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00:00 Egypt's summit moves forward with discussions on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza

00:13 Strip, the peace process, and calls for an end to Israeli bombardments.

00:20 In Venezuela, the National Electoral Council confirmed that the consultative referendum

00:24 on the Ezequiel territory will be held on December 3rd, 2023.

00:31 In Pakistan, thousands of supporters of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif demonstrated for

00:35 his return after four years of self-exile in London.

00:43 Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Adelazoo Studios in Havana,

00:47 Cuba.

00:48 I'm Luis Alberto Matos, and I'm here with the news.

01:01 The Peace Summit, a forum for world leaders to discuss a way out of the Palestinian-Israeli

01:04 conflict opened in Egypt.

01:06 With the presence of more than 20 countries and international organizations, the Gaza

01:10 Peace Summit, organized by the Egyptian government, started this Saturday.

01:13 Two weeks after the beginning of this new conflict in the Gaza Strip, the international

01:17 community is trying to prevent the situation from spreading to the rest of the Middle East.

01:22 Although the meeting is attended by the Palestinian President and other Arab leaders, it is worth

01:26 noting the absence of Israeli representatives at the summit, which aims to achieve a ceasefire.

01:36 Egypt affirms and reiterates its complete rejection of the forced displacement of Palestinians

01:44 and the exodus to the Egyptian territories in Sinai, as this is nothing but a final liquidation

01:52 of the Palestinian issue, an end to the dream of an independent Palestinian state, and the

01:59 eradication of the struggle of the Palestinian people and the Arab and Islamic people.

02:07 For his part, Jordan's King Abdullah II denounced and condemned the message being put out in

02:11 the world that Palestinian lives matter less than Israeli ones.

02:16 Yet the message the Arab world is hearing is loud and clear.

02:23 Palestinians' lives matter less than Israeli ones.

02:28 Our lives matter less than other lives.

02:34 The application of international law is optional, and human rights have boundaries.

02:42 They stop at borders, they stop at races, and they stop at religions.

02:49 That is a very, very dangerous message, as the consequences of continued international

02:55 apathy and inaction will be catastrophic on us all.

03:02 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for action to end the ongoing conflict of

03:06 the International Peace Summit in Cairo.

03:10 The time has come for action, action to end this God-awful nightmare, and action to build

03:18 a future worthy of the dreams of the children of Palestine, Israel, the region, and our

03:24 world.

03:25 Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned against displacing Palestinians from

03:30 Gaza, West Bank, and Jerusalem.

03:33 We warn against attempts to displace our people from Gaza to elsewhere.

03:40 We also warn against any expulsion of Palestinians from their homes or displacement from Jerusalem

03:48 or the West Bank.

03:49 We will not accept displacement, and we will remain steadfast on our land, no matter what

03:55 the challenge is.

03:58 In the short time the Rafah crossing was open, humanitarian aid trucks that were stranded

04:02 at the Gaza border with Egypt finally had access to the Palestinian territory.

04:06 Trucks carrying food and supplies for affected families began passing through the Rafah border

04:10 crossing from Egypt on Saturday, after being blocked for more than two weeks due to pumpings.

04:15 According to UN reports, the operation led by the Egyptian Red Cross sent more than 20

04:20 trucks to the Palestinian enclave.

04:22 More vehicles with humanitarian aid are expected to enter the territory in the coming hours,

04:27 as well as ambulances with supplies and medical personnel trained to treat the wounded.

04:35 Australia holds demonstrations in support of the Palestinian resistance.

04:39 The mobilization took place this Saturday and was attended by thousands of people who

04:43 marched through the streets of Sydney from the City Hall.

04:46 The event was attended by both Australian sympathizers and Palestinian migrants residing

04:50 in the country.

04:51 During the march, the protesters denounced the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation

04:55 forces and demanded an immediate ceasefire.

04:58 Palestine has been always our land and it will remain our land.

05:06 It's not the first colonization and it's not going to be the last.

05:11 Palestinians always emerge victorious and we will get through this.

05:16 It's a genocide.

05:17 There's a lot of kids being killed who are completely innocent, who need aid, who need

05:22 food, who need water, who need shelter.

05:25 That's what we're here today to show.

05:27 We're showing our voice from Australia that we do stand with these people who deserve

05:31 humanitarian rights.

05:32 Let's take a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok @TelescopeEnglish where

05:38 you will find news in different formats, news updates and much more.

05:44 Other stories coming up.

05:45 Stay with us.

05:45 Welcome back to From the South.

06:09 In Venezuela, the National Electoral Council confirmed that the consultative referendum

06:13 on the Ezequiel territory will be held on December 3rd, 2023.

06:18 The head of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso, indicated that in the next

06:23 few days they will provide information to the Venezuelan people on the details of the

06:27 consultation prior to the analysis to be made by the electoral power on the questions to

06:32 be answered in the national call.

06:34 Elvis Amoroso stated that this action strengthened democracy and the people by the power granted

06:40 to them by the constitution of Venezuela as original constituent power.

06:44 The measure is preceded by a request made by the National Assembly whose proposal was

06:49 approved by parliamentary unanimity and we seek the defense of territorial sovereignty.

07:02 In a decision taken at today's meeting by unanimity of all directors and by virtue of

07:11 the fact that the National Assembly had already been notified of the management or approval

07:19 by the National Assembly of the document that you bring today, Mr. President, the date of

07:26 December 3rd

07:46 was already approved to hold this referendum with all the people of Venezuela, that all

07:52 the people of Venezuela participate in this new electoral celebration that we will have

08:00 in these days.

08:02 The president of the electoral body also added that he will have three days to present the

08:06 questions to be applied on December 3rd.

08:11 We will be informing all the people of Venezuela about this issue, the document and the analysis

08:19 to be made by the electoral power on the questions and we also tell you that in the schedule

08:26 approved by the board of directors of the National Electoral Council, we will have three

08:34 days to give an answer and present to the people of Venezuela which will be the questions

08:41 to be asked by all Venezuelans on December 3rd so that they can express themselves.

08:49 The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodriguez, informed our request

08:53 to call for the consultative referendum in defense of the Ezequiel-06 as a proposal to

08:57 advance in defense of national sovereignty.

09:03 A proposal that involves and encompasses all of us, a proposal where we can all go together

09:07 to defend our national sovereignty, a proposal where we can all go together regardless of

09:17 our political ideology, independently of our creed, independently of our vision that accompanies

09:22 each human mind.

09:29 That we can all move forward to say from our hearts of patriots, "I defend my territory

09:34 of the Guyana Ezequiel," to say the son of Venezuela is born in the Ezequiel.

09:40 In Guatemala on Friday, President-elect Bernardo Arevalo participated in the mobilizations

09:45 that took place in the capital.

09:47 This October 20th is the 79th anniversary of the democratic spring promoted by Juan

09:51 José Arevalo, father of the current president-elect of the country.

09:55 Arevalo claims to be in a moment of uncertainty, however it is a moment of unity for all citizens.

10:00 The commemoration event comes just when Guatemalans are celebrating 19 days of national strike,

10:05 where they gather in Guatemala City with several marches where they demand the resignation

10:09 of the attorney general, María Consuelo Pogras.

10:19 Today we are faced with the tyranny of corrupt people who shamelessly enrich themselves at

10:27 the expense of the suffering and poverty of the people and the lack of development of

10:34 the country.

10:35 But today we are at the end of that hot, burning heatwave, feeling in our faces the freshness

10:44 of the wind and the rains that announce a new life, a new era of prosperity, a new spring.

10:52 Today as a people we find ourselves once again standing against history with the opportunity

10:59 in our hands to stop the process of destruction of our democracy.

11:22 Welcome back from the south.

11:41 In Pakistan, thousands of supporters of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif demonstrated on

11:45 Saturday for his return after four years of self-exile in London.

11:49 Earlier this week, the Islamabad High Court granted Sharif protective bail until Tuesday,

11:53 October 24, removing the threat of immediate arrest once he returns to the village.

11:58 Numerous banners and posters were put up in Lahore to welcome his arrival.

12:03 Sharif's return was publicized for months by Sharif's party, whose leaders hoped his

12:07 presence could revive a now-flagging popularity.

12:11 The former Prime Minister was removed from office by the Supreme Court in 2017 following

12:15 a special investigation into money laundering and corruption stemming from the disclosure

12:19 of the so-called Panama Papers.

12:26 The current situation in Pakistan is related to inflation.

12:30 The people are very poor.

12:32 Only Sharif can control the situation.

12:34 We worked on construction sites, but now with these conditions we are all jobless.

12:39 Because all the construction sites are closed now, they will return.

12:43 We have full faith in them that they will promote the construction sector as well.

12:49 The commander of France's forces in the Sahel said on Friday that 1,500 French soldiers

12:54 would leave Niger by December 31, a time frame announced by French President Emmanuel Macron

12:58 late last month.

12:59 The pullout demanded by Niger's military holders started last week after the July ouster of

13:04 President Mohamed Bassem, a key ally of Paris, threw France's strategy for the Sahel region

13:09 into disarray.

13:11 French General Eric Ossane, at the joint press conference with Niger's Colonel Mamane Sanikiaou

13:17 in the capital Niamey, said the objective of presidential announcements of a departure

13:21 on December 31 will be met.

13:23 Ossane also stated that two large convoys of military vehicles that were in the northern

13:27 area have left, adding that a number of convoys carrying non-sensitive equipment had begun

13:32 to leave.

13:38 The objective of presidential announcements of a departure on December 31 will be met.

13:44 That's it.

13:45 The disengagement will be fulfilled in the time allotted to us, and there will be no

13:49 more French soldiers on that date in Niger.

13:54 We're calling on the population precisely not to, what you call it, behave, I wouldn't

13:58 say irresponsibly, but to stir up hatred.

14:02 Today we've worked together for years.

14:04 We asked for them to leave.

14:06 So we'd like everything to go very, very well.

14:08 For them to be able to return to Chad.

14:12 A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency watched on Friday how some of

14:16 the fish samples they collected at the Fukushima fish market were being prepared for nuclear

14:21 examination.

14:22 They watched the scientists process the fish for subsequent testing at designated laboratories

14:26 to evaluate, analyze, and ensure the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's ongoing discharge

14:30 of treated wastewater into the sea is safely carried out.

14:33 A group including two IAEA experts and independent scientists from China, South Korea, and Canada

14:39 observed laboratory workers process fish at the Marine Ecology Research Institute in Japan's

14:44 southeastern coast of the Chiba Prefecture.

14:47 China immediately banned all imports of Japanese seafood the day the release began, badly hurting

14:52 Japanese seafood producers, processors, and exporters, and Russia recently joined China

14:57 in the trade restrictions.

15:02 It's really important that laboratories in neighboring countries are able to compare

15:09 their results and are able to measure against the same standard because then the credibility

15:14 of the data that they are reporting and that they are exchanging increases.

15:18 And these samples were very well homogenized in the sense that identical samples will be

15:24 provided to laboratories which are participating in the exercise.

15:29 And the results of these measurements done in different laboratories will then be reported

15:35 to the agency.

15:36 The agency will prepare a report that will show how well the data produced by the different

15:42 laboratories compare between them and this will be a proof of the quality of the data

15:49 reported in the monitoring program by Japan.

15:54 Authorities in Scotland reported two people dead due to the flood caused by Storm Bebbit,

15:58 the body of a 57-year-old woman was found on Thursday in the coastal region of Angus

16:02 in Edinburgh after being swept into a river and a 56-year-old man was killed when a falling

16:07 tree hit his van.

16:09 Scotland police said a search was underway on Friday after reports of a man trapped in

16:12 a vehicle in floodwater.

16:14 Parts of eastern Scotland experienced severe flooding on Friday after Storm Bebbit brought

16:19 heavy rainfall and winds of more than 113 km/h, which overwhelmed the fences and left

16:25 thousands of homes without power.

16:27 The storm continues to hit the region which led to maintain the red alert and the evacuation

16:31 of some areas.

16:56 The Viñales Valley always amazes visitors.

16:59 The tourists can find there both captivating landscapes and stories of surprising lives.

17:04 It was precisely following one of them that the Cuba on the Move team arrived at this

17:07 dazzling place in the geography of the Pinal del Rio region in western Cuba.

17:12 "The landscape is fascinating.

17:16 This is the famous Viñales Valley, a World Heritage Site.

17:19 It is distinguished by its mogotes of diverse shapes and shades that are not repeated in

17:25 any other place in Cuba.

17:26 They are unique.

17:27 The protagonist of this story says that riding through Viñales stimulates him as much as

17:33 going for a walk in Paris."

17:35 "Viñales has become one half of me right now.

17:39 Viñales has been part of my identity since I was a child, as a Pinareño, and it turns

17:45 out that life has given me the wonderful possibility to live in the heart of Viñales."

17:50 Journalist, writer, filmmaker and now entrepreneur Luis Orlando de la Foz lives in Mogote Art,

17:57 this incredible place where natural beauty, good taste and exquisite treatment will delight

18:02 even the most demanding visitor.

18:04 Mogote Art is more than a house for rent, as it is promoted on the Internet.

18:08 It is an authentic cultural project that, according to its owner, is defined by a single

18:13 word "Pinal del Rio".

18:16 "I believe in what I feel, and I feel this reddish land, this soil, these lovely peasants

18:24 with hacks, these green cheddas and this food.

18:28 And there is a wrong idea sold in Cuba to the tourists, even at cultural level, that

18:34 everything happens in Havana.

18:38 There is a deep Cuba, there is a green Cuba, there is a natural Cuba, there is a Cuba that

18:43 I live up to heard.

18:46 One can live in Paris, in Madrid, in Amsterdam, in Rotterdam, in Utrecht, in Quito, any place,

18:53 but your nature's reddish land cannot be removed from your shoes or from your head.

19:00 Even if you want to, it is impossible."

19:03 Mogote Art is always a surprise here.

19:06 The visitor can find sculptures by the artist Avelio Le Cor, the typewriter of the narrator

19:11 and scriptwriter Elisabeth Altsunaga, or a original by the plastic artist Lester Campa,

19:17 but also the most diverse works of art and literature, such as a collection of texts

19:21 about Alicia Lonsdale and dance.

19:23 It is not strange that guests might meet Christian Scott Thomas, one of the leading actors of

19:28 the famous film "The English Patient", the hairdresser of the movie "The Titanic", or

19:33 Patricio Wood, one of the most recognized faces of Cuban cinema.

19:37 "I wanted to show a cultural Cuba, the Cuba that I am, the Cuba I believe in, which is

19:43 that Cuba that we have deep down inside, all the problems that we have, but always with

19:48 a theme that I defend and that I always try to make so.

19:51 I don't do anything by having writers come here and sit down to read their stories among

19:56 themselves.

19:57 I don't do anything by having here someone from Ecuador selling their motorbikes.

20:02 No, the local people, the ones that live here, the ones that sow the valley and cultivate

20:07 it, they are the ones that have to be here.

20:10 That's to say, there should always be communication with the community."

20:13 Events of photography and ecotourism are held here and for the last four years, the International

20:20 Meeting of Children's Literature in Pinar del Río has been held here.

20:24 Luis Orlando says that art opens his mind and that is why Mogo Tiarte flies along.

20:29 He says that he is a Guajiro who fled from the countryside looking for art.

20:33 He lived in Europe for 20 years, worked in his profession, published books and wrote

20:37 scripts for reality shows and soap operas, but he came back seven years ago.

20:42 "I had to leave Cuba to discover how Cuban I was.

20:47 There are many Cubans today doing Cuban things outside of Cuba.

20:50 The important thing is the nation.

20:52 I believe that the important thing is Cuba.

20:54 I believe that the important thing is the Cuban identity.

20:57 And I'm not saying that the Cuban identity got into the pores of my skin because I was

21:02 born here and that is inevitable.

21:04 But it grows more into you when you travel, when you believe yourself as a Cuban, much

21:09 more that if you didn't leave the country.

21:11 I believe that this Cuban identity that boiled inside me while being outside of Cuba is what

21:17 kept me here."

21:22 Today, Luis Orlando does not get tired of portraying this landscape.

21:28 He says he neither misses his profession nor his time as a successful scientist.

21:36 He says that all that for him is gathered in one word, creativity and creativity in

21:42 Mogo Tiarte.

21:44 Fabiola Lopez, Telesur, Pinar del Río, Cuba.

21:48 We have come to the end of this news break.

21:49 From here you can find this and many other stories on our website, Telesur English.

21:52 You can also join us on social media, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.

21:58 For Telesur English, I'm Luis Alberto Matos.

22:00 Thank you for watching.

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