18/11/2024
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*Pres. Biden allows Ukraine to strike Russia with long-range U.S. missiles
*Candidates of Uruguay participated in the debate prior to the November 24 runoff election
FTS 8.30
*Pres. Biden allows Ukraine to strike Russia with long-range U.S. missiles
*Candidates of Uruguay participated in the debate prior to the November 24 runoff election
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00:00The Israeli army bombed Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, twice on Sunday, November 17,
00:15leaving at least two people killed and 13 wounded.
00:23U.S. President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use Washington-supplied long-range missiles
00:28to attack Russian territory.
00:34And Uruguay presidential candidates participate in the debate prior to the presidential run-off
00:38next Sunday, November 24.
00:46Hello and welcome from the south, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from the Lasus studios in Havana,
00:51Cuba.
00:52Let's begin with the news.
01:09The Israeli army bombed Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, twice on Sunday, leaving at least
01:14four people killed and 22 wounded.
01:17According to Lebanese security sources, no center or institutions affiliated with Hamas
01:22or Hezbollah was located in the area of the strike.
01:25In this context, firefighting crews worked to extinguish the flames caused by the attack
01:29on the Mar Elias district, a commercial residential area.
01:32This is the first attack since October 8, 2023, against this area in the Lebanese capital.
01:37Likewise, the Lebanese Ministry of Education announced the closure of schools as a security
01:41measure.
01:42The strikes were also reported in the region of Tire, in the south of Lebanon, which left
01:4711 people dead and 48 wounded.
01:54Meanwhile, the Israeli regime continues its expansionist policies at the cost of land
02:01grabbing and destruction of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.
02:05On Monday morning, bulldozers of the occupying forces demolished several buildings in Raf
02:09town, northwest of Jerusalem.
02:11Local sources reported that the Israeli troops demolished a garden, a hut, two football
02:16fields and a photo studio in the Beit Sirik area.
02:19In addition to these actions, the constant harassment by the Zionist forces and settlers
02:24seek to advance in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and to expand illegal settlements
02:28in the occupied West Bank.
02:35And the Lebanese George Ibrahim Abdallah, who has been detained in France for more than
02:4040 years, will still have to wait several weeks to know if his release, or the last
02:44number 15th by the Court of Execution of Anti-Terrorist Penalties, will finally be effective.
02:50The decision was immediately appealed by the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office,
02:54which could delay the release schedule for December 6th of this year.
02:58French law stipulates that the appeal process could take up to two months, which would force
03:02Abdallah to remain in prison until at least early 2025.
03:07And in Senegal, a government spokesman said that the government party Senegal African
03:23Patriots for Work, Ethics and Fraternity won a wide victory in the legislative elections
03:28held in the African country.
03:30On Sunday, more than 7 million voters were called to the polls to elect 165 parliamentarians
03:36for the next five years.
03:37The spokesman in charge of the announcement, Amadou Moustapha Djigtsare, based his statement
03:42on the counting of 90% of the votes.
03:44According to local media, PASDEF won 29 seats on the national proportional list and 90 on
03:49the departmental majority list, giving it an absolute majority in the legislature and
03:54consolidating its position in strategic strongholds such as Dakar, Tiwagouane and Lingera.
04:05In South Sudan, the Ministry of Health is on alert for a possible cholera outbreak.
04:10According to the organization Doctors Without Borders, the conditions for a cholera outbreak
04:14are in sight following the continuous arrival of numerous refugees from neighboring Sudan
04:18and the precarious situation in the settlements of war-forced migrants.
04:23The non-governmental organization reported in a statement that the increase of cases
04:27in the towns of Renk and Malakal in Obernal state, about 520 km north of Juba, the capital
04:33city where thousands of Sudanese fleeing armed conflict are sheltered.
04:38Specialists warn that the current situation worsens the conditions to sanitize the outbreaks
04:43of the epidemic in Obernal state, so it calls for an immediate vaccination campaign.
04:54California health officials confirmed the first case of the most aggressive strain of
04:58mpox in the United States.
05:01Strain 0 recently traveled to East Africa, according to the Center for Disease Control
05:05and Prevention.
05:06Laboratory tests revealed that the person was infected with strain 1 of mpox.
05:12Strain 1 has caused death and more severe symptoms than strain 2, which was primarily
05:18responsible for the global outbreak that occurred in 2022.
05:23According to local media, strain 2 caused 32,000 infections and 58 deaths in the US.
05:31Now, we have a short break coming up, but first, remember you can join us on TikTok
05:37at Telesur English, where you'll find news in different formats, news updates, and much
05:42more.
05:44Stay with us.
06:01Welcome back.
06:13U.S. President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use Washington-supplied long-range missiles
06:18to attack Russian territory.
06:20Media reports indicate that the long-range missiles authorized by Biden are likely to
06:23be used first against Russian troops in the Kursk province, the scene of a massive incursion
06:28by the Kiev regime into Russia's border territory.
06:30In this context, the British Royal Air Force reported that the United Kingdom and France
06:34also approved the use of storm-shadow scout missiles with a range of up to 560 kilometers.
06:40For this part, Moscow has repeatedly warned that the Western policy of supplying weapons
06:44to Ukraine does not contribute to the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and would only have a negative
06:48effect on the current conflict.
06:57In response, the Russian government recalled that President Vladimir Putin has spoken out
07:02on previous occasions reiterating the consequences for the West of allowing an attack on Russia.
07:07In September, the Russian President stated that if a decision was made to allow Ukraine
07:11to attack Russia with long-range weapons, it would mean a war initiated by NATO.
07:16Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova recalled that President Putin has
07:20already made a statement on this issue and on the consequences for the West.
07:24In this context, Putin has informed that with a view to changing the nature of the
07:28conflict, the appropriate decision would be taken according to the threat posed.
07:38The Russian Ministry of Defense reported this November 18 that 59 Ukrainian attack drones
07:42were shot down on day in various regions of the southwestern part of the country.
07:47According to the report of this, on many aerial vehicles, 45 were intercepted in the Bryansk
07:52region, 6 in Kursk, 3 in Belgorod, 3 in Tula and 2 in Moscow.
07:56Last month, the United Kingdom and Netherlands NATO members had promised to deliver new batches
08:00of drones to Ukraine.
08:02In recent months, Kiev's drone attacks on oil refineries and fuel depots in Russia have
08:07also intensified.
08:26In Belize, tropical storm Zara made landfall causing heavy rains and flooding in several
08:30locations in the country.
08:33According to the United States National Hurricane Center, the storm weakened as it passed through
08:37the central American country and would reach Guatemala and southern Mexico as a tropical
08:41depression after having left floods in Honduras, one dead and more than 70,000 affected.
08:47So far, no casualties have been reported in Belize.
08:49However, authorities warned in their latest report that rivers have increased their flow
08:54and heavy rains have caused flooding in several areas of the country.
08:58Maximum sustained winds are near 55 km per hour with stronger gusts.
09:01Further weakening is expected until it becomes a throw over the southern portion of the Yucatan
09:06Peninsula.
09:07Another month, the island of storms favored by Tropical Depression Zara affects El Salvador
09:18with abundant humidity coming from the Pacific Ocean.
09:22The storms entered through the coasts of Sonsonate and Aguas Japan in the southwest of the country
09:27and moved through the northeast of the country, where they will cause damage in the next few days.
09:32So far, as a result of the heavy rains of the last hours, a house collapsed in the coastal
09:37area at the same time that military and firefighters removed trees and debris while supporting
09:41the evacuation of seven civilians.
09:43The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources forecasts that due to the influence of the
09:48drag of humidity from Tropical Depression Zara from the Pacific Ocean, the rains will
09:53continue into the first days of this week.
09:58In Ecuador, the National Risk Management Secretariat reported that forest fires continue in the
10:06south of the country.
10:08National authorities reported that the fires have consumed more than 3,783 hectares in
10:14the province of Loja and have affected 88 hectares of primary forest in the Podocarpus
10:21National Park.
10:22Meanwhile, to contain the advance of the flames, rescue brigades from other cities have joined
10:27in, in addition to four helicopters equipped with Bambi buckets, two of them belonging
10:31to the Peruvian Air Force.
10:33In this regard, the Risk Management Agency recommended citizens to use face masks due
10:37to air pollution from the flames.
10:46And in India, New Delhi dealt with a severe level of pollution, forcing its government
10:50to implement extreme emergency measures such as the suspension of classes and industrial
10:55activities.
10:57On daybreak, fog reduced visibility to minimum, causing flight cancellations and delays at
11:02railway stations.
11:03The air quality index in the Indian capital stood at 485, a rating classified as severe
11:10plus and which has serious health implications.
11:13Authorities have therefore launched from today stage 4 of an anti-pollution plan, the strictest
11:19of the national protocol, which limits commercial and industrial activities, established online
11:23classes and teleworking to avoid exposure.
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12:10In Uruguay, presidential candidates participated in a debate prior to the presidential runoff
12:15next Sunday, November 24th.
12:16The debate between the Frente Amplio candidate, YamandĂș Orsi, and the representative of the
12:21Partido Nacional, Ălvaro Delgado, LĂĄzaten Emudes.
12:25According to the information, the contest was broadcasted on radio and television and
12:28was divided into three blocks.
12:30During the event, the candidates discussed topics related to human development, housing,
12:34health, sports, culture, disability, security, education and labor.
12:38According to the latest polls, the broad front candidate has an advantage of between two
12:42and four percentage points in voting preference among Uruguayan citizens.
12:46I thank all those who have participated in this electoral campaign and are making this
12:58celebration of democracy a reality once again, as it has been celebrated uninterruptedly
13:03in our country for 40 years.
13:06I am YamandĂș Orsi, I grew up in a neighborhood of an inland city, I went to public school
13:11in my neighborhood, I went to high school, I was a teacher in the last years, I had the
13:16responsibility of leading, of governing canelones.
13:22In Uruguay the candidate for the broad front, YamandĂș Orsi, participating in the very priority
13:25of the presidential elections highlighting that citizens will soon have the opportunity
13:29to choose for a better quality of life.
13:35Next Sunday we will have to choose, we will have to choose between two options, that of
13:40a stagnant country, that of unfulfilled promises, or that of a safe change, a safe change that
13:46will not be radical, and that implies the welfare of our people, that implies that we
13:51can all make ends meet, that implies that salaries go up, that implies that pensions
13:56yield, that implies that we live in an increasingly fairer country.
14:01The sure change that we propose is that change where we can all live in peace and walk our
14:06streets in peace, where we all feel much safer.
14:11For his party candidate for the national party, Ălvaro Delgado, participating in the presidential
14:16debate a few days before the elections in the country, where he commented that housing
14:19solutions are only an intervention by making a floor and not qualify as a dwelling.
14:27Housing solutions sometimes are simply an intervention to build an apartment.
14:33Pablo BartĂł is building them a decent apartment and the truth is that he has solved many precarious
14:37situations.
14:40YamandĂș raises the issue of Serenio, we went to his foundation and accompanied a large
14:44part of this process, but also the state has to play strongly.
14:49In Ecuador, the Minister of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition, Inés Manzano,
14:54informed that the country will reduce daily power outages from 12 to 8 hours after Colombia
14:58began selling energy to the nation on Sunday.
15:01The minister highlighted that thanks to the recovery of 65% of the Colombia's reservoirs,
15:06420 megawatts had been acquired on this first day, although the transmission of grid to
15:10Ecuador has a limit of 450 megawatts.
15:13In this context, Manzano explained that rainfalls are expected on November 19 and 21, in the
15:19basin of the Coca-Cola Sinclair hydroelectric plant, which will allow lowering the time
15:24slots of service disruptions.
15:26According to the minister, in December, the time slots could be further reduced, depending
15:30on weather conditions.
15:33U.S. President Joe Biden landed on Sunday in Rio de Janeiro to participate in the G20
15:42summit.
15:44Biden arrived accompanied by the Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
15:45The head of state announced that the U.S. will raise to US$100 million its contribution
15:50to the Amazon Fund, an initiative promoted by Lula da Silva.
15:54This amount is less than the US$500 million committed in 2023 by Washington over five
16:00years.
16:01The event will focus on the fight against the climate crisis and the conservation of
16:04the biodiversity of the natural treasures.
16:07In total, delegations from 42 countries will be present at the summit.
16:12In Peru, judicial authorities evaluated requests for preventive imprisonment against President
16:25Dina Boluarte's brother and others implicated in the case called Los Guakis en la Sombra.
16:32Judge Richard Concepcion Carrancho began the evaluation of the prosecutor's request to
16:39impose 36 months of preventive detention against Nicanor Boluarte, brother of President
16:45Dina Boluarte, as well as Mateo Castañeda, ex-lawyer of the head of state and others
16:50involved in the case called Los Guakis en la Sombra.
16:54In this context, the former advisor of President Boluarte delivered to the public ministry
16:58a series of audios revealing the payment of bribes for the positions of prefects and sub-prefects
17:04in Los Guakis en la Sombra, an alleged network of influence trafficking.
17:17In Argentina, Cristina FernĂĄndez led her first act as president of the Justicialist Party
17:23in which she defended the role of the state in the midst of the neoliberal onslaught carried
17:28out by Javier Millet's government.
17:29In the city of Santiago del Estero, the former president addressed thousands of supporters
17:36on the occasion of the Peronist Militancy Day.
17:39It was the first appearance of the conviction against her by the Cassation Chamber in the
17:46Vialidad case, which will be appealed in the Supreme Court.
17:50During her speech, Cristina FernĂĄndez affirmed that they are trying to ban her and highlighted
17:55the achievements of her government.
17:57At the same time, she summoned other political forces to face the adjustment policies promoted
18:01by Millet's administration.
18:10And the president of Venezuela, NicolĂĄs Maduro, this November 17th, closed the Congress of
18:15the Historic Bloc with proposals summarizing the plan of the homeland that will give way
18:20to the new communal state and the development of the country.
18:24These proposals marked the beginning of his new government that starts on January 10th.
18:28According to the vice president of planning, Ricardo Menéndez, in these meetings 1,052
18:33interventions were carried out.
18:34At the same time, 1,634 proposals were made in the national discussion stage, while more
18:40than 500,000 proposals were compiled in public consultation exercises.
18:45In this context, President Maduro insisted that no one can think that everything is already done.
18:55We have come to the end of this newsbrief.
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