In the Philippines, more than 200 protesters were arrested after clashes with police at an anti-corruption demonstration in the capital Manila on Sunday. At least 131 police officers were wounded. More than 33,000 Filipinos rallied against politicians and contractors for corrupt practices in handling flood control projects. Here’s Teddy Casiño, the chairperson of the New Patriotic Alliance.
Teddy Casiño: “The people are very angry, because they have been victims of flooding for all these years, and flooding has made their lives so difficult, and yet the discovery that all the billions of pesos that were supposed to help them, that were supposed to solve the problem, have ended up lining the pockets of all these corrupt politicians, government officials and contractors.”
It comes as thousands have been evacuated as a potentially catastrophic super typhoon, Ragasa, makes landfall in the north of the Philippines.










