US President Barack Obama has cancelled a planned meeting with the President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Durterte, who earlier described him as the 'son of a whore' . [ALT without offensive language: '...who earlier used coarse language to describe the American leader.']
It came after Mr. Obama had said he would raise the issue of drug related murders with Mr. Duterte, whose crackdown has led to the unregulated killings of nearly two and a half thousand suspected drug dealers and users since he took office in June.
Here's our US correspondent Lorna Shaddick.
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