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00:00Venezuelan authorities kicked off the so-called Tlan Republica operation with the objective
00:12of warranting the security and protection of the presidential elections this Sunday,
00:16July 28th.
00:20In Nepal, a plane carrying 19 passengers crashed during take-off, killing 18 people.
00:28And in Palestine, Israeli occupation forces killed at least 11 people in different raids
00:33in the occupied West Bank.
00:40Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:46We begin with the news.
00:58Let's begin our news briefs going live to Caracas with our special envoy in Venezuela,
01:04Brian Meyer, who has the new updates ahead of the July 28th presidential elections.
01:08Hello Brian, what is the latest from Venezuela?
01:13Well, today is the second to last day of the election campaign, and it's also a national
01:20holiday commemorating what would have been the birthday of Simon Bolivar, the liberator
01:28of South America from Spanish imperialists. It's also the 19th anniversary of Telesur,
01:34so the mood in the office is pretty positive today.
01:38Around the country, things are pretty calm. It's a holiday, so people are going out with
01:42their families, enjoying the nice weather. But tomorrow, there are massive rallies planned.
01:49Here in Caracas, Nicolas Maduro is expected to draw well over 100,000 people for his final
01:55rally of the season. The first rally on July 4th was enormous, and in the last couple days,
02:01the campaign has been picking up momentum, so it's expected to be even larger than the
02:06one that took place on July 4th. The other candidates are also having their final rallies
02:12tomorrow, so it's going to be a very busy day.
02:15Meanwhile, Elvis Amoroso, the head of the National Electoral Council, lashed out at
02:22the international press today for creating a climate of distrust and usurping the credibility
02:29in Venezuela's electoral process. Anyway, after tomorrow, all campaigning will come
02:36to an end, and we'll have three days in which alcohol sales are prohibited in Venezuela,
02:42and election day is marked for July 28th. That's the day when over 20 million, possibly
02:47over 20 million Venezuelans will come out to the polls to choose who their next president
02:51is going to be.
02:59Thank you very much. That was our special envoy, Brian Mayer, who was reporting live
03:03from Caracas on the latest developments ahead of the July 28th presidential elections. In
03:09this context, on Wednesday, Venezuelan authorities activated the Plan Republica with the objective
03:15of warranting the security and protection of the presidential elections of this July
03:2028th. The authorities are in charge of distributing the electoral material and maintaining control
03:26in the voting centers due to the threats of sabotage from the Venezuelan extreme right.
03:32In this regard, the president of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso, highlighted
03:36the work of the National Armed Forces in warranting the democratic process.
03:46The attacks are permanent and from here I denounce the media campaign, paid by dirty
03:51money, money from drug trafficking, money that has been stolen from you Venezuelans,
04:08the gold that has been taken from us, the Sidco oil company in the United States, stolen
04:25from us and that money is being used by foreign media to apply a campaign of destruction against
04:30the Venezuelan people in seeking to hinder these elections.
04:34For his part, the Venezuelan Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, reaffirmed the National
04:39Electoral Council as the only body in charge of issuing the official results of the presidential
04:44elections.
04:47However, outside the law usurps the function of the electoral power and I warn here clearly
04:54in the middle of the high political and military command of the Venezuelan nation.
05:05Whoever usurps that function is committing a crime and must be subject to an investigation
05:12and be prosecuted and arrested, because here there is no double standard of de facto parallel
05:25or satellite governments from abroad that usurp the powers of the Venezuelan state.
05:31At the same time, the Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, denounced the
05:35plans of the far-right to create violence against the Venezuelan people.
05:40Now, what this sector is proposing to Venezuela in the midst of the alibi, and it is my duty
05:47to denounce it, of the electoral moment, in a nightmarish exercise, if they triumph, is
05:55to literally repeat as a copy what the Zionist state of Israel has done in Gaza against the
06:02Venezuelan people.
06:04In Venezuela, the candidate for the Great Patriotic Pole, Nicolás Maduro, assured that
06:09the revolutionary forces are the only ones that can guarantee peace and stability in
06:14the country.
06:15Candidate Nicolás Maduro visited the people of Maracay in the state of Aragua, where he
06:20was received by the crowd awaiting his arrival, raising flags and banners as a token of their
06:25support before the presidential elections to be held on Sunday, July 28th.
06:30During this visit, the candidate of the Great Patriotic Pole assured that the map of Venezuela
06:35will be painted red, because today, more than ever, the people will come out to defend their
06:40convictions and the projects of the homeland.
06:43In this sense, the candidate for the Great Patriotic Pole assured that Venezuela will
06:47The candidate for the Great Patriotic Pole assured that the extreme right only intends
06:51to privatize all the institutions and companies of the country, as well as to destroy Commander
06:56Hugo Chávez FrĂa's great missions.
07:04During his visit to Valencia, in the state of Carabobo, the candidate for the Great Patriotic
07:09Pole qualified this great mobilization as the greatest mobilization in the history of
07:14the party, assuring that this was a sign of the great victory that will be achieved this
07:19coming July 28th.
07:21On the other hand, Nicolás Maduro stated that if the extreme right wing tries once
07:25again to undermine the peace of the country by generating scenarios of violence in the
07:30presidential elections, this would be the last mistake that it would make, affirming
07:35that he would be in charge of doing justice.
07:39Let's take a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok at TELESUR English,
07:45where you will find news in different formats, news updates and more.
07:49We'll be right back, stay with us.
07:59Welcome back.
08:00On Wednesday, a plane carrying 19 passengers crashed in Nepal, killing 19 people and leaving
08:06the pilots as the only survivor.
08:08In this regard, authorities confirmed that the accident occurred when the state-owned
08:12plane veered off the runway and crashed while trying to take off from Katamundu International
08:18Airport.
08:19In the meantime, authorities reported they had recovered the 18 bodies from the scene,
08:24while the sole survivor was hospitalized with minor eye injuries.
08:28Because of the accident of the plane that was bound for the city of Pokhara, a common
08:33entry point to the Himalayas are still unknown.
08:40In Spain, 129 migrants from the African continent arrived at the port in the Canary Islands after
08:46being rescued by maritime authorities.
08:48Red Cross sources indicated that the migrants, who are from sub-Saharan origin, were on board
08:54a cayuco, or open boat.
08:56The sighting was made by a vessel traveling from Portugal to Nigeria.
09:01After arriving at the Araguinan dock, seven of them were referred with serious pathologies
09:07to various hospitals.
09:08The Border and Coast Guard reported that in 2024, almost 20,000 people have tried to cross
09:14the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to reach the Spanish archipelago.
09:32Ukraine, under the Chinese government's mediation, prepares the conditions for dialogue
09:38with Russia to ensure peace.
09:40In this regard, Foreign Minister Wang Yi reported that his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmitry Kuleva,
09:45confirmed Kyiv's readiness to hold talks with Russia.
09:48During a bilateral meeting, Kuleva specified that the negotiations must be rational, substantial
09:54and aimed at achieving a just and lasting peace.
09:57The Ukrainian diplomat also valued as highly positive and significant the active role of
10:03China in the promotion of peace and the upholding of international order.
10:07In addition to a peace plan, both parties address bilateral relations.
10:18China believes that all conflicts must be settled at the negotiating table and all disputes
10:23should be resolved by political means.
10:26Recently, both Ukraine and Russia have shown their readiness for negotiations.
10:30Meanwhile, after the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleva announced his readiness to establish
10:35a dialogue with Russia, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said,
10:39This is certainly better than Kyiv's statements to exclude any contact with the Russian side.
10:45We will have to wait for concrete actions to judge what the Ukrainian side's intentions are.
10:50Of course, to speak about dialogue in one or another tone is much better than to speak about
10:56the intention to fight to the last Ukrainian.
11:03Laos is getting ready for the 57th Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations,
11:09ASEAN, which will be held in the country's capital, Vientiane, from Thursday to Saturday.
11:15With the theme ASEAN Enhancing Connectivity and Resilience, the Association's 10 member states
11:20will be addressing crucial affairs such as increasing cooperation in innovative technological projects,
11:26the ethnic conflict in Myanmar and the disputed South China Sea.
11:31The latter is in relation to the maritime claims of China, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia
11:38over the sea to the south of China and several islands within and nearby.
11:43The participating foreign ministers are expected to issue a joint statement on the issue after their talks on Thursday.
11:50In the Philippines, the passage of Typhoon Gaemi caused severe flooding that affected the infrastructure
12:14and hundreds of thousands of people in the country.
12:17According to reports from the Philippine National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council,
12:22on Monday, Gaemi went from tropical storm to typhoon with winds of up to 150 km per hour
12:29and gusts of 185 km per hour while moving towards the northwest territory of the archipelago.
12:36The agency also indicated that the typhoon affected close to 800,000 people, causing the death of eight of them so far.
12:44The phenomenon has caused heavy rains and floods in several regions.
12:54In this context, the Chinese region of Taiwan is preparing for the arrival of Gaemi in the evening hours of this Wednesday.
13:01The Central Weather Agency ordered the suspension of classes and on-site work in 21 cities and counties,
13:07as well as the cancellation of more than 100 flights.
13:11The agency also issued a warning for extremely torrential rains in the mountainous regions.
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14:02In Palestine, at least 11 people were killed by the Israeli army in assaults on the occupied West Bank during the last 24 hours.
14:09In this sense, on Wednesday, a 16-year-old teenager was killed after being shot during clashes with Israeli soldiers in Qalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem.
14:18On the other hand, a large contingent of vehicles of the occupation army also stormed family residences
14:24as part of their policy of collective punishment of the Palestinian population.
14:29Meanwhile, six people were reported wounded by bullets and two by beatings by Israeli soldiers,
14:35while the rest of the deaths occurred during assaults in the localities of Tubas and Tulkarem.
14:47On Wednesday, relatives mourned the death of Abdel Al Nasser Sarhan, 23 years old,
14:53who was killed by the occupation army during a raid in Tubas in the northern West Bank.
14:58In this sense, local media pointed out that the young man was a customs officer
15:03and was shot by Israeli troops while on duty without posing any threat.
15:07It should be noted that 589 Palestinians, including 142 children,
15:13have been killed by Israel since the beginning of the genocidal war in Gaza on October 7th
15:19amidst the intensified incursions in the occupied West Bank.
15:28Parallel to the attacks of the occupation army,
15:31Israeli settlers intensified their attacks against the Palestinian population in the occupied West Bank.
15:36In this way, on Wednesday night, a group of extremist settlers set fire to homes and vehicles
15:42in the town of Huwara south of Nablus.
15:44In the meantime, local media denounced that the escalation of attacks
15:48comes just days after the International Court of Justice ruled as illegal
15:52Israel's decades-long occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
15:59Also on Wednesday, the media office of the Gaza government said that
16:04Israeli occupation forces have killed 16,000 children in the Gaza Strip
16:09since the beginning of the aggressions on October 7th.
16:12In this regard, an official statement also stressed that
16:15as the death toll is close to 40,000 in Gaza,
16:18a total of 35 children have died due to malnutrition
16:22while 17,000 others live without one or both parents.
16:26In this context, the U.S. Jewish Dr. Mark Perlmutter
16:30declared on Sunday during his return to the United States
16:33that Israeli snipers deliberately fired on Palestinian children.
16:44Definitively, I have two children that I have photographs of
16:48that were shot so perfectly in the chest
16:50I couldn't put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately
16:53and directly on the side of the head in the same child.
16:57No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the world's best sniper
17:02and they're dead center shots.
17:18On Wednesday, the French government confirmed that
17:20the opening of the Olympic Games will be held on the Sin River.
17:24In this regard, President Emmanuel Macron said that
17:27the security checks had been carried out after months of hard work.
17:30Furthermore, he assured that the Sin planned for the opening ceremony
17:34will be maintained, where more than 200 participant delegations
17:39will parade along the river waters aboard barges
17:42in the presence of more than 300,000 spectators.
17:46For their part, the French authorities confirmed
17:48they have activated the anti-terrorist perimeter
17:51restricting access to the ceremony area.
17:59In other notes related to the Paris 2024 Games,
18:02the Palestinian Olympic Committee and the Palestinian Football Association
18:06demanded the exclusion of Israel from the Paris 2024 Games
18:10due to the crimes committed by the country, especially in the Gaza Strip.
18:14Let us recall that Palestine, through a letter
18:16sent to the President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach,
18:20and to the head of the FIFIA, Yossi Infantino,
18:23denounced the Israeli violation of the observance of the Olympic truce
18:27for the Paris 2024 multi-sport event.
18:35We have come to the end of this news brief.
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18:48Thank you for watching.