00:00A warm Thursday evening to everyone. Ice Martinez here and you're watching PTV News Now.
00:07We're keeping you informed with the nation's biggest developments tonight and topping our stories this hour.
00:13President Ferdinand R. Marquez assured public that the discomfort he experienced Wednesday night is not life-threatening,
00:20calling circulating rumors about his death highly exaggerated.
00:24He was diagnosed with diverticulitis, a digestive condition that often affects those under heavy stress or advancing in age.
00:32The chief executive said his condition has been addressed and he is feeling much better.
00:37Despite his doctor's advice to take it easy, the president admitted he has too much on his plate to slow down.
00:44Palace officials confirmed that he has been discharged from St. Luke's Medical Center and his health remains stable,
00:50with meetings at the palace still on schedule.
00:54I'm fine. I'm feeling very different from the way I was feeling before.
00:59I don't know if it's a problem.
01:01What happened was I apparently, and I now have diverticulitis.
01:05It's a common complaint amongst apparently people who are heavily stressed and people who are, I have to admit, growing old.
01:14The Department of Social Welfare and Development, or DSWD, is stepping up to the plate for 1,323 families affected by Mayon Volcano offering,
01:26a cash-for-work program on top of food and non-food aid.
01:30Officiaries including farmers and fisher-folk whose livelihoods were turned upside down will earn over 13,000 pesos a month through community-based work.
01:41Officials assured that resources are ready to weather any storm, with 3 million food packs repositioned across the Bicol region.
01:48Social workers and quick-response teams are on the ground to make sure no one slips through the cracks while evacuation centers are kept safe and orderly.
01:58Three pro-democracy activists known for organizing and actively participating in pro-democracy mass protests celebrating the memorial of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing
02:11went on trial in the Chinese semi-autonomous city earlier today.
02:16All three of them, Li Chiu-Kian, Albert Ho, and Chow Hang-Tung, face raps of inciting to rebellion and subversion under Hong Kong's national security law,
02:26particularly crafted to crush mass protests as per communist leadership in Beijing.
02:33This high-profile trial, which freedom-loving all over the planet countries are closely monitoring,
02:38is likely to yield conviction of all three defendants based on results of all previous litigation under the national security law.
02:46The three defendants were members of the Hong Kong Alliance in support of patriotic democratic movements in China,
02:52which for decades has organized the annual vigil for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre,
03:00which China's Communist Party leadership has tried so hard to censor from within and outside China.
03:06This mass memorial event, which has drawn tens of thousands of supporters and participants,
03:11was totally outlawed in 2020 during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
03:17If convicted, all three defendants face the maximum penalty of 10 more years of time behind the slammer.
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03:35This has been Ice Martinez, wishing you all a warm and restful evening,
03:39and thank you for watching, PTV News Now.
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