Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- Before campaign period, 2025 candidates' TV ads exceed P10B before discounts
- From defender to critic: Vic Rodriguez taunts Marcos in 2025 Senate run kickoff
- From hate to love: Is Japan the Philippines’ new Valentine?
- Kyiv, EU alarmed by prospect of ‘dirty deal’ after Trump-Putin call
- Philippines’ curlers strike historic gold in Asian Winter Games
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/february-14-2025/
- Before campaign period, 2025 candidates' TV ads exceed P10B before discounts
- From defender to critic: Vic Rodriguez taunts Marcos in 2025 Senate run kickoff
- From hate to love: Is Japan the Philippines’ new Valentine?
- Kyiv, EU alarmed by prospect of ‘dirty deal’ after Trump-Putin call
- Philippines’ curlers strike historic gold in Asian Winter Games
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/february-14-2025/
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00:00Today on Rappler
00:13Before the campaign period, TV and radio ads of 2025 candidates exceed P10 billion before
00:19discounts.
00:20Vic Rodriguez go-guns a-blazing against his former boss, President Marcos.
00:25A survey shows Filipinos had the highest level of affinity for Japan.
00:30Ukraine and its European allies are alarmed by the prospect of a Trump-Putin dirty deal.
00:36And Filipino curling athletes make history by winning the Philippines' first-ever medal
00:40in the Asian Winter Games.
00:44Before the campaign period, TV and radio ads of 2025 candidates exceed P10 billion before
00:50discounts.
00:52Only four senatorial candidates accounted for 60% of the total amount.
00:57Daughter of the country's richest man, Las Pinas' Representative Camille Villar, outspent
01:02all her rivals, airing ads worth P2.1 billion before discounts.
01:07Villar was followed by presidential sister, re-election senator Aymi Marcos, with P1.9
01:13billion worth of ads.
01:15Makati Mayor Abigail Binay also aired ads worth P1.29 billion.
01:21And Senator Francis Tolentino aired ads worth P1 billion.
01:26TV accounts for most of the ad spending, P9.3 billion before discounts.
01:32In the month of December alone, TV ad spending amounted to over P3.37 billion before discounts.
01:39Radio accounts for almost P1 billion of the total amount before discounts.
01:45Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism or PCIJ obtained the data from Nielsen Ad
01:49Intel.
01:50Chair of the National Citizens Movement for Free Elections or NAMFRA, Lito Averio, Jr.
01:55asks,
01:56What is the ROI or return of investment?
01:58Averio notes heavy ad spending is not illegal, but is it moral?
02:05Vic Rodriguez, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s first and short-lived executive secretary,
02:10comes guns-a-blazing during the Rodrigo Duterte 2025 slate proclamation rally on Thursday,
02:16Feb. 13.
02:31His campaign speech lasted over 16 minutes, where he blasted the Marcos administration
02:36over a wide range of issues, from alleged anomalies in the 2025 budget to corruption
02:41through dole-out programs.
02:47Rodriguez also defends the Dutertes, claiming it was impossible for over 215 legislators
03:02to find the time to read and properly understand the impeachment charges against Vice President
03:07Sara Duterte.
03:09The former Marcos spokesperson also takes a swipe at the qualifications of other candidates
03:14and their slate endorsers.
03:29According to the latest January 2025 PulseAsia survey, Rodriguez ranks 25-29, very far from
03:36the winning circle.
03:39A recent survey in 13 countries and one territory by ON Consulting Company Limited shows that
03:46Filipinos, along with Indonesians, had the highest level of affinity, or favorable impression,
03:52for Japan.
03:53From hating the Japanese for the killings and hardships during World War II, Filipinos
03:57have come to love their former colonizer.
04:00Among the 107 Filipinos surveyed, none say they hate Japan, with all of them saying either
04:06I love it or I like it.
04:08Filipinos had the highest I love it response rate at 77.7% while 22.9% said they like it.
04:16Japan's role as the Philippines' top official development assistance or ODA donor appears
04:21to have been a key factor in the change of heart in the past half a century.
04:26The study highlights that Japan's support for Philippine infrastructure and its role
04:30as one of the major trading partners contribute to the high favorability.
04:34In 2024, the number of Filipino visitors to Japan reached a record 818,700, marking
04:41a 31.6% increase from 622,293 in 2023.
04:48The same ON Consulting study also shows that Indonesians and Filipinos, over 60% of whom
04:53had never visited Japan, were the most willing to travel there.
04:58Kyiv and its European allies are alarmed by the prospect of a, quote,
05:03dirty deal after a call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin.
05:09Ukraine and the allies also demand that they be included in any peace negotiations.
05:14In the call, Trump said Ukraine could neither regain all of its territory nor join NATO
05:20and that no U.S. troops would join a security force in Ukraine to enforce a ceasefire.
05:26Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says, quote,
05:28we, as a sovereign country, simply will not be able to accept any agreements without us.
05:34He says Putin intended to make the negotiations bilateral with the United States, emphasizing
05:40that this should not be allowed.
05:42European officials also take a strong public stance against Trump's peace proposal.
05:47European Foreign Policy Chief Kaya Kalas says any quick fix will be a dirty deal and strongly
05:53criticizes the apparent concessions made in advance.
05:58Filipino curlers Mark Pfister, Christian Jalier, Enrico Pfister, Alan Frey, and Benjo
06:04de la Hermente made history by winning the Philippines' first-ever medal in the Asian
06:09Winter Games.
06:10The quintet captures gold in the men's team competition with a 5-3 win over South Korea
06:16at the finals at the Harbin Pingfang Curling Arena in China on Friday, February 14.
06:22The Philippines secured the win with strong performances in the final two ends, preventing
06:27Korea from forcing an extra round.
06:29Curling is an Olympic and Paralympic ice sport where two teams take turns to slide stones
06:34towards a target, known as a house.
06:38This marks the first time the Philippines, a tropical country, won a medal in the Continental
06:43Winter Sports Competition since its debut at the 1990 Sapporo edition.
06:48Coached by Jessica Pfister, the Philippines went 4-1 in the group stage, defeated Japan
06:53in the qualification round, and survived a tough semi-final against host China.
07:01And that's today's WRAP.
07:02I'm Michelle Abad, thank you for watching.
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