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In Gaza the number of Palestinians killed so far amounts to 28,473 // UN warns about the rise of criminal groups in Haiti // In India thousands of farmers demand price protection for their crops. teleSUR
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00:03 In Gaza, the number of Palestinians killed so far
00:11 amounts to 28,473, although a higher figure
00:15 is estimated because many are still on the rubble.
00:17 According to the UN, criminal groups in Haiti
00:24 are increasing their activity in the country.
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00:29 And in other forties, they employ a harsh security
00:32 mechanism against the march of thousands of farmers
00:34 to New Delhi, who demand protection
00:36 of the prices of their crops.
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00:41 Hello, welcome from the south.
00:48 I'm Luis Alberto Matos from the Lesus Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:51 We begin with the news.
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00:59 Israel is perpetrating the most heinous massacre
01:11 of the century.
01:12 Number of Palestinian kills so far amounts to 28,473,
01:17 although a higher figure is estimated
01:19 because many are on the rubble.
01:21 Gaza authorities have delivered a new report
01:23 of the victims of the genocidal operation.
01:26 In the last 24 hours, the occupying troops
01:28 committed 16 massacres in the Palestinian enclave,
01:30 killing 133 civilians and injuring 162.
01:34 According to the register, the number of wounded
01:36 amounts to 68,146.
01:39 Both killed and injured are mostly women and children.
01:43 It is estimated that they represent more than 80%
01:45 of the victims of the attacks.
01:47 Also, the number of bodies on the rubble missing and kidnapped
01:50 could overwhelmingly raise the statistics.
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01:56 On Tuesday, the Sadin al-Qassam Brigades,
02:01 the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance
02:03 Movement, Hamas, announced that the Zionist occupation forces
02:06 killed three Israeli citizens.
02:08 In this regard, the brigades stressed
02:10 that the three dead Israeli citizens were
02:12 among the eight captive or seriously wounded
02:14 in the raids in the Gaza Strip.
02:16 On the other hand, the statement stressed
02:18 that the identity of the victims targeted
02:19 by the military attacks of its own government
02:21 will be revealed as soon as they know the medical condition
02:24 of the wounded, a situation that has been worsening
02:26 in recent hours due to the lack of medical supplies
02:29 and medicines to assist them.
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02:33 The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees
02:40 in the Middle East confirmed the death of one of its workers
02:43 in Gaza due to Israeli shooting.
02:45 The commissioner of the UN Agency
02:46 for Palestinian Refugees, Philip Lazzarini,
02:49 announced the death of another humanitarian worker
02:51 in the city of Hanounis, in the southwest of the Strip.
02:54 Lazzarini added that the worker's body could not
02:56 be recovered despite multiple attempts,
02:59 and insisted that humanitarian workers must be protected.
03:02 In his last report, UNRWA records the death
03:05 of 154 of its humanitarian workers.
03:08 The leader of the Lebanese resistance movement,
03:16 Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, highlighted the heroism
03:19 of the Palestinian people and assured
03:20 that Israel continues to reap failures
03:22 after 130 days of genocide against the Gaza Strip.
03:26 Nasrallah stressed that the occupation
03:28 faces a policy of impotence.
03:30 The Hezbollah leader expressed that Lebanon's actions
03:32 in support of Gaza will continue until Israel's aggression
03:35 ceases and a ceasefire is established.
03:37 He also assured that the Lebanese resistance
03:39 is determined to confront the enemy at any level,
03:42 and that it will not accept the conditions
03:44 that Israel presented to the West
03:46 to avoid an escalation in the region.
03:48 Nasrallah added that the origin of the destabilization
03:50 in the region was the creation of the Israeli occupation
03:53 entity.
03:54 Finally, Hezbollah leader assured that the actions in favor
03:57 of Gaza are an honest response to the moral and religious
03:59 responsibility of its people.
04:01 When the attack on Gaza stops and there is a ceasefire,
04:09 the fire will also stop in the south.
04:13 Let nobody think Lebanon is weak and afraid,
04:16 or that they can impose conditions.
04:20 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain
04:21 denied this Tuesday to have authorized any sale
04:24 of military material to Israel.
04:25 This led to information disseminated
04:27 by some national media, according
04:29 to which in the month of November,
04:31 Madrid would have authorized the export of ammunition to Israel
04:34 for a value of 987,000 euros.
04:37 However, the Secretary of State for Trade,
04:39 attached to the ministerial office,
04:42 confirms that no sale has been materialized after October 7,
04:45 reiterating also that the material that Spain exported
04:48 before that date to Israel, in no case
04:50 is material that can be used in conflict.
04:51 On Monday, the President of the United States, Joe Biden,
05:00 assured that there is a plan to guarantee at least six weeks
05:04 of ceasefire in Gaza's Strip.
05:06 Biden declared after a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II
05:09 that the key elements of the deal were on the table,
05:12 but still were gaps that remain.
05:14 Senior officials from the US, Egypt, Israel, and Qatar
05:17 were expected to meet in Cairo to work on a three-phase
05:19 framework that would try to achieve this release of
05:22 hostages, and also would try to establish an extended pause.
05:25 The US head of state even spoke about ending the war,
05:28 although he didn't explain how.
05:30 On the other hand, King Abdullah II
05:31 returned his side to the serious situation
05:33 in the Palestinian enclave.
05:34 We cannot allow an Israeli attack on Rafah.
05:43 It will surely lead to another humanitarian catastrophe.
05:47 The situation is already unbearable for more than one
05:50 million people who have been cornered in Rafah
05:53 since the war began.
05:55 We cannot stand armed crossbow and let this continue.
05:59 We need an endured stop to the fire now.
06:02 This war must end.
06:06 And Cuba once again called for a ceasefire in Palestine.
06:09 Through its account in social media,
06:10 ex-Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez
06:13 expressed Cuba condemns in the strongest possible terms
06:17 Israel's indiscriminate bombings against the Palestinian people
06:20 in Rafah, which could unleash an unprecedented humanitarian
06:23 disaster in the Middle East.
06:24 We call for a ceasefire and unhindered delivery
06:26 of humanitarian aid.
06:27 China abandoned this Tuesday's moderate stance regarding
06:36 conflicts in other countries and urged Israel
06:39 to stop its military operations in Rafah.
06:41 The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
06:43 reported in a meeting with the press
06:44 that Beijing has made a call to avoid
06:46 a more devastating humanitarian disaster in Rafah.
06:49 He expressed that China watches events in the area closely
06:52 and reiterated the government opposes and condemns
06:54 acts against civilians and the international law.
06:57 For weeks, the United Nations has
06:59 been alerting about the development
07:00 of a military operation by the occupying army,
07:03 an area where more than one million innocent civilians
07:06 live.
07:07 On Tuesday, the government of South Africa
07:16 requested the International Court of Justice
07:18 to examine the Israeli offensive in Rafah
07:20 and to prevent further violations
07:22 of the rights of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
07:24 In this regard, the government of Pretoria
07:26 asked the International Justice Body
07:28 to stop the decision of the Tel Aviv regime
07:30 to expand military operations in the border area with Egypt.
07:33 In the meantime, South African authorities
07:35 demanded the body to use its powers
07:37 to examine its ruling on the genocide in Gaza dated January
07:40 26 and to apply measures against Israel
07:43 to prevent the violation of the human rights in Gaza.
07:46 In this way, South Africa stresses
07:48 concern about the advance of the Israeli offensive in Rafah,
07:51 where 1.4 million Palestinians find refuge.
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09:06 - Welcome back from the South.
09:20 The Office of the United Nations High Commission
09:22 for Human Rights reported on Tuesday
09:24 that criminal groups in Haiti are increasing their activity.
09:27 As a result, hundreds of citizens have become displaced
09:30 by the war between criminal groups and the government,
09:32 although these criminal groups have lost
09:34 up to 300 of their members in the month of January alone.
09:37 Violence does not decrease.
09:39 Citizens claim that the exchanges of fire lasts hours,
09:43 which suggests that they have received more ammunition.
09:46 In the midst of war, civilians are injured, abducted,
09:48 murdered, and women and girls continue to be sexually abused.
09:51 The serious situation is expected to be reviewed
09:53 on Tuesday at the UN Security Council.
09:55 (silence)
09:57 On Sunday, a survey revealed that 86% of US citizens
10:06 consider that President Joe Biden is too old
10:08 to serve a second term.
10:09 Survey by ABC News and the consulting company Ipsos
10:12 again revealed US citizens' concerns about Joe Biden's age.
10:17 The survey shows that 73% of Democrats think Biden,
10:20 at 81 years old, is too old to hold the office,
10:22 while 35% of Republicans believe the same about Trump.
10:26 The survey comes light days after special attorney Robert
10:29 Hughes' report was made public,
10:31 which cast questions on Biden's cognitive abilities,
10:34 which referred to Biden as an "understanding,
10:37 well-intentioned elder with a bad memory."
10:40 (silence)
10:42 On Tuesday, divergences within the Supreme Electoral Tribunal
10:48 of El Salvador continue to obscure the counting of votes
10:51 to integrate the Legislative Assembly.
10:53 This situation is part of the problems faced in several
10:55 aspects of the presidential and legislative elections
10:58 held in February, of which only the re-election
11:00 of Nayib Bukele as president is known by decision
11:03 of the vast majority of those who went to cast their vote.
11:06 In this way, the crisis within the electoral authority
11:07 increased after four out of five substitute magistrates
11:10 said that they would not support illegal and incorrect decisions
11:13 made by the governing body of the elections regarding
11:16 the final scrutiny of the Legislative Assembly election
11:18 and the planning of the elections on Sunday, March 3rd.
11:21 (silence)
11:23 We also know that inside the Supreme Electoral Tribunal
11:31 there are substitute magistrates that do not agree
11:34 with the decisions that were made there.
11:37 We also know that the same magistrates,
11:39 owners of the Supreme Electoral Court,
11:41 acknowledge that there was a boycott within that institution
11:46 which caused the February 4th failure.
11:49 And we also know that the Electoral Supreme Court today
11:52 is favoring, disregardingly, a political party
11:55 as in the most particular case, that of Villa Universitaria,
12:01 in which we have not received any notification in this respect.
12:05 (silence)
12:07 In Venezuela, the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
12:09 Iván Gil, denounced the interventionist stance
12:11 of the United States regarding the country
12:13 after statements from the White House.
12:15 Through his account in the social media,
12:16 he'll express the CIA and the DEA have been plotting
12:21 from Miami and Colombia, along with far-right opponents
12:23 from Venezuela, to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro,
12:26 Minister Vladimir Padrino, and Governor Freddy Bernal,
12:29 among others, as well as to destabilize our country
12:32 through violence, terrorist assault, and military units
12:35 in a long list of extremist barbarities.
12:37 Today, the United States government goes out to protect
12:40 and defend the terrorists who have confessed their crimes
12:42 and the orders they received to harm our people.
12:45 They are accomplices of the intellectual Maduro authors
12:48 of the acts of terrorism and interventionism on Venezuela.
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12:53 The High Commissioner for Peace of Colombia, O.T. Patiño,
13:01 described the armed stoppage decreed
13:03 by the National Liberation Army, the E.N.,
13:05 as disloyal to the agreements.
13:07 Patiño, though, assured on Monday when he gave statements
13:10 from the Palace of Nariño,
13:11 headquarters of the national government,
13:13 in reference to the stoppage and other acts of violence
13:16 that have occurred in the departments of Cauca and Nariño.
13:19 The High Commissioner assured that they threatened
13:21 the lives and freedoms of thousands of citizens.
13:23 The Western War Front, Omar Gomez of the E.L.N.,
13:27 declared an armed strike on February 8th
13:30 after accepting the extension of a truce on February 6th,
13:33 during the sixth round of negotiations held in Cuba.
13:35 This armed stoppage often restrict the movement of vehicles
13:38 on roads and the mobility of people,
13:40 threatening attacks on those who transit tracks,
13:43 even if they are in caravans guarded by the army.
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13:52 - The declaration of an armed stoppage
13:54 by Western War Front of the E.L.N.
13:56 is a disloyalty to the agreements reached
13:59 in the sixth round of talk in Havana.
14:01 And insofar as it threatens the life, rights, liberties
14:06 of the inhabitants of the department,
14:08 the exercise of the democratically elected government
14:11 and the mandate of the authorities.
14:14 - And now with Telesur, you can celebrate
14:17 one of the largest festivals in the South American continent.
14:20 Clarice Quezada brings you all the details
14:22 in this Carnival Time 2024.
14:23 Tune in every day this week at 7 p.m. Caracas time
14:26 for our Facebook Live at Telesur English Official
14:29 and X account at Telesur English.
14:31 And discover our most colorful celebrations.
14:33 Other stories coming up, stay with us.
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14:38 - Welcome back from the South.
14:54 Indian authorities deploy a harsh security mechanism
14:56 against the march of thousands of farmers to New Delhi
14:59 who demand protection of the prices of their crops.
15:02 The police have deployed barriers with sharp wires,
15:04 spikes and concrete blocks to prevent the passage
15:06 of tractors and trucks.
15:08 They've also thrown tear gas from a drone in Haryana.
15:11 From this place and from Punjab,
15:13 thousands of farmers started their protest march
15:15 to demand a guaranteed minimum support price
15:17 for all their products and for the government
15:19 to fulfill their promise made in 2021.
15:22 According to which they would double their income.
15:24 In Azerbaijan, the Constitutional Court officially declared
15:34 Ilham Aliyev as President of another seven year term.
15:37 The President of the Constitutional Court approved
15:39 the protocol after examining the results
15:41 of the country's Central Electoral Commission
15:43 on the extraordinary presidential elections
15:45 held on February 7th.
15:47 President Aliyev won a victory with 92.12%
15:50 of the electoral roll, while his closest rival,
15:52 the deputy Zahid Uruk, obtained 2.17%
15:55 of the active electorate.
15:57 This will be his fifth term of government.
15:59 Going to the laws of the country,
16:00 the President must take possession after three days
16:02 after the Constitutional Court has approved
16:04 the election results.
16:32 In Bolivia, the Oruro Carnival once again dazzled
16:34 and amazed with its majesty, variety of dances,
16:38 multicolored costumes, and joy.
16:40 Unlike other carnivals, the Oruro Carnival
16:41 is a three and a half kilometer pilgrimage
16:44 dancing to the sanctuary of the Virgen del Sao Cabo.
16:47 Correspondent Freddy Morales tells us the details.
16:50 It is said that the Oruro Carnival began like this,
16:54 as a procession that evolved into a pilgrimage,
16:57 and this pilgrimage into dance and music.
17:00 The devotion we have towards Mamita del Sao Cabo,
17:03 the Saturdays of pilgrimage are for her.
17:06 We dance in devotion for her,
17:08 for every favor she fulfills for us,
17:11 because we are believers.
17:13 I come every year.
17:15 The Little Virgin always fulfills me,
17:17 greetings for my family.
17:19 My faith to Mamita del Sao Cabo,
17:22 who gives us life and health,
17:25 and we will continue dancing until Mamita
17:28 gives us life and health.
17:29 But above all, because we have faith.
17:31 This carnival performs 20 dance specialties
17:36 as the local authorities of the event say,
17:38 which are performed by more than 50,000 dancers,
17:42 men and women who dance for three and a half kilometers
17:46 to reach the shrine of the Virgen del Sao Cabo.
17:49 Spectacular.
17:50 We once a year travel from Chile,
17:53 because we are from Chile.
17:54 It is incomparable.
17:55 We brought our daughter for the first time,
17:58 and she was fascinated.
17:59 It is something that does not compare to any carnival.
18:03 It is majestic, as they say,
18:05 in honor of the Virgin del Sao Cabo.
18:07 It's something expected every year in Bolivia,
18:10 nationally and internationally,
18:11 because we expect 100% Bolivians
18:15 in the Carnival of Oruro,
18:16 where all the dances are 100% Bolivian.
18:20 We come from La Paz.
18:21 It is a very nice tradition.
18:22 All the dances are very elegant, very nice.
18:25 We are having fun.
18:27 Long life, the carnival.
18:29 The most ancient and classic dances
18:31 have a religious and social feeling,
18:34 like the Diablada,
18:35 whose origin is lost in the time
18:37 before the Spanish colonialism.
18:39 But when this took place,
18:40 it meant once again that the struggle
18:43 between good and evil,
18:45 in the end, the archangel Gabriel,
18:48 guided by the Virgin,
18:49 defeats the demons,
18:51 and together they enter the Catholic Church.
18:54 To thank her for all that she gives us.
18:57 This pilgrimage is a promise to offer,
19:00 through dancing, our gratitude,
19:02 our faith, strengthened in the affection
19:05 towards the Virgin.
19:06 Happy to come at her feet.
19:08 After 20 years, we are still on pilgrimage
19:13 for the little virgins of Sao Cabo,
19:16 always for Mamita.
19:17 In this state, the pilgrimage.
19:19 Or the Morenada, which relieves the transfers
19:22 of slaves from Africa on foot
19:24 to the mines of Potosi, on the high plateau,
19:27 at 4000 meters above the sea level,
19:30 with almost no oxygen.
19:31 Their tongues hang out of their mouths
19:33 and their eyes bulge out of their sockets.
19:36 The rattle reproduces the sound of the chains
19:38 the pilgrimage concludes on their knees
19:41 before the image of the Virgin.
19:44 Tiring, very tiring.
19:45 It is four kilometers,
19:47 very strong march to get here with masks
19:49 to arrive at the little virgin.
19:51 But we fulfilled a new year.
19:53 It is my first year dancing,
19:56 but it is a very nice experience.
19:58 I feel very blessed by the Virgin of Sao Cabo.
20:01 Very happy to be three years old.
20:04 Are you going to continue?
20:05 If the little virgin allows me to do so,
20:08 of course I will.
20:09 Each dance has a meaning.
20:11 And here are represented the indigenous dancers
20:14 of the Amazon and the main customs
20:16 of various people of Bolivia.
20:18 By 50,000 dancers, nearly 20,000 musicians
20:22 distributed in 70 bands.
20:24 This cultural expression has been recognized by UNESCO
20:28 as oral and intangible heritage of humanity.
20:32 From the city of Oruro, Freddy Morales,
20:35 Telesur, Bolivia.
20:37 We have come to the end of this news brief.
20:41 You can find these and many other stories
20:43 on our website at telesureinglish.net.
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20:50 For Telesur English, I'm Luis Alberto Matos.
20:52 Thank you for watching.
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