In his State of the Nation address, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte defended his handling of the Covid-19 outbreak and called for a return of the death penalty for serious crimes including drug offences. The ABC’s Andrew Geoghegan interviews political analyst Richard Heydarian.
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