FTS 9:30 13-12: Israeli shelling on Gaza causes 25 deaths in few hours
13/12/2023
FTS 9.30
*Peruvian Pedro Castillo accuses FMR. Prosecutor at judicial hearing
*UAE: COP28 agrees to begin transition away from fossil fuels
FTS 9.30
*Peruvian Pedro Castillo accuses FMR. Prosecutor at judicial hearing
*UAE: COP28 agrees to begin transition away from fossil fuels
Category
đź—ž
NewsTranscript
00:00 After 68 days and despite international condemnation Israel continues its total siege on the Gaza
00:15 Strip.
00:16 During the day, dozens of civilians were killed in Khan Younis and al-Daraj.
00:22 In Peru, Pedro Castillo said that the former prosecutor Patricia Benavides made up a case
00:27 against him and that after eight months of investigation has not been proven that he
00:31 was involved.
00:32 In the United Arab Emirates, 198 countries adopted the final declaration of COP28, agreeing
00:39 for the first time to move forward with a transition away from the fossil fuel industry
00:44 and to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
00:51 Hello welcome from the south, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from De La Souz studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:56 Let's begin with the news.
01:15 After 68 days and despite international condemnation Israel continues its total siege on the Gaza
01:20 Strip.
01:21 During the day, dozens of civilians were killed after intense bombardments against homes in
01:24 Khan Younis and al-Daraj cities.
01:27 At least 20 Palestinians were slaughtered early Wednesday morning, including several
01:30 children after Israeli occupation aircraft fired missiles at residential neighborhoods
01:35 in Khan Younis, south of the besieged Gaza Strip.
01:39 Home attacks were further reported in al-Daraj town in Gaza City, bringing about 25 deaths.
01:44 Palestinian health ministry updated that killings amounted to a death toll of up to 18,412 people,
01:51 most of them children and women, while over 50,000 have been injured since October 7.
02:01 At the same time as the shelling of Gaza, the Israeli occupation army continued its
02:04 aggression against the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank for the second consecutive
02:08 day.
02:09 The Israeli army caused great destruction after bombing three houses in the eastern
02:13 part of the town with energy and missiles.
02:16 Several bulldozers accompanied the military incursion, destroying infrastructure.
02:20 Furthermore, residents denounced that soldiers shot at all those who wandered the streets
02:24 while launching a campaign of raids and arrests.
02:27 The violent assaults on Tuesday left seven Palestinians killed.
02:36 The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to demand a humanitarian ceasefire
02:40 in Gaza in a strong demonstration of global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war.
02:45 The vote also shows the growing isolation of the United States and Israel.
02:49 After the United States on Friday vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a
02:53 humanitarian ceasefire, Arab and Islamic countries convened an emergency session of the 193-member
02:59 General Assembly to vote on a resolution to the same effect.
03:03 The General Assembly vote reflects the growing isolation of the United States, which refuses
03:06 to join demands for a ceasefire.
03:09 More than the United Nations or any other international organization, the United States
03:14 sees itself as the only entity capable of persuading Israel to accept a ceasefire, as
03:18 it is its closest ally and its largest arms supplier.
03:22 The adopted text calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, compliance by all parties with
03:26 international law, in particular the protection of civilians, the immediate and unconditional
03:31 release of all hostages, and humanitarian access.
03:38 On Tuesday's strike on a house in central Rafa killed at least eight people and left
03:43 15 more injured, among them children.
03:45 Three of the dead were taken to Kuwaiti hospital, while another five bodies were taken to nearby
03:51 Abu Yusuf al-Nahar hospital.
03:53 Jihad Abu Romana, who lives next door to the destroyed house, described the immediate aftermath
03:58 of the strike.
03:59 He said that they heard a huge sound of an airstrike.
04:02 It was dust destruction.
04:04 He said he pulled a girl from the rowboat just before the ceiling collapsed.
04:07 The conflict ignited by Hamas' October 7th attack into southern Israel has already brought
04:12 unprecedented death and destruction to the impoverished coastal enclave, with much of
04:16 northern Gaza obliterated, more than 18,000 Palestinians killed, and over 80% of the population
04:22 of 2.3 million pushed from their homes.
04:30 We heard a huge sound of an airstrike.
04:32 It was dust, destruction here.
04:34 I am their neighbor living beside them.
04:36 I went out to see what was going on.
04:38 I found one here was injured.
04:41 We have here eight houses that have been destroyed.
04:44 There are five families in each house.
04:46 At least it hit 40 families here, all our neighbors.
04:50 Our beloved went in a second.
04:52 What was their guilt?
04:58 Our neighbors were injured.
04:59 There was a little girl under the cement ceiling.
05:02 It's God that wants her to live.
05:04 The minute I pulled her out from under the ceiling, it collapsed right after.
05:08 I arrived in a minute, as I am their neighbor, before the civil defense and the ambulance
05:12 arrived.
05:13 The Gemini armed forces claimed responsibility for the attack on the Norwegian tanker Astrina
05:18 and stated that they would not hesitate to attack any ship that violates the above statements.
05:24 They also stated they will not hesitate to attack any ship that violates the statement
05:28 calling that the Gemini armed forces reported over the weekend that as long as Israel does
05:32 not allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip, they will attack any vessel traveling
05:36 to the pores of the country.
05:39 The naval forces of the Yemeni armed forces carried out a qualitative military operation
05:46 against the Norwegian ship Astrina, which was loaded with oil and headed to the Israeli
05:52 entity.
05:53 It was targeted with a suitable naval missile.
06:02 The Yemeni armed forces will not hesitate to target any ship that violates what was
06:06 stated in the previous statements.
06:08 The Yemeni armed forces confirmed that they continue to prevent all ships of all nationalities
06:12 heading to Israeli ports from navigating in the Arab and Red Seas until they bring in
06:17 the food and medicine that our steadfast brothers in the Gaza Strip need.
06:23 In Palestine, Israel's armed forces began pumping sea water into tunnels under the Gaza
06:28 Strip.
06:29 This action is part of Israel's ongoing offensive in Gaza to defeat the Palestinian resistance
06:33 led by Hamas.
06:34 These ad concerns the Palestinian authorities as they will potentially lead to the destruction
06:37 of natural water wells, raising serious concerns about humanitarian and environmental repercussions.
06:43 The flooding of tunnels in a conflict zone like Gaza has serious humanitarian implications,
06:47 especially if it disrupts access to essential resources such as water.
06:51 Gaza already faces a difficult water situation with limited access to clean and safe drinking
06:55 water.
06:56 These actions jeopardize civilian infrastructure and basic needs such as water supply and are
07:00 considered a violation of international humanitarian law.
07:05 Let's take a short break but remember you can join us on TikTok @Telesuddinglish where
07:11 you will find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
07:17 Other stories coming up, stay with us.
07:21 Welcome back from the south.
07:40 In Peru, Pedro Castillo said that the former prosecutor Patricio Benavides invented a Tarata
07:44 case against him and that after eight months of investigation has not been proven that
07:49 he was involved.
07:50 During a judiciary hearing, Castillo accused Benavides of being the leader of an alleged
07:55 criminal organization and of supporting his imprisonment and his removal as president
07:59 by ordering his detention while he was still president of the country and was enjoying
08:04 presidential immunity.
08:05 On the other hand, Castillo's lawyer Eduardo Pachas pointed out that after a year in prison,
08:09 the prosecutor's office has not been able to prove that there was an incriminating agreement
08:13 between Castillo and other people.
08:15 In this sense, Pedro Castillo pointed out that even his family has been strongly harassed
08:19 by people who want to incriminate him.
08:28 I am more than a year unjustly detained, unjustly imprisoned.
08:36 The people who have elected me, more than nine million Peruvians, to represent them
08:40 and lead them.
08:42 However, a whole strategic plan in advance, in collusion, the leader of an alleged criminal
08:55 organization has been supporting not only my imprisonment, but the one who also planned
09:00 part of my vacancy.
09:06 What more proof, Your Honor?
09:08 What more proof we have?
09:10 We have it at hand and Peru should know it.
09:15 The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, confirmed his attendance to the face-to-face
09:19 meeting with his counterpart from Guyana on Thursday in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
09:22 to discuss the territorial dispute over the Guayana-Izequiba, a territory seized in 1899
09:28 by the United Kingdom and that Guyana refuses to settle the controversy through the Geneva
09:33 Agreement.
09:34 A report with Madeline Garcia.
09:38 In this same scenario, in August, in his program with Maduro Mas, the Venezuelan president
09:43 invited the president of Guyana, Irfan Malik, to meet face to face to resolve the controversy
09:48 over the Guyana-Izequiba through the dialogue established in the Geneva Agreement.
09:53 Four months after so much refusal by the Guyanese government, with the support of Salah Karikoum
09:58 and the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, a step was taken.
10:03 I say we have done it.
10:05 We have achieved a face-to-face dialogue.
10:07 It is a great achievement of who, of the people of Venezuela, of the will of the sovereignty
10:13 of Venezuela.
10:14 It is one of the first great achievements of the historic step of December 3rd, because
10:20 this is resolved by talking face to face.
10:23 I say it.
10:29 But when and why was the dialogue of the Geneva Agreement interrupted?
10:33 In 2015, the U.S. transnational company ExxonMobil acquired a world-famous oil field in maritime
10:40 territory pending the demarcation between Guyana and Venezuela.
10:44 In 2018, the Guyanese government made the move that Venezuela did not expect.
10:48 It unilaterally took the case to the International Court of Justice and was endorsed by the Secretary
10:53 General of the United Nations.
10:56 The action of the Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, was erroneous.
11:01 He incited his functions contained in the Geneva Agreement by using or supporting, in
11:06 one way or another, the maneuver of Guyana to judicialize the case without having exhausted
11:11 the mechanisms previously foreseen for a peaceful solution, such as mediation, good office,
11:16 or conciliation, which are typified in Article 33 of the UN Charter and also included in
11:22 Article 4 of the Geneva Agreement.
11:29 It's absurd that the United Nations, whose role is to promote peace, to promote dialogue,
11:34 to promote agreements, to promote reconciliation, has acted in such a way that its behavior,
11:40 as well as that of the International Court of Justice, has caused the conflict to increase
11:45 and to aggravate.
11:46 And that is the role of these institutions.
11:49 The role is rather to seek solutions that are beneficial to peace and to agreement between
11:54 countries.
11:59 Article 33 of the United Nations Charter states that any dispute which may threaten the maintenance
12:05 of international peace and security shall be settled primarily by negotiation, mediation,
12:11 and other peaceful means, and that the Council may invite the parties to use such means to
12:17 settle their dispute.
12:18 The statute of the International Court of Justice also states that the countries in
12:23 dispute must agree to its jurisdiction.
12:27 They cannot force a state to recognize it.
12:29 Barifonko changed everything.
12:38 On Friday, I spoke with the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, with
12:42 whom we have more difference because of the actions that he has taken outside the Geneva
12:48 Agreement.
12:49 And I explained to him very well the position of Venezuela with the statute of the International
12:54 Court of Justice in hand, the position of Venezuela since 1945 on the non-recognition
12:59 of the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice to settle the controversy of the
13:04 Ezequiel-Guayana.
13:06 And I asked him to play a positive role as Secretary General of the United Nations to
13:11 resume the dialogue.
13:12 And he committed to me that he would do so.
13:21 His President, Delce RodrĂguez, explained what the Geneva Convention can achieve and
13:26 what the International Court of Justice cannot.
13:34 The defense of the Geneva Agreement of 1966, the only legal instrument that allows a peaceful,
13:39 political, practical and satisfactory solution for both sides, includes the concept of justice
13:44 for both sides, which is definitely excluded in the solution of the International Court
13:48 of Justice.
13:54 The meeting in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday will be an expression of the Geneva
13:59 Agreement Venezuela will put on the table, a formula for joint development based on the
14:04 Petro-Caribbean experience.
14:10 In Argentina, the ultra-right-wing government of Javier Melea approved a new economic package
14:15 that includes significant social cuts, the elimination of energy and transportation subsidies,
14:21 and the devaluation of the Argentine peso by more than 50%.
14:25 The Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, announced a series of 10 measures which include, among
14:30 other things, cutting the number of ministries from 18 to 9, increasing the exchange rate
14:35 to 800 Argentine pesos, and suspending all labor contracts entered into by the state
14:41 with terms of less than one year.
14:43 All this as part of the economic shock measures announced by Melea in his government's program.
14:48 Minister Caputo admitted that the initiative will worsen the quality of life of Argentines
14:52 for an undetermined period of time.
15:00 The state will not tender any more new public works and will cancel approved tenders whose
15:04 development has not yet begun.
15:07 As I said earlier, there is no money to pay for more public works that, as we all know,
15:13 often end up in the pockets of politicians or businessmen on duty.
15:19 For a few months, we will be worse off than before, particularly in terms of inflation.
15:25 We have a second short break coming up, but before we invite you to join our WhatsApp
15:28 community for our English speaking audience, you can scan the QR code on screen to join
15:32 directly and share the link to reach more people.
15:35 Concerning news coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the rest of
15:39 the world.
15:40 Stay connected and informed with Telesur.
15:42 Final short break, don't go away.
16:05 Welcome back from the South.
16:06 In the United Arab Emirates, 198 countries adopted the final declaration of COP28, agreeing
16:12 for the first time to move forward with a transition away from the fossil fuel industry
16:16 and to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
16:20 The declaration calls for deep, rapid and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions
16:25 by 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035 in relation to 2019, with the objective of reaching zero
16:33 emissions by 2050.
16:36 Some movements consider that the text shows progress, but that the ideal would have been
16:40 the progressive elimination of the fossil industry, with deadlines and concrete measures.
16:45 In addition, the mechanisms for financing the transition, a crucial point for Latin
16:49 America and a good part of the global South, were left out of the text.
16:57 China and Vietnam boost relations with a community of shared future on President Xi Jinping's
17:01 second day in Hanoi.
17:03 On Wednesday, Xi held separate meetings with Vietnam's President Vo Van Thuong and Prime
17:08 Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
17:10 The Chinese leader announced that both countries would work together to create a China-Vietnam
17:14 community with a shared future of strategic importance.
17:17 In this context, 36 cooperation agreements were signed in areas such as politics, security,
17:23 practical cooperation, public support and maritime issues.
17:26 This visit marks 15 years of China's becoming a comprehensive strategic partner of Vietnam.
17:36 Thousands of Slovakians took to the streets in Bratislava on Tuesday to protest criminal
17:40 court reforms planned by the government.
17:42 According to the rally organizers, around 15,000 people turned up for the protests in
17:46 the capital alone, with similar demonstrations held in other Slovak cities.
17:50 The reforms, which have been criticized by the opposition and the European Union, include
17:54 easing the penalties for corruption and economic offenses, as well as waiving whistleblowers
17:59 protection for police officers.
18:02 Last week, the government approved also the abolishment of a specialized prosecutor's
18:06 office that oversees cases of high-level corruption and organized crime.
18:10 Parliament plans to pass the controversial reforms via a fast-track legislative procedure,
18:15 a step that has drawn criticism from the President and the opposition lawmakers.
18:20 Members of Tuesday's protests indicated that similar actions would follow in the days to
18:24 come.
18:25 Relatives of the victims of the train tragedy demonstrated in front of the Parliament in
18:32 the town of Larissa, in Greece.
18:35 The demonstrations took place in Syntagma Square, where relatives and social organizations
18:39 reiterated demand that the causes of the accident that took the lives of 57 people, mostly university
18:45 students, on February 28 be revealed.
18:48 Demonstrators urged Parliamentary officials not to cover up for those responsible for
18:51 the incident.
18:52 In this context, demonstrators denounced the negligence and delay of the corresponding
18:56 authorities in providing justice to the families of the victims and clarifying the causes of
19:01 the collision.
19:07 Spanish MPs gave the "go ahead" for Parliament to examine the amnesty bill for Catalan separatists,
19:13 with Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez conceded in exchange for the pro-independence
19:18 movement's support for his return to power.
19:21 The amnesty offer came six years after a failed independence bid by Catalan separatists, with
19:26 Sánchez insisting it would help turn the page on Spain's worst political crisis in
19:30 decades that still stirs up very raw emotions.
19:34 For years Sánchez opposed such a move, but recently admitted he had a change of heart.
19:39 Pedro Sánchez said on Monday that even though such a step was complex to explain, to the
19:43 Spanish public it was a necessary decision to learn from what happened in 2017 and move
19:49 towards a resolution of the conflict with Catalonia.
19:55 We have come to the end of this news brief, but before saying goodbye we want to thank
19:58 our Caribbean audience, specially the audience of Finland and Tobago, who are pleased to
20:02 share our newscast and contribute to provide an alternative news source of the latest world
20:06 events.
20:07 You can find these and many other stories on our website at www.telesuvinglish.net.
20:10 You can also join us on our social media on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram and TikTok.
20:17 For Telesuva English, I'm Luis Alberto Matos.
20:19 Thank you for watching.
20:19 [music]