FTS 8:30 05-08: Venezuelan Attorney General denies arrest warrants against opposition leader
05/08/2024
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00:00In Venezuela, Attorney General Tarek William Saab denied the existence of arrest warrants
00:17against opposition leader MarĂa Corina Machado and former presidential candidate Edmundo
00:22González Urrutia.
00:26The G7 countries have been informed by the United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken
00:29about a possible attack by Iran and Hezbollah against Israel.
00:35And in Bangladesh, amid protests, Prime Minister Sheikh Haseena resigns from office and leaves
00:40the country.
00:46Hello and welcome from the south, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from the Resolute Studios in
00:50Havana, Cuba.
00:51We begin with the news.
00:52The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, denied on Sunday that there were arrest
00:57warrants against opposition leader MarĂa Corina Machado and former presidential candidate
01:01Edmundo González Urrutia.
01:03During an interview to a Colombian news outlet, William Saab asked to see the alleged arrest
01:08warrants issued by his office.
01:10The leader Machado had assured through her social media that she would go underground,
01:14although 48 hours later she abandoned the strategy and participated in a protest.
01:19The prosecutor did reiterate that the acts of terrorism will not go unpunished, referring
01:23for example to the two Chavista leaders who were assassinated in less than 48 hours, one
01:28of them 65 years old.
01:30Saab insisted on the need to cease the acts of violence in the country.
01:39In Venezuela also, re-elected President Nicolás Maduro, in the framework of the 87th anniversary
01:44of the Bolivarian National Guard, denounced that the country is facing a coup d'Ă©tat
01:48that he described as cyber-fascist, while urged the cohesion of the civil-military union
01:52against the coup attempt by the far right.
01:54Let's see the details.
01:59During the ceremony in the vicinity of the Bolivarian Military Academy, the president
02:03emphasized that despite the coup actions of the global ultra-right, the National Guard
02:08has been an example of loyalty and honor to his oath in defense of peace.
02:19We are precisely at the moment when we are facing in the streets of Venezuela a cyber-fascist
02:24criminal coup d'Ă©tat.
02:25I have no doubts, Mr. General, in describing it as such.
02:33Generals, admirals, professional personnels present at this magnificent event, family
02:47members of the personnel who today are promoted to the next high rank, an imperialist coup
02:52d'Ă©tat, an imperialist ambush that has fascist characteristics full of hate, revenge, persecution
02:58against institutions.
03:00How much hatred has been poured against the Bolivarian National Guard, and what an exemplary
03:05conduct the Guard has shown to go out to protect and defend these people and their right to
03:10peace.
03:11I congratulate you with my heart as Commander-in-Chief.
03:15I congratulate our Bolivarian National Guard for the example it's showing.
03:31The Venezuelan head of state also denounced the plans of the Venezuelan ultra-right wing
03:35to dismantle and weaken the national armed forces in order to hand them over to the United
03:40States.
03:50The fascist right wing of their surnames has a central plan with imperialism, to disarticulate,
03:55demobilize, divide and finish the Bolivarian armed force.
03:58They only dare to talk about the elimination of the Bolivarian National Militia.
04:02If we come to power, they say, the first decree is to eliminate the Bolivarian National Militia,
04:07that is the people in arms, a constitutional obligation to the defense of the homeland
04:18by all the people, and also contained in the Organic Constituent Law of the Bolivarian
04:30National Armed Force, approved by the very Sovereign Constituent National Assembly of
04:342017, was what they announced in English in a program made by the fascists, and published
04:40in New York, that the eminent Venezuelan intellectual thinker Luis Brito Garcia denounced and immediately
04:47the accounts of Facebook, Instagram and other social networks that published the interview
04:50censored it.
05:01The Goliad of the North, that's why I speak of cybercoup, in this case a criminal cyber-fascist
05:07coup d'etat.
05:21In this context, the re-elected president, Nicolas Maduro, expressed his repudiation
05:26of the recent declarations of the European Union, which whitewashed the violence of the
05:30extreme right against the Venezuelan people.
05:40These testimonies have not been known and continue to be repeated, and the European
05:43Union once again pulls out his chant.
05:46The same European Union that recognized GuaidĂł, shame of the European Union.
05:51Mr. Borrelli is a disgrace.
05:53He is a disgrace.
05:54He is a disgrace who led Ukraine to war and now washes his hands of it, who is silent
05:59before the massacre in Gaza and the genocide, who recognized GuaidĂł in a shameful way and
06:05pretends to be crazy.
06:07Then now he says that in Venezuela there is a repression of peaceful demonstrations, says
06:12Ms. Borrelli, pacific, when they attack the population, when they attack hospitals, schools,
06:18bus units, subway stations, peaceful, when they capture a policewoman in her place of
06:23work, assault her, try to kill her.
06:35On the other hand, the national executive also condemned the plan of the United States
06:40to establish hatred and division among the Venezuelan people through the social network
06:44Tik Tok and Instagram.
06:54We are facing, defeating, stopping and pulverizing a coup d'etat in Venezuela, which is the first
07:00criminal cyber-fascist coup d'etat that is being rehearsed precisely against Venezuela.
07:05Nobody should be fooled in this world.
07:07We are already grown up.
07:08We are already quite grown up.
07:10Nobody in the world should be fooled.
07:12It is a coup d'etat.
07:14They used the electoral process to mount their groups to instill hatred through Tik Tok and
07:18Instagram.
07:26I accuse Tik Tok and Instagram of their responsibility in the installation of hatred to divide Venezuelans,
07:32to seek a massacre and a division of Venezuela, to bring fascism to Venezuela, a cyber-fascist
07:38and criminal coup d'etat.
07:50In this regard, the Venezuelan president highlighted the Venezuelan struggle as a battle for Latin
07:55America, the Caribbean and the world.
08:04In Venezuela, we are fighting a battle for Latin America, the Caribbean and the world.
08:09Or Venezuela falls into the hands of criminal fascism, an Elon Musk of the Millet, or Venezuela
08:15triumphs by the pass of the Constitution, humanism, Christianity, Bolivarism, socialism
08:22of the 21st century, Chavismo, let each one define himself, fascism or Bolivarism, slaves
08:30or free, criminal violence or constitutional peace.
08:34Let each one define himself.
08:44Finally, the Venezuelan head of state decorated 15 soldiers injured during the recent riots
08:53and called on the people to exalt peace in the face of attempts by the global ultra-right
08:57to generate violence in Venezuelan territory.
09:01Let's now take a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok at Telesur English,
09:06where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
09:15Stay with us.
09:27Welcome back.
09:38In Chile's metropolitan region, over 300,000 households do not have power.
09:42The electric company reported it will not be able to re-establish supply before Wednesday.
09:46Thousands took to the streets to protest against this situation that comes amid winter weather
09:51conditions.
09:52Officials denounced a private company, NLSA, for its inability to manage the energy service
09:58in the country.
10:00Security forces repressed the protests.
10:04For this reason, the community leaders will file a lawsuit against the power company.
10:22Storm Debbie became a hurricane category one as it prepared to make landfall in the
10:32U.S.
10:33The President of the United States, Joe Biden, declared a state of disaster for Florida and
10:37the governor of the state.
10:38Together with the governors of Georgia and South Carolina have also declared a state
10:41of emergency.
10:43The phenomenon has already caused heavy rains and floods and emergency services have already
10:47had to carry out several rescues on Sunday night.
10:50Avoidance is one of the potential dangers that the hurricane heads for the west coast
10:54of Florida with maximum sustained winds of 120 km per hour.
11:03In China, at least four people died and about 23 others are injured as a result of a landslide
11:09that affected a highway bridge and a village in Kangyin Sichuan province.
11:15Garcet Prefecture Governor Feng Fagui told local media the mud and rockslide caused the
11:20collapse of a bridge on the Yangtze-Kangyin highway, destroying several homes in Rili
11:25village where at least four people died.
11:27Hundreds of rescue vehicles and equipment, including a helicopter, a drone and three
11:30sniffer dogs, are involved in the search and rescue mission.
11:34939 affected residents of the Rili locality were relocated by the authorities.
11:39China lives a summer marked by extreme weather events.
11:50In the United Kingdom, thousands of protesters led by far-right groups started violent protests
11:55against migrants in different parts of the country.
11:58The xenophobic mobilization against migrants has provoked clashes between the demonstrators
12:03against security agencies of the territory and various anti-racist groups.
12:08In this regard, the participants of the protests tried to set fire to a hotel that housed asylum
12:13seekers.
12:14During the riots, several people were injured and numerous people were arrested.
12:17It is worth mentioning that these demonstrations broke out in London after the dissemination
12:23of manipulated information on social media claiming that the suspect in the murder of
12:26three girls in the city of Southport, in the northwest of the country, was a radical Muslim
12:31immigrant.
12:37In this context, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the wave of riots and violent
12:41protests by groups identified with the far-right.
12:43I utterly condemn the far-right thuggery we've seen this weekend.
12:50Be in no doubt, those that have participated in this violence will face the full force
12:58of the law.
12:59The police will be making arrests, individuals will be held on remand, charges will follow
13:07and convictions will follow.
13:11I guarantee you will regret taking part in this disorder, whether directly or those whipping
13:18up this action online and then running away themselves.
13:23This is not protest, it is organized violent thuggery and it has no place on our streets
13:32or online.
13:34We have a fun short break coming up, but before we invite you to join our WhatsApp community
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13:47of the world.
13:48Fun short break, don't go away.
14:03Welcome back.
14:13In Bangladesh, the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned from her post and left the country.
14:17It is confirmed by national agencies the country had been partially cut off from communication
14:22after internet services were down, a day after the deadliest day since the beginning of the
14:27student protest with 93 dead and more than a thousand wounded, officially registering
14:32classes throughout the country.
14:34Protesters rejected a labor law full of privileges for a minority to state the objective of the
14:39protest as the resignation of the Prime Minister and they have achieved their objective.
14:50G7 countries have been informed by the United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken about
14:55an alleged attack by Iran and Hezbollah against Israel.
14:59He assured that the operations could start on Monday.
15:02The head of the U.S. Diplomacy convened the conference called to coordinate with its close
15:06allies the diplomatic pressure so that the attack be minimized through dialogue and negotiations.
15:12Western leaders are trying to install the narrative that limiting the impact of their
15:15attacks is the only way to avoid a war.
15:18The leaders of Iran and Lebanon have vowed to respond to the assassinations of Hamas
15:22political leader Ismail Hanege by the Zionist army in Tehran and that of Hezbollah military
15:26commander Fouad Shakour in Beirut.
15:33In Iran, the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani held a meeting with his Jordanian
15:38counterpart Ayman al-Zafari in Tehran with the aim of discussing regional tensions.
15:43Foreign ministers discussed recent increases in tensions in the region as well as bilateral
15:48relations.
15:49In addition, the two foreign affairs ministers planned to meet and exchange views with other
15:54Iranian officials on local and international issues.
15:57It is noteworthy that the visit of the Jordanian Foreign Affairs Minister Ayman al-Zafari came
16:01a day after he held two phone calls with his Iranian and Egyptian counterparts on the aftermath
16:06of the assassination of the political leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance movement
16:10Hamas, Ismail Hanege, by the Israeli regime.
16:24In Palestine, the Gaza Civil Defense Agency reported that at least 30 people were killed
16:39in the attack on the Hassan Salameh and al-Nasr schools, which house Palestinians displaced
16:44from their homes.
16:46Gaza's Civil Defense Agency reported that an Israeli strike hit two schools in Gaza
16:50City on Sunday, killing at least 30 people.
16:54Palestinian residents carried bodies and searched for survivors on the rubble while Mahmoud
16:58Bassal, civil defense spokesman, declared that most of the dead and wounded were women
17:02and children.
17:03Israel's genocidal operation has killed at least 39,583 people so far, according to the
17:09health ministry.
17:19What happened was that we were sitting safely.
17:21Suddenly, a missile fell here, and another missile fell on a school next door.
17:25The two schools were housing displaced civilians and children.
17:29We have been retrieving the remains of children for the past hour.
17:32This is so unfair.
17:33How long will we remain like this?
17:35We are tired enough.
17:38Israeli occupation forces carried out 1,110 attacks in the occupied West Bank during the
17:43month of July.
17:44The War and Settlement Resistance Committee reported that Hebron, Covennerate was the
17:48most affected by violence with 226 crimes, followed by Nablus with 164 and Jerusalem
17:54with 143.
17:55The Palestinian community noted that the attacks included land expropriation, settlement expansion,
18:01extrajudicial killings and sabotage, as well as demolitions and confiscation of properties.
18:05It also reported that during the first half of 2024, 7,681 violations were committed by
18:11troops and settlement dwellers in the West Bank, and 39 settlement expansion plans were
18:16approved in the West Bank and 44 in occupied East Jerusalem.
18:26During a visit to the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan
18:30Fidan condemns the limited humanitarian aid reached in the besieged Palestinian territory.
18:35Unfortunately, whatever we are collectively doing here is not enough, less than enough.
18:42As I've been told, only 25 trucks per day is allowed to enter.
18:48Now we have 2 million brothers and sisters on the other side of the border who are starving,
18:54who have no medicine, no shelter, no food, nothing.
18:58They are just dying in front of humanity.
19:03In other news, Asian and European markets plummeted on fears of a freezation in the
19:07United States.
19:08Japan's Nikkei Index and the Spanish Stock Market Index, the IBEX 35, are some of the
19:14markets that opened on Monday with their worst record since 1987, as in the case of the Japanese
19:20market.
19:21The weak employment data published on Friday by the United States, in addition to a series
19:24of worse-than-expected corporate results for technology companies, caused a generalized
19:29sell-off in the stock markets, as confidence in the economy fell.
19:33The markets now project by more than 70% the possibility that the United States General
19:37Reserve will lower rates by 50 basis points.
19:40Goldman Sachs experts estimate a 12-month restriction of 25%.
19:45In this context, the Bitcoin cryptocurrency has also dropped below $53,000, a fall of
19:5312% in just one day.
19:55This is the biggest drop by the cryptocurrency since November 2022.
20:01The downward movement pushed Bitcoin's market capitalization to $1,105 billion, or 56.04%
20:07of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization.
20:10At its peak, the market capitalization of Bitcoin was $1,435 billion.
20:20We have come to the end of this news brief.
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