Thousands in the Philippines protest corruption

Demonstrators, including Roman Catholic clergy, protested in the Philippines on Sunday, calling for the swift prosecution of top legislators and officials implicated in a corruption scandal that has buffeted the Asian democracy. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been scrambling to quell public outrage over the massive corruption blamed for substandard, defective, or non-existent flood control projects across the Asian archipelago, long prone to deadly flooding and extreme weather. More than 17,000 police officers were deployed in metropolitan Manila to secure the separate protests.