03/09/2024
FTS 8.30
*Polio vaccination campaign continues in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp
*China hails “rise of the global south” ahead of China-Africa summit
FTS 8.30
*Polio vaccination campaign continues in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp
*China hails “rise of the global south” ahead of China-Africa summit
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00:00In Venezuela, President Maduro denounced the far-right's attempts to disregard the legitimacy
00:17of the electoral power, asserting that no one is above the laws and institutions of
00:21the Venezuelan state.
00:23In Palestine, the UN-led polio vaccination campaign continues in Gaza's Nusrak refugee
00:29camp.
00:33And in China, Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a ministerial conference ahead of the forum
00:37on China-Africa cooperation in Beijing.
00:45Hello welcome from the south, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Televiso Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:51We begin with the news.
00:52In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro asserted that no one is above the laws and institutions
00:56of the Venezuelan state, following repeated attempts by the far-right to deny the legitimacy
01:02of the electoral power.
01:03During the transmission of his program CONMADUROMAS, the Venezuelan president denounced the attempts
01:08of the far-right to deny the legitimacy of the institutions of the state after their
01:12failure in the presidential elections of last July 28.
01:16In this sense, the Venezuelan head of state pointed out that the former presidential far-right
01:19candidate Edmundo González Urrutia resorts to these types of methods to take the power
01:25by violating and disrespecting the constitutional laws of the country.
01:30Maduro also stated that it was contradictory for the former far-right candidate to participate
01:35in an electoral process when he did not attend any of the summons of the National Electoral
01:39Council and to assure he would not accept the results if they were not favorable to
01:44him.
01:46Boric, nobody, nobody in this country is above the laws, above the institutions, as this
01:58gentleman, the hidden one, I call him the hidden one, the coward of Edmundo González
02:05Urrutia.
02:06I'm talking to you, coward.
02:08I know that you don't miss a single program of CONMADUROMAS.
02:11You are a coward.
02:13He pretends to be above the laws.
02:15When the National Electoral Council called him as a candidate on July 20 to sign a document
02:22that all the candidates signed, I could have said, I'm the president and I don't have to
02:27go there.
02:28You have to respect me.
02:30I am the president.
02:31I could have said that and throw a tantrum, right?
02:34No.
02:35If the electoral power, which is the arbitrator, calls you, you have to be respectful.
02:42I compare it to a football game.
02:44Imagine a football game, Barcelona against Real Madrid, and the referee calls the team's
02:48captains, calls Mbappé and calls Lamín, and then Mbappé comes and says, no, I don't recognize
02:56the referee.
02:57I'm not going.
02:58I'm going to play, and if I don't win, I will ignore you.
03:02That was the example I was giving at that moment.
03:05If the arbitrator calls you, how are you going to say that you don't recognize the electoral
03:10power?
03:11How are you going to say you don't recognize the electoral result?
03:14The Venezuelan government also denounced the hijacking by the United States of an aircraft
03:18used by President Nicolás Maduro.
03:21Coragas denounced before the international community that once again, the authorities
03:24of the United States illegally confiscated a Venezuelan aircraft, justifying themselves
03:30with the coercive measures that they unilaterally and illegally imposed around the world.
03:35In turn, the Bolivarian Republic stated that this new act of dispossession has demonstrated
03:39that Washington uses its economic and military power to intimidate and pressure states such
03:45as the Dominican Republic so that they serve as accomplices in these delinquent acts.
03:49The Venezuelan government affirmed that it reserves their measures to respond to this
03:53new affront by Washington, assuring that it is part of a new escalation against the Venezuelan
03:58institutionality.
03:59It is the second aircraft that the U.S. government steals from Venezuela, the first being the
04:03Emtrasur aircraft owned by Compiasa.
04:11In an official statement issued on Monday, Venezuela accused the government of the United
04:15States of illegally confiscating an aircraft used by President Nicolás Maduro.
04:18In the document, the South American nation said that the action was a repeated criminal
04:23practice that cannot be qualified as anything other than piracy, have illegally confiscated
04:28an aircraft that has been used by the President of the Republic.
04:32The text also signaled that this action reveals that no state and no constitutional government
04:37is safe from illegal actions that disregard international law.
04:40It also adds that the United States has already demonstrated that it uses its economic and
04:44military might to intimidate and put pressure on states such as the Dominican Republic to
04:49serve as accomplices in its criminal acts.
04:52It continues by saying that this is an example of the so-called rules-based order which disregarding
04:57international law seeks to establish the law of the strongest, create rules that suit its
05:02interests and enforce them with total impunity.
05:05Finally, the document affirmed that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela reserves the right to
05:09take any legal action to repair this damage to the nation, as well as all other damages
05:13caused by the criminal policy of unilateral coercive measures, and finished by sentencing
05:18that Venezuela respects itself and continues to firmly defend its dignity and sovereignty.
05:32On Monday, the Public Ministry of Venezuela issued an arrest warrant for former presidential
05:36candidate Mundo González Urrutia.
05:39The arrest warrant specifies the alleged commission of the crimes of usurpation of functions punishable
05:44under Article 213, forgery of public documents provided for and punishable under Article
05:50319, instigation to disobey the law punishable under Article 283, conspiracy provided for
05:56and punished by Article 132 of the Penal Code, sabotage of systems damage punished by Article
06:027 of the Computer Crimes Association provided for and punished by Article 37 of the Organic
06:08Law against organized crime and financing of terrorism.
06:15Let's now take a short break, but remember you can join us on Tiktok at Telezoen English
06:22where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
06:30We'll be right back, stay with us.
06:52Welcome back.
06:53In Bolivia, the fourth criminal sentencing court of the city of El Alto decided to reschedule
06:57for this Wednesday the trial against former de facto President, former Senator Yanin Áñez
07:02and 17 other former officials who were allegedly involved in the Zenkata massacre.
07:07The Minister of Justice, Iván Lima, declared that the trial against Yanin Áñez, Arturo
07:11Murillo, Fernando López and 15 other people for the Zenkata case has been rescheduled
07:16for Wednesday, September 4th.
07:18On the other hand, Attorney General César Siles assured that the Prosecutor's Office
07:22and the Attorney General's Office have already provided sufficient evidence to achieve the
07:26maximum sentence of 30 years for Ms. Áñez and others involved in the death of demonstrators.
07:38And in Chile, preventive detention measures against the former Chilean mayor and Communist
07:42Party leader, Daniel Haduey, is revoked.
07:45Former Mayor Daniel Haduey is charged with alleged corruption, tax fraud and swindling
07:49in the negotiations of the Chilean Association of Municipalities with Popular Pharmacies.
07:53In this context, the court replaced the measures with total house arrest and maintained the
07:58National Arrest Warrant against the former mayor.
08:01It should be noted that Haduey is known for having promoted various socialist policies
08:05in Chile that have benefited hundreds of residents of the Popular Municipality of Recoleta.
08:12I am very happy with this ruling, very happy with this ruling, because this ruling did
08:23not give for assaulted the conclusion of any crime nor my participation in it.
08:29How to prove my innocence and only regret all the mistreatment of all those who have
08:34boasted and those who have fisted with the laws of freedom of any human being.
08:39What the judge's resolution does is to totally and completely destroy the totality of the
08:45alleged crimes that were being attributed to him, because with the new antecedents it
08:49is evident that these crimes never existed.
08:52Meanwhile, the Argentine police once again intervenes the National University of Madres
08:56de Plaza de Mayo under the orders of the government of Javier Millet, whose intervention is denounced
09:01by the Madres of Plaza de Mayo Association.
09:04According to the statement, the Madres of Plaza de Mayo denounced to the world that
09:07the criminal Javier Millet, through uniformed members of the federal police, prevents the
09:11entrance of workers of the university to its headquarters in order to carry out their work.
09:16Likewise, the association reiterated that the measure violates the university autonomy
09:21while it intends to criminalize the workers of the university and calls for a mobilization
09:24of Argentine political forces such as unions, social movements and political parties.
09:38In Ecuador, the area burned by the forest fire that has been raging for 10 days in the
09:51south of the country exceeds 4,800 hectares, according to the latest report published by
09:56the Ecuadorian government's National Risk Management Secretariat.
10:00The fire started in the rural locality of San Antonio de las Aradas, belonging to the
10:04municipality of Quilanga, and adverse weather conditions such as high temperatures and strong
10:09winds worsen the situation.
10:12Since the weekend, Ecuadorian Air Force helicopters have been continuously dropping water on the
10:16largest forest fire in Ecuador in recent years.
10:19In the coming hours, a Colombian Air Force tanker was also expected to join the firefighting
10:23efforts on Monday, in addition to Peruvian air crews.
10:35In the Philippines, a strong tropical storm in the northern part of the country killed
10:44at least 10 people, while 10 others remained injured.
10:48Storm Yagi, known as Enteng, in the Philippines, caused major damage on the island of Luzon,
10:54with heavy rains, sustained winds of 75 km per hour, and maximum gusts of up to 90 km
10:59per hour.
11:00The 10 victims died from drowning, while 10 others are injured, and at least 147,000 have
11:06been affected and displaced from their homes as a result of the floods.
11:10The storm also caused the cancellation of flights and the suspension of all classes
11:14in the metropolitan area.
11:22The flood was high, up to the neck. It was very high over there too. I was here yesterday,
11:27but I had to leave. I was alone.
11:31I can't start cleaning up because the floodwater is still high, up until here. I just went
11:35out to buy food. I don't have food left at home. I'm already hungry.
11:41And Colombia joined the list of countries that have ratified the Escazu Agreement proposed
11:45in 2018 by 25 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to guarantee the right of people
11:50to live in a healthy environment.
11:52With more details from Bogotá, our colleague Valeria Córdona.
11:58After six years of being proposed in Costa Rica, the Escazu Treaty was declared execuble
12:02in Colombia, the 17th country to ratify it.
12:07The Escazu Agreement arises to expand the guarantee of access rights, the right to participation,
12:15to information and to environmental justice. But it has a very important particularity,
12:22which is given precisely by an innate need we have in this region, which is Latin America
12:28and the Caribbean. And that is to protect the lives of human rights defenders in environmental
12:34matters.
12:35The agreement entered into force in 2021, but Colombia was one of the 15 countries out
12:43of the 24 that participated in its proposal that had not signed the agreement. During
12:47the social outburst and civil marches of 2019, pressure had been applied to get President
12:51Iván Duque to sign the agreement and the bill to pass to the Congress of the Republic
12:56and subsequent review by the Constitutional Court.
13:02Based on that pressure, the Duque government signed it, subscribed it and sent it to Congress,
13:06but sent it without any intention of it coming out. Basically, the Escazu Agreement lasted
13:10two years in the Congress of the Republic without anything happening, without being
13:14prioritized, without being on the legislative agenda.
13:17Once President Petro takes office, he puts it on the government's priority and manages
13:22to get the Escazu Agreement approved in 63 days by the Congress of the Republic in the
13:26four debates.
13:29After the congressional debates, the Constitutional Court took two years to declare the agreement
13:34execuble on August 28. The Court's decision comes less than two months before COP 16,
13:39a space in which civil society will continue to participate in the implementation and promotion,
13:45as it did from the beginning during the construction of the agreement.
13:49Undoubtedly, the Escazu Agreement, being an agreement that seeks the protection of environmental
13:56leadership in biodiverse territories such as the Colombian Amazon or the biogeographic
14:01Chaco, comes, of course, to recognize these leaderships, to strengthen them in a scenario
14:06of very high conflict, where these people are being threatened, harassed, displaced
14:11from their territories for seeking to protect them against deforestation scenarios and illegal
14:17activities.
14:18The declaration of enforceability of the Escazu Agreement paves the way for its implementation
14:25in a megadiverse country that leads the world in rates of violence against environmental
14:29leaders and is necessary to continue the fight for access, participation, justice and protection
14:35of the environment and environmental leaders, according to experts.
14:40Valeria Cardona, Telesur, Bogotá, Colombia.
15:10Welcome back.
15:37Health workers vaccinated children against polio in New South Wales camp as part of a
15:42large-scale campaign led by the UN in the Gaza Strip.
15:45These people hope to prevent an outbreak in the territory devastated by Israel's Sino-Saudi
15:49war.
15:50The campaign aims to raise some 640,000 children, and the authorities plan to vaccinate children
15:55in central Gaza until Wednesday before moving on to the more devastated north and south.
16:00On their part, Israel has agreed to limited pauses in the fighting to facilitate the campaign.
16:05Chief Director of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, Umrah Akihiro Saita, said the organization
16:11is vaccinating 90% of children under the age of 10.
16:20In the streets of Tel Aviv, Israeli protesters demonstrated for the third consecutive day
16:24to demand an agreement on the release of hostages in Gaza.
16:28This new demonstration came after the Israeli army recovered the bodies of six hostages
16:32who were killed in Gaza, prompting dozens of people to be arrested for blocking roads
16:36and setting fires in protests.
16:38Public outrage focused on the continued failures of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet
16:43to ensure the safe return of Israeli soldiers detained by Hamas.
16:46For his part, the leader of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lapid, accused the Netanyahu government
16:52of pushing the country into the greatest anarchy while praising the incredible control of Israelis
16:56in the face of government mismanagement.
17:04In the same context, demonstrators in the city of Jerusalem gathered on Monday night
17:07near Benjamin Netanyahu's residence, where they lit a bonfire in the middle of the street
17:12and clashed with local police.
17:13According to eyewitnesses' accounts, the police responded with considerable violence,
17:18throwing the protesters to the ground and forcibly dragging them away.
17:21Many of those present blamed the Israeli Prime Minister for failing to reach an agreement
17:25with Hamas, an initiative that, according to public opinion polls, is supported by the
17:29majority of Israelis.
17:37Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Mongolian counterpart Ukhnagin Kurultsuk
17:42in Ulaanbaatar on Tuesday.
17:44During the meeting, Putin thanked Kurultsuk for the invitation, noting that relations
17:49between the two countries are already developing on a new basis, and despite the difficulties,
17:53the growth trajectory of trade relations is being maintained.
17:57After signing a series of bilateral agreements in various fields, Kurultsuk declared that
18:01Russia is one of the main trade partners of Mongolia.
18:04He noted the increase in the volume of trade between the two countries in recent years.
18:11The Mongolian president also declared that Putin's visit is of great importance for
18:16increasing friendly relations and mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries.
18:21Agreements were signed for the further development of cooperation in fuel, environment, education,
18:26health, humanitarian fields, and others.
18:32And as part of his tour of Asia and the Pacific, Pope Francis landed on Tuesday morning in
18:37Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, home to the largest number of Muslims in the world.
18:43On his arrival at the city's Nun Chatur, the Pope greeted a group of refugees hosted
18:48by the Jesuit Refugee Service, orphaned children raised by nuns, and homeless people.
18:53On Wednesday, the Supreme Pontiff will hold a meeting with outgoing President Joko Widodo
18:57and deliver his first speech at the Presidential Palace to more than 300 people.
19:01Jakarta is the first stop on Francis' tour of Asia and the Pacific, which will take him
19:05to Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Singapore until September 13th, on his longest trip
19:11to date.
19:17And in China, Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a ministerial conference ahead of the Forum
19:21on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing.
19:24The FOSAC 2024 Summit will run from September 4th to the 6th.
19:29This year's summit will have four high-level meetings on the topics of state governance,
19:32industrialization and agricultural modernization, peace and security, and high-quality belt
19:37and road cooperation.
19:38The summit will adopt two outcome documents, the Declaration and the Action Plan, to build
19:44major consensus and chart a path for implementing high-quality China-Africa cooperation.
19:50China is Africa's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade hitting $167.8 billion
19:56in the first half of 2024.
20:00Currently, the changes of the world are accelerating, and the world has entered a new period of
20:08turbulence and transformation.
20:10The collective rise of the Global South, represented by China and Africa, profoundly
20:15affects the process of world history.
20:17We will work together to promote modernization and jointly build a high-level China-Africa
20:22community with a shared future.
20:24This is in line with the inevitable requirements of historical progress and reflects the common
20:29aspirations of the Chinese and African people.