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Death toll of arctic storm Rose to 83 in the U.S. // Israeli genocidal operation in Gaza left over 25,000 palestinians killed. // G-77 and China reject Israel’s operation in Gaza. teleSUR
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00:03 In the United States, regional health departments
00:14 report over 80 people dead due to the Arctic storm
00:17 affecting the nation.
00:18 In Palestine, the health ministry
00:24 confirmed that the Israeli genocidal operation
00:26 in cooperation with the United States
00:28 killed over 25,000 Palestinians.
00:35 In Uganda, Cuba handed over the presidency
00:37 of the group of 77, plus China calling for unity, peace,
00:40 and worldwide rejection of Israel's operation in Gaza.
00:44 Hello, welcome to "From the South."
00:52 I'm Luis Alberto Matos from the Resul Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:57 We begin with the news.
00:58 We begin with Colombia's senator for the historic PAC,
01:17 Piedad Cordova, passed away this Saturday.
01:20 According to local media, the progressive leader
01:22 suffered a heart attack this Saturday
01:24 and was then transferred to the Conquistadores Clinic
01:27 in the city of Medellin, where she
01:29 arrived without vital signs.
01:31 The senator had suffered several health problems
01:34 for which she had to be hospitalized in 2022
01:37 and in 2023.
01:39 Cordova was elected senator in the legislative elections
01:42 of 2022 after spending several years away from public life
01:46 due to a disqualification against her.
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01:56 Let's learn more about Senator Piedad Cordova,
01:58 Piedad Esmeralda Cordova Ruiz, who
02:00 was a Colombian lawyer and politician born in 1955.
02:04 She was a member of the Liberal Party
02:06 for most of her political career and leader of the Poder Ciudadano
02:09 movement.
02:10 As a congresswoman, she worked for the rights
02:11 of women, ethnic, and sexual minorities.
02:14 In 1988, she obtained her first elected office,
02:17 being elected councilwoman of Medellin for a two-year term.
02:21 Her outstanding work encouraged her to run
02:24 for the House of Representatives in 1990.
02:27 Despite being one of the most fierce opponents
02:29 of the government of Álvaro Uribe Vélez,
02:32 Senator Cordova was appointed in 2007
02:34 as facilitator for the humanitarian agreement
02:36 between the FARC, EP guerrillas, and the Colombian government
02:39 to secure the release of several kidnapped people.
02:42 In Argentina, in just 35 days of Javier Millet's government,
02:51 security forces have killed 32 people, two of whom
02:54 were executed by the practice known as "easy trigger."
02:58 The information was provided by the Coordinating Committee
03:00 Against Police and Institution of Repression,
03:03 which warns that legitimizing easy trigger as an intervention
03:06 practice of police forces will worsen the situation.
03:10 The extrajudicial executions, which in that country
03:12 are labeled as "easy trigger," have
03:14 been justified by Patricia Bullrich, current minister
03:17 of security.
03:18 Meanwhile, María del Carmen Perdue,
03:19 lawyer for the Coordinating Committee,
03:21 warns that this figure is much higher
03:23 as it is the result of initial registrations
03:25 and will undoubtedly increase.
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03:46 In the United States, according to data provided
03:48 by the regional health departments,
03:49 the Arctic storm that has hit the country
03:51 has already left 83 people dead.
03:53 The count made by the media in the absence
03:56 of national information details that in Tennessee,
03:59 in the south of the country, there are already 19 deaths
04:01 in weather-related events.
04:03 In the West, the situation is even worse.
04:05 In Oregon, there are already 16 confirmed deaths,
04:07 in addition to reports of power outages and risk on the roads.
04:11 States like Kentucky, Illinois, or New York
04:13 have also raised their deaths due to the weather.
04:16 They saw that the situation could worsen
04:17 as temperatures will drop below minus 10 degrees.
04:20 The world could be heading for a new supply crisis,
04:30 not only because of tensions in the Red Sea,
04:32 but also because of the severe drought affecting the Panama
04:35 Canal.
04:36 The extreme drought caused by the El Nino phenomenon
04:38 leaves millions of dollars in losses in the supply chain.
04:41 Companies that provide fuel, food, and delivery services
04:44 report a decrease in income of up to 50%.
04:48 The president of the Panama Logistics Business Council,
04:50 Hugo Torrijos, said that the decrease of vessels currently
04:53 traveling is from 38 to 24.
04:55 The administrator of the Panama Canal Authority
04:57 also gave an account of the millionaire losses
04:59 suffered by the country.
05:06 In Brazil, two women drowned when
05:07 they were swept away by the waters of the storm that
05:10 hit the state of Sao Paulo.
05:12 The civil defense reported that the victims, who
05:14 were a mother and a daughter, aged 17 and 35, respectively,
05:17 were swept away by the current in the city of Limeira
05:20 when they got out of their vehicle to try to avoid being
05:23 swept away by the water.
05:24 These deaths are added to those of four other people who
05:27 lost their lives last week, also in the state of Sao Paulo,
05:30 and our 12 deaths that occurred in the neighboring state
05:32 of Rio de Janeiro due to heavy rains.
05:34 The water phenomenon has affected a total of 15,000
05:37 people since it began.
05:43 In Peru, weather authorities warn
05:45 about the risk of flooding due to heavy rains
05:47 caused by the influence of the El Niño phenomenon.
05:50 According to Peru's National Meteorology and Hydrology
05:52 Service, snow, hail, and rainfall
05:54 of moderate to heavy intensity are expected until Sunday.
05:58 So more than 300 districts in at least 13 regions
06:00 are under alert.
06:02 The National Institute of Civil Defense
06:03 urged local and regional authorities
06:05 to check clear and signal evacuation routes,
06:07 as well as the availability of health services, firefighters,
06:10 and police.
06:11 The Malta Sector Commission focused
06:13 on the national study of the El Niño
06:15 estimates that it will continue in weak, warm conditions
06:18 until March.
06:18 Let's now take a short break, but remember,
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06:28 updates, and much more.
06:31 Other stories coming up.
06:32 Stay with us.
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07:11 Welcome back from the South.
07:13 The Ministry of Health in Gaza updated its health records
07:16 and confirmed that the Israeli genocidal operation
07:18 in cooperation with the United States
07:20 has killed over 25,000 Palestinians.
07:22 The latest update has added 178 new mortal victims
07:25 and 293 wounded from the Ecovirus operations
07:28 on the Strip in the last 24 hours.
07:30 In coincidence with the report of the Palestinian authorities,
07:33 the spokesman of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Society's
07:36 International Federation, Tomaso De La Longa,
07:39 claims that the humanitarian crisis
07:40 is reaching catastrophic levels and is worsening steadily.
07:43 In the same context, the occupying forces
07:51 attacked again the city of Kanjouni
07:52 south of the Gaza Strip.
07:54 The latest incursions of the genocidal operation
07:56 have killed over 17,000 Palestinian women and children
08:01 in 106 days, leaving several dead and deceased.
08:06 Al-Anmanal neighborhood was the focus
08:07 of bombardments carried out by Israel
08:09 with the support of the US.
08:11 The whole area was shaken by missiles,
08:13 and a subsequent fire had left dozens of people wounded.
08:16 The balance scoring by Palestinian health authorities
08:19 in the Palestinian enclave after 24 hours of signing siege
08:21 brings the total figure to over 25,000 victims killed
08:25 and the number of wounded to over 63,000.
08:27 70% of them in both cases are women and children.
08:30 We now go with our correspondent in Gaza, Nur Harseen,
08:38 to learn about the latest updates
08:39 in the Palestinian enclave.
08:42 Days pass, and winter arrived here to the Gaza Strip.
08:47 And actually, this fact is adding
08:49 to the suffering of the people.
08:52 Especially now, most of the displaced people
08:55 are actually staying in tents, plastic tents
08:59 that are not strong enough to protect them
09:01 from the rain and the wind.
09:04 Palestinian families are now suffering
09:07 in this very cold winter.
09:09 Palestinian Health Ministry reported more than 400 cases
09:13 of diseases that arrived to the hospital.
09:15 And they are talking about more cases, actually,
09:18 but they did not manage to report them inside the hospitals.
09:22 Due to the unhealthy environment here in the refugee camps,
09:26 adding the fact that there is a lack of blankets,
09:29 lack of clothes, the very non-strong tents
09:34 that are not protecting people and children from the cold.
09:37 So this helped in spreading the disease and also cold and flu
09:43 among people in the camps and also children.
09:47 The Palestinian Health Ministry here in Gaza
09:49 have been for weeks calling upon the UN, the World Health
09:53 Organization, and the international community
09:56 to intervene and find a solution for the cases of these families
10:03 and at least allow more medicine to enter the Gaza Strip.
10:07 Nohar Azim, TELESUR, Gaza.
10:10 In Uganda, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
10:13 Riyad Al-Malki has emphasized the horrific situation
10:16 in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli war of genocide on Gaza
10:19 enters its 106th day.
10:21 Addressing the Non-Aligned Movement Conference
10:23 in Kampala, Al-Malki said 106 days
10:26 have passed since Israel began its campaign of mass slaughter,
10:30 deliberate starvation, and systematic destruction
10:32 of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
10:35 He pointed out that international system
10:37 has failed to assume its legal responsibility regarding
10:40 the situation in Gaza, adding that in over 100 days,
10:43 Israeli warplanes killed hundreds of civilians,
10:45 including 10,000 children, and nearly 10,000 people
10:48 are still buried under the rubble, mostly women
10:51 and children.
10:52 The foreign minister also added that Israeli fighter jets
10:54 have further massively destroyed over 70% of homes and buildings
10:57 in Gaza and displaced nearly 2 million Palestinians, half
11:01 of them children.
11:02 Israel also killed over 115 journalists, nearly 350 health
11:06 professionals, and hundreds of university professors, artists,
11:09 engineers, and other professionals
11:11 in the same period.
11:12 In this period, Israel deliberately
11:14 used starvation and deprivation of water as a weapon of war,
11:17 and now four out of five of the hungriest people in the world
11:20 are in Gaza.
11:21 There are pockets of famine in Gaza,
11:23 and children are dying of dehydration, malnutrition,
11:25 and hypothermia.
11:27 He said these atrocities are happening at a time
11:29 when Israeli forces abduct thousands of civilians in Gaza
11:32 and the West Bank, torture, humiliate, and starve them,
11:35 and subject them to unspeakable mental, physical, and even
11:38 sexual abuse.
11:39 These horrific abominations are done life with total impunity.
11:43 Finally, the foreign minister Maliki
11:45 praised the unprecedented South Africa's genocide case
11:48 against Israel before the ICJ.
11:50 In Europe and other countries around the world,
11:58 citizens mobilized this Saturday in support
12:00 of the Palestinian cause and against the Israeli genocide.
12:02 In Italy, demonstrators gathered in the city of Milan
12:05 to raise their voices in rejection
12:06 of the siege against Gaza.
12:08 Solidarity was also shown in the city of Uppsala, Sweden,
12:11 where people called for a permanent ceasefire
12:13 in the strip.
12:14 Likewise, in Denmark, citizens rallied in the Copenhagen region.
12:18 Demonstrations were also held in the United Kingdom and France
12:21 to show their support for the people in Gaza
12:27 amidst the ongoing Israeli attacks.
12:37 Also in Spain, citizens of more than 70 cities
12:46 took to the streets to show their support
12:47 for the Palestinian cause under the motto,
12:49 "Stop the Genocide in Palestine."
12:51 Social movements in Barcelona mobilized this Saturday
13:01 in support of Palestine.
13:02 Demonstrators described the state of Israel as genocidal.
13:06 They also criticized the president
13:07 of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez,
13:09 for not taking measures to reach a ceasefire
13:12 in the Palestinian enclave.
13:13 Also in another municipality of Bilbao,
13:15 they called for an end to the arms trade
13:17 and to relations with Israel.
13:19 Mobilizations also took place in Malaga, Toledo, the Canary
13:22 Islands, and other parts of the country.
13:24 Syrian official media has confirmed a missile attack
13:32 on a residential neighborhood in Damascus.
13:34 The incident occurred in the neighborhood of Masseh
13:36 on Saturday, and the attack is credited
13:38 to Israeli occupation forces.
13:40 Three Israeli fighter jets are reported
13:41 to have launched missiles in that area in western Damascus.
13:44 Officially, one person is reported dead,
13:46 and there are at least six injured.
13:48 On Friday, the governments of Iran and Pakistan
13:57 agreed to de-escalate the confrontations which
13:59 have left many people dead.
14:01 Iranian Foreign Minister, Saeed Amir Abdullah Hayan
14:03 and his Pakistani counterpart, Jalil Abbas Yelani,
14:05 met and have agreed to resume dialogue.
14:08 Throughout the week, the air forces of both countries
14:11 conducted heavy raids.
14:12 The crisis began in the troubled border region of Balochistan.
14:15 Tensions got so high that the Pakistani Prime Minister,
14:17 Awan-ul-Haq Qaqar, walked out of the Davos Forum in Switzerland.
14:21 After the agreement, the Iranian Foreign Minister
14:23 said that cooperation between Islamabad and Tehran
14:26 is key to neutralize terrorism.
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14:47 ...the group of 77 plus China calling for unity, peace, and worldwide rejection.
14:54 During his speech at the Third Summit of the Peoples of the South,
15:22 held in the city of Kampala, Uganda,
15:24 Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdes said that it was a source of great pride
15:28 and honor for Havana to share the G77 and China.
15:31 Valdes recalled that his country fulfilled a fruitful agenda of activities
15:36 despite a criminal economic, commercial, and financial blockade
15:39 imposed by the United States.
15:41 In this regard, he thanked the group for its support
15:43 during the island's mandate as the head of the group,
15:46 while wishing the greatest success for Uganda.
15:48 Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdes called for the unity
15:51 of the G77 and China as a mechanism to change the international order
15:56 established by centuries of colonialism and dependence.
16:04 The United Nations has denounced that nearly 15,000 people were killed in 2023
16:08 in the Sudanese region of West Darfur.
16:10 In West Darfur, the Rapid Support Forces Group
16:13 are said to have initiated an atrocious ethnic cleansing.
16:16 The report drafted for the UN Security Council
16:18 claims that the victims in the Gena'ina region
16:20 were executed with weapons supplied by the United Arab Emirates.
16:24 Since the start of the war in 2023, according to credible reports,
16:27 cited the UN mission,
16:29 paramilitary groups have provided steady military support
16:32 to the Sudanese rebels responsible for the massacre through Chad.
16:43 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has admitted
16:46 being involved in new plans against Russia as part of the alleged threats
16:49 to be faced by the North Atlantic Alliance.
16:51 According to information from the bloc's military committee,
16:54 NATO will initiate its Steadfast Defender 2024 military exercise in a week,
16:59 one of the largest in decades, which will last several months
17:02 and will involve some 90,000 military personnel.
17:05 According to the International Organization's authorities,
17:07 the manoeuvres will be held in Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania,
17:12 territories and will be the biggest since the Cold War.
17:16 Several media referring to a secret document of German armed forces
17:20 indicate that these manoeuvres take place as a warm-up
17:22 for an alleged conflict between Russia and NATO,
17:25 which they predicted could start in 2025.
17:32 The European Union has announced an increase
17:34 in the manufacturing of ammunition throughout 2024 to supply Ukraine.
17:38 European Union Domestic Market Commissioner Thierry Breton
17:41 said that before the end of 2024, production capacity may reach
17:45 between 1.3 and 1.4 million projectiles, which he said would be sent to Ukraine
17:50 to help the armed forces of the Kiev regime in their conflict with Russia.
17:54 Despite warnings that sending more weapons to Ukraine
17:56 would only extend the conflict with Russia,
17:58 the Western powers, especially the United States
18:00 and most members of the European Union, insist on rearming Ukraine.
18:08 In France, farmers joined protests by their European colleagues
18:12 over delays in public aid, fuel subsidies,
18:14 implementation of new environmental regulations
18:16 and prices imposed by agri-food industries.
18:19 Since Thursday, a group of farmers have joined protests
18:21 in different highways of the country
18:23 to demand the government to take into account their requests.
18:26 The agricultural union FNSEA stated that they will not move from the streets
18:31 until they get answers from the government.
18:34 They are also studying the possibility of calling
18:36 for a large national protest in the next few weeks.
18:43 In China, authorities reported 13 deaths in a fire on Friday night
18:47 in a school dormitory in Jiangchapu village, Henan province.
18:50 The official report indicates that the fire broke out
18:53 at 11 p.m. local time at Jinghai school.
18:55 At the moment, authorities are investigating the origin of the fire,
18:58 and at least one person linked to the school has been arrested.
19:01 The village of Jiangchapu is located on the outskirts of Nanyang,
19:04 a city of nearly 10 million people.
19:12 North Korea warned that it would not stand idly by
19:14 in the face of military provocations and other hostile actions
19:17 by the U.S., Japan and South Korea.
19:20 The North Korean defense ministry said it will respond militarily
19:23 to naval exercises conducted by these countries near Jeju Island
19:27 in the South Korean Strait.
19:28 The ministry added that the training exercises make the situation
19:31 in the region more unstable and seriously harm the security of the country.
19:36 In response, North Korea's underwater weapons system
19:38 conducted a test in development phase.
19:41 In this regard, they say that the underwater nuclear reaction capability
19:44 of the army is being perfected and the different determined responses
19:48 to the maneuvers of the United States and its allies will continue.
19:56 We are from to the end of this news brief.
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