Philippines

President Rodrigo Duterte is challenged on his country’s war on drugs and its reported use of “death squads” by Jonathan Miller, who later get’s called a ‘son of a whore’ by the President.

The Philippines president, Rodrigo Duterte, says his country may become the latest to withdraw its support from the International Criminal Court. The court was set up to try war crimes and crimes against humanity, but a growing number of countries have been announcing their withdrawal – including three African countries and, yesterday, Russia.

The south-east Asian summit in Laos has been overshadowed by a row after the Philippines president, Rodrigo Duterte, referred to Mr Obama as a “son of a whore”. He later claimed it wasn’t personal, but the US team called off a planned meeting between the two men. This report contains strong language throughout.

“If you know of any drug addicts go and kill them yourselves, as getting their parents to do it will be too painful!” The chilling words of Rodrigo Duterte the President of the Philippines.

Driven by poverty, the gold miners of the eastern Philippines stop at nothing to dig out a few flecks of the precious metal – including risking the lives of their children.

Around six million people join Pope Francis in prayer in rain-soaked Manila, Philippines in his final mass. More than five million attended a mass by Pope John Paul II in 1995.

A storm has forced Pope Francis to cut short his visit to the Phillippine city of Tacloban, which was hit by devastating Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013.

Locals say climate change is making tropical storms more intense, as mass evacuations ahead of Typhoon Hagupit put most Fiilipinos out of harm’s way.

Like most people in the Philippines, we are waiting with some anxiety for the great collision – the moment when super typhoon Hagupit makes landfall on the archipelago’s eastern shore.

Wildlife photographer Lorenzo Vinciguerra flees his Abu Sayyaf captors after killing a guard with a machete.

As the news channels focused on violence in Gaza and the tragedy of MH17, what else happened? Channel 4 News finds out.

At least 10 people have been killed by a typhoon as it hit the Philippines on Wednesday, packing damaging winds and torrential downpours of rain.

While the world’s eyes are on Russia, its ally China continues to clash with neighbouring countries over competing claims to the oil-rich South China Sea. Will there be war?

Videos of people dancing to Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” are pouring onto the web: most recently in a “viral” British Muslims video – but videos are also emerging from the most unlikely of places.