00:01The United States and Iran have received the framework of a plan for a temporary ceasefire.
00:06Hope Leo urges world leaders to end wars and abandon power grabs.
00:11A government survey shows Filipino women are having fewer children.
00:15The Supreme Court ends the case stemming from the Securities and Exchange Commission's shutdown order against Rappler.
00:21And we give you a peek into what Artemis II astronauts eat in space.
00:33The United States and Iran have received the framework of a plan to end hostilities.
00:37But Iran says it will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz as part of a temporary ceasefire.
00:42A senior Iranian official adds, Tehran won't accept deadlines as it reviews the proposal.
00:47The peace plan involves a two-tier approach with an immediate ceasefire followed by a comprehensive agreement.
00:53Oil prices climb as fears of supply disruptions in the Middle East grow.
00:56Crude oil surges with Brent at $110 per barrel and West Texas at over $112 per barrel.
01:03Prices had already surged in the previous session with Brent and WTI gaining 8% and 11% respectively.
01:10Meantime, Iran will allow the
01:11Safe, unhindered, and expeditious passage of all Philippine vessels, energy sources, and Filipino seafarers through the Strait of Hormuz.
01:19Foreign Affairs Secretary Maria Teresa Lazaro confirmed this on Thursday, April 2, after a phone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister
01:26Sayed Abbas Arakshi.
01:28Lazaro added it would not only ensure the safety of Filipino seafarers in the Strait, but also help secure the
01:33country's energy needs.
01:37In his Easter message, Pope Leo urges global leaders to end the conflicts raging across the world and to abandon
01:43any schemes for power, conquest, or domination.
01:47We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent.
01:54Indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people, indifferent to the repercussions of hatred, and division that conflicts sow.
02:02The Pope adds, the story of Easter shows that Christ was entirely non-violent.
02:08On this day of celebration, let us abandon every desire for conflict, domination, and power, and implore the Lord to
02:16grant His peace to a world ravaged by wars.
02:19Meantime, US President Donald Trump and other officials cast the rescue of an American airman in Iran as an Easter
02:25miracle.
02:26He also frames the operation in religious terms that portrayed the war as a just cause and divinely blessed.
02:34A Philippine Statistics Authority survey shows women in the country are having fewer children.
02:39The PSA's 2025 National Demographic and Health Survey shows the country's total fertility rate or TFR fell to a record
02:47low of 1.7 in 2025, down from 1.9 in 2022 and 2.7 in 2017.
02:54The PSA defines TFR as the average number of children a woman would have by the end of her childbearing
02:59years if she were to bear children at the current age-specific fertility rates.
03:03The age-specific fertility rates are calculated for the three years before the survey based on detailed pregnancy histories provided
03:10by women.
03:11University of the Philippines Population Institute Director Elma Laguna says this reflects decades-long efforts to address overpopulation.
03:19The survey also shows 57.3% of married women said they want no more children,
03:24while only around 13.4% want to have another child within two years and 16.2% want another
03:31child beyond two years.
03:34It's final. The Supreme Court ends the case involving the Securities and Exchange Commission's shutdown order against Rappler.
03:41This is one of the biggest cases the digital company faced.
03:44The case was closed because the SE Division granted the Office of the Solicitor General's request to withdraw its motion
03:50for extension.
03:51The motion for extension asked the High Court to give the OSG additional time to file a legal challenge against
03:57the Court of Appeals decision.
03:58That CA ruling voided the SEC's shutdown order against Rappler.
04:03International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney says,
04:05This is an important victory for Maria Ressa and journalists across the Philippines.
04:10I welcome the position taken by the Solicitor General in this case and the court rulings recognizing the paramount importance
04:15of the press in a free society.
04:17Clooney is representing Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa.
04:21Of the many cases filed against Rappler and its officials in recent years, only one remains pending.
04:27Ressa and former Rappler researcher Reynaldo Santos' appeal of their June 2020 cyber libel conviction is still pending before the
04:34SC.
04:36What do astronauts eat in space?
04:39Artemis mission specialist Christina Koch shows various bags of food, including mission specialist Jeremy Hansen's shrimp cocktail dinner.
04:46Let's see what we're going to pull out.
04:48My dinner.
04:50This is Jeremy's dinner and in space you really just eat all of your food out of bags of some
04:56kind.
04:57Plastic bags or little metallic bags because we have to rehydrate a lot of our food.
05:05This is actually shrimp cocktail.
05:09And this has been rehydrated already so we added water to it and the shrimp soaked back up the water
05:16and it's actually pretty tasty.
05:19This is an example of a food that has not been rehydrated yet.
05:24It got all dried out for flying up here in space and those are green beans.
05:28So we do have to eat our vegetables even in space, but don't worry they do give us mac and
05:33cheese.
05:33The crew is set to fly around the moon and return to Earth in a nearly 10-day expedition.
05:39Aside from US astronauts Koch and Glover, the other crew members are US astronaut Reid Wiseman and Canadian Space Agency
05:45astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
05:47The four blasted off from Florida on Wednesday, April 1 on NASA's Artemis 2 mission.
05:52It marks NASA's boldest trip yet and the world's first time in 53 years to send astronauts out of Earth's
05:58orbit in the vicinity of the moon.
06:00The mission tests the spacecraft's capabilities while venturing farther into space than any previous human exploration.
06:06It's a crucial dress rehearsal for a NASA lunar landing targeted in 2028.
06:12And that's today's wrap. I'm JC Gutinga. Thank you for watching. Click the link below for the full story.
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