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12/05/2025
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*China and U.S. agree to reduce tariffs for 90 days
*Palestine: new massacre at school shelter leaves at least 17 dead
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*China and U.S. agree to reduce tariffs for 90 days
*Palestine: new massacre at school shelter leaves at least 17 dead
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00:00Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to dialogue directly with Russia on May 15.
00:21China and the United States have agreed to significantly reduce tariffs for 90 days after successful talks held on Sunday in the Swiss city of Geneva.
00:30In Palestine, the Israeli occupation army committed a massacre early Monday morning after it bombed a school shelter in displaced families in Chapalia, northern Gaza.
00:48Hello, welcome from the south. I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Eterosu Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:53We begin with the news. Stay with us.
01:00In Russia, President Vladimir Putin proposed to the Ukrainian government to resume direct negotiations without preconditions in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
01:12The Russian President detailed that it is necessary to resume the talks that were interrupted at the end of 2022.
01:18The Russian Head of State also did not rule out that during these talks, it would be possible to agree on a new real ceasefire that would be respected not only by Russia, but also by Ukraine.
01:28The Russian President specified that he proposes to restart the talks without delay next May 15 in Istanbul, where they were held previously.
01:36For his part, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said he agreed to dialogue directly with Russia.
01:48Although all signs point to the meeting being held, Ukraine has expressed its wish for Russia to accept the 30-day truce to begin on Monday, as proposed by several European leaders.
01:57Moscow rejected the proposal from the beginning, assuring that the leaders of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would take advantage of it to re-arm and strengthen the Ukrainian troops.
02:18And a video showing French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer with a small bag of white powder and a spoon during their recent visit to Kiev, has sparked a major scandal and few rumors about the leaders' sobriety.
02:32The footage, reportedly taken after a private meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy, shows Macron quickly pocketing the bag and Merz discreetly removing the spoon, while Starmer appears visibly uneasy.
02:44The incident, widely circulated on social media and dubbed the cocaine summit, has led to public outrage and calls for investigations from opposition parties in Europe.
02:53As of now, none of the leaders have issued official statements regarding the footage, and the scandal continues to generate diplomatic tensions amid ongoing discussions about the conflict in Ukraine and potential ceasefire proposals.
03:05In this sense, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zaharova responded with irony on her Telegram channel, calling the three leaders dependent temporary workers who are deciding Europe's fate and accused them of pushing Zelenskyy into further intrigue to prevent a settlement with Moscow and prolong the conflict.
03:28Zaharova criticized their behavior, suggesting they were so distracted by their activities that they forgot to hide the paraphernalia before the press arrived, referencing the leaders' sudden change in demeanor and attempts to conceal the objects when cameras appeared.
03:43China and China and the United States have agreed to significantly reduce tariffs for 90 days after successful talks held on Sunday in the Swiss city of Geneva.
03:55After generating severe damage to world trade, the U.S. tariff policy received an important lesson as the nation agreed to cut its tariffs on Chinese products by more than 100% for 90 days.
04:06In a joint document, both nations commit to reduce tariffs from 145% to 30% on China, while Beijing will reduce them from 125% to 10% on Washington's imports.
04:19The talks happened in an atmosphere of respect as requested by the Asian nations since the beginning of the aggressive U.S. trade war.
04:25The world markets are expected to react positively to this agreement.
04:36And also in China, Foreign Minister Wang Yi met on Monday with several Latin American Foreign Ministers ahead of a ministerial meeting.
04:43Wang met in the morning with the Foreign Ministers of Cuba, Bruno Rodriguez, Uruguay, Mario Lubetkin, Peru, Elmer Sialet, and Venezuela, Ivan Hill.
04:52In this context, Wang acknowledged the friendship and practical cooperation between China and Latin American countries during talks with his counterparts.
05:00The ministerial meeting between China and the 33 members of the community of Latin American and Caribbean states is scheduled for Tuesday,
05:07where President Xi Jinping is expected to attend and deliver a speech at the opening ceremony.
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05:31Welcome back, in Palestine the Israeli occupation army committed a massacre
06:01early Monday morning after it bombed a school sheltering displaced families in Jabalia,
06:06northern Gaza. The Israeli forces showed the Fatima bin Assad school where several displaced
06:11families were sheltering. In this context, at least 17 people were killed, among them five
06:16children and four women. According to local sources, the victims were killed in two consecutive
06:20airstrikes targeting the school at Don. This is the latest in a series of Israeli attacks
06:25on schools housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza.
06:29Let us remember that in April, at least 33 Palestinians were killed, and more than 100 injured in
06:34Israeli airstrikes on three schools in the Tufa neighborhood of Gaza City.
06:40In Palestine, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening. As the days go by, charities
06:49are facing a shortage of resources, making the situation more complicated for families
06:53and displaced people. In the coastal enclave, the soup kitchens are currently the main source
06:58of food for the Strip's 2.3 million inhabitants, but dozens of them have closed their doors because
07:04the 10-week Israeli blockade of the territory has prevented aid groups from distributing food
07:10parcels and emptied supply markets. In this regard, daily scenes of desperation are played out in Gaza,
07:16with hundreds waving their pots and plates in the air. Children, women and men crowd around
07:21the communal cooking stations, making for a luat full of water being served.
07:27It is so hard, there is no open border crossing, there is no flour, there is no food, no drink.
07:36When we come here to the soup kitchen we end up waiting in line for 4-5 hours in the sun.
07:41It's exhausting, and we end up inhaling smoke from the cooking gas that just blinds us.
07:45In the end, we walk away with nothing. There is not enough for everybody. We scramble to
07:49get here and in the end we get nothing. If we're lucky we get one pot enough for the little ones.
07:54We give them lunch and that is all. It's like that every day.
08:02After the border closure, now almost 70 days ago, nothing has entered. Not even a drop
08:07of water because of the occupation's policy of starving the people here. Hunger has become
08:11the norm. It has become the usual. Everyone is feeling it.
08:21In April, the World Food Programme said its food stocks in Gaza had run out under Israel's
08:25blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in
08:30the Strip. As flour became scarce or unaffordable for the majority of Palestinians, many have
08:35resorted to grinding pasta beans or lentils to produce duff and bake bread.
08:40Each child has been begging his family to eat, so the family turned to things they were not
08:49used to before. We did not grin these things before. Not beans or lentils nor anything else.
08:55Today, in light of the starvation crisis and the lack of even lentils and beans, people have
09:00begun to accept very strange things. In the midst of these critical living conditions, the Palestinian
09:09people have had to become creative in order to feed their children. Meanwhile, the Israeli
09:14government continues its crusade of extermination in the region.
09:19We have been soaking pasta overnight, then draining it and making flour from it. Now the pasta is run
09:28out. This was two weeks ago. The pasta has run out. Now we have come to grind the lentils to see how
09:33the lentils will be. We do not know how things will be. What is left of this? There is nothing to
09:38eat. The children wish for a tomato, a cucumber and an onion.
09:48Since the revival of the conflict and tensions in the region on October 7, 2023, more than 50,
09:55zero Palestinian citizens have lost their lives. Only a fraction of those who will continue to die in the
10:01face of the actions of the Israeli government, which is deliberately starving thousands of children in Gaza
10:06today with total impunity.
10:08In other news, the Palestinian resistance confirmed Monday that they will release U.S. Israeli
10:18serviceman, Idan Alexander. The direct agreement between Hamas and Washington has generated uneasiness
10:25in Israel. U.S. Special Envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, is currently in Tel Aviv. The office for
10:31Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Tanyahu stated that this action does not imply any change in the plans that
10:36ruled Israel passed for Gaza and reiterated that there was no concession to the resistance.
10:41Sources close to the negotiations confirmed a rift between Washington and Tel Aviv.
10:51And this Sunday, Pope Leo XIV called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza from the St. Peter's Basilica
10:58at the Vatican. He did so in his first Regina Kelly's Marian prayer ceremony that corresponds
11:04to Catholic Sunday rituals. With constant references to Pope Francis, the Supreme Pontiff of more than
11:101.4 billion faithful made the appeal for peace. In front of a crowded square, he rejected war in all
11:16its forms. The Pope held the ceasefire between India and Pakistan and prayed that the emerging peace
11:22talks between Kiev and Moscow would come to a successful conclusion and lead to a lasting agreement.
11:27In other topics, in Ireland, citizens demonstrated to express their support for Palestine and demand
11:38an end to the Israeli occupation of Arab territories. On the slogan such as Free Palestine and Stop
11:44Genocide, the participants criticized the complicity of the United States and the European Union in the
11:49financing and arming of Israel, while it continues its military offensive in the Palestinian territory.
11:55In this sense, the demonstrators invited the community to join in a boycott against Israel and raise their
12:00voices in defense of the legitimate rights of the Arab country. On the other hand, the Irish Foreign
12:05Ministry called for a review of the association agreement between the European Union and Israel,
12:10explaining that they have a responsibility to do everything possible to stop the violence,
12:15increase humanitarian aid, and immediately release all captives.
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12:34on the world's consults events. Final break, we'll be right back with more.
12:57Welcome back. Uruguay concluded its 2025 electoral cycle on Sunday, May 11th, with departmental municipal
13:03elections in which over 83 percent of the eligible electorate voted to elect intendants,
13:08councillors, mayors, and local representatives across the country's 19 departments.
13:12Water turnout was high, exceeding 2.7 million citizens' participation by 6 p.m. of the time,
13:18according to the electoral court. Preliminary results showed the national party winning 13 of
13:22the 19 intendancies, solidifying its dominance at the departmental level. A broad front secured victories
13:28in three departments, including the capital, Montevideo, where Mario Vergara was elected
13:33intendant. The Colorado party retained one intendancy, and the Republican coalition maintained its
13:39presence on the political map.
13:46In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the National Agrarian Reform Fair of the Landless Movement, MST,
13:51reaches its fourth day. The event has more than 1,500 farmers representing in the largest South
13:57American city the capacity of socialism and agroecology as engines in the face of the environmental
14:03and capitalist crisis.
14:10Smells, flavors, textures, and other sensations travel long corridors with more than 560 tons of fruits,
14:16vegetables, seeds, fresh and processed products from various regions of Brazil marketed by the National
14:21Agrarian Reform Fair. In times of climate collapse, biodiversity is the way forward.
14:31There is always a huge connectivity of biodiversity with the production of agricultural products for
14:36food, because each biome evolved over tens and even hundreds of millions of years.
14:40So we have to consider that and not simply remove all the biodiversity and replace it with just a
14:52single agricultural plantation.
14:53This is what science has clearly demonstrated called regenerative agriculture,
15:05when you have an element of agricultural culture surrounded by the biome of that region.
15:09The maintenance of native forests serves as a tool to balance the climate and in turn protects
15:23cultivated areas from the increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events. The Landless
15:27Movement launched a council for the implementation of the Plant Trees Produce Healthy Food Campaign,
15:32which aims to plant 100 million native trees throughout Brazel by 2030.
15:44Our project preserves the environment, it has the clarity that for us to exist with popular agrarian
15:48reform, it is necessary that there be mutual respect and cooperation with the environment.
15:53Agribusiness, on the other hand, is not it is a project that concentrates land, that does not
15:57distribute income. That does not generate work that uses agrochemicals intensively,
16:02that does not produce food and that destroys the environment.
16:12The price of food was a cause for concern for the Brazilian government,
16:15although the vast majority of the resources of the Safra Agricultural Plan are captured by agribusiness
16:20for the production of export commodities. The fair price of food without poison at the Mest Agrarian
16:25Reform Fair exposes the barriers that exist between the population and producers.
16:29If we have worked avoiding intermediaries and having a direct relationship between consumer
16:37and producer, there will surely be a better price.
16:39In a biodiverse country on a continental scale, the Mest warns about a logic that homogenizes crops,
16:49generates hunger and rural exodus. In response, it presents socialism as a possible and abundant
16:55future when there is respect for nature and its rhythms.
16:56Meanwhile, in Cuba, hundreds of people dance this Saturday in the heart of the Verano neighborhood to
17:07the rhythm of the Cuban Conga against homophobia and transphobia.
17:11They demonstrate and dance in defense of respect for sexual diversity and the rights of the community.
17:19This is one of the most popular activities that takes place every year in Cuba,
17:23in the context of the Cuban days against homophobia and transphobia.
17:31The theme we are working on this year is to support the historical anti-imperialist,
17:35anti-colonial and anti-fascist struggles.
17:40Those are the reasons that unite us here from the will of the most revolutionary activism in Cuba,
17:45but also of all our population. Under the slogan Love is Law,
17:54the 18th edition of the Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia aims to make visible the daily
17:59struggles related to the defense of rights reflected in national laws, such as the Constitution and the
18:04Family Code. All this that is being done is for a common good. I am very happy that there is a lot
18:13of diversity and that everyone is supporting this beautiful event. I am happy because I come with
18:18my mom who supports me as I am. Every day I become a happy person.
18:28We are still here defending the rights and dignity of all people. Also from our faith we feel that we
18:33continue to be called by the need to build a Cuba that continues to be more inclusive.
18:37The celebration is not unaware of the challenges that still exist in today's Cuba. For this reason,
18:47these days emphasize the right to sexual equity, emotional sexual expression, free sexual association
18:53and free and responsible reproductive decision making. This day is not only dedicated to our sexual and
19:03reproductive rights and what has already been achieved with the work of the institutions.
19:11But also with solidarity with the people of Palestine this year is a terrible situation that
19:15is being experienced in that area in Gaza and also by the delays that are happening in the world through
19:19the different fascist governments. In Cuba the law foresees an interesting development on the subject of the
19:33family code. In Italy it is more complicated, it is very important to do the cultural work so that people
19:49can accept an inclusion of all objectivities, pluralize all subjectivities, to be, to love, to enjoy and to live.
20:04The idea is to reflect on family plurality, to make visible the different forms of discrimination
20:08and violence, to facilitate scientific exchanges and to raise awareness on political communication
20:13issues among this community activists.
20:18Fabiola Lopez, Telesur, La Habana.
20:22So join us on our social medias, Facebook, X, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok.
20:28For Threshold English, I'm Luis Alberto Matos, thanks for watching.
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