00:01Iran rejects the proposed temporary ceasefire and wants a permanent end to the war with the US and Israel.
00:07Oil companies announce another major price hike starting April 7.
00:12Zaldico allegedly received P802 million in bank inflow from contractor SunWest.
00:18Eldru Yulo wraps up his FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series with two medals.
00:23And the Artemis II includes a diverse crew with the first woman, first black astronaut and Canadian ever to fly
00:29to the vicinity of the moon.
00:39Iran wants a lasting end to the war with the US and Israel and pushed back against pressure to reopen
00:44the Strait of Hormuz.
00:46This, as US President Donald Trump warns, the country could be quote-unquote taken out if it did not meet
00:51his Tuesday night deadline to reach a deal.
00:54The official IRNA news agency reports Tehran also rejects the temporary ceasefire.
00:59It adds, the response consists of 10 clauses, including an end to conflicts in the region,
01:04a protocol for safe passage through the Strait, lifting of sanctions, and reconstruction.
01:09But Trump rejects Iran's response, saying his deadline was final.
01:12Without an agreement with Tehran, Trump says quote,
01:15Every bridge in Iran will be decimated by midnight EDT on Wednesday,
01:19and every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding, and never to be used again.
01:24Meantime, the Foreign Affairs Department says a Filipina was among the four killed in a missile strike at a residential
01:30building in Haifa, Israel.
01:34Oil companies announced another round of major pump price hikes starting April 7 amid the continuing conflict in the Middle
01:40East.
01:40This is the 13th consecutive week gasoline prices increased, while it is the 15th straight week diesel and kerosene prices
01:47rose.
01:48Oil industry sources earlier said diesel prices may soar to nearly 150 pesos to 170 pesos per liter this week.
01:55Pump prices are expected to rise by 17 to 19 pesos per liter for diesel and 3 to 5 pesos
02:00per liter for gasoline.
02:02Diesel and gasoline prices ranged from about 50 to 60 pesos before the US-Israel war against Iran began on
02:08February 28.
02:09The Department of Energy's latest price monitoring bulletin shows regular diesel prices in Metro Manila settled between 110 and 150
02:16pesos and 30 centavos per liter in the previous week,
02:19while gasoline prices ranged from 82 pesos 50 centavos to 105 pesos and 60 centavos per liter.
02:26Visit Rappler for advisories from oil companies.
02:30Fugitive and former Ako Biko representative Zaldi Ko allegedly received a bank inflow of 802 million pesos from contractor SunWest.
02:38Anti-money laundering council financial investigator Jan-Mark Busa says,
02:42Ko allegedly received the bank inflow through check deposits from SunWest's accounts from 2019 to 2025.
02:48The prosecution says this is enough to prove Ko is still SunWest's beneficial owner.
02:53The resigned lawmaker is among the founders of SunWest but claimed he already divested or left the company in 2019.
02:59A Rattler investigation in 2025 showed the former lawmaker is still the company's beneficial owner.
03:05Prosecutors earlier filed a petition with the Court of Appeals to issue a freeze and bank inquiry order against Ko's
03:10accounts.
03:10The petition has been granted by the CA.
03:13Former DPWH Undersecretary Roberto Bernardo on March 17 revealed he allegedly received kickbacks from Ko from 2023 to 2025 amounting
03:21to around 130 million pesos.
03:23Former Bulacan District Engineer Henry Alcantara also testified Ko sought infrastructure contracts in Bulacan.
03:29Ko is facing a malversation case pending before the Sandigan Bayan over a 289.4 million peso flood control project
03:35in Nauhan, Oriental Mindoro.
03:38Filipino gymnast Eldrew Yulo continues to impress in his first year as a senior.
03:43He wraps up his stint in the Cairo-Egypt leg of the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Series with two
03:48medals.
03:48He bags a pair of bronzes in floor exercise and horizontal bar.
03:52Yulo landed third in the floor exercise final with the same finish in the horizontal bar final to race his
03:58World Cup medal hall to three.
03:59Yulo has put himself in a good position to qualify for the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands
04:05in October.
04:05Through the World Cup Series, the top eight gymnasts with the highest four meet point total in each apparatus will
04:11be eligible to qualify for the World Championships.
04:15The Artemis II lunar mission makes history with a remarkably diverse crew including the first woman, the first black astronaut
04:21and Canadian ever to fly to the vicinity of the Moon.
04:24All three NASA astronauts are veterans of Earth orbit science expeditions to the International Space Station.
04:30Mission Commander Reed Wiseman logged 165 days aboard the International Space Station during a 2014 mission flying to the orbiting
04:36platform aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
04:39Pilot Victor Grover spent 168 days in orbit beginning in 2020 as pilot of NASA's Crew-1 flight, the first
04:45full-fledged ISS mission using SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule to carry astronauts to the space station.
04:51Mission Specialist Christina Koch set a record in 2019 for the longest continuous spaceflight by a woman.
04:57She was also part of NASA's first three all-female spacewalks.
05:00Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is the first Canadian and first non-US citizen sent on a lunar mission. This is his
05:06first spaceflight.
05:07The four astronauts cruised through a six-hour flyby of the shadowed far side of the Moon that revealed a
05:12lunar surface under cosmic bombardment.
05:14This marks the world's first voyage to the vicinity of the Moon since NASA's Apollo missions more than half a
05:19century ago.
05:22And that's today's wrap. I'm JC Gutinga. Thank you for watching.
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