00:00A good Thursday holiday evening to all. Yours truly, Gabrielle Lopez here, and glad to bring you PTV News Now and tops on our stories for this evening.
00:13Kindergarten learners up to graduate students have something to smile and feel good about.
00:18Earlier today, the Department of Education, or DepEd, officially kicked off its program for train-riding students in the megacity, granting them a half-fair or 50% discount on their commutes to school or the MRT3 and LRT railway lines.
00:35The fair discount, which went in effect in June 3, this year, affords all students from kindergarten to graduate school, as well as ALS learners, to pay only half the regular rate of each train ride to their train station stops or destinations on unlimited trips.
00:51Students need only to present their valid identification cards to avail of the privilege.
00:56DepEd Chief Sonny Angara said the program provides immediate relief and savings to students who commute to school, which also boosts motivation to attend classes, while broadening access to education.
01:08Likewise, Angara vowed to promulgate the programs, launching the increased awareness in both home and campus.
01:15This train-fare discount-for-student program extends until 2028.
01:20With the eyes of the world fixed on Gaza and the worsening humanitarian crisis unfolding there, little attention has been paid to the other Palestinian enclave in the West Bank,
01:32where Israelis, with full endorsement from the Netanyahu coalition government, have been ramping up attacks and pushing out long-time Palestinian settlers.
01:40Stepped up military campaigns, harassment at Israeli checkpoints, increased violent attacks by Israeli civilians, and forced displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinian settlers and refugees have surged since the heinous October 2023 Hamas attack on Israeli towns in Kabut Zims.
01:59All the while, Israelis have steadily taken up land for expanded Jewish settlements, which for decades Israel did not dare over pushback from the U.S. and United Nations,
02:11both of whom declared encroachment on the West Bank as illegal and an obstacle to peace.
02:16Earlier today, however, Netanyahu's finance minister and pro-West Bank settlement advocate Bezalel Smotrich announced the approval for a settlement project in the West Bank
02:27that would technically kick out thousands more Palestinians from their homes and put an end to any hopes of a two-state solution,
02:34which over 145 nations see as the only path for lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
02:43At this moment, let's shift focus to my colleague in PTV's Bagu City Studios for what's brewing of late in the Cordilleras. Audrey?
02:51Naimbag Arabi, insingasin ti Philippine Institute for Development Studies ti panangadaptar kan panagusar dag iti opisina ti gobyerno i ti Artificial Intelligence
03:01para itinaparpartak as serbisyo publiko kan monitoring ka dag iti proyekto.
03:08Kasapulan na niyadaptaran dag iti policymaker kan government leader ti Artificial Intelligence.
03:12De itati impotang di Philippine Institute for Development Studies iti kaunaan a regional kick-off
03:18ti 23rd Development Policy Research Month iti Bagu City.
03:22Sigun kinipi IDS Lead Researcher Dr. Chris Francisco,
03:26nabatin ti Pilipinas no idilig ka dag iti developed country.
03:30Gaputa at dapay lang ti pag-ilihan iti panangipasayaat iti sektor ti salunat, edukasyon kan iti agrikultura.
03:36Inaulawag na ati AI kat nalakangagbali yung isuak kasapulanin ang mabukuel dag iti pag-alagada
03:41ang tap noong makigiddan ti Pilipinas kadag iti sa Bali at pag-ilihan.
03:46May nagdadraw ng mga regulations for AI, yung mga developed countries.
03:50They have the regulations, they have the framework for AI.
03:53We don't want to be followers at ia-adapt lang natin. Bakit?
03:58Iba yung kwento natin kesa sa kanila.
04:01Iti sa Bali Adamag na pasaran ti Panagbabati Population Growth Rate,
04:09iti unos ti Limatawan kas may basar iti 2024 Population Census.
04:16Sigun iti Commission on Population and Development Cordillera,
04:19bimuntog ti growth rate teriyon iti 0.15% no idilig iti 0.91% iti 2020.
04:27Bimuntog butla ang ti growth rate iti tunggal probinsya kas iti Abrakan Mountain Province.
04:32Resulta na ito ay nag-itiman na rimana family planning programs si Ahensya.
04:36Amay sa arason, iti pa nagbabati birth rate.
04:38Idi na pala ba sa tawon na kailis sa tirisyon itinasrok 21,000 anayanak ng individual.
04:45So halos wala, malapit na po sa zero yung ating population growth rate
04:49compared to 2020 na nasa roughly 0.91 or 1% yung ating population growth rate.
04:55So meaning, talagang wala na halos pinapanganak sa Cordilleras
04:59at baka rin ito ay yung malaking impact ng ating family planning program.
05:03Pero huwag po tayong medyo kabahan about this
05:07kasi meron po itong impact sa ating development.
05:09Dagita-dagitidamdamag manipuditi PTV Cordillera,
05:15siya ni Audrey Viljana, na imbag-arabi.
05:19Many thanks Audrey.
05:21And with that, we've come to the end of tonight's show.
05:24Join us anew tomorrow night for a summary of major events here and abroad
05:28in the week just passed in the Global Roundup.
05:31Remember to always stay connected by catching the news right here.
05:34Gabby Lopez here wishing you all a restful night ahead.
05:37And thank you for watching PTV News Now.
