Philippine senate returns Duterte impeachment to lower house ーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS
the Philippine Senate has returned the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sarah Duterte to the House of Representatives to ensure that constitutional requirements were not violated the decision was reached hours after the 23 member upper house convened on Tuesday as an impeachment court a majority backed the motion to remand the articles of impeachment to the lower house but some lawmakers condemned the move this is in no way a dismissal because we will be issuing summons after this the lower house impeached Duterte in February for threatening to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and allegedly misusing public funds the vice president daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte denies the allegations the current term of Congress closes at the end of this month the session starting July will include lawmakers elected in the midterm election held in May the Senate impeachment court is expected to continue 12 new senators will join the 12 incumbents as senator judges if the vice president is convicted she will lose the right to run in the presidential election in 2028 the UN special envoy for Myanmar has condemned the continuing violence across the country even after the devastating earthquake that struck in March she warned that the conflict is embedding a crisis within a crisis if there is no end to the violence Myanmar is on a path to self-destruction the people of Myanmar must now contend not only with the raging conflict but also with the consequences of this devastating natural disaster although some parties to the conflict have announced ceasefires they have largely not been observed julie Bishop spoke to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday in New York she also said the scale of the conflict has increased over the four years since the military takeover in 2021 a major earthquake rocked central Myanmar in March the military says the quake has left more than 3,700 people dead and over 5,000 injured the Honta and pro-democracy forces declared a temporary ceasefire to prioritize relief efforts but there have been reports of continuing air and artillery strikes bishop also cited the dire situation of the Muslim minority Rohingia population in the western state of Rakine she said they are subject to forced recruitment and other abuse and called for urgent international support parts of northern Pakistan nestled up against the Himalayas have been hard hit by serious water shortages because climate change is reducing snowfall and melt water the solution gigantic artificially created ice towers nhk World’s Nazar Islam reports in Skardu a city in northern Pakistan that is home to some of the world’s highest mountains people have long relied on melt water from the mountains to survive but snowfall has decreased in recent years hitting agriculture the region’s main industry hard april is supposed to be when farmers would normally start sewing seeds but Now all the land remains barren due to the climate we haven’t cultivated anything but now a large block of ice on a mountain slope provides water for the area drip by melting drip it’s called an ice stupa because the shape resembles Buddhist tupas it was artificially created by taking advantage of the cold air of the mountain which can drop to minus25° snow that accumulates near the summit melts little by little during the winter this water is sent down to the valley by pipes and then spread into the air over roughly 4 months a gigantic ice tower takes shape professor Zakir Hussein Zakir is in charge of creating the ice towers a professor at a local university he has been working since 2018 to promote this technique originally developed in India the huge ice block will begin to melt in March and act as a reservoir the best places to make ice towers are valleys where the sun doesn’t shine and water can be efficiently drawn from the mountain top no power is required since it utilizes the difference in elevation so far 20 have been built giving 16,000 residents fresh access to water since the ice tower has been installed we are getting drinking water and a good amount of water for irrigation purposes too in order to introduce this method to more areas Professor Zakir shares his knowhow with students at the university how long does it take to build an ice stuper ideally ideally we start spraying the water in mid November and finish in mid-March climate change is increasingly affecting people’s lives but the ice tas bring hope and moisture to even more parch land natural Islam NHK world And that wraps up our bulletin i’m Ross Linda Bvalia in Bangkok
June 11 NEWSROOM TOKYO Bangkok Live Lineup:
00:00 Philippine senate returns Duterte impeachment to lower house
01:19 UN envoy says Myanmar on ‘path to self-destruction’
02:49 ‘Ice stupas’ help keep northern Pakistan green
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