that

04:49crimes committed through the use of technology shall be penalized one degree higher than the

04:53penalty listed in the revised penal code. Alonso says the original 25-minute video posted by the

04:59US-based YouTube channel People vs. Food was trimmed down to two minutes, only showing the members'

05:05negative reactions. Alonso adds, quote,

05:08This even escalated to personal attacks, name-calling, and grave insults. The malicious

05:13splicing of the video unjustly threw them in a bad light, causing irreparable emotional and mental

05:18distress. She also says that the Pantropico hitmakers are taking a strong stand on the issue.

05:24And that's today's wrap. I'm Julian Sirineo. Thank you for watching. Click the link below for the full

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