FTS 20:30 13-09: China and Venezuela seek to strengthen bilateral ties
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met in Beijing with the aim of consolidating bilateral relations. // In the US, the poverty rate is rising. // Thousands have died in Libya following floods. teleSUR
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00:00 Chinese President Xi Jinping and Venezuelan Head of State Nicolas Maduro met in Beijing
00:16 as both leaders pledged to take bilateral relations to the highest level.
00:24 U.S. authorities report that the country registered more than 9 million children in poverty.
00:33 On Wednesday, the city of Dernad in eastern Libya reported a death toll in the thousands
00:39 and a very high number of people were further after two dams burned under the pressure of
00:44 torrential rains.
00:52 Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Manuela Herrera from the Telesur headquarters in Caracas,
00:56 Venezuela.
00:57 For BGP the News, stay with us.
01:12 Chinese President Xi Jinping has a welcome ceremony for visiting Venezuelan President
01:16 Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday.
01:19 Upon receiving the head of state, the military band played the national anthem of Venezuela
01:23 and China and a 21-gund salute was fired.
01:27 Accompanied by Xi, Maduro reviewed the guard of honor of the Chinese People's Liberation
01:31 Army and the two heads of state also watched a march past of the guard of honor and a performance
01:37 of the military band.
01:46 Upon receiving the President of Venezuela, Xi Jinping expressed his support for Venezuela's
01:50 efforts to maintain its sovereignty, national dignity and social stability as well as resist
01:55 external interference.
01:56 In a meeting at the Great People's Palace, the Chinese President assured that his country
02:01 and Venezuela are good friends and partners.
02:04 For his part, the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro thanked the authorities for the support
02:08 of the Asian nation and assured that their relations are a model of the links between
02:13 the countries of the global south.
02:21 During his meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, the President of Venezuela Nicolas
02:25 Maduro affirmed that his country is ready to work and open a new era in the Venezuela-China
02:31 relations.
02:32 "First of all, on behalf of the Venezuelan people, I would like to express my best wishes
02:43 to you, the ancient China and the People's Republic of China.
02:47 The relationship between Venezuela and China are an example for the countries of the global
02:52 south.
02:53 I have witnessed how China has become a superpower, a superpower committed to peace, well-being
03:00 and cooperation for humanity.
03:03 My team and I are very happy to be in China again, and I am ready to work with the Chinese
03:09 side to open a bright new era in Venezuela-China relations."
03:14 During the meeting, Chinese head of state Xi Jinping praised the good health of bilateral
03:21 relations between China and Venezuela and stressed its nation's support for the sovereignty
03:25 of the South American nation.
03:28 "China and Venezuela are good friends with mutual trust and good partners for common
03:36 development.
03:37 China has always viewed the development of relations with Venezuela from a strategic,
03:42 high-level and long-term perspective, and will, as always, firmly support the efforts
03:49 of Venezuela to safeguard national sovereignty, national dignity and social stability, and
03:55 firmly support Venezuela's just cause of opposing foreign interference."
04:02 The same-lined leader of the Asian nation stated his country and Venezuela will upgrade
04:07 strategic ties with the purpose of enhancing their people's well-being.
04:11 "I am very happy to announce with you the upgrading of China-Venezuela relations to
04:20 an all-weather strategic partnership.
04:23 Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations
04:28 between our two countries.
04:29 I am willing to work with you to draw up a blueprint for the development of China-Venezuela
04:34 relations and to consolidate and deepen cooperation between the two countries in various fields,
04:40 so as to bring more benefits to the people of the two countries and inject more positive
04:45 energy for world peace and development."
04:47 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stated that the China-Venezuela High-Level Commission
04:54 is one of the most beneficial for the nations.
04:57 "All the commissions have been important.
05:05 I believe they have been fruitful.
05:08 But with the deep knowledge that I have, I say intensely, I believe that this is the
05:13 best day that the China-Venezuela High-Level Commission has ever had for the relationship
05:19 between our countries."
05:22 Venezuelan Executive Vice President Delsi Rodríguez referred to the historic relations
05:26 between both countries and the role of President Nicolás Maduro and his counterpart Xi Jinping
05:31 in the development.
05:34 "We know that China and Venezuela, one heart and one mind for their cooperation and under
05:42 the leadership of President Maduro and President Xi Jinping, have been able to remove from
05:49 the road all the obstacles that our cooperation has suffered in these 22 years of existence
05:56 of the Commission."
05:57 Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez highlighted the importance of the
06:02 science, technology and innovation for the members of the G77+ China.
06:08 At a press conference in connection with the G77+ China Summit to be held on September
06:14 15 and 16, the Cuban Foreign Minister affirmed that the summit draft final declaration includes
06:20 the purposes and principles of the group and admits the needs of developing countries.
06:28 Rodríguez points out that a document was conceived through a broad collective, harmonious
06:34 and constructive negotiation process.
06:47 Stay tuned for more news.
06:55 a look at the latest news.
07:23 Welcome back to From the South.
07:25 Now it's time for Venezuela on the Mood and we go to the central west of the country
07:29 we visit an agroecological farm in the state of Cogedes.
07:34 Our correspondent Adriana Sibori shows us in the following report how the agroecological
07:38 farm Doña María y Don Guillermo works and the importance that its workers gave to protecting
07:45 nature.
07:46 Let's see.
07:47 Ángel is the owner of this agroecological farm, a ritual at the entrance.
07:56 The people who come from outside put their hands inside because this is curative.
08:00 It cures arthritis.
08:01 It is bachaco soil.
08:03 It is an insect that lives in the tropics and gives out a fungus that has 108 macro
08:08 and macro elements and the body has precisely those 108 elements.
08:14 In the distance, one of his neighbors is fishing in silence, not even with the passing rain
08:19 does he flinch.
08:20 Here they call fish or any type of meat salado.
08:28 It is expensive to get outside because if we get enough for a kilogram of pasta, we
08:33 do not get enough to buy the salado.
08:38 So sometimes I ask permission to come and take 10 or 5 small fish.
08:43 And that's how you push forward.
08:45 That's how I push forward.
08:47 He helps me and I help him.
08:49 As you walk around the area, he's absurd and a good lunch arrives.
08:57 That's not a coporo.
08:58 That's tilapia.
08:59 How is it going to be a tilapia?
09:03 No, it's a coporo.
09:05 Can't you see?
09:08 He's one of the 14 siblings standing in the land.
09:11 Nature speaks, cries, moans.
09:13 It is true.
09:14 What happens is that we don't understand it.
09:16 If you put your ear to the ground, you can hear how the earth warms sound, how the flowers
09:21 grow.
09:22 But men do not know that.
09:23 The planetary system is in crisis.
09:25 Right now you can feel the climate change because unfortunately man has neglected to
09:29 protect the environment.
09:31 And what we do here is to protect the environment in an educational way.
09:35 He runs this place by himself, his daughters used to help him, now they live abroad.
09:43 That was a nightmare.
09:44 Imagine what it was for me.
09:45 A sacrifice, a heart blow in the chest.
09:48 But they will soon come back.
09:50 Here we have everything.
09:51 You throw any grain on the ground and it grows.
09:54 So there is no need to leave the country.
09:59 His brother-in-law lends a hand when he gives environmental courses to students or opens
10:04 for ecotourism.
10:05 Now there is little movement.
10:09 It's difficult.
10:12 Sometimes it's the gasoline, sometimes it's the transportation.
10:19 While the fire continues to burn, on one side in a corner Alma shows the compost he prepared
10:24 himself.
10:25 It is totally biodegradable.
10:29 It does not cause side effects to health, to nature.
10:31 What happens with chemical fertilizers?
10:34 They salinize the soil and compact it.
10:37 The bees, their passion.
10:42 Each one is high and they have no stinger.
10:46 They are the great pollinators of 270,000 tree species that exist in the tropics and
10:51 they pollinate that amount of trees.
10:53 That is why they have such importance.
10:56 Looking for a biologist to start a butterfly farm is his next step.
11:01 Luis Horacio Gutierrez and Adriana Sibori, Telesur, Cogedes, Venezuela.
11:06 On Wednesday, Brazil's Supreme Court opened the first trial for the January 8 riot in
11:12 Brazil by supporters of the former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who demanded Austria
11:16 to office his successor, Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva.
11:19 The first four defendants were tried before the Supreme Court of the capital, one of the
11:25 three buildings invaded and looted by thousands of Bolsonaro supporters, together with the
11:33 presidential palace and the Congress.
11:41 On January 8, 243 people were arrested in the acting site's public buildings and in
11:47 the Three Powers Square.
11:49 On January 9, 1,927 people were taken to the National Police Academy.
11:57 The criminal action engineered by the agents in which the defendants participated had the
12:00 nefarious motive of continuously preventing the regular exercise of constitutional powers
12:06 and provoking the deposition of the legitimately constituted government.
12:09 Also in Brazil, marches by indigenous women from several regions of the country continue
12:15 seeking the demarcation and protection of their lands.
12:19 Under the slogan "Women, Bámeas" in defense of biodiversity through our ancestral roots,
12:24 thousands of indigenous women mobilized in Brazil to demand their rights and demand the
12:28 demarcation of their lands and the end of illegal mining.
12:31 In this sense, next September 20, the vote on the time of armament will be taken up again
12:38 at the Supreme Court, a key trial for indigenous people and their ancestral territories.
12:43 In Peru, workers of the Administrative Services Contract Regime marched on Wednesday to demand
12:54 labor improvements from the government.
12:57 Workers from different parts of the country gathered at the San Martín Square in Lima,
13:01 capital of Peru, from where they began a march toward the National Congress to demand from
13:06 government agencies and the Ministry of Finance a labor system with decent benefits for all
13:12 public employees.
13:13 The main demands of workers is the payment of bonuses offered in the month of July, which
13:18 they have not received so far.
13:25 We the state workers are in a national day of struggle, mainly to stop the abuses and
13:29 lies of the Minister of Economy and Finance.
13:34 One of the first lies is to have signed a collective agreement for a special bonus of
13:38 600 soles that should have been paid in July.
13:45 We are already at the end of September and he has not yet presented a supplementary credit
13:49 bill.
13:53 It lies upon lies.
13:54 He signs an agreement and makes public offers and does not fulfill them.
14:01 Besides the abuses of his officials against the right to collective bargaining that has
14:05 cost us 42 years to achieve.
14:08 U.S. authorities report that the country registered more than 9 million children in poverty.
14:15 According to the official data, this is the highest increase in poverty for minors in
14:18 a single year in the history of the country.
14:21 According to Sharon Parrot, who chairs the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, this
14:26 increase is the responsibility of the Congress.
14:28 The overall poverty rate has also increased from 7.8 percent to 12.4 percent and according
14:34 to experts, the figures are a result of a lack of policies to address social issues
14:39 with respect to social index.
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15:26 This Wednesday, the city of Derna in eastern Libya reported death tolls in the thousands
15:32 and a very high number of people were feared dead after two drums burned all under the
15:37 pressure of torrential rains released by the floodwaters that sweep away everything in
15:41 their path.
15:42 Given the difficult access to this town of 100,000 inhabitants, uncertainty reminds us
15:48 of the number of victims of the disaster which could have left several thousand people dead
15:54 or missing according to the authorities.
15:56 Roads were cut off, landslides and floods prevented rescue services from reaching the
16:01 population who had to make do with rudimentary means to recover bodies buried by the thousands
16:08 in mass graves.
16:09 According to the images broadcast on social networks.
16:20 Lebanon sent a military plane with humanitarian aid to Libya departing from Maqar military
16:26 airport in Amman.
16:27 A senior official said that his country saw governments remaining in close cooperation
16:31 with the Libyan authorities.
16:33 Let's hear it.
16:37 We are in continuous communication with authorities there to assess their needs and to know whether
16:45 they need more aid.
16:49 We focused in this shipment on basic necessities such as food and relief aid like tents, blankets
16:56 and whatever needed in such conditions.
17:01 In addition to food parcels suitable for such situations.
17:05 It's Ali and Emily Trier, firefighters, lawn material including inflatable boats into the
17:13 plane at his airport before it heads to flood Libya.
17:20 On Wednesday the Italian defense ministry announced it will send a ship and two planes
17:24 to the North African country to deliver material and help rescue efforts following the catastrophic
17:29 floods that have left at least thousands dead and missing people.
17:43 French aircraft carrying around 40 rescuers and several tons of medical equipment including
17:49 a PAL hospital is preparing to take off from the Eastern military base in south of France
17:55 for Libya to help those affected by the deadly floods.
18:00 These assistance comes in addition to the efforts provided by the other nations such
18:04 as Turkey, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates which are among the first countries to respond
18:09 to the catastrophe in their war-risen country that also displaced tens of thousands.
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