00:00Nightly greetings one and all, William Theo here, homegrown and happy to bring you PTV
00:10News Now.
00:11And for tonight, we kick off with a House Solon pushing for a greater outlay for agriculture
00:17next year after the figures in the National Expenditure Program showing a cutback instead
00:23of a much-needed prop up on an allocation of nearly 5% from this year's budget.
00:29House Representative Wilbert Lee, after seeing a dismal appropriations for agriculture next
00:35year, vowed to push for more as deliberations for the 2025 General Appropriations Act kicked
00:41off last week.
00:43Sits of famers on the field next year allocation for the DA and its attached offices or agencies
00:50sums up to a rather dismal P211 billion and change which is P4.7 off this year's allocation
00:59much to the dismay of Congressman Lee.
01:02The amount is way, way off Lee had proposed in April of over a half a trillion or 511
01:08billion.
01:09Thus, he vows to seek for an amendment and a substantial hike in the allocation for the
01:14DA, insisting agriculture should be given a higher priority and receive additional support
01:20and not a cutback.
01:23It is clear Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no desire to end the war, seek
01:28a truce or agreement on a deal to set Israeli hostages held by Hamas for the last 300 days
01:35free.
01:36He wants the war to drag on indefinitely so he cannot be ousted from power and be held
01:41into account for his failure to provide tight security all over Israel prior to the October
01:477 last year and for his warm crimes against tens of thousands of innocent civilian Palestinians
01:53he has slaughtered over the last 10 months.
01:56DOA's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem.
02:01Thousands of people marched through the streets of Jerusalem wearing labels with the number
02:05300 on them.
02:07The march was organized by Rachel and John Goldberg-Polen whose 23-year-old son, Hirsch,
02:13was among those kidnapped from the Nova music festival October 7.
02:17They have worked tirelessly for his release.
02:20Today is day 27, Hirsch is still not home.
02:24Today is day 30, today is day 58, day 300.
02:29Racheli Frankel whose 16-year-old son Naftali was kidnapped and killed by Hamas explains
02:35why she and others are marching.
02:37To be together, to express the fact that we're never forgetting, we go to sleep with this
02:42at night, we wake up with this in the morning.
02:45Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is working to bring the hostages home
02:50But hostage families and more recently some in his military establishment have accused
02:55him of acting slowly and adding new conditions for a deal with Hamas on a gradual ceasefire
03:01that would free the hostages.
03:04Our long hand strikes in the Gaza Strip, in Yemen, in Beirut and wherever necessary.
03:12This hand of ours reaches out when the time comes for peace to those who want to establish
03:18peace with us.
03:22In Gaza, the death toll is rising with the Hamas-run health ministry saying nearly 40,000
03:28Palestinians have been killed in close to 10 months of fighting.
03:32Palestinian officials warn of a growing health crisis and are calling on the world to intervene.
03:38This catastrophe is the result of the spread of urgent diseases, of infectious diseases
03:44whether through water or breathing.
03:46There are more than 100,000 cases of hepatitis, noting that in the year preceding the aggression
03:52there were only 85 cases across the Gaza Strip.
03:57Palestinian officials say hospitals have stopped functioning and are in urgent need of equipment.
04:04We need large quantities of beds, medicines and medical supplies as what has been sent
04:10is not enough to meet the hospital's needs.
04:13More than 90% of Gaza's 2 million people have been displaced at least once and are
04:18spending the sweltering heat of the summer in tents with no air conditioning and few
04:22sanitation facilities.
04:24The fighting is showing no signs of letting up and people on both sides see no hope for
04:29an end any time soon.
04:31Linda Gradstein, VOA News, Jerusalem.
04:39At this time, let's turn to my colleague in PTV's Baguio City Station for the latest
04:44developments brewing over there.
04:46Audrey.
04:47Good evening, Philippines.
04:48The number of cases in Baguio City is increasing.
04:49According to the City Health Services Office, as of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been
04:50infected.
04:51462% believe that the number of cases is increasing.
04:52In February and July, more than 70,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
05:121, 2024.
06:13As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
06:421, 2024.
06:43As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
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06:50As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
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06:52As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
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06:54As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
06:551, 2024.
06:56As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
06:571, 2024.
06:58As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
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07:00As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
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07:02As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August 1, 2024.
07:03As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
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07:05As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
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07:07As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
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07:09As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
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07:11As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
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07:13As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August
07:141, 2024.
07:15As of August 1, 2024, 63,000 people have been infected in Baguio City as of August 1, 2024.
