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00:00 Venezuelan citizens go to the polls this Sunday to participate in the consultative referendum
00:15 for the defense of the Guayana Ezequiel.
00:20 In Palestine, workers at the Nasser Hospital in Cancun struggled to keep up with the arrival
00:24 of the injured and dead as Israel intensifies its attacks on the area.
00:32 On the fourth day of the COP28 summit, 74 countries and 40 organizations endorsed the
00:36 Arab Emirate's statements on climate, relief, recovery and peace at the Global Climate Action
00:42 Organization.
00:48 Hello and welcome from the south.
00:49 I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Delsu Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:54 We begin with the news.
00:55 Venezuelan citizens go to the polls this Sunday to participate in the consultative referendum
00:59 for the defense of the Guayana Ezequiel.
01:01 A total of 28,027 polling stations have been set up in the 23 states and the capital district,
01:09 the 335 municipalities and 1,141 parishes.
01:14 Early in the morning, President Nicolás Maduro emphasized that with the consultative referendum,
01:18 the voice of Venezuela would be one to solve a territorial dispossession that has been
01:23 going on for 150 years.
01:25 The president made his statements at the end of his voting exercise at the Escuela EcolĂłgica
01:30 Nacional Bolivariana SimĂłn RodrĂguez, located in Caracas.
01:35 Also the president of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Zamoroso, informed that as
01:40 of 9 a.m. local time, 97 percent of the polling stations in the country are already installed
01:45 for the day.
01:47 The national coordinator of the Comando de Campaña Venezuela Toda, Jorge RodrĂguez,
01:51 and executive vice president, Ders RodrĂguez, urged the Venezuelan people to vote united
01:55 as a family for the Ezequiel Guayana.
02:02 And as we have been covering throughout the day, the people of Venezuela carried out a
02:06 historic consultative referendum in defense of the Ezequiel.
02:09 For more details, we have live our correspondent, Gladys Quezada, from Caracas.
02:14 Hello, Gladys.
02:15 Hello, Luis.
02:16 How are you?
02:17 Gladys, can you hear us?
02:21 Hello, Luis.
02:23 Hi, Gladys.
02:25 Yeah, I can hear you.
02:26 How's been the day developing?
02:29 Okay, so voting day is going normally, is going under total tranquility and also under
02:38 calm and order.
02:39 So far this afternoon here in Caracas, people is gathering under the shade and I think that
02:47 running away from the sun also, but they are coming to vote.
02:50 They are coming to exercise their right and their democratic duty also to cast their vote.
02:57 So far, all the authorities of the National Electoral Council have been reporting about
03:02 not only the turnout, but also about the discipline, the responsibility that people here in Venezuela
03:09 is showing during their voting process and their voting day.
03:14 Also, as you know, we had the tour of the international observers who are also accompanying
03:20 the process and are assessing the expedite process and the effectivity of the voting
03:28 protocol and other steps.
03:30 Also, they are assessing that all the colleges and all the voting centers have the proper
03:37 and the correct order of the voting tables.
03:40 Also, as you can see, there are signals that show the voters where to go and cast their
03:45 vote according to their cell identity card number and those are the process.
03:51 They come in here, they check their name in the list and the number of their ID card and
03:57 they go inside and cast their vote in the voting machines and in every voting table.
04:03 So far, about over 50% of the 20 million people are already voted.
04:11 They already voted today and this is a joyful celebration of democracy.
04:16 This is a day of people's will and of attendance.
04:21 But now let's see some material that our staff, our team have prepared regarding the steps
04:28 for the voting and how the voting has gone on midday.
04:33 Let's see.
04:36 The electoral centers of Venezuela were installed at 6 in the morning, being the president of
04:41 the republic Nicolás Maduro the first to exercise his right to vote.
04:46 Today we await the voice of the people of Venezuela, the fullerces of sovereignty with
04:51 a single flag, the three colors and the eight stars including the star of our Guyana.
04:58 The head of state recalled that Venezuela has one of the most reliable, fast and simple
05:02 electoral systems to use worldwide.
05:08 It is a process with the Venezuelan electoral system.
05:14 It is a safe, guaranteed, reliable and also very simple, very easy process where our country
05:19 is deciding a truly historic position.
05:25 I don't know if there will be another country in the world that has consulted a subject
05:30 of the importance that is being consulted in Venezuela and has delivered it in the hands
05:40 of the men or women standing.
05:43 I don't know a precedent of this.
05:50 After the process began, the principal rector of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amado,
05:54 also formed the installation of almost 100% of the voting table and recalled that the
05:59 consultative referendum seeks to solve the discussion on the Ezequipo territory.
06:06 It is a consultative referendum on a situation we want to resolve ourselves Venezuelans and
06:13 so we will do today, as is our Guyana and where all Venezuelans will participate to
06:20 make the absolute decision on this issue.
06:26 At the same time, the president of the parliament, Jorge Rodriguez, extended a call to the citizens
06:31 to consolidate the historic claim of Venezuela on the territory of the Ezequipo.
06:40 We want to insist to all our people, to the women and men of Venezuela that today is a
06:45 day for unity.
06:46 Today is a day for the historic claim of Venezuela to defend its Guyana Ezequipo.
06:52 In the past, each time they attacked and each time they attacked Venezuelans' territorial
06:57 reality, we were in the circumstances that Venezuela was divided.
07:03 Today we have to give a demonstration of unity, a demonstration of force, demonstration of
07:07 courage, of courage and democratic expression.
07:16 And under an atmosphere of national unity, the leadership of the political opposition
07:20 called the Venezuelan people to meet in the democratic consultation and express their
07:25 support for their territorial demand.
07:28 To reaffirm that national project that unite us to all Venezuelans without distinction
07:33 of political color, today is a day of democracy because it is a day when we are consulted.
07:38 We fought hard and we have fought hard to be consulted on public matters.
07:43 And today, of course, that we are being consulted would be a crap pose to put yourself in an
07:49 attack of anger and not come to vote.
07:52 The sins that unite us, José Gregorio Hernández unite us, the vino tinto who unite us, the
07:58 arepa unite us, and the defense of the territory unite us.
08:01 The team is all Venezuela.
08:03 It is Lame, it is Yaracuy, it is Aragua, it is Monagas, it is Lara, and it is all states
08:09 because the territory is of the Venezuelans.
08:12 Please consider the referendum is not from the government.
08:14 It is not from the opposition.
08:17 It is not from the opposition and it is not from the government.
08:20 It belongs to all Venezuelans.
08:22 And that's why one of the ways to exercise your defense is to vote.
08:27 My call is to those who have not yet come to us because it is always good to be aware
08:32 that one did something for the defense of the territory.
08:36 The Venezuelan people advanced in the deposit of their vote in a coherent manner and with
08:40 the national vision of ratifying their support for the sovereign defense of Guayana Exequiba.
08:53 So far that were the development of the midday on the voting day on this Sunday on the referendum,
08:59 a consultative referendum on the Guayana Exequiba.
09:03 I wanted to stress this is a joyful process.
09:07 This is a democratic process and the authorities have been emphatic and have been stressing
09:12 the need for dialogue with Guayana and how only the dialogue with Guayana will solve
09:17 the dispute and that the government of Venezuela does not have a conflict, does not want, is
09:26 not willing to confront the Guayana authorities and they want to solve this in the diplomatic
09:33 arena.
09:34 And that has been the message all over this day and all over the week and in everything
09:39 that they have been saying in all the addresses to the people and to the press.
09:43 So far this is the ambience, this is the way the people celebrate.
09:47 I was telling on the morning time there was music and there was dances and also dances
09:52 from the Guayana Exequiba, the calypso dances and rhythm that is domestic or native from
09:59 there.
10:00 So, so far this is the report.
10:01 Luis, back to you.
10:02 Thank you for reporting for us from Venezuela on this historical day of the conservative
10:08 referendum.
10:09 Well, let's now take a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok @TelesurEnglish
10:17 where you will find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
10:22 Other stories coming up, stay with us.
10:39 Welcome back from the South.
10:56 On Sunday, workers at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Palestine struggled to keep
11:00 up with the arrival of the injured and dead.
11:02 A large number of victims were brought to the facility as Israel extended its military
11:06 operations to the south of the Gaza Strip.
11:10 A lack of beds meant staff treated patients on the floor, which was stricken with blood
11:14 and scattered with abandoned belongings.
11:17 Bodies covered with blankets and sheets were laid next to those receiving medical attention.
11:21 Heavy bombardments were reported overnight and into Sunday in the area of Khan Younis
11:25 and the southern city of Rafa.
11:27 Israel ordered more areas in and around Khan Younis, Gaza's second largest city, to evacuate.
11:33 Operations to the north of the Strip also were the focus of Israel's blistering air
11:38 and ground campaign.
11:44 Israel continues its siege of the Palestinian people.
11:46 Since October 7, the displacement of citizens from Khan Younis to the city of Rafa in the
11:50 southern Gaza Strip has increased even after the truce.
11:53 Let's see the exclusive material with testimony of one of the displaced.
11:59 On October 7, when the war started, the Jews sent us to evacuate and go to the south.
12:05 We went to the south looking for safety.
12:08 Being there, we saw that the area was not safe.
12:11 We went to what Gaza, they told us that we have to leave there.
12:15 We went to Khan Younis, the situation is the same, and they told us to move to Rafa.
12:22 What I want to tell you is that the suffering is bigger every day.
12:27 It is our suffering and I don't know in reality.
12:31 It is something that was not foreseen, but we always thank God for everything.
12:38 Our claim is to our national authorities.
12:42 We claim to our brothers here who let people be killed.
12:47 Here drifting away, which should not happen.
12:52 Here in Gaza, there is no safe place.
12:55 In the end, it is destiny.
12:57 It is God who decides who dies and who continues to live.
13:01 However, the Jews do not live a safe place here in the Gaza Strip, neither in Khan Younis,
13:09 nor in Rafa, nor in Gaza.
13:11 It is like this.
13:14 In the United States, a court ruled on Saturday that the Texas government must remove a 305-meter-long
13:19 floating barrier it placed on the Rio Grande River to detect migrants from illegally crossing
13:24 the border into Mexico.
13:27 New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision rejected a request by the
13:32 Republican-ruled state of Texas to reverse a federal judge's decision order to move the
13:36 string of buoys placed on the Rio Grande in July near Eagle Pass.
13:41 While in Mexico the court's decision was welcome, printed media, radio and television placed
13:45 the court's decision among their major headlines this Sunday.
13:48 They all most unanimously highlighted the failure of Texas Governor Greg Abbott's administration
13:54 to plant buoys and board while at Eagle Pass access.
13:58 In the ruling, the judge found that the state of Texas violated the laws governing waterways
14:02 by placing the barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
14:09 Spain imports liquefied natural gas from Russia, reaching a buyback this year, 2023.
14:15 Local media report that Russia is the third supplier of hydrocarbons in the region, behind
14:18 Algeria and the United States, with only 18.1 percent of the share of gas imported into
14:23 the European country.
14:24 The liquefied natural gas sent by Moscow by ship is not related to the oil tankers imposed
14:29 on Russia after the Ukraine conflict.
14:33 Spain is the main exporter of Russian liquefied natural gas among the countries of the European
14:38 nation.
14:44 In Switzerland, public television has just denounced a new scandal with national repercussions.
14:48 The Abbey of St. Maurice, directly dependent on the Vatican, has been a place where repeated
14:53 sexual abuse has taken place.
14:56 The investigative program Mise-en-Scène of Swiss radio and television reported on November
15:02 19 that at least nine priests of the Center of Swiss Catholicism, located in the traditional
15:07 canton of Valais, were involved in sexual abuse.
15:10 RTS investigated for several weeks and, based on various testimonies, revealed new suspicions
15:15 of abuse that also affect the heads of the institution, two of whom have directly been
15:20 implicated.
15:21 The cases, most of which occurred between 1995 and 2005, have been systematically ignored
15:26 or covered up by the church hierarchy.
15:29 The investigation states that 1,200 cases of sexual abuse in the country were committed
15:33 by members of the Roman Catholic clergy, church employees and members of religious communities.
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16:01 Final short break, don't go away.
16:02 This Sunday, December 3, Venezuela goes to the polls to defend its sovereignty in a
16:24 consultative referendum for the Invisequivo.
16:27 Join us for our special coverage with a great journalistic display, live streaming, minute
16:34 by minute, on our cross-platform special coverage.
16:50 Welcome back from the South.
16:51 Seventy-four countries and four organizations endorsed the Arab Emirate's statements on
16:55 climate relief, recovery and peace at the Global Climate Action Organization Summit.
16:59 On Sunday, as the fourth day of the COP28 conference, the main event of the relief day
17:03 is framed by recovery and peace, which is designed to increase and enhance climate action
17:08 on the resources of the countries most affected by conflict and humanitarian needs.
17:12 The 74 countries and four international organizations endorsed the declaration to ensure equitable
17:17 access to climate action, in addition to pledging US$150 million in funding to finance and address
17:24 global water scarcity.
17:34 In the context of the COP28 summit, the Coalition of Social Movements participating in the UN
17:38 Climate Change Conference held the first demonstration inside the COP to denounce the war crimes
17:43 committed by Israel against the Palestinian people.
17:46 During the event, the names of the young people killed by Israel were remembered and the reaction
17:50 of world leaders was demanded.
17:56 The President of Cuba, Miguel DĂaz-Canel BermĂşdez, arrived on Saturday night in Doha,
18:00 Qatar.
18:01 The President was welcomed, according to the protocol, by the First Deputy Minister of
18:04 Foreign Affairs, Sultan Bin Saad al-Murayki.
18:06 This is the second stop of the working and official visits made by the head of state
18:10 to three Middle Eastern nations, which will be concluded in Iran after initially staying
18:15 in the United Arab Emirates.
18:17 On Emirati soil, DĂaz-Canel also participated in the high-level session of the 28th edition
18:22 of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
18:26 At the head of the Cuban delegation, which also holds the pro-temporary, the Presidency
18:30 of the Group of 77 on China.
18:33 Cuba and Qatar established diplomatic relations on December 13, 1989.
18:42 The East African Community Regional Force began its withdrawal from the Democratic Republic
18:47 of the Congo on Sunday morning after King Shasa deemed it ineffective and refused to
18:52 renew its mandate.
18:53 The regional bloc first deployed troops in the Valence Plague region in November last
18:57 year after the resurgence of the M23 rebel group.
19:00 The RC authorities at the time invited the EAC to deploy its forces to free the areas
19:05 taken by the rebels.
19:06 But the future of the deployment was thrown into doubt after DR Congo President Felix
19:12 Isikeri accused the force of cohabiting with the rebels rather than forcing them to lay
19:18 down arms.
19:19 Following a summit on November 25, the EAC announced that the DRC would not renew the
19:25 mandate of the regional force beyond December 8, 2023.
19:28 A force group of around 100 Kenyan soldiers from the regional force left from Goma Airport
19:33 bound for Nairobi, according to a spokesman for the force on the ground, who did not provide
19:38 more detail on further withdrawals.
19:45 In Pakistan, at least nine people were killed and 25 were injured after a terrorist attack
19:49 on a bus in the city of Chilas.
19:52 Local authorities reported that the incident occurred at 6.30 p.m. local time on Saturday
19:56 and also noted that the bus was shot at, then collided with a truck and caught fire.
20:01 So far, five bodies have been identified.
20:03 At first it was reported that eight people were dead, however, one of the injured died.
20:08 Among the victims are the driver of the vehicle and two soldiers of the Pakistani Army.
20:29 In India, local authorities are preparing this Sunday for the imminent arrival of a
20:33 mission hurricane expected to hit the country.
20:35 The meteorological department indicated that the storm is currently following a west-northwest
20:39 course at a speed of 13 km/h and is expected to increase its intensity as it moves across
20:45 the Bengal Sea.
20:46 In this regard, the chief secretaries of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha and finance
20:51 secretary Pradhesh Shetty briefed the committee on the measures taken to protect the people
20:55 and material resources.
20:57 The authorities further warned the fishermen not to venture into the sea and arrange for
21:02 adequate shelters, power supply, medicines and emergency services.
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