PDEA nets P176.4-M illegal drugs over the weekend

Name: PDEA nets P176.4-M illegal drugs over the weekend
Uploaded: 2025-05-05T12:11:34+00:00
Duration: 7 min 6 s
Channel: PTVPhilippines

PTVPhilippines

2 days ago

PDEA nets P176.4-M illegal drugs over the weekend

U.S. Pres. Trump orders 100% tariffs on all foreign films, those shot on location abroad

Trump 2.0 presidency reverts back to fossil based energy industry

For more news, visit:
►https://www.ptvnews.ph/

Subscribe to our DailyMotion Channel:
►http://www.dailymotion.com/peoples-television-incorporated

Subscribe to our YouTube channel:
►http://www.youtube.com/ptvphilippines

Like our Facebook pages:
►PTV: http://facebook.com/PTVph
►Rise and Shine Pilipinas: https://www.facebook.com/riseandshinepilipinas

Follow us on Twitter:
►http://twitter.com/PTVph

Follow us on Instagram:
►https://www.instagram.com/ptvph

Watch our livestream on:
►http://ptvnews.ph/livestream/
►https://www.dailymotion.com/PTVPhilippines

Watch our News Programs, every Mondays to Fridays

Rise and Shine Pilipinas - 6:00 - 7:00 am | 7:30 - 8:00 am
Balitang Pambansa - 7:00 - 7:30 am | 12:00 - 12:30 pm |
6:00 - 6:30pm | 9:30 - 10:00 pm
PTV Sports - 8:00 - 9:00 am
Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon - 12:30 - 1:00 pm
Sentro Balita - 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Ulat Bayan - 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
PTV News Tonight - 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Saturday & Sunday:
►Sentro Balita Weekend - 1:30 - 2:00 pm
►Ulat Bayan Weekend - 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm

Category

🗞

News

Transcript

Display full video transcript

00:00A warm yet wonderful Cinco de Mayo Monday afternoon to all. I am William Theo and this is PTV News Now.

00:12Starting our afternoon stories for this first day of the week, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency or PIDEA is on a tear their latest haul.

00:21P176.4 million in illegal drugs seized over the weekend.

00:27Government's lead anti-narcotics group said in a statement released earlier today it seized illegal drugs worth P176.4 million and nabbed 101 pushers and illegal drug traffickers in 62 operations conducted nationwide.

00:44Among the narcotics seized in raids and sting operations by PIDEA agents and operatives from April 25 to May 2 include over 12,000 grams of meth or shabu, 260 tablets of ecstasy, over 72,000 grams of marijuana kush, 14,000 plus grams of dried marijuana leaves among others.

01:08The region's PIDEA agents and operatives hit over the weekend were the NCR, Central Visayas, the Caraga, Soxargen, and the Cordilleras.

01:20Don't look now but American-made films shot outside the United States may significantly drop and lead to higher ticket prices at the movie theaters.

01:29Quotes as Donald Trump over the weekend ordered slapping a 100% tariff on all foreign films shot and put together outside the United States, in particular feature films independently produced or studio financed shot on location outside the U.S.

01:47This latest White House directive was issued on Trump's unfounded worry of Hollywood being devastated by what he perceives as relentless trend of producers and Hollywood studios shooting movies remotely away from the U.S.

02:02In addition, a huge factor in Trump's latest decision on film tariffs was triggered by Chinese President Xi Jinping's statement last month of Beijing putting a cap or limiting the distribution of American movies to China.

02:16The movie industry or Hollywood generates over a quarter of a trillion in sales and provides close to two and a half million jobs as per 2022 figures from the Motion Picture Association of America.

02:30But the massive and tremendous power of Hollywood movies to capture and influence people from all over the planet towards the American brand is incalculable and has cemented America's unequal dominance in the global entertainment industry and its status as the most powerful nation on the planet.

02:50Strangely, however, the top five locations for Hollywood feature film productions are outside the United States, namely Toronto, the UK, Vancouver in British Columbia, Central Europe and Australia.

03:05California came in sixth place.

03:07The bottom line, all the offshore locations plus many more in Asia offer more incentives that all told makes it cheaper for studios and independent producers to make movies.

03:19The Trump 2.0 presidency is all about reshaping the bureaucracy and restructuring the federal government.

03:29Among his top priorities, abandoning the shift to renewable energy and instead heightening production of coal, oil and gas, drill, baby drill, as he'd love to say.

03:40VOA's Patsy Widakuswara takes a look at the challenges facing this policy shift on energy.

03:46Countering climate change was central to former President Joe Biden's administration, but under President Donald Trump, the United States is going in a different direction.

03:58Today, I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby drill.

04:06When a president declares a national emergency, he has more executive authority to get things done, including deregulating industries to drill for oil and gas.

04:18On Friday, Trump added a geopolitical factor by saying that lowering oil prices is the key to ending the war in Ukraine.

04:25OPEC ought to get on the ball and they ought to drop the price of oil and that war will stop right away.

04:31Analysts are skeptical that Trump's demands and policies will significantly impact oil prices.

04:37You have to think about things like oil supply being driven by international demand and other things that are going to be quite separate from a lot of the different kinds of policies that President Trump may be thinking of that could around the margins affect oil and gas exploration and extraction.

04:59Analysts say low prices would also hurt Trump donors, the American fossil fuel industry.

05:05Renewable energy advocates point out that U.S. oil and gas is already at peak production.

05:10And so if this is an emergency, why aren't we looking at all available resources, particularly the ones that are demonstrating real value on the grid, right?

05:20Why aren't we using all tools in the toolbox?

05:22Trump, who has repeatedly called climate change a hoax, wants to slam the brakes on efforts to boost U.S. electric vehicles by rolling back tax credits for EV purchases and manufacturing that Congress passed during Biden's term.

05:36We will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers.

05:46But he will need congressional approval for such a move.

05:51Analysts say it's counterproductive to Trump's own stated goals of competing with China, who is already the world's largest producer of EVs.

05:59There's a consensus among the academia that EV is the way to go. EV is the way to address our environmental concern. There's no turning back on the EV development.

06:10Trump's inauguration day actions also included an order to withdraw the U.S. from international climate commitments.

06:16The next item, sir, is a letter that will be transmitted to the United Nations, explaining that we are withdrawing from the Paris Climate Treaty.

06:26The U.S. is currently producing more oil and gas than any country at any time in history.

06:33Meanwhile, even as it keeps much of its fossil fuel production, China is the leading manufacturer of solar panels and wind turbines globally.

06:41It is also the planet's biggest climate polluter.

06:44We've come to the end of this afternoon's program.

06:53Join us anew later on for our evening set of breaking stories.

06:57And always make it a habit to tune in here for news you can count on, news you can trust.

07:02Till then, William Theo here.

07:03And thank you for watching PTV News Now.