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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte tells President Barack Obama to "go to hell" and reconsider his government's foreign policy. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte's spokesperson announced that the leader regretted calling US President Barack Obama a "son of a whore", on the day that both Duterte and Obama arrived in Vientiane, capital of Laos, for the ASEAN summit on Tuesday.
In footage courtesy of RTVM, The Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called US President Barack Obama a “Putang ina," which means “son of a whore” in Tagalog at a press conference in Manila on Monday, saying that "the Philippines have long ceased to be a colony". Duterte is due to meet his US counterpart at a summit in Laos where he is expected to face questions over 2,000 alleged extra-judicial killings of drug dealers and users in the Philippines since he launched his war on drugs on June 30.
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida welcomes visiting Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as they attend a guard of honour ceremony held in Tokyo. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).