FTS 16:30 18-08: In Ecuador electoral silence is established after the end of presidential campaigning
In Ecuador the electoral silence is in force, after the campaign for the presidential and legislative elections of next Sunday, august 20, ended on Thursday//the world meteorological organization warned that the impact of climate change in the southwest pacific region is increasing//the government of Belarus assured that it would respond immediately if Ukraine, the Baltic countries or Poland acted aggressively against it. teleSUR
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00:00 In Ecuador, the electoral silence is in for after the campaign for the presidential and
00:15 legislative election next Sunday, August 20th and on Thursday.
00:24 The World Meteorological Organization warned that an impact of climate change in the southwest
00:29 Pacific region is increasing.
00:35 The government of Belarus assured that it will respond immediately if Ukraine, the Baltic
00:40 countries or Poland act aggressively against it.
00:46 Hello, welcome to From the South, I'm Ana Marrero from the Telesur headquarters in Caracas,
00:55 Venezuela.
00:56 I'm Ana Marrero, I'm with the News, stay with us.
01:12 Electoral silence comes in for after the campaign for the presidential and legislative elections
01:17 of next Sunday, August 20th and this Thursday.
01:21 From midnight local time and until the elections are over, political propaganda will be providing
01:27 a rule that applies to any act of proselytism but does not include this dissemination in
01:35 social network.
01:36 Also, from midday on Friday and until noon on Monday, dry love is enforced, suspending
01:44 the sale, distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverage.
01:54 The candidates for the presidency of Ecuador close on Thursday.
01:58 The campaign events in a date mark about a tribute to the candidate murdered by a hired
02:03 assassin and the denouncement of an alleged shooting attack by others.
02:09 The memory we have and the responsibility we assume and that is why I'm here present,
02:16 for fulfilling what is ethical, for fulfilling dreams, for not allowing the destruction of
02:21 a project.
02:22 We are here to decide whether this August 20th we leave this country to the mafias or
02:28 we build a homeland for all.
02:33 Manuel, former Iowan vice president and presidential candidate Otto Sonelsnerd also spoke in Guayaquil
02:41 and indigenous leader Yaqu Perez turned Quito.
02:46 Our country is going to get out Ecuadorians of this hole in which a miserable political
02:50 class that the only thing they do is worry about themselves has put us.
02:57 Committing ourselves to zero tolerance for corruption, zero tolerance for common crime
03:01 and zero tolerance to organized crime.
03:07 In this context National Electoral Council inaugurate on Friday the Hump voting system
03:12 to facilitate the suffrage of people over 50 or with disabilities.
03:18 The Electoral Council implemented this strategy to facilitate suffrage for the people who
03:24 might need it.
03:25 With this purpose members of the borough will move in vehicles to the beneficiaries' homes.
03:34 Today we inaugurate voting at home, a process that has been emblematic for the CNE for more
03:39 than a decade, allowing people over the age of 50 or with a physical disability of at
03:44 least 75% to exercise the right to vote from home.
03:49 This initiative has positioned Ecuador as a benchmark in the hard work to guarantee
03:53 right to political participation and inclusive decision making.
03:59 The president of the National Electoral Council, Deana Tamay, points out that at least 1,224
04:06 people deprived of their liberty exercise the right to vote in the country.
04:11 Yesterday we have one of the most important milestones of the electoral calendar.
04:16 Yesterday was a day in which persons deprived of their liberty without enforceable sentence
04:19 voted.
04:20 Out of 4,766 people, 1,224 people voted yesterday in 20 provinces, out of 24 nationwide.
04:31 And this day took place in absolute tranquility, in absolute normality.
04:38 The Mexican government reiterated its commitment to resolve the case of the 43 missing students
04:43 from Ayotzinapa, while the province maintained doubts.
04:47 The Undersecretary of the Interior, Alejandro Encinas, reaffirmed the commitment to clarify
04:54 where the students are.
04:56 Throughout communique, the president of the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice
05:00 for the Ayotzinapa case assured that this is a state matter and will get to the bottom
05:06 of the investigation, which is why the search for the students in the area of the city of
05:11 Iguala has not concluded.
05:13 The hacker Walter Delagatti confessed on Thursday in Brazil that the former president
05:26 of that nation, Jair Bolsonaro, suggests hacking the electronic voting system in the last elections.
05:31 According to the hacker, Bolsonaro wanted to use this hacking to demonstrate the alleged
05:40 fragility of the electronic suffrage system.
05:43 Delagatti stated before the parliamentary commission investigating the assaults on national
05:49 law powers on January 8 that the former head of state even promised him a pardon in case
05:54 he was caught carrying out this illegal task.
05:59 Who was the man behind his attempt at electoral fraud?
06:06 Deputy Carlos Ambeli on the orders of the then-president Bolsonaro.
06:11 Who asked him to take responsibility for the alleged phone taping of the minister of the
06:16 Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, the then-president Bolsonaro?
06:21 Who invited him to make electoral propaganda to suggest to the population an alleged fraud
06:26 in the electoral system?
06:28 The advertiser Duda and the then-president Bolsonaro.
06:33 Who directed you to the Ministry of Defense to elaborate questions to the High Electoral
06:38 Court about the voting system?
06:40 The advertiser Duda and also the then-president Bolsonaro.
06:44 Who told you that if you committed an illegal act you would be pardoned and receive a pardon?
06:50 The then-president Bolsonaro.
06:52 Who gave him carte blanche, and even illegally?
06:56 The then-president Bolsonaro.
07:01 In Argentina, the government and all companies freeze gasoline, increasing prices until after
07:06 the October elections.
07:08 The minister of economy, Sergio Massa, announced this Thursday night that fuel prices will
07:14 be frozen until October 31st to contain the impact of the devaluation.
07:19 He also announced a 90-day extension of the understanding with mass consumption companies.
07:26 Massa explained that the impact of the devaluation on the refinery sector that will be distributed
07:34 among consumers will pay this single increase.
07:37 Let's take a very short break, but remember you can now join us on our Tiktok account
07:46 @esaluxurenglish where you'll be able to see news in different formats, news updates
07:50 and more.
07:51 Stay tuned for more news.
07:51 Welcome back to From the South.
08:13 In Argentina, more than 1,000 families were affected by the flooding caused by heavy rainfalls
08:18 that hit the city of La Plata with particular strength.
08:22 According to reports from the authorities, in one hour, it rains the same volume of water
08:28 the equivalent to what it usually rains in the whole month of August.
08:32 As a consequence, thousands of streets and houses were totally flooded after the streams
08:37 across the city overflowed.
08:42 Over there, the water is up to the chest.
08:45 Almost all the neighbors have left.
08:47 It started early in the morning with hail and at 10 o'clock in the morning, we started
08:51 to help each other to evacuate.
08:53 Today, it started to rain and the stream in the back overflowed it.
08:57 And as you can see, it caused a disaster in the neighborhood.
09:00 Unfortunately, it is always the working people, the humble people who bear the brunt.
09:06 The politicians fix their houses, their streets and light up their neighborhoods.
09:10 But you don't see them here.
09:15 In Japan, a protest is held in front of the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo against
09:20 the Fukushima sewage disposal plant.
09:23 Hundreds of Japanese are rallying in different areas of Tokyo to protest against the government's
09:27 plans to discharge radioactive water into the sea from the Fukushima nuclear power plant,
09:34 demanding the immediate suspension of the project.
09:37 The Japanese government, which from the outset considered discharging the radioactive water
09:42 into the sea, has given all sorts of excuses, stressing that other methods of disposal will
09:48 either not work or would be impractical.
10:00 The World Meteorological Organization, an agency attached to the UN, warned that the
10:06 impact of climate change in the South-West Pacific region is increasing.
10:10 The WMO detailed that during the last La Niña event, the average temperature in the Pacific
10:16 area was 0.2 C in 2022 and passed to 0.3 C higher than what was recorded in 2011.
10:26 The head of the agency, Petri Talas, estimated that now, with the El Niño phenomenon, it
10:33 will continue in the remainder of 2023 and will have a great impact on the region.
10:44 And this year, some storms in North China have increased.
10:48 These storms are a contamination problem and also hydro-agriculture.
10:54 To meet this challenge, the country is transforming its areas into pasturites and forests.
11:01 China aims to restore almost 6 million and 700 thousand hectares of desert areas with
11:14 grassland and forests by 2025.
11:17 One of the goals of fighting desertification in China is to ensure the country's food security.
11:22 Per capita, arable land is only 0.08 hectares, which is less than a third of the OECD average
11:30 of 0.27.
11:32 According to FAO data, Inner Mongolia, which is home to large deserts and sandy lands,
11:38 has been leading the country's effort against desertification from 2012 to 2022.
11:44 The autonomous region planted more than 8 million hectares of trees and more than 19
11:50 million hectares of grassland.
11:53 There are two main aspects of restoring lands degraded by desertification.
11:57 Firstly, it requires local sources of native seeds that are suitable and sufficient for
12:01 ecological restoration in order to meet ecological needs of the specific region.
12:06 Secondly, it depends on data, such as soil, water, and plants.
12:10 Data helps determine the climatic conditions and plant communities suitable for a given
12:14 latitude and longitude, providing guidance for restoration efforts.
12:19 Therefore, based on local native seed sources and data-driven systems, we have been able
12:23 to guide ecological restoration in grasslands, deserts, and mines, achieving long-term ecological
12:29 sustainability.
12:31 The battle against desertification also aims to reduce pollution levels in the country.
12:36 This year, sandstorms have become more widespread, longer, and more frequent in China, mainly
12:42 affecting the country's northern regions and provinces.
12:46 The dust from these storms contains environmental pollutants and microorganisms such as bacteria,
12:52 fungi, and viruses.
12:55 We use native plants suitable for the local ecological environment to provide comprehensive
13:00 solutions.
13:01 The aim is to solve ecological problems through ecological methods.
13:05 Thus, desertification control, especially in arid and semi-arid areas, aims to create
13:11 a frontier to stop the spread of desertification, rather than turning it into an oasis.
13:17 We use native plants suitable for the local environment to create this boundary, preventing
13:22 the spread of desertification and achieving the vegetation expansion effect that pushes
13:26 the desert back.
13:27 Wuliangsu Lake is located in the city of Baiyangnur and is the largest wetland in the Yellow River
13:33 Basin, the second longest in China.
13:36 Lakes in arid and semi-arid regions play an important role in maintaining the balance
13:41 of regional ecosystems, which contributes to preventing land desertification and thus
13:46 reducing sandstorms.
13:48 Wuliangsu functions as an environmental protection to control the sources of sandstorms.
13:54 From 2020 to 2022, a restoration project in the region aimed to transform more than 8,000
14:00 hectares of saline alkali soils into arable land, in Urat Front Banner.
14:06 There is one of the recovered soils.
14:09 Banners are one of the Inner Mongolia's administrative divisions.
14:13 There peasants grow wheat and pepper.
14:16 This is called intercropping and is an agroecological practice that helps to prevent insect attacks,
14:22 among other advantages.
14:24 The pepper is destined for the market and wheat is for the family's self-consumption.
14:31 Agriculture and livestock farming in Baiyangnur are very important and serve as a key industry.
14:37 Baiyangnur has always been a farming and livestock-oriented area.
14:42 For local peasants, agriculture is a crucial source of income.
14:46 In addition, livestock farming in Baiyangnur is well-developed.
14:50 Livestock farming, especially sheep breeding, allows for year-round production.
14:56 Our goal is not only to restore and protect grasslands for contemplation purposes only,
15:00 but also to achieve the integration of production, livelihood and ecology.
15:04 This is in line with the concept of community-observed future for humanity as proposed by the General
15:10 Secretary where animals, plants and humans share a common home.
15:33 Welcome back.
15:44 The government of Belarus assured that it will respond immediately if Ukraine, the Baltic
15:49 countries or Poland add aggressive lead against it.
15:52 President Alexander Lukashenko indicated that the response will be overwhelming because
15:56 Belarus is not at competition with them or has any differences.
16:01 The president said that if there are hassle in the incidents on the part of the Baltic
16:06 countries, the response will be forceful which will result in considerable losses and damage.
16:18 Russian and Chinese navy ships have been jointly conducting maritime patrols and naval exercises
16:25 in the Pacific Oceans in order to counter the air strikes.
16:29 Images released by the Russian Defense Ministry on Friday show ships of the navy of the two
16:35 countries participating in the joint maritime patrols.
16:40 The maneuvers involve rescue training and anti-aircraft drills.
16:48 Hundreds of Palestinians on Friday bid farewells to the remains of Hassan Abu Udo.
16:54 She named a Palestinian citizen who was imprisoned after years of agony caused by Israeli gunfire.
17:01 The model reminds of the "this is a word carried in prosections as it is tradition in Palestine
17:08 to bid farewells to the martyrs killed by the Israeli regime."
17:12 As reported by the Palestinian Health Ministry, Abu Ushayn 30 never fully recovered from the
17:19 injuries he suffered in May 2021.
17:26 Iran's intelligence ministry announced the arrest of a key suspect in the recent terrorist
17:32 attack claimed by Daesh on Mosul's Shirin.
17:35 A statement issued by the foreign ministry on Friday reported that among those captured
17:41 was the key suspect who sponsored the terrorist operation and maintained direct contact with
17:49 the head of Daesh foreign operations in Syria and Afghanistan.
17:53 The terrorist attack on the holy compound of the Shrine of Shiran in Shiraz occurred
18:00 on August 13 and claimed the lives of two people and wounded eight others.
18:12 The UN mission in Mali, the MINUSMA, has completed its withdrawal from the military bases in
18:18 Beirut and Gondar because of violence between the Turkish rebels and the army.
18:23 The United Nations' Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission said in a communique
18:30 that UN bases were now closed and handed over to the state of Mali through its designated
18:38 civilian representative.
18:44 In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 230 people, including children, have died
18:49 of cholera in the first seven months of 2023.
18:51 In this period, more than 31,340 suspects or confirmed cases of the disease were registered
19:00 in the country.
19:01 The most affected province has been North Kibbutz, which has more than 21,400 confirmed
19:08 or suspected cases, including more than 8,000 children under the age of five.
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