00:01Senator Nguyen Gachalian is elected Senate President.
00:05Senator Ping Lakson says the majority supports Senator Cheese Escudero as presiding officer of Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment trial.
00:14Senator Robin Padilla promotes his new movie in Cebu while other senators hold a special session to tackle urgent measures.
00:22Ateneo basketball players Kiefer Alas and Sam Reyes say they thought they were going to die during their team-building
00:27activity in Aurora.
00:28And a U.S.-Iran ceasefire deal allows Iran to sell oil but bans it from having nuclear weapons.
00:43Senator Nguyen Gachalian is elected as the new Senate President.
00:47This comes after Senator Joel Villanueva joined the new majority in a special session Wednesday, June 17, giving Gachalian the
00:5413 votes needed to secure the position.
00:56Senator Tito Soto who is elected Senate President Pro Tempore and Majority Leader Senator Mig Zubiri also take their oath.
01:04Senator JV Ejercito and Villanueva are also elected Senior Deputy Majority Leader and Deputy Majority Leader respectively.
01:12No member of the new minority block attended the election of the Senate President.
01:16Senators Loren Legarda, Pia Cayetano, Camille Villar, Aimee Marcos, Rodante Marcoleta, and Bongo attend the session later on.
01:24Meantime, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano gives up his claim to the Senate Presidency, he says in a Facebook post an
01:30hour before the special session.
01:32Cayetano acknowledges defeat after talking to Villanueva.
01:35Until Wednesday morning, Cayetano and his bloc disputed Gachalian's role as acting Senate President, insisting Cayetano was the legitimate and
01:42moral Senate President.
01:44Cayetano did not attend the special session but was elected to his old position, the minority leadership, following a manifestation
01:51by his ally, Legarda.
01:54Senator Cheez Escudero is being eyed as the presiding officer of the Senate Impeachment Court.
01:59Senator Ping Lakson says, based on the majority's consensus, they will elect Escudero as the presiding officer.
02:06He adds, aside from being a lawyer, Escudero also has experience in handling impeachment proceedings.
02:11Escudero was the presiding officer of the Senate Impeachment Court in 2025.
02:16The Senate amended its impeachment rules during the June 3 session, allowing Senators to elect a presiding officer by a
02:23majority vote of members present.
02:25Lakson said in an interview over the weekend that the amended rule can allow the Senate to elect a lawyer
02:30to become the presiding officer.
02:32Aside from Escudero, the only other lawyer in the majority is Senator Kiko Pangilinan.
02:38While the majority of his colleagues were at the Senate in Pasay City in a special session to tackle urgent
02:44measures,
02:44Sen. Robin Padilla was at a mall in Cebu to promote his action film.
02:48He attends a special screening of his movie, Bad Boys 3, Wednesday, June 17.
02:54Padilla directed and produced the film. He also starred in it, reprising his role, Bumbo.
02:59The actor-turned-senator is an ally of Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, who already gave up his claim to the
03:04Senate presidency early Wednesday.
03:06The block of Sen. Win Gatchalian recruited Sen. Joel Villanueva, completing 13 members for a quorum.
03:12They were able to install Gatchalian as full-fledged Senate president.
03:16Only 13 out of the 24 senators attended the plenary session in the morning.
03:21Sen. Jingoy Estrada is under arrest and is suspended due to his plunder and graft cases.
03:27Sen. Bato de la Rosa is hiding amid his active International Criminal Court arrest warrant.
03:32Six out of nine remaining minority senators attended the session only later in the day.
03:38Aside from Padilla, Alan Cayetano, and Sen. Mark Villar also skipped Wednesday's session.
03:45Ateneo basketball players Kiefer Alas and Sam Reyes believed they were going to die during the Blue Eagles team-building
03:51activity in Dipakulaw, Aurora,
03:52that claimed the lives of teammates René Baterboña and Divine Adili on June 8.
03:58Alas, an incoming rookie, and Reyes, an incoming junior, shared their side of the story on the Let's Talk with
04:04Pia Ontiveros podcast.
04:06The two said the players were asked to line up in Thai deep water for an exercise led by assistant
04:11coach Dean Castaño.
04:12Then a series of waves, which Reyes described as bigger than them, pulled them away from the shore.
04:18Alas remembers being with Adili and J.M. Leal as they clung to E.J. Capihe, but he later found
04:23himself on his own.
04:24He says he was underwater for more than 20 seconds and at that point, he had already given up.
04:30Meanwhile, Reyes said he tried to help Malcolm Tyler in keeping Ian Espinosa afloat,
04:35but fell into total panic as he feared for his life, having swallowed a significant amount of water.
04:40Alas and Reyes say they floated to conserve their energy and gradually made their way toward the shore.
04:45While most of the team made it safely back to shore, the grim realization that Baterboña and Adili were missing
04:51set in.
04:52In the interview, Alas and Reyes also appealed to the public for compassion as they continued to receive death threats
04:57from those who believed that they were responsible for the loss of Baterboña and Adili.
05:01The two also believed the lack of information released to the public drew the public's ire towards them.
05:06Meantime, the Justice Department issues an Immigration Lookout Bulletin Order, or ILBO, against former Blue Eagles head coach Tab Baldwin.
05:14The following members of the coaching staff are also placed under immigration lookout.
05:20Details about the United States-Iran interim agreement to end the war in the Middle East begin to emerge.
05:26U.S. President Donald Trump says the deal will rule out a nuclear weapon for Tehran, while a U.S.
05:31official says it allows Iran to sell oil upon signing.
05:34Iran has long said that it will not develop a nuclear weapon and that its nuclear program is for peaceful
05:39purposes only.
05:40The memorandum of understanding signed this week extends a tenuous ceasefire announced in April by another 60 days
05:47to allow the warring countries to negotiate a permanent truce.
05:50Under the deal, the U.S. will end its blockade of Iran's ports while Tehran will restore the passage of
05:55oil tankers
05:56and other maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
05:58Meantime, Trump also criticizes Israel's strikes in Lebanon, saying it was unnecessary to bomb entire apartment buildings to target Hezbollah
06:06militants.
06:09And that's today's wrap. I'm JC Gotinga. Thank you for watching. Click the link below for the full story.
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