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*Colombian pres. Petro warn of threats to overthrow him
*DRC: protests reject Western support for the violent militias
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*Colombian pres. Petro warn of threats to overthrow him
*DRC: protests reject Western support for the violent militias
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00:00 Authorities in Gaza updated the death and injury toll of the Israeli occupiers' genocidal
00:16 operations, saying attacks claimed the lives of 28,730 Palestinians and raised the number
00:22 of wounded to 67,984.
00:31 In Colombia, President Gustavo Pedro stated that threats to overthrow him from the government
00:35 still remain.
00:40 And strong protests erupted in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo against
00:45 the governments of the United States, France, Rwanda and the United Kingdom that cooperate
00:50 with the silent holocaust in the country.
00:56 Hello and welcome to From the South.
00:58 My name is Belen De Los Santos and from the Teleser studios in Havana, Cuba, we begin
01:02 with the news.
01:03 Authorities in Gaza on Wednesday updated the death and injury toll of the Israeli occupier
01:25 genocidal operation, saying attacks claimed the lives of 28,730 Palestinians and raised
01:32 the number of wounded to 67,984.
01:37 On the 131st day of the genocide in Gaza, the health ministry indicated that the Zionist
01:42 army bombed again refugee camps in Deir el-Bala and New Serat in central Gaza.
01:48 On the other hand, Palestinian authorities reported that the siege persists also in Han
01:52 Yunis, where occupation forces opened fire from a helicopter.
01:57 In this regard, according to the latest data from the UN's Office for the Coordination
02:01 of Humanitarian Affairs, 360,000 Gaza homes or residential units have been destroyed or
02:07 damaged, 392 educational facilities were devastated and only 11 out of 35 hospitals are partially
02:15 functioning.
02:21 In this context, the leader of the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah,
02:25 highlighted the heroism of the Palestinian people and assured that Israel continues to
02:30 reap failures after 130 days of genocide against the Gaza Strip.
02:35 Nasrallah stressed that the occupation faces a policy of impotence.
02:39 The Hezbollah leader expressed that Lebanon's actions in support of Gaza will continue until
02:44 Israel's aggression ceases and a ceasefire is established.
02:48 He also assured that the Lebanese resistance is determined to confront the enemy at any
02:53 level and that it will not accept the conditions that Israel presented to the West to avoid
02:57 an escalation in the region.
02:59 Nasrallah added that the origin of the destabilization in the region was the creation of the Israeli
03:05 occupation entity.
03:07 And finally, the Hezbollah leader assured that the actions in favor of Gaza are an honest
03:12 response to the moral and religious responsibility of his people.
03:21 What we have been doing in Lebanon for 130 days and what our brothers and other support
03:25 fronts are doing is an honest response to the humanitarian, moral, faith and religious
03:31 responsibility that falls on each one of us.
03:35 Our responsibility today is to preserve these achievements and sustaining the achievement
03:41 or the victory is more difficult than reaching the achievement or the victory.
03:47 The Secretary of the Lebanese Resistance Movement, Hezbollah, assured that the existence of Israel
03:52 is a danger to the peoples of the region.
03:56 The existence of Israel is a calamity for the whole region and a strong Israel was a
04:00 danger.
04:01 But a fearful and deterred Israel represents a less dangerous and harmful situation for
04:09 the peoples of the region.
04:12 Also Nasrallah stressed Hezbollah's national responsibility in maintaining a resistance
04:16 front to defeat Israel.
04:20 The Lebanese front had to be opened to prevent Israel from winning and defeating it and this
04:25 is a national responsibility.
04:27 Since the beginning of the battle on the Lebanese front until today, we have been hearing, as
04:34 is the case in other countries, as well as in Yemen, Iraq and various places, about this
04:39 battle and its feasibility and there is no problem with the discussion.
04:45 The Lebanese front is important to defeat Israel and an Israel victory in the Battle
04:49 of Gaza is a danger to the region.
04:53 The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, on Wednesday, denounced the alleged special
04:57 operation by Israeli forces to rescue two Argentine citizens as a fraud.
05:03 In the sense, Hamas assured that the alleged hostages were never in its hands and added
05:08 that the rescued Israeli citizens were in the hands of a family that charged for their
05:14 rescue.
05:15 On the other hand, the resistance movement also denounced that a British intermediary
05:19 was the link between the Abu Sarwar family and the Jewish relatives.
05:23 It should be noted that the exchange cost $2 million, $1 million for each kidnapped person,
05:29 while compensation for the demolition of the Sarwar's homes also was part of the agreement.
05:35 In this way, Mohamed Nasser, a senior official of the Islamic Resistance, assured that it
05:40 was another lie of the occupier and that the two Israeli citizens were handed over peacefully
05:46 by their family.
05:51 The United States scores a new failure in the unilateral process it is trying to lead
05:56 in the Middle East.
05:57 Without agreement, Egypt, Qatar and Israel leave.
06:00 According to a statement by the Egyptian presidency, the talks between the Egyptian President Abdel
06:06 Fatah el-Sisi and the CIA Director William Burns, together with the head of the Egyptian
06:11 intelligence Abbas Kamel, focused on the release of hostages but also addressed the objectives
06:18 of a ceasefire, protecting civilians and activating the two-state solution, with the creation
06:24 of an independent Palestinian state.
06:26 No representative of the Islamist group Hamas was present at the meeting.
06:30 Only the CIA Director remains in Cairo.
06:33 Although Egypt assures that the consultations were positive, there is no balance sheet on
06:38 the scope or the agreements.
06:42 Meanwhile, the independent panel investigating the allegations against United Nations Relief
06:49 and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, the UNRWA, began its work on Wednesday.
06:54 The initiative is coordinated by the former Chancellor of France, Catherine Colonna, and
06:59 brings together experts from Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
07:03 The panel is due to submit an interim report to Guterres in late March and a final one
07:09 in late April, with, if necessary, recommendations for improvement and strengthening of the Agency's
07:16 mechanisms.
07:17 The group will review mechanisms and procedures currently in place at the humanitarian agency
07:22 to ensure its neutrality and determine whether there are indeed ties to the Palestinian resistance
07:28 group Hamas.
07:29 Now, let's take a short break.
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07:48 news updates and more.
07:51 Other stories coming up, stay with us.
07:52 Welcome back to From the South.
08:14 In Colombia, President Gustavo Petro stated on Tuesday that threats to overthrow him from
08:19 the government still remain.
08:21 President Petro stated this during a speech at the Industrial University of Santander
08:27 in the city of Bucaramanga, in the northeastern part of the country.
08:32 In addition to reiterating the need to democratize ecopetrol, he made harsh remarks to the judicial
08:37 branch.
08:38 About the state oil company, he even assured that the arrest of its president and also
08:43 of the president of the union had been announced.
08:46 As for the positions of the control agencies against him, he ratified that the threats
08:51 to overthrow him persist.
08:53 Petro also warned that members of his cabinet are victims of judicial persecution and warned
08:58 about the attempts of certain sectors to establish an institutional rupture.
09:10 The simple fact of presenting a list of decent women to end impunity in Colombia could bring
09:16 about such a political earthquake, as politics in Colombia and part of the national justice
09:21 system will have been degraded.
09:25 When the census becomes revolutionary, that is what we are seeing.
09:29 And therefore, if we want or if we are going to be overthrown, as they say, make it worth
09:38 it.
09:39 Let the deepest possible transformation be made.
09:42 We must accelerate the pace.
09:51 In other news, in Venezuela, Foreign Minister Ivan Hill took to X to comment a post made
09:56 by the Canadian embassy in which the country he described as an attack against the South
10:01 American nation.
10:03 In this way, Hill stated, and we quote, that the government of Canada, trapped in its superiority
10:08 complex, believing itself to be an empire and from its moral misery, insists on attacking
10:14 Venezuela.
10:15 Get your noses out of our country.
10:18 Later on, he commented on the Canadian interference, stating that incapable of condemning true
10:24 human rights violations in the world, such as the genocide in Gaza, and with a shameful
10:28 record in its own territory, it demonstrates how mean and lying it can be to play into
10:35 the hands of terrorists and destabilizers.
10:43 The electoral process in El Salvador continues accumulating accusations of serious violations
10:48 under the framework and facing several clashes, the scrutiny of the tally sheets in six departments
10:54 ended at last.
10:55 This operation that counts the votes for the Legislative Assembly is being carried out
10:59 since the irregularities of the ballots were denounced.
11:03 According to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the process was completed in the departments
11:07 of Cabañas, San Vicente, Morazán, Cuscatlán, Chalatenango, and La Unión.
11:13 The representatives of the different political and social groups that have been present in
11:18 the headquarters report the excess of votes, including as well the presence of ballots
11:23 without folds and marked with pens, among other illegal acts.
11:31 In Argentina, provincial officials warned of an increase in transportation costs after
11:35 the Mille government eliminated gas subsidies for public transportation and transportation
11:40 companies.
11:42 Officials from different provinces of Argentina warned about the increase in passenger transportation
11:47 fares, most of them higher than 1,000 pesos, after this cut by the government of Javier
11:53 Millet.
11:54 In this way, the Minister of Transportation of Buenos Aires emphasized that with this
11:58 announcement the economy of the nation and the citizens in general would be affected.
12:03 Finally, he pointed out that the removal of subsidies is a revenge for the fall of the
12:08 so-called "Omnibus Bill" and urged the administration to reflect on the damage that
12:13 is being caused to the citizens.
12:20 And the violence currently shaking Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, has skyrocketed to unprecedented
12:26 levels.
12:27 More than 2,000 people have been displaced from their homes to flee criminal groups'
12:31 warfare.
12:32 Armed groups generated fear in the country, causing many people to flee their homes to
12:36 avoid falling victim to clashes between rival criminal groups.
12:41 According to the International Organization for Migration, between February 5th and 11th,
12:47 around 2,686 people left their homes in areas of the capital to save their lives.
12:54 The most affected municipalities, according to a report presented by the organization
12:58 on Tuesday, are Carrefour, Sault Soleil and Tavar.
13:02 94% of the people took refuge in the homes of relatives or friends, and the rest of them
13:07 went to squares and schools.
13:10 The United Nations Organization warned about the unprecedented upsurge in criminal violence
13:15 since mid-January of this year.
13:22 The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, attended this Tuesday the last session of
13:26 the second international meeting of theoretical publications of left political parties and
13:30 organizations.
13:32 He proposed actions to make the agreement sweet, sustainable.
13:35 The President recalled that at the first meeting, the basis for uniting wills were proposed
13:41 under the concept of responsibility, and from there to develop a socialist logic that faced
13:47 a capitalist logic.
13:50 In this second meeting, he stressed the need to find ways for action on a theoretical basis
13:55 to produce impacts and results.
13:58 Against this backdrop, he recalled the importance of the "Operation Truth" devised by the
14:03 Commander Fidel Castro.
14:09 And the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved the impeachment of Secretary of Homeland
14:14 Security Alejandro Mallorca.
14:17 This way, he becomes the first presidential cabinet member to face impeachment in 150
14:21 years.
14:23 This was the second attempt by the Republicans who achieved their goal with only one vote
14:27 advantage.
14:28 The 214 representatives found Mallorca to have been negligent in his duties in the management
14:34 of the border with Mexico.
14:36 They also charged him with a violation of public trust for allegedly making false statements
14:41 to Congress.
14:42 The case now proceeds to the Senate, where they do not believe that any understanding
14:47 can prosper.
14:48 Mallorca has repeatedly defended himself in which he argued that the exponential increase
14:53 in migration from the south of the border is not his fault, but rather the legal immigration
14:59 system that Congress has not been able to solve.
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15:22 world.
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15:49 Strong protests erupted on Tuesday in Kinsasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of
15:54 the Congo, aimed at the government of the United States, France, Rwanda and the United
15:58 Kingdom that cooperate with the silent holocaust that thousands live in the country.
16:04 Demonstrators accused Western countries of supporting the M23 rebel group that has committed
16:10 bloody massacres in the eastern provinces of the country, such as North Kibu, South
16:14 Kibu and Ituri.
16:16 They claim that the appetite of these nations for coltan and cobalt leads them to support,
16:22 with the complicity of Rwanda, several violent militias that have forced nearly 7 million
16:27 people to move, according to data from the International Organization for Migration.
16:32 They also repudiate the passive attitude of the United Nations.
16:40 And Brazilian President Lula da Silva landed in Egypt on Wednesday as part of his first
16:45 international tour of 2024, which will take him to other countries of the African continent.
16:51 According to Brazilian leaders, President Agenda on Thursday will be the meeting, hosted
16:57 by Abdel Afat Al-Sisi.
17:00 In this regard, according to Brazilian press, they will hold a working meeting behind closed
17:05 doors, followed by an extended session with the working commissions.
17:09 During Lula's visit to El Cairo, several bilateral cooperation agreements are also
17:15 scheduled to be signed.
17:16 It should be noted that Lula has been a strong supporter of the Palestinian civilians since
17:21 the beginning of the Israeli attack, and as part of his presence in Egypt, he will meet
17:26 with the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Abou-Lougaid, before leaving for Ethiopia.
17:36 And Indonesia awaits official results after holding elections, and is now ranked as the
17:41 third largest democracy in the world, having registered nearly 270 million voters.
17:46 Polling stations closed on Wednesday afternoon without incidents.
17:50 The candidate who left as a favorite, Prabowo Subianto, is the Minister of Defense in the
17:56 current government.
17:57 The provincial governors Agnès Paz-Wedan and Prabowo wait to know which of them will
18:03 become the substitute for the President, Joko Widodo, who served the last term of his two
18:09 terms in office, leaving the country as the first economy in Southeast Asia.
18:18 In other news, the World Health Organization warned that more than 5 million people were
18:23 infected with dengue fever in several countries around the world in 2023.
18:28 Authorities said that out of the 5 million cases, 4.5 million were reported in the Americas,
18:34 the highest number ever.
18:36 Officials urged the population to take the corresponding measures to avoid the spread
18:40 of the contagion and prevent the increase in deaths.
18:44 On the other hand, representatives of the health agency pointed out that in Brazil more
18:49 than 3 million cases were reported, representing 68% of all infections.
19:13 We now move on to other topics.
19:14 In Ecuador, heavy rains continue to affect several regions in the country.
19:19 In the last hours, heavy rains continue impacting the provinces of the coastal region and part
19:24 of the highlands.
19:25 The Risk Management Secretariat informed through X that in the town of Chone, in the province
19:31 of Manaví and the Covento and Estero Gaspar rivers overflowed, causing floodings in several
19:37 sectors and several houses.
19:39 The institution detailed that some 15 houses were affected, as well as 60 people and a
19:44 public property.
19:46 It is not uncommon that the winter season and rains leave affected people and material
19:51 damages.
19:52 However, this year, the effects of the El Niño weather phenomenon pattern have added to the
19:58 situation.
20:01 Meanwhile, in China, an increase in tourist demands in the recent days was recorded during
20:08 the celebration for the Spring Festival.
20:11 China Mobile Wudong Data Platform reported an increase in travel and food traffic to
20:17 cultural destinations since the start of the Lunar New Year festivities.
20:21 It also reports that Beijing parts had nearly 5 million visits, which represents an increase
20:27 of 98% over previous years.
20:30 Additionally, it reports that intercity tourism grew by 50% compared to the previous holiday
20:36 period.
20:37 According to that source, during the Lunar New Year festivities, travelers showed great
20:41 interest in visiting places such as Hangzhou, West Lake, famous for its pinterest scenery
20:48 and historical relics.
20:50 In addition, the scenic belt of the Confucius Temple and the Qinghuai River in the southern
20:55 province of Nanjing.
21:01 And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
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