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00:00Russian President Medvedev, President of the World Development Bank, and Dilma Rousseff
00:12as world leaders continue to arrive for BRICS summit.
00:21On Monday night, Cuba confirmed 1,931 connected circuits as the country continues to recover
00:28its electric system.
00:33And in Lebanon, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday that the death toll from the Israeli
00:38attacks rose to 2,383 and the number of injured already surpassed 11,600.
00:48Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:53We begin with news.
01:07The President of Russia Vladimir Putin highlighted the funding provided by the New Development
01:12Bank to about 100 projects since 2018.
01:16When briefing the meeting held with the President of the New Development Bank, Dilma Rousseff,
01:20within the framework of the BRICS summit in Kazan, the Russian head of state prized
01:25the close to $33 billion the entity has invested on projects.
01:31The reunion addressed the financial institution's approach and its benefits for the group and
01:36its geostrategic interests.
01:38The Russian leader also pointed out that the new BRICS Development Bank has been a great
01:42alternative against Western financial methods, as the increase in local currency transactions
01:48has succeeded in reducing debt or servicing fees, thus increasing the financial independence
01:54of the BRICS countries.
01:59Likewise, the Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting on Tuesday with the Prime Minister
02:07of India Narendra Modi, where he asserted that Moscow values the interaction with New
02:12Delhi within the framework of BRICS, noting that the summit further seeks to expand and
02:18strengthen cooperation between its member countries.
02:21At the encounter, Putin highlighted the good state of cooperation and trade between his
02:26state and India.
02:27For his part, Modi welcomed the deepening of ties between the two countries and expressed
02:32his commitment to a peaceful and diplomatic resolution of the conflict with Ukraine.
02:41In this context, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, arrived on Tuesday in the
02:45city of Kazan to attend the BRICS Summit, where he seeks to broaden participation with
02:50a view to world economic development.
02:53Upon his arrival, the President stressed that Venezuela participates in international activity
02:58as part of the immense efforts of its leaders for the construction of a new multipolar world.
03:04Nicolás Maduro made references to Venezuela's perspective in contributing to the new global
03:09era.
03:10Moreover, the head of state underlined that this is the first time Venezuela attends as
03:16a guest to a BRICS Summit and added that it is part of the energetic gear of the new pluricentric
03:22world that is being born.
03:31Also in the framework of the BRICS Summit, President Vladimir Putin met with his South
03:35African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, in the Russian city of Kazan, agreeing in the commitment
03:40to achieve a fairer world order.
03:43In the encounter, as President of the Bloc, Russia highlighted the results of the country's
03:47bilateral policy based on the guidelines and projections of the 2023 Summit held in South
03:54Africa and assured it attaches particular importance to strengthening relations with
03:58all the countries of the African continent.
04:01On the other end, Ramaphosa stated that BRICS have the potential to lead changes in the
04:07global economy because they represent 27% of the world's gross domestic product.
04:19Russia and South Africa are coordinating their efforts to a large extent in the international
04:24arena with the aim of creating and shaping a just multipolar world order.
04:29And, of course, Russia attaches particular importance to strengthening relations with
04:35the countries of the African continent.
04:39For his part, the South African President congratulated his Russian counterpart for
04:43hosting the Summit and thanked Russia's support of his government's efforts to achieve a politically
04:49stable South Africa.
04:50I would like to congratulate you for hosting and being the President of BRICS, having taken
05:02over from us.
05:04As South Africa, we are sure that you will be able to chair our meeting and our Summit
05:13so that BRICS, as the enlarged BRICS body, will continue growing from strength to strength.
05:22As we have sought to unite the country, to stabilize the country politically, and we
05:29are rather pleased that with your support, in every respect, we have been able to reach
05:35this point in the history of our country.
05:39In addition, President Putin held talks with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, with
05:44the BRICS Summit, stressing that Russian-Chinese relations reached a high level of global partnership
05:50and strategic cooperation.
05:52The Russian head of state praised the last 75 years of diplomatic relations among the
05:56countries.
05:57The leader further highlighted the upsurge in trade transactions between Russia and China
06:02and the joint efforts in industry, transport, agriculture and other development areas.
06:08At the meeting, the Chinese President noted that BRICS is perhaps one of the most important
06:13cooperation platforms for the consolidation of the developing world and emerging market
06:18economies.
06:24Russian-Chinese cooperation in world affairs acts as one of the main stabilizing factors
06:29in the global arena.
06:31We intend to further increase coordination in all multilateral platforms to ensure global
06:36security and adjust world order.
06:40In this context, the Chinese President addressed the unstable international situation and reaffirmed
06:45the friendship between both nations will remain solid throughout.
06:53The world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, and the international
06:57situation is becoming chaotic and intertwined.
07:01But I firmly believe the profound friendship between China and Russia from generation to
07:05generation will not change.
07:07The responsibility of serving the people will not change.
07:23Welcome back to From the South.
07:41The government of Cuba moves forward in strengthening the recovery of the country's power grid,
07:46having restored 70% of the service nationwide.
07:50According to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, more than 95% of the service in the western
07:54provinces of Pinal del Río, Artemisa, Havana and Las Tunas is already activated.
08:00The eastern provinces of Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo are the areas within the lowest
08:05power coverage so far.
08:07The energy restoration works have been strengthened in the last hours, consolidating the functioning
08:12of the power plants and the entry of new power stations.
08:36In Cuba, President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced on his ex-account that according to preliminary
08:40data, there are six deaths in historically dry areas.
08:44The head of state announced that both the armed forces and the interior ministry are
08:49leading rescues in the Imias and San Antonio del Sur municipalities in Guantánamo, where
08:54there are still inaccessible areas.
08:56In the latest report from the meteorological authorities, the center of Tropical Storm
09:00Oscar was estimated at approximately 210 km northeast of Punta Lucrecia in the province
09:07of Holguín, as it furthers from the Caribbean country, moving at 19 km per hour within maximum
09:15sustained winds of 65 km per hour.
09:19In this context, heavy rain and strong winds are forecasted still for the eastern region
09:24on Tuesday.
09:31The government of Haiti rejected the recent massive deportations of its nationals by the
09:36government of the Dominican Republic.
09:38Dominican authorities reported that they have returned at least 15,488 Haitian citizens
09:45amid a wave of deportations ordered by Dominican President Luis Avinader.
09:49Port-au-Prince condemned these actions as discriminatory, claiming that they do not
09:53respect legal procedures and do not take into account human dignity.
09:58The government of the Dominican Republic announced on October 3rd the massive deportation of
10:03irregular migrants in an operation in which immigration agents are participating with
10:09the collaboration of the armed forces.
10:16Soldiers stand on alert in the Haitian neighborhood of Solino after the nation's capital was violently
10:21attacked by the gangs.
10:22The market is where I used to go to work.
10:27They have demolished it, preventing young people from going about their business.
10:31People are being hit in the head by stray bullets, even when they are at home.
10:36Before yesterday, you could see a mother screaming for help.
10:40Her child had been shot in the head while she was at home.
10:44These men are sons of the neighborhood.
10:48They're the ones fighting the gangs.
10:50That's where they were born.
10:53They swear not to leave the area to the armed gangs.
10:58In the United States, at least five people were killed on Monday in a shooting inside
11:02a home in the state of Washington.
11:05In the aftermath, authorities reported that a 15-year-old has been arrested in connection
11:09to the murders that involved a family of seven people, which he was allegedly a member of.
11:16In the incident that occurred in the community of Fall City, some 20 kilometers southeast
11:20of Seattle, two adults and three minors were shot to death and a teenager was wounded.
11:26The police rushed to the place after receiving a phone call about gunshots in the residence.
11:31According to the Independent Organization Gun Violence Archive, the shooting became
11:36the nation's 25th mass murder of 2024 and adds to the total of 427 mass shootings occurred
11:44in the U.S. in the current year.
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12:19In Lebanon, authorities of the Sahel Hospital in Beirut opened doors to the media to refute
12:25false claims made by the Israeli occupying army after an attack on the facility left
12:2913 people dead.
12:31Precisely on Monday, the Zionist regime's troops bombed the hospital grounds, an operation
12:36that international law classifies as a war crime.
12:39In the aftermath of the strike, the Israeli army's spokesman Daniel Haggadi claimed the
12:45center served as a bunker for Hezbollah's financial resources.
12:50In turn, hospital authorities categorically denied the serious accusations and its director,
12:54Massena Lame, toured the center's departments accompanied by journalists to ensure they
12:59were free of any military presence.
13:06The United Nations Children's Fund reiterates its call for urgent action on the dire conditions
13:12in which thousands of children are surviving in the Gaza Strip.
13:16In this context, human rights organizations have recently launched a global action to
13:20draw attention to the appalling reality of Gazan children.
13:25With the motto, the number one killer of children on earth is Israel, the campaign takes into
13:30account the staggering number of minors killed by Zionist troops.
13:34Also, in this regard, the United Nations Commissioner General for Palestinian Refugees, Philip Lazzarini,
13:39confirmed that Israeli authorities continue to deny the entry of missions to northern
13:44Gaza and denounced that they have turned humanitarian aid into a tool for their military
13:49purposes.
13:55In Israel, the mothers of soldiers returning from the Zionist army genocidal operation
14:00in the Gaza Strip explained that their sons have been struggling with mental health issues.
14:05The mother of a 40-year-old military reservist expressed that her son returned from Gaza
14:11traumatized of which led him to commit suicide.
14:15The occupying forces confirmed that soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress or disorders
14:20due to their time in Gaza, but claim they have received adequate psychological treatment.
14:26In this context, the Israeli government refused to show the exact figure of soldiers who have
14:31taken their own lives, but data provided by the Ministry of Defense Rehabilitation Department
14:37reported that over 1,000 military personnel have been deactivated from operations due
14:43to receiving treatment for their mental health.
14:51In Sudan, in the capital of Al-Jazeera State, clashes between the army and the paramilitary
14:56rapid support forces, RSF, have caused the death of over 40 people.
15:02The strike, blamed on the Sudanese army, occurred in the mosque Inwad al-Madani during
15:07Monday night prayers, according to the resistance committee of that loyalty.
15:12So far 31 people have died due to the attack.
15:15In addition, the committee accused the paramilitary rapid support forces for another 10 deaths
15:20in the east of the country.
15:22Since April 2023, the RSF has started a civil war against the national army, a conflict
15:29that has left a death toll of almost 15,000 and forced the displacement of more than 8.2
15:35million people.
15:42On Monday, the African Union condemned the post-election violence and recent killings
15:46in Mozambique, calling for calm in the southern African country.
15:50This statement comes after the recent killing of two individuals associated with the opposition
15:55figure Benazir Mandale.
15:57The chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamad, appealed for calm and
16:03maximum restraint.
16:05In addition, Faki Mahamad called on Mozambican security authorities to undertake the necessary
16:10investigations and bring the perpetrators to justice.
16:14The AU Commission chief urged all political actors to maintain a peaceful disposition
16:20as the country awaits the official declaration of the final election result by the Constitutional
16:25Council.
16:42On Monday, Irish authorities published binding rules to protect European Union users of video-sharing
16:48platforms from harmful content through the Online Safety Code.
16:53According to Ireland's Online Safety Commissioner, Niamh Hodnet, the code applicable from next
16:59month would bring an end to the era of social media self-regulation and will apply to platforms
17:05with their European Union headquarters in Ireland.
17:09It requires that the platforms protect people, especially children, from harmful video and
17:14associated content.
17:15In addition, it will prohibit the uploading or sharing of violent and racist content.
17:22The platforms will have the responsibility to stamp out cyberbullying and to report content
17:28that breaks the rules.
17:30Companies breaching the rules will face fines of up to €20 million or 10% of their annual
17:36turnover.
17:37We really want to see a step change in how the platforms have been behaving.
17:49We want to see clear evidence of behavioural change.
17:53For too long people have felt that the online world is the Wild West or there are no effective
17:57measures in place.
17:58Today marks the end of the era of self-regulation and there is now an effective statutory regime
18:02in place.
18:03We will be overseeing the platforms to ensure that they are complying with those obligations
18:07and we can hold them to account where they don't.
18:10We are part of a network of regulators as a member state in the EU.
18:17We have a particular responsibility here in Ireland because a lot of the large platforms
18:21are based here.
18:22A number of countries have those extra responsibilities as well.
18:27We work very closely with the European Commission and we are involved in investigations that
18:32they've already opened.
18:33For example, TikTok and X and so on.
18:36We're actively supporting those.
18:38Our teams talk regularly with the Commission staff and we do capacity building with them.
18:46It's really quite a close, but still early days development kind of a network.
18:51And in the context of the 16th summit of the BRICS being held in the Russian city of Sahan,
18:59let's have a contact with our special envoy, Juno Suhner, who has all the details of this
19:04first day of debates of this multilateral event.
19:10Hello from the Russian city of Kazan, where the 16th summit of the BRICS alliance has
19:17kicked off today on Tuesday, October 22nd.
19:2236 countries are taking part in it, in the summit, 22 of them at the level of heads of
19:29state or head of government.
19:31So the day was the day of arrival of political leaders of these countries.
19:37They were welcomed by a ceremony and some of them have already had their bilateral meetings
19:44with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
19:47His country has the chairmanship of BRICS and he is the amphitryon of this summit.
19:52So he met with the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, with Chinese president Xi Jinping,
19:59with South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa.
20:02And right now he is holding a bilateral meeting with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
20:08He also met with the chairwoman of the new development bank Dilma Rousseff, the bank
20:14connected to the BRICS alliance.
20:18And this bank's role is one of the important topics that will be discussed here on the
20:23summit.
20:24To achieve a de-dollarization, to achieve direct connection in payments between member
20:29countries, to have a better network between central banks of the BRICS countries is one
20:36of the topics on the agenda, as well as creating a safeguarding system for BRICS members against
20:43financial crises and establishing own trading platforms for important major commodities
20:50such as grain, oil or certain mining products is one agenda.
20:55Another agenda is the expansion and deepening of the alliance.
21:01As I said, 36 countries are taking part.
21:05Right now in discussion is the status of partner state, which has been announced by Russian
21:12presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, who said that 15 countries were candidates for that category,
21:20which will be below being a full member, but also not kept outside.
21:26So it would be an expansion light of the BRICS alliance.
21:30This will be discussed here on the summit, as well as the situation of Saudi Arabia.
21:36Tonight, the leaders have a welcoming ceremony among themselves and then an informal dinner.
21:43And on Wednesday, 23rd of October, the sessions will kick off, followed on 24th October by
21:52the reunion of BRICS+, where all the countries that would like to join the alliance or relate
21:59themselves to the alliance deeper will have the floor to meet in, to have bilateral meetings,
22:05as well as to present themselves in the reunions, multilateral reunions of the BRICS summit.
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