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*In Palestine Israeli attacks kill more than 10,500 people
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*In Palestine Israeli attacks kill more than 10,500 people
*Tashkent hosts Summit of Regional Economic Alliance in Uzbekistan
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00:00 In Palestine, official stress that attacks by Israeli occupation forces continue throughout
00:14 the Gaza Strip.
00:20 In Panama, thousands of people move left throughout the country for the 19th consecutive day to
00:24 reject the mining contract.
00:30 In Uzbekistan, leaders from the Economic Cooperation Organization held a summit in the capital.
00:41 Hello welcome to From the South, I'm Ana Rosa Vald from the...
00:53 On Thursday, an in Palestine official stressed that attacks by Israeli occupation forces
00:57 continue throughout the Gaza Strip.
01:00 On Wednesday night, thousands of Palestinians were killed as a result of the bombing in
01:04 the refugee camps of Hebalia and Sabra, bringing the death toll to more than 10,500 in October
01:10 7th.
01:11 In the meantime, thousands of affected people are walking long distances to flee the fighting
01:16 and bombings in northern Gaza.
01:17 For its part, the Hamas group declared that in response to the siege carried out by Israel,
01:23 its soldiers continue to successfully confront the occupying forces, destroying tanks and
01:27 war vehicles.
01:33 On Wednesday, 106 trucks of humanitarian aid entered Palestine throughout the Rafah border
01:39 crossing.
01:40 Local authorities pointed out that the units entered the Gaza Strip loaded with medical
01:44 supplies, water and food, through the only entrance that is not controlled by the Israeli
01:49 sietch.
01:50 They also pointed out that these instruments did not include fuel or resources necessary
01:54 for the operation of hospitals, bakeries and water purification plants.
01:59 In this context, they pointed out that 12 ambulances transferred to the Egyptian territory
02:03 israel wounded to the hospital of Al-Arish, 40 km from the Rafah border crossing.
02:14 For his part, the spokesman for the UN Secretary General, Stefan Duharric, pointed out that
02:19 the volume of humanitarian assistance reaching Gaza only covers a fraction of the needs of
02:25 the civilian population.
02:46 The World Health Organization warns that the Gaza Strip faces a growing threat of the spread
02:51 of infectious diseases amid the collapse of the health system, water supply and sanitation.
02:56 The UN agency reported that due to the worsening hostilities, severe overcrowding and the disruption
03:01 of health, water and sanitation systems pose an additional danger.
03:05 Thus, since mid-October, there have been several cases of diarrheas, cavities and lice, chicken
03:11 pox, skin rashes and other respiratory infections.
03:15 The agency highlights that the media causes the closure of desalination plants and the
03:19 interruption of soil waste collection due to the lack of fuel.
03:23 In the face of this danger of trends, the WHO called for urgent and accelerated access
03:28 of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and called on the parties to the conflict to comply
03:33 with their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect civilians and
03:37 civilian infrastructure, including health care.
03:45 A total of 99 employees of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the East
03:50 perished in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone in one month, UN Secretary-General's
03:55 Spokesman Stefan Duhari told at the Friends Conference.
03:58 Since October 9, Israel has kept the Palestinian enclave without basic supplies, although on
04:03 October 16 it received water supplies to southern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of civilians
04:10 are displaced these days.
04:12 Several countries called on Israel and Hamas to stop hostilities and negotiate a cease-fire.
04:17 Voices are also multiplying in favour of a two-state solution as the only possible way
04:22 to achieve lasting peace in the region.
04:24 The hostilities have so far resulted in more than 1,400 deaths and nearly 5,500 wounded
04:31 in Israel, and some 10,300 dead and 25,900 wounded in the Gaza Strip, according to the
04:38 latest available data.
04:45 The Israeli occupation army is one of the most powerful in the world.
04:49 However, the resistance militias in southern Lebanon have learned how to defeat it.
04:54 The method had been learned by the Palestinian fighters.
04:57 Their special envoy to Lebanon, Alejandro Kirk, tells us how.
05:06 This behind my back is a museum to the Lebanese resistance.
05:10 Here a fighting site, an operation centre for 15 years until the Zionist invader was
05:14 defeated, expelled from the Lebanese territory.
05:18 But it hides some secrets that should be known because they can be key to understanding what
05:22 is happening at this moment in Gaza.
05:27 For 15 years, between 1985 and the year 2000, in the heart of this strategic mountain, the
05:34 then-emerging Lebanese resistance confronted successfully the Zionist invaders and their
05:38 local allies.
05:40 The guerrillas prepared for the Tel Aviv soldiers what they called the Abyss, represented here
05:44 by this collection of captured weapons and the replica of an Israeli tank.
06:01 As proclaimed by the leader of the Party of God, or Hezbollah, Sayed Nasrallah, Israel
06:06 is but a fragile spider's web.
06:14 Moses works here as a tour guide, but he is in reality a keen geopolitical analyst.
06:19 He knows every nook and cranny of the defensive network and exudes confidence in the resistance's
06:24 ability to defeat any scheme of the Israeli regime.
06:33 Not only the tunnel was protecting the resistance, the oak forest too.
06:48 The tunnels are the military doctrine of the sons of the earth.
06:52 The people of Vietnam showed it during the Japanese, French, and US occupations.
07:00 In southern Lebanon, as in Gaza, tunnels are the Zionist invaders' nightmare.
07:09 Israel used to bomb this place almost every day.
07:12 For you to survive in this environment you need a tunnel like this so you can stay alive.
07:26 We have 50 meters of hard rocks above US on this mountain, so the fighters were well protected
07:31 from the attacks of the Israeli army.
07:34 It was dug by hand, with simple tools, so as not to make noise, because they have noise
07:40 detectors.
07:49 It was very hard, for three years.
07:52 They worked day and night.
07:54 Thousands of tons of rock and soil came out of here and they had to carry them far, on
07:59 their backs, camouflaged and in silence, so the Israelis wouldn't find them.
08:05 Otherwise, the whole mission would be a failure.
08:13 Would it be accurate to say that this is what is expected for the Zionists in Gaza?
08:19 Yes.
08:21 They are actually expecting it, that's why they are making the Holocaust against the
08:25 Palestinian.
08:32 Because by killing the people that killed the resistance, you win with perseverance,
08:37 you win with courage and you win with brains.
08:46 In the midst of the drought, the Libyan government of Gaza Strip, which has left more than 10,300
08:59 people dead, the German authorities' registers show protests in favor of the Palestinians.
09:05 The increasing violence in the Middle East has brought about the organization of 150
09:10 demonstrations in support of the Palestinian cause, said the Minister of the Interior,
09:14 Nancy Faiser.
09:16 The demonstrations announced the murder of more than 3,500 children in the airstrikes
09:21 in just over a month, while late night the UN officials, more than 70 journalists and
09:26 130 doctors had been killed by the Tel Aviv fire.
09:30 Germany, together with other Western nations, maintained support for Israel, despite the
09:35 announcement of the Palestinian genocide by international organizations and after the
09:39 destruction of thousands of homes, schools, hospitals and UN offices in Gaza.
09:50 South Korean demonstrators protested on Thursday to criticize the meeting between the US Secretary
09:55 of State Antony Blinken and South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin-in Seoul.
10:00 The protesters threatened support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and criticized
10:03 the actions of the United States in the face of such events.
10:06 During the protests, they urged Secretary Blinken to register people's resolution of
10:11 the Israeli-Palestinian conflict throughout an immediate ceasefire.
10:15 Blinken arrived in Seoul on Wednesday night after the G7 foreign ministers' meeting in
10:19 Tokyo and a tour of the Middle East.
10:27 Although the United States says it opposes Israel's large-scale occupation of the Gaza
10:32 Strip, it is making money from the blood of the Palestinian people by selling weapons
10:36 to Israel.
10:37 It is a permanent member of the Security Council and the United Nations General Assembly that
10:42 can voice the opinion of the international community.
10:45 However, as the United States is opposing the ceasefire resolution, we know very well
10:50 that they are not sincere in their word.
10:54 Let's take a short break.
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11:23 Welcome back.
11:24 On Wednesday in Panama, thousands moved live for the 19th consecutive day nationwide rejection
11:30 of the mining contract.
11:32 Demonstrators were pressing in black clothes in homage to the two fatal victims killed
11:36 on October 7 by an armed man.
11:39 Since October 20, tens of thousands of citizens, unions and social organizations have been
11:43 staging massive demonstrations in rejection of the renewal of the 40-year concession to
11:48 the Canadian mining company First Quantum to continue exploiting the largest open-pit
11:53 mine in all of Central America.
11:55 On Thursday, demonstrations were called in the capital while there was a shortage of
12:00 goods and services due to blockades in the main air turrets of Panama.
12:10 The President of Nicaragua, Aníl Ortega, has expressed his support for the Venezuelans
12:14 considering the referendum and its equivalent, recognizing Caracas' historical right to
12:18 the territory.
12:19 During the commemoration of the 47th anniversary of the immortality of Commander Carlos Fonseca,
12:25 the Nicaraguan President sent his words of support to the people and government of Venezuela.
12:30 In addition, Ortega revealed that President Nicolás Maduro is fighting the battle of
12:33 Líbar and Chávez, while denouncing that the government of Guyana is granting concessions
12:38 to the American companies and territory that does not belong to it.
12:49 The Peruvian Congress postponed a debate on the dismissal of the members of the National
12:52 Award of Justice that was to be held this Wednesday.
12:56 Days after multiple congressmen expressed that they would not attend the debate since
12:59 the decisions that would be taken during the decision would have no legal value.
13:04 Due to the resolution previously issued by the Superior Court of Justice that ordered
13:08 not to continue the process against the National Justice Board, they also detailed that the
13:13 eventual dismissal of the award members would be a judicial disobedience.
13:16 In view of the situation, the President of the Congress, Alejandro Soto, appealed a judicial
13:21 decision that prevents the legislature from removing the award.
13:30 The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists ended the
13:34 strike that began on May 2 after reaching an agreement with major film studios.
13:40 While the cessation of the strike was announced, the agreement in principle reached on Wednesday
13:44 has yet to be approved by the union's board and its members.
13:47 For his part, the organization representing the studios said it was pleased with an agreement
13:52 which it described as a new paradigm.
13:55 Details of the agreement were not immediately available, but according to a union representative,
13:59 as of Thursday, the strike has come to an end.
14:08 In the United States, on Wednesday, the Republican presidential candidates held a debate in Florida
14:12 and the United States, while the absent candidate, Donald Trump, held a rally a few kilometers
14:16 away.
14:17 The debate's focus is discussion on issues such as the crisis in Ukraine and Palestine,
14:22 foreign policy with China, abortion, the arrival of migrants to the country, and the future
14:27 of the party.
14:28 Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and Authority Governor Ron DeSantis
14:32 attended the stage in an effort to be the leading candidates in the event of Trump's
14:37 possible disqualification.
14:39 The third debate came just a day after the Democrats' core key electoral victories
14:43 in conservative swing states, particularly on abortion rights.
14:51 On the other hand, former President Donald Trump snubbed the Miami event and he sent
14:55 Haley a rally a few miles away from the Republican presidential debate.
14:59 According to Trump, the Biden regime is trying to imprison its political opponents, vying
15:03 for his pitch, taking bribes and kickbacks to enrich himself.
15:07 During the debate, candidate Ron DeSantis sharply criticized Trump's absence, noting
15:12 that he "should be on the stage" and explained why he should have another chance to be president.
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16:00 On Thursday, a leader from the economic cooperation organization held a summit in Uzbekistan's
16:05 capital, Tashkent.
16:06 Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Turkey and Iran are part of the
16:14 economic cooperation organization and the summit, which is the 16th of its kind.
16:20 It was held from November 8 to November 9.
16:23 The leader focused on improving development and promoting trade and investment opportunities
16:28 in South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East.
16:31 His president received Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday that his Western nations are being weak in
16:36 the face of civilian deaths in Gaza and called Muslim nations to display unity against Israel's
16:43 actions.
16:44 Western nations, which constantly talk about human rights, freedoms and democracy, are
16:53 observing these massacres by Israel from afar.
16:56 These countries and organizations are too weak to even call for a ceasefire, let alone
17:02 criticize child murderers.
17:06 Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived on Thursday in the capital of Kazakhstan to meet
17:11 with his counterpart Kassym-Yamal Togayev.
17:14 The leader of the two countries plans to review the state of bilateral relations with special
17:18 emphasis on mutual collaboration in various trade areas.
17:22 Putin and Togayev will also discuss regional and international issues as well as the sign
17:26 of important agreements.
17:28 The two leaders also plan to make a speech via videoconference at the 19th Russia-Kazakhstan
17:33 Regional Cooperation Forum to be held in the city of Kostanay.
17:42 Within the framework of the Russian leader's visit to Kazakhstan, the two governments will
17:46 sign agreements worth a total of $100 million at the forum in the regional cooperation being
17:52 held in the Kazakh capital on Thursday.
17:55 President Vladimir Putin confirmed the signing of the several trade contracts and added that
17:59 these steps show the successful development of the Russia-Kazakh economic cooperation.
18:05 The forum brings together representatives of more than 30 regions of the two countries,
18:09 including head of government bodies, legislative representatives of ministries and departments
18:14 based in academics.
18:22 On Thursday, local media in Spain reported that the Spanish Social Workers' Party and
18:26 the Formation Together for Catalonia and Red Shoe Brussels, an agreement on the future
18:30 of annexing for people who participated in the independent process in Catalonia in 2017.
18:37 After 12 weeks of negotiations, this agreement opens the door to a new investor of the socialist
18:41 Pedro Sánchez, at the head of the government in the coming days.
18:46 In this way, Sánchez has the support of 173 parliamentarians.
18:51 The secretary of organization of the Spanish Social Workers' Party, Santos Sardin, affirmed
18:56 that the agreement constitutes a historic peace to resolve conflicts that can and must
19:00 only be resolved through politics.
19:08 On Thursday, the Pacific Island Forum began on the island of Aitutaki, belonging to the
19:12 Good Island, New Zealand.
19:14 Members of the Pacific Island Forum meet to discuss the climate crisis, nuclear safety
19:18 and the rivalry between the United States and China.
19:21 Among the major concerns expressed, the Forum is Japan's decision to release wastewater
19:26 from a nuclear power plant into the sea.
19:29 The summit was attended by several political leaders, who will also be participating in
19:33 a retreat in Aitutaki on Friday as part of the closing of the Forum, considered the main
19:38 pan-regional organization in Oceania.
19:41 "As we all continue to witness on a daily basis, there are a multitude of opportunities
19:50 and complexities before us as a region.
19:54 But key to capitalizing on these opportunities and overcoming shared complexities is our
20:01 solidarity as a region."
20:04 And we have come to the end of this brief, but before saying goodbye, we want to thank
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