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00:00 In Palestine, the Gaza Health Ministry confirmed the death of 16 children from malnutrition
00:16 and dehydration in the Kamal Adwan Hospital.
00:21 In Russia, authorities summoned the German ambassador in the context of the scandal unleashed
00:24 by the League of Conversations between German and Ukrainian military personnel.
00:31 In Argentina, TELAM's website has been disabled and is built in fenced off three days after
00:36 President Javier Meleo announced the closure of the news agency.
00:44 Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Adelaiso Studios in Havana,
00:48 Cuba.
00:49 Let's begin with the news.
01:08 In Palestine, the Gaza Health Ministry confirmed the death of 16 children from malnutrition
01:13 and dehydration in the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north of the Strip, completely besieged
01:17 by Israeli genocidal troops.
01:20 At least 16 Palestinian children have died from dehydration and malnutrition at Kamal
01:24 Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip as the Laviv titans equipped and blockaded
01:29 the area, according to local health officials.
01:32 The hospital's medical directors are also warning about the possibility of more deaths
01:37 due to these scuds.
01:38 Additionally, the lives of many patients are threatened by the lack of energy since the
01:43 Zionist government, supported by the United States, has also prevented the entry of fuel
01:47 for electric plants.
01:48 Israel has blocked since January 23 the entry of food, medicine and fuel to the north of
01:53 the enclave.
01:54 The few convoys that have entered the area are brutally attacked.
02:03 On Sunday, Israeli occupation troops shelled Rafah, killing at least 16 Palestinians.
02:07 Two of the victims were twin babies of the Abu Al-Nusra family.
02:11 The baby's mother, Rani Abu, said that the attack occurred after she had been breastfeeding
02:16 her children when a shell fired by Israeli forces hit the house, killing her children,
02:20 her husband and 11 other people, including family and friends.
02:24 In addition to the dead and wounded, the attack left several buried under rubble.
02:33 In Israel, several members of the Occupation Military Spokesperson's Unit have submitted
02:37 their resignation, including the second man in charge of the team.
02:41 It was stated that the second in command of the unit, Moran Katz, and the Israeli Army's
02:45 Spokesperson for Foreign Media Affairs, General Richard Heschid, along with many high-ranking
02:49 officials have submitted their resignations in light of the Gaza conflict.
02:54 Israel reports say the resignations were seen as a reflection of dissent among officers
02:58 concerning both operational and personal matters.
03:01 In this context of the ongoing genocide of Israel on the Gaza Strip, recent media reports
03:05 highlighted significant disagreements between the government and the military over the war
03:11 and post-war strategy for Gaza.
03:17 On Monday, the Egyptian media highlighted that representatives of Egypt, Hamas, Qatar
03:21 and the United States continue negotiations in Cairo to reach a truce in Gaza between
03:26 Israel and the Palestinian Resistance Movement.
03:28 In this sense, the state press Al-Kahira News indicated that Egypt is continuing its intensive
03:35 efforts to reach a truce before Ramadan, which is due to begin on March 10 or 11.
03:41 The report also noted that talks between delegations involved have made significant progress towards
03:46 a six-week truce.
03:47 In turn, Israel announced on Sunday that it would finally not send a delegation to the
03:52 Cairo talks, alleging that the Palestinian Resistance Movement has not updated its list
03:56 of hostages as requested by Israeli authorities.
03:59 Meanwhile, Gulf Cooperation Council countries urged on Sunday to pave the way to reach a
04:04 lasting truce in the Gaza Strip.
04:08 In Lebanon, the Deputy Secretary General of the Resistance, Hezbollah Naim Kassem, denounced
04:16 the United States as responsible for the Israeli siege in the Gaza Strip.
04:19 Through the International Union of Resistance, Ulema, Deputy Chief Naim Kassem rejected Washington's
04:25 objective on the control and reshaping of the Palestinian Territory.
04:29 Hezbollah later emphasized that if it were not for the support of the White House, the
04:33 Israeli government could not continue the aggression in Gaza.
04:36 After almost five months of crimes, the Hezbollah leader pointed to Israel's inability to eliminate
04:40 the resistance and the U.S. plans to calm the atmosphere and maintain the hunger blockade
04:45 to achieve its goals.
04:51 In Algeria, the seventh summit of the Gaza Exporting Countries Forum concluded on Saturday
04:55 with the reaffirmation of the member states' absolute sovereign rights over their gas resources.
05:01 The Algeria's declaration endorsed at the summit condemned unilateral economic restrictions
05:06 without prior approval of the United Nations Security Council and any extraterritorial
05:10 application of national laws and regulations against the member countries.
05:14 The declaration also acknowledged the risks and challenges to the natural gas market arising
05:19 from the geopolitical and economic situations, and stressed the need for sustainable investments
05:23 and the integrity of critical natural gas infrastructure.
05:27 The forum is formed of 12 permanent and seven observant members as of February and collectively
05:32 holds about 70% of confirmed global gas reserves.
05:37 "Member countries reiterate their condemnation of all unilateral economic restrictions undertaken
05:48 without the prior approval of the United Nations Security Council and any extraterritorial
05:56 application of national laws and regulations against GECF member countries."
06:03 "We need to protect all the world's energy infrastructures because they are so important.
06:13 There are cross-border infrastructures which we mentioned in the Algerian declaration.
06:21 And this is the first time we want to send out a strong message to protect energy facilities."
06:28 On Sunday, several OPEC+ member countries announced their decision to extend voluntary
06:32 cuts to support the stability of the oil markets.
06:35 The measures to be implemented in the second quarter of 2024 will cut production by 2.2
06:40 million barrels per day.
06:42 These reductions have been calculated based on the level of production required for this
06:45 year at the 35th Ministerial Meeting of the OPEC+ held last June.
06:50 The addition of voluntary cuts have been announced by Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates,
06:54 Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman.
06:57 Russia will also join the voluntary cut with 471,000 barrels per day.
07:03 Let's take a short break but remember you can join us on TikTok @TelesurEnglish where
07:10 you will find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
07:16 Other stories coming up, stay with us.
07:41 Welcome back from South.
07:42 In Russia, in the context of the scandal unleashed by the leak of a conversation between German
07:47 and Ukrainian military personnel, the ambassador of Berlin to Moscow, Alexander Graf, was summoned.
07:52 The Russian Foreign Ministry will discuss with the German diplomat the recording confirmed
07:56 as authentic.
07:57 In this audio, the German Air Force officers discuss the possible bombing of the Eastern
08:02 Bridge in reference to the repeatedly hit Crimean Bridge in the middle of the conflict.
08:07 The maneuver would be carried out with Taurus missiles, which would also be supplied to
08:11 Kiev.
08:12 They also admit that they have been involved with Ukraine for a long time, in addition
08:16 to other statements that could be considered declaration of war.
08:19 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised that the leak of such sensitive information will
08:23 be investigated thoroughly, intensively and quickly.
08:31 German Parliament held an emergency session to debate the scandal over leaked audios on
08:36 the planning of an attack on Russia's Crimean Bridge.
08:39 The Third Stenfrave pointed out that a special meeting of the Defense Committee was necessary
08:44 as there is an urgent need for parliamentary clarification.
08:46 At the same time, he considered it necessary that the meeting be attended by German Chancellor
08:50 Olaf Scholz.
08:52 The audios unveiled by a Russian news agency revealed the German Armed Forces' plot to
08:56 attack the Crimean Bridge with missiles, as well as the possibility of supplying Taurus
09:00 missiles to Ukraine.
09:07 In Turkey, the Third Antalya Diplomacy Forum, which was attended by almost 5,000 representatives
09:13 from some 148 countries, concluded.
09:16 The third edition of the annual event was held under the theme "Highlighting Diplomacy
09:20 in Times of Crisis".
09:22 During the event, more than 20 heads of state and government from some 100 countries participated
09:27 in meetings and diplomatic exchanges.
09:30 In this sense, topics such as global crisis, climate change, immigration, anti-Islamism,
09:35 trade wars and artificial intelligence were discussed.
09:39 The talks were attended by students, academics, non-governmental organizations and representatives
09:44 of the business world.
09:50 The Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey dedicated a session to climate change.
09:54 Foreign ministers from Gambia and Madagascar and the Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister discussed
09:59 the challenges faced by humanity.
10:01 The foreign ministers from the African continent told TORUS what the Global South could do.
10:08 How will future generations remember us?
10:11 That was the topic of the session.
10:13 Moderator Andrea Hankia recalled that the United Nations Secretary-General already used
10:17 the expression "climate boiling".
10:20 Madagascar's Foreign Minister Rafara Baviratka Rosada warned that her country hosts 5% of
10:25 global biodiversity.
10:27 She explained that Madagascar had adopted the climate plan in 2021, but still faced
10:32 the problem of deforestation.
10:34 According to Rosada, her country was seeking to achieve two goals at once, adapting to
10:39 climate change and overcoming poverty.
10:42 The minister called for strengthening cooperation in financial terms as well as in sharing technology
10:48 and knowledge.
10:49 "South-South cooperation is really critical nowadays, especially because we are facing
10:56 the same issues and the same problems, the same challenges.
11:00 So we need to address these issues with a very, very pragmatic approach.
11:05 We need more partnership and solid partnerships."
11:09 According to Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Mehmet Kemal Busey, not sharing new technologies
11:15 constitutes a new form of colonialism.
11:18 Busey announced that the Turkish Parliament was preparing a law to adapt to climate change.
11:23 Gambian Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara criticized international climate conferences
11:29 for only making promises.
11:30 "I no longer participate in them," said the foreign minister, who also criticized colonialism
11:36 for having focused agriculture of his country only on exports.
11:40 "We will develop our own policies, give priority to agriculture and become self-sufficient,"
11:45 said the Gambian politician.
11:47 "We need to speak one language, be united in our desire and our objective to confront
11:55 the big players, to make them understand that this is not an issue of one country, it's
12:01 a global challenge and climate change does not know borders, does not need a passport
12:07 to affect all of us.
12:08 So we have to fight to pull our..."
12:12 On Sunday, in Pakistan, Shabaz Sharif was voted as Prime Minister for a second term.
12:24 He ran as head of a shaky coalition that overshadowed followers of yellow opposition leader Imran
12:29 Khan.
12:30 Khan's party handed secure more seats than any other party, but not enough to form a
12:35 government.
12:36 Sharif, 72 years old, first served as Prime Minister in 2022, heading a strictly similar
12:41 alliance which ousted Imran Khan, a former cricket star.
12:44 Sharif got 201 votes by newly sworn-in lawmakers in Pakistan's National Assembly, over three
12:50 weeks after widely disputed and allegedly rigged national elections.
12:53 The Sharif family's Pakistan Muslim League, Nawaz party, allied with their historic rivals,
12:58 as well as several smaller fractions, to keep Khan's candidates out.
13:02 In return, the Pakistan People's Party, or PPP, a dynastic party ruled by the family
13:07 of slain former Premier Benazir Bhutto, has been promised the office of President for
13:12 Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari.
13:22 On Sunday, on the eve of China's Communist Party annual meeting in Beijing, a spokesman
13:25 for China's Political Advisory Council said the economy, especially youth employment,
13:29 was of great concern to party delegates.
13:32 Thousands of delegates from across the country will convene in Beijing on Monday for the
13:36 start of the party's yearly conclave, known as "Two Sessions."
13:40 The meeting is come as the world's second-largest economy battles a range of challenges, from
13:43 a protracted property crisis to flagging domestic consumption and persistently high youth unemployment,
13:50 which officially stood at around 15 percent at the end of 2023.
13:54 China reported an economic growth of 5.2 percent last year, one of its lowest rates in decades.
14:03 The Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council have given priority
14:08 to promoting employment in economic and social development and have made a series of specific
14:13 arrangements.
14:14 Various localities and government departments have taken measures to create a synergy in
14:18 stabilizing and expanding employment.
14:39 Welcome back.
15:00 In Argentina, only three days after President Javier Melea announced closure for the news
15:05 agency, TELAM staff has found the building where the newsroom is located fenced off,
15:10 as well as the website was disabled and all the workers were relieved of their duties
15:15 for a period of seven days.
15:16 In the last hours of Sunday, TELAM's website, from which the agency's services were accessed,
15:22 was taken down.
15:23 On entering the site, a national coat of arms and the "Legend" page under "Reconstruction"
15:28 appeared.
15:29 As a result, the previously published content, consisting of thousands of articles, photographs
15:34 and multimedia material, cannot be viewed.
15:37 After Melea announced the closure of TELAM on Friday night, TELAM workers had called
15:41 for an embrace of the agency's building, located at Bolivar 531, to take place this
15:47 Monday at 12.30 pm.
15:49 However, at Sunday midnight, police officers anticipated the protests and fenced off the
15:53 building, preventing the workers from entering.
16:06 Since last night, members of the internal commission of TELAM, the General Secretary
16:09 of the Press Union of Buenos Aires and the General Secretary of the Argentine Federation
16:13 of Press Workers, remain inside the headquarters of Bolivar 531.
16:18 In a tweet made by the journalists of the agency, Andrea Boccano, we can see the front
16:23 of the building being guarded by armed police force.
16:26 In the tweet, she stated that public media is a necessary voice, continued by the hashtag
16:31 "TELAM is not closing and TELAM is defending itself".
16:41 In Argentina, several T-shirt guilds that are part of the Workers' Union will carry
16:44 out a national strike this Monday due to the lack of proposals to adjust salaries by the
16:48 government of President Javier Melea.
16:51 The Argentine Teachers' Union, the Association of Technical Education Teachers, the Confederation
16:55 of Argentine Educators, the Argentine Union of Private Teachers denounced the elimination
17:00 of the National Teachers' Incentive Fund and the Salary Compensation Fund, as well
17:04 as the cuts in infrastructure, pedagogical programs, financing and resources to the provinces.
17:10 Hundreds of thousands of teachers are below the poverty line.
17:13 The unions emphasized in a statement in which they add that they will not be able to pay
17:18 for household services, transportation to work or food to live.
17:27 In El Salvador, on Sunday, over 5 million registered voters took part in municipal and
17:31 parliamentary elections.
17:33 The Supreme Electoral Tribunal said that over 1,595 voting centers were set up for citizens
17:38 to choose 40 mayors, along with municipal council members, and 20 national deputies
17:43 to the Central American Parliament.
17:45 On this election day, there were some incidents that delayed the opening of some polling stations
17:49 and some streets had to be blocked for security reasons.
18:02 On Sunday, the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, in his social media, acknowledged
18:07 the defeat of his party in key municipalities of his nation.
18:10 In this sense, the Salvadoran President recognized that the New Ideas Party had suffered defeats
18:14 in very important municipalities in the political map of the nation such as San Miguel Centro,
18:19 Zona de Centro and La Libertad Este.
18:21 In the meantime, Bukele criticized the bad administration of members of his party, which
18:25 he called a punishment vote to the bad management of some mayors.
18:29 On the other hand, the Central American President emphasized that the new mayors belonged to
18:32 parties indisputably allied to his administration.
18:43 In Mexico, Alfredo González, a candidate for the municipal presidency of the Labour
18:47 Party, was murdered amid the wave of violence affecting the electoral campaign.
18:51 According to the Attorney General's Office of the State of Guerrero, the homicide occurred
18:55 on Sunday afternoon while González was driving his vehicle on Juan Álvarez Boulevard, where
19:00 the aggressors shot him repeatedly, causing him to lose control and overturn.
19:05 After confirming the murder, the State Prosecutor's Office indicated that agents of the Ministerial
19:08 Investigative Police and personnel from the Forensic Services went to the scene to carry
19:13 out the corresponding investigation.
19:15 The authorities collected the necessary evidence at the scene of the crime.
19:18 In addition to this event, there have been other violent actions against public figures
19:22 in Guerrero.
19:28 In Haiti, government authorities declared a state of emergency and a curfew amid rising
19:32 violence by parliamentary groups.
19:34 The entire western part of the nation has been declaring a state of emergency after
19:37 several days of violence.
19:39 An assault on the national penitentiary aggravates the extreme situation in the Caribbean nation.
19:44 More than 3,500 prisoners were released by parliamentary groups in a bloody attack that
19:48 left at least 12 dead and numerous wounded.
19:52 Several governments have instructed their nationals to leave the country, but there
19:55 is much uncertainty about airport security.
19:59 Among the few prisoners who remain in the penitentiary, there are several wounded.
20:06 I was hit by a bullet here and another one a little above the foot.
20:11 That happened around 9 o'clock at night.
20:13 I'm alive by miracle.
20:15 Colombian authorities announced on Sunday that 17 Colombian citizens deprived of their
20:19 liberty and independence already assaulted by criminal gangs in Haiti have been transferred
20:23 to another prison.
20:24 Precisely, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia informed that the transfer of
20:28 those accused as mercenaries who participated in the assassination of Prime Minister Jovenel
20:33 Moïse has been the result of negotiations with the Government of Haiti, which acted
20:39 after receiving the Colombian diplomatic note, in which Bogotá requested that special protection
20:44 be given to the fiscal integrity and security of the Colombian nationals deprived of their
20:48 liberty.
20:49 It should be noted that Sunday's assault on the Pueblo Prince Penitentiary left at
20:53 least 12 dead and several wounded.
21:00 We have come to the end of this news brief.
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21:10 For TELESFORENGLISH, I'm Luis Alberto Maduro.
21:12 Thank you for watching.
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