68K views · 218 reactions | Police have killed more than 5,500 suspected drug users and dealers in the Philippines in President Duterte’s war on drugs. Duterte promised to scale back his campaign, but unsolved killings continued. Watch as FRONTLINE asks a police captain about some residents’ belief that police are running secret death squads, a scene from our new documentary, “On the President’s Orders.” https://to.pbs.org/328ttgh | FRONTLINE | PBS | Facebook

Only days after Typhoon Kalmaegi—the deadliest storm to hit the Philippines—slammed into the country, a second typhoon made landfall. Researchers have warned that the climate crisis has exacerbated the scale and intensity of regional storms. | CNN

Footage shows a minor phreatomagmatic eruption at Taal Volcano in the Philippines. Greyish plumes rose up to 2800 metres above the crater. | Al Jazeera English