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*Peru: criminals attack student protests for university’s autonomy
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*Peru: criminals attack student protests for university’s autonomy
*U.S. president Biden arrives to Berlin
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00:00The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has officially confirmed the death
00:16of its leader, Yair Sinwar, who was killed in combat fighting Israeli forces in Gaza.
00:24In Peru, criminals attacked students brutally at the National University of San Marcos amid
00:29a protest in defense of the university's autonomy.
00:36And Joe Biden, the President of the United States, arrived on Friday to Berlin to hold
00:40bilateral meetings with German Foreign Affairs Minister Olaf Scholl.
00:56Hello and welcome to From the South.
00:58My name is Belén de los Santos and from Tesoro Studios in Havana, Cuba, we'll begin with
01:02the news.
01:21The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has officially confirmed the death
01:26of its leader, Yair Sinwar, who was killed in combat fighting Israeli forces in Gaza.
01:32On Thursday, Israeli authorities announced that the Hamas leader had been killed in a
01:36battle that ensured that soldiers were searching an area in southern Gaza.
01:42Drone footage released by the military showed Sinwar bodily wounded inside a bombed building,
01:48still managing to fight off the Zionist regime attack.
01:52In this context, on Friday, Hamas senior leader Khaled al-Hayya confirmed the death, stressing
01:58that Sinwar battled and confronted weapon-in-hand the Israeli army until the last moment of
02:05his life at the forefront of the ranks.
02:09Hayya also stated Hamas' conditions regarding truce negotiations will not change after the
02:15martyrdom of its leader.
02:23We mourn the great leader, the martyred brother, Yair Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim, Hamas political
02:30bureau chief and commander of the Al-Aqsa flood battle.
02:34The martyrdom of the brother leader Yair Sinwar, and all the leaders and symbols of the movement
02:40who preceded him on the path of dignity and martyrdom, and the project of liberation
02:44and return, will only build our movement and resistance in strength and determination to
02:49continue on their path and honor their blood and sacrifices.
02:55Meanwhile in Israel, genocidal forces announced on Thursday that the Lebanese Islamic Resistance
03:00Movement has shot to death five Israeli military belonging to the elite Golani group.
03:06According to local media briefings, the Golani members entered a construction that had a
03:10identified as safe, but by the time they went into the building, Hezbollah fighters
03:16opened fire on them from a very close distance.
03:20This attack by the Lebanese resistance is a forceful response to the Israeli shelling
03:24on the Lebanese people.
03:29And meanwhile in Palestine, Israeli forces committed a new massacre in the Javalia refugee
03:33camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
03:36Israel bombarded with two missiles the Abu Hussein school while food was being distributed
03:40to the displaced in the center.
03:43In this sense, medical sources reported preliminary death of at least 28 people, most of them
03:50children while dozens of Palestinians were wounded.
03:54On the other hand, Gazan authorities qualified the attack as a massacre, assuring in a statement
03:59that Israeli forces were aware that the school saved thousands of women and children displaced
04:06by the shelling of civilian neighborhoods.
04:10The authorities also added that this massacre raises to 192 the number of shelters and displacement
04:17centers bombed by the Israeli occupation.
04:27And we go now to other topics.
04:29In Brazil, an investigation reveals that the use of U.S. anti-corruption law was an instrument
04:35of geopolitical dispute, especially against companies based in the global South.
04:39More details in the following report.
04:43The U.S. Department of Justice announced an investigation against the Swedish aircraft
04:48manufacturer Saab in connection with a contract with the Brazilian government in 2014, when
04:54Dilma Rousseff, the current president of the new BRICS Development Bank, was president
04:59of the country.
05:00The agreement resulted in the purchase of 36 Swedish Gripen fighter jets for $4.5 billion,
05:07which today are the property of the Brazilian Air Force.
05:11President Lula considered the action to be part of a hegemonous posture of the United
05:16States.
05:21Comrade Dilma bought an airplane that was more economical, cheaper, and the maintenance
05:26cost less.
05:28It is a plane of a group of countries.
05:30It is Swedish with the participation of England and other countries.
05:34I sincerely believe that the request for information from the United States is an interference
05:39by the United States in something from another country.
05:47An investigation by Arthur Pinheiro de Azevedo Bonzato shows that the U.S. applies lighter
05:52fines to U.S. companies accused of committing corruption offenses, in a strategy to boost
05:57U.S. industry and destabilize competing markets by attacking up-and-coming economies.
06:05A more recent cutback would be applied more rigorously in the countries of the global
06:10south, especially in the BRICS, because of the geopolitical issue.
06:18The BRICS are a coalition that is making a certain stand against U.S. hegemony, mainly
06:23in the institutions of Bretton Woods and the World Bank.
06:32The thesis reveals that with the help of Lava Jato, Brazilian companies paid the largest
06:37fines in the history of the U.S. anti-corruption law, the FCPA.
06:42At the top of the list of countries targeted by the U.S. legal actions are China, Brazil
06:47and India, countries that make up the BRICS.
06:52The Brazilian case is striking because of the amount of the fines, but there are many
06:56Chinese companies that are affected.
06:59Even China has been expressing in its diplomatic documents that it perceives the nature of
07:04competition control based on the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the U.S. anti-corruption law.
07:10It would be a geopolitical strategy.
07:19Although there is corruption of these companies as a structural phenomenon of capitalism,
07:24especially when we are talking about large conglomerates, but there is a certain selectivity
07:29in the sense of instrumentalizing corruption to harm certain companies.
07:38On October 22, Brazil will participate in the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia.
07:44A month later, it will host the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, where announcements are
07:49expected on the country's entry into the Chinese global logistics circuit called the
07:54Belt and Road.
07:58Now let's take a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok at TELUS for English,
08:02where you will find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
08:10Stay with us.
08:28Welcome back from the South.
08:34Imperial criminals have attacked students brutally at the National University of San
08:38Marcos amid a protest in defense of the university's autonomy.
08:43Several demonstrators have been injured after the violent repression.
08:47The students' leaders denounced that they have been prevented from assisting the wounded.
08:52Moreover, they confirmed that some of the university's internal security personnel had
08:57been carrying stones and spray paint from early on, allegedly with the intention of
09:02generating violence to force police officers to meddle in, who ended up protecting the
09:08aggressors and not the victims.
09:14In Colombia, the Congress reopened the debate on the labor reform as the opposition party
09:19succeeded in eliminating articles considered key, especially for the farmers.
09:23Let's see the details with our correspondent, Hernan Tovar.
09:29The opposition sectors in the Colombian Congress, represented by the right-wing party's Democratic
09:34Center and Radical Change, plus some members of the Green and traditional parties, were
09:40happy and celebrated the majority vote they obtained to eliminate key articles of the
09:45labor reform that guarantees decent conditions for farmers.
09:49Some congressmen expressed their rejection of this attitude in the setback for Colombian
09:54farmers and their labor rights.
10:00It was a totally petty decision.
10:02There was a difference of seven votes.
10:04By seven votes, we lost so that the farmers could have the guarantee of an agricultural
10:08contract for a decent agricultural day's wage and the right to rural housing.
10:13We have lost the struggle that we have been fighting for a long time.
10:22This is the feudal thinking of those who want to keep rural workers in subhuman conditions
10:27in order to protect the interests of large landowners and large industrialists who have
10:31taken advantage of the land and agricultural labor in our country.
10:42The articles eliminated were related to the guarantee of social benefits and an employment
10:47contract backed by a legal minimum wage, in addition to having decent conditions for their
10:52daily performance.
10:53The peasant organizations have already assured that they will resort to international bodies
10:58to ensure and respect these rights that the opposition sectors and large associated unions
11:04want to disregard.
11:09We are going to denounce this to the International Labor Organization because it is really an
11:14alarming situation in the Colombian case.
11:20The levels of poverty in the countryside and this denial of these three fundamental rights
11:24of the three articles 31, 32, 33 will further aggravate the life situations of rural workers.
11:34In the street, the opinion of citizens does not differ with respect to the rejection generated
11:44by the actions of the opposition in the Congress, considering that the most vulnerable populations
11:49of the country are being turned away.
11:53Young people are leaving the countryside because there are no guarantees and now that a guarantee
12:00was sought with this reform, there was none.
12:03So there will be migration of young people to the cities and we will have more criminality.
12:09We must base the right to work, which is an inalienable right at international level.
12:18Despite this context, the reform finally managed to advance in the second debate in the House
12:23of Representatives, although two more debates are still pending in the Senate.
12:27For their part, the congressmen who are the rapporteurs hope that these points can be
12:32taken up again in the discussion and keep them alive for the remainder of the Colombian
12:36legislature.
12:42In Ecuador, a Turkish ship brings hydroelectric power to the country in the midst of an electricity
12:48crisis.
12:49The Turkish-owned Emrebey ship has docked at a port in the southwestern Ecuador in Guayaquil
12:55as the South American country continues to suffer blackouts amid a severe drought that
13:00has affected its hydroelectric power plants.
13:03The 110-megawatt plant commissioned by the government of President Daniel Novoa to relieve
13:08the population affected by power outages will supply energy to 500,000 Ecuadorian families
13:14according to the Turkish company Karapower Ship.
13:20Well, this ship provides energy for about 500,000 Ecuadorian families.
13:29The function of this 110-megawatt plant is to take fuel oil, a type of fuel, and convert
13:34it into electrical energy through six internal combustion engines, each generating 17.5 megawatts.
13:42And in Panama, popular organizations participated in a march to the presidency of the republic
13:47in rejection of the privatization of the state's social security fund.
13:51During the mobilization, the organizations and the National Confederation of Independent
13:56Unity, CNUSI, presented their demands, among which is the return to the solidarity system
14:03for the payment of pensions.
14:05The protesters also rejected the government's libertarian plan, which seeks to increase
14:10the retirement age and the number of quotas to favor the retirement and pension fund administration.
14:16In addition, the workers demanded a return to the solidarity system and rejected parametric
14:22measures promoted by the government that seek to transfer all pensions to individual accounts.
14:34We refuse to accept that we, the people, we, the workers, have to pay more so that the
14:40social security fund can continue to function.
14:44But we are the entrepreneurs.
14:45We have not heard from them.
14:47They talk about negotiations, but it's a negotiation between them where they don't even take into
14:53account what the workers want.
14:57In Cuba, on Thursday, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero offered statements regarding the energy
15:01crisis the Caribbean country is facing.
15:04This way, the minister explained the causes of the record of deficit in the energy supply,
15:09mainly due to the lack of fuel and the obsolete technologies of the country's thermoelectric
15:14power plants.
15:15The high official assured the government is searching for solutions on a daily basis to
15:19reduce the harmful effects of the outages, and stressed that energy employees are working
15:25tirelessly with several actions being taken, including the purchase of new technologies
15:31and raw materials for the restoration of the damaged power plants.
15:35Furthermore, Marrero urged Cubans to save energy and remain united through these difficult
15:41times.
15:45We have analyzed everything that is going to be done in order to improve living conditions,
15:52activities, and offers to the population for the end of the year.
15:56So we are developing this whole process.
15:58We are making strong exchanges.
16:00It is not a control, but it is a search for solutions in the field.
16:03And this closes the circuit of all previous processes, as is the case that our first secretary
16:08of state has been developing extraordinary plenary sessions of the provincial committees
16:15of the party, where they have analyzed all these problems, but from the political point
16:19of view.
16:20And we have a second show break coming up, but before we invite you to visit our YouTube
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16:36world's most recent events.
16:38Final show break, don't go away.
16:45Welcome back to From the South.
17:04Joe Biden, President of the United States, arrived on Friday to Berlin to hold bilateral
17:09meetings with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
17:12Biden will carry as well a four-way meeting that will include French President Emmanuel
17:18Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
17:21The main topics of the encounter would be the support to Ukraine in the current conflict
17:27and also the Middle East situation.
17:29The tenant of the White House arrived in Germany a week later due to the hurricane that hit
17:34the south of his country.
17:36In this context, it is stated by local media that the German Chancellor has showed interest
17:41in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to talk about a peace agreement.
17:51And a new report issued by the United Nations on Thursday says that more than one billion
17:56people live in acute poverty in the world today.
18:00According to the UN Development Programme report, countries at war have higher levels
18:05of deprivation across all indicators of the multidimensional poverty, with more severe
18:11disparities in nutrition, access to electricity and access to water and sanitation.
18:16On the other hand, the study showed that some 584 million people under 18 were experiencing
18:23extreme poverty, accounting for 27.9% of children worldwide, compared to 13.5% of adults.
18:32Moreover, child mortality in conflict settings was 8% compared to the 1.1% in peaceful countries.
18:43The European Union summit opened Thursday in Brussels, with an agenda seeking to make
18:48the bloc a more hostile destination for migrants and asylum seekers.
18:53The 27 European leaders looked at plans to speed up initiatives to get unwanted migrants
19:00out of the bloc and to process asylum applications far outside their borders.
19:06In contrast to the 2015 debate, when the European Union was also faced with a migration crisis
19:11and the bloc was confident to manage the situation, now EU leaders want to manage and seal off
19:16their borders even more tightly.
19:19Poland has said recently it wants to temporarily suspend the right to asylum, while Italy has
19:24opened two centres to process asylum seekers outside its borders in Albania.
19:30On the other hand, Germany has reinstated border controls.
19:40And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
19:42You can find these and many other stories on our website at tellusroenglish.net.
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19:53For Tellusro English, my name is Belen De Los Santos, thank you for watching.
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