MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Latest on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s state of the nation speech (all times local):

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he will not talk to communist guerrillas because of recent attacks and is threatening to order troops and police to shoot left-wing protesters who commit civil disturbance “even if I have to bury thousands of Filipinos.”

The tough-talking leader used his second state of the nation address before Congress on Monday to explain his decision last week to scrap preliminary peace talks with communist rebel leaders in Europe as a result of the attacks, including one that wounded five presidential guards last Wednesday in a southern town. This policy is non-negotiable.”

Mr. Duterte said he would hold all mining companies and officials “responsible for the full cleanup, restoration, rehabilitation of all areas damaged by mining activities and the extension of all necessary support to all communities that have suffered.” THE United States embassy assured the Philippine government that it would work on finding a solution on the issue involving the Balangiga bells of Eastern Samar, which President Rodrigo Duterte has been wanting to get back from the US and which the chief executive mentioned again in his second State of the National Address (SONA) Monday. “Give us back those Balangiga bells,” Duterte said in his speech at the House of Representatives, attended by the U.S. ambassador and other diplomats. “They are part of our national heritage … return it to us, this is painful for us.”

Duterte, who calls himself a socialist, has had an antagonistic attitude toward the U.S. while bolstering ties with China and Russia. The two others are on a former base of the 11th Infantry Regiment at F.E. Last September, Duterte also spoke about the Balangiga massacre before members of the Philippine Air Force. During the Philippine-American war, Filipino rebels ambushed on September 28, 1901, Company C of the 9th US Infantry Regiment, where 48 out of 78 US soldiers were killed and 22 were wounded. One of these bells is at the US base Camp Red Cloud in Ujieongbu City, South Korea, still under the possession of the 9th Infantry Regiment. “Do not try to scare me with prison or the International Court of Justice,” he said Monday in his annual state of the nation address. Mr. Duterte said Congress should pass the death penalty on drug-related offenses, insisting that in the Philippines, a criminal who took one’s life should pay for the offense with his own life.
During the annual State of the Nation Address through the Congress of the Philippines, President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has outright demanded that the United States return the controversial Balangiga bells, taken during one of the campaigns of the Philippine–American War as spoils of war. Previous attempts to recover the bells have all failed so far.