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00:00The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei released a
00:16message on Thursday congratulating the nation on what he highlighted as a victory against
00:21the Zionist regime of Israel.
00:28The Russian Economic Forum 2025 kicked off Thursday in Belarus with the attendance of
00:34over 2,700 participants from 33 countries.
00:42And in Mexico, the Board of Directors of the National Banking and Securities Commission
00:47decreed temporary management intervention of two financial institutions following accusations
00:53of money laundering by the U.S. government.
01:00Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba.
01:05We begin with the news.
01:22The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei released a message
01:27on Thursday congratulating the nation on what he highlighted as a victory against the Zionist
01:32regime of Israel.
01:34In his third televised message since June 13, when Tel Aviv launched its unprovoked aggression
01:40against Iran, Khamenei underscored the heavy blow deal to the Israeli military by the local
01:46armed forces.
01:48The leader also paid tribute to those killed as a result of the attacks, including senior
01:53military commanders and scientists whom he described as valuable and faithful in their
01:59service.
02:00Moreover, Khamenei held the unity and solidarity displayed by Iranians amid the Israeli U.S.
02:06aggression, adding the nation proved its nobility and strength of character.
02:11I want to congratulate the great Iranian nation.
02:27I would like to offer a few congratulations to the nation.
02:35First, congratulations on the victory over the fallacious Zionist regime.
02:45Despite all the noise and claims, the Zionist regime almost collapsed under the blows of the
02:52Islamic Republic.
02:57In this context, Khamenei disregarded statements by U.S. President Donald Trump on the damage inflicted
03:03by the unprovoked strikes on nuclear facilities, stressing they were exaggerated to manipulate
03:08the narrative.
03:13The United States attacked our nuclear facilities, a matter that is independently worth pursuing
03:22for prosecution in international courts, but they failed to do anything significant.
03:32The President of the United States greatly exaggerated what had happened.
03:40It became clear that he needed this exaggeration.
03:45The Islamic Republic delivered a hard slap to the United States' face by attacking one of
03:54its key bases in the region, all Udeid air base, and inflicted damage.
04:01Israeli genocidal forces have killed an early 20 Palestinians in the early hours of Thursday
04:13in attacks across the north and south of the Gaza Strip.
04:20Health authorities in the Palestinian enclave confirmed the fatalities as a result of two
04:34bombings, one of which targeted a school sheltering displaced persons.
04:39Another strike hit the surroundings of the Jordanian hospital in northern Gaza.
04:43The latest report by the Palestinian Ministry of Health has confirmed that 56,100 Palestinians
04:50have been killed by Israeli forces since the October 2023 onslaught on the enclave, while
04:56more than 129,000 have been injured and 210 kidnapped.
05:02In this context, Zionist troops keep threatening new incursions into the Strip.
05:08The Russian Economic Forum 2025 kicked off Thursday in Belarus with the attendance of over 2,700
05:19delegates from 33 countries.
05:21The meeting is held at the Minsk International Exhibition Centre and has as its main agenda to
05:27debate on regional economic integration and foster the Russian Economic Union.
05:33The event's opening speech was delivered by Russian President Vladimir Putin,
05:38who highlighted the role of the Association after a decade of its founding on stress that it has become
05:45one of the key centres of global development.
05:48The Russian leader also referred to the number of agreements signed with major training partners
05:54Vietnam, Singapore, Serbia.
06:01In May, a free trade agreement with Iran came into force.
06:05Well, God willing, the situation in the Middle East is calming down now.
06:09The conflict between Israel and Iran is also, thank God, all in the past.
06:26This means that it will be possible to develop relations with all countries in the region, including Iran.
06:32As I said, we have concluded a corresponding agreement with them, and tomorrow at a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Council,
06:39it is planned to sign agreements on economic cooperation with the United Arab Emirates and Mongolia.
06:45In accordance with the Istanbul agreements, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced a new prisoner exchange with the Ukrainian regime.
07:04The Russian authorities indicated that a group of Russian servicemen were returned from the Ukrainian controlled territory
07:10in exchange for Ukrainian armed forces prisoners.
07:14The soldiers are currently in Belarus receiving necessary psychological and medical care before being transferred to Russia.
07:20Russia and Ukraine previously agreed to exchange sick and seriously wounded soldiers,
07:26as well as transfer more than 6,000 bodies of Ukrainian servicemen.
07:31And now we have a short break coming up, but first remember you can join us on TikTok,
07:41at TLCD English, where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and more.
07:45We'll be right back, start with us.
07:58Welcome back to From the South.
08:00China hosts the Defence Minister Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation against the backdrop of the Middle East conflict
08:07and a summit of NATO countries in Europe that agreed to increase military spending.
08:12The meeting of the organisation's top defence officials comes as a faltering ceasefire holds between Israel and Iran after 12 days of war.
08:21It also comes the day after a summit of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation leaders held in The Hague,
08:27where members agreed to increase their defence spending to satisfy US President Donald Trump.
08:33The 10-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is a counterweight to Western-led power blocs
08:39and has promoted strengthened collaboration among its member countries in politics, security, trade and science.
08:48The organisation is made up of China, Russia, India and Iran, among other Russian countries.
08:54Iran's Defence Minister Aziz Nasir Daszadeh participated in the second day of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Ministerial Summit.
09:09The senior official held bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Russia, Belarus, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and the host Minister Dong Yun.
09:18The Shanghai Summit is a key platform for discussing regional security, counter-terrorism, cooperation and broader military collaboration among member states.
09:28The Iranian Defence Chief arrived a day after Tel Aviv declared a unilateral ceasefire.
09:33On Thursday, China addressed statements by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who warned of Beijing's military strength at the bloc summit in The Hague.
09:48The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused NATO of hyping up regional tensions as an excuse to justify the recent increase in military spending.
09:56The relevant personnel from NATO have been hyping up regional tensions and smearing China's normal military development.
10:03Their aim is nothing more than to make an excuse to justify NATO's sharp increase in military spending, reckless expansion of its powers and its strategic push eastward into the Asia-Pacific.
10:13China urges NATO to deeply reflect on itself, heed the just calls of the international community, abandon outdated Cold War thinking, block confrontation and zero some games.
10:25Correct its wrongful perceptions about China and stop manipulating China related issues.
10:32China will firmly safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests and will continue to contribute to global peace and stability through concrete actions.
10:44Also in this regard, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated Thursday that a higher NATO defence spending won't have any significant impact on Russia's security.
10:54As for the influence of this 5% limit or rather the 5% target on our security, I do not think it will be significant. We know what goals we are pursuing. We do not hide them. We openly declare them. They are absolutely legal from the point of view of any interpretations, principles of the uncharter and international law.
11:23And we know what means we will always use to ensure these goals.
11:30US President Donald Trump affirmed that the United States has signed a trade related agreement with China and said he expects to seal another with India soon.
11:40During remarks at a White House event, the US President announced that China and the United Kingdom are the only two trade related agreements that have already been sealed but did not provide further details.
11:53Trump noted that the agreement includes a 55% tariff on Chinese goods and a 10% tariff on US goods from Beijing.
12:02Also since it is returning to power in January, Trump has pushed for global tariffs that he then partially paused to give other countries time to negotiate new trade parks with the United States.
12:14The hunting joint forum between China and Venezuela on communication and information technologies is underway in Caracas.
12:26At the Teresa Carreño Theatre representatives from both countries gathered to strengthen ties and develop joint policies.
12:33The meeting sought to build strategic alliances amid global South media.
12:38For this, the Chinese news agency Xinhua solidified ties with un-Venezuelan public media.
12:44During his speech at the forum, the director general of the Chinese news agency in Latin America, Yang Yan, emphasized the importance of developing a community with a shared future in order to achieve an equitable world.
12:57The idea of building a shared future for humanity evolved from a Chinese initiative into an international consensus.
13:15An increasing number of countries and peoples recognize that this concept reflects the shared values and interests of humanity.
13:23It is becoming the greatest common denominator for creating a better world and a brighter future together.
13:32And we have a second show break coming up.
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13:48Final show break, don't go away.
13:53Welcome back to From the South.
14:02In Mexico, the board of directors of the National Banking and Securities Commission, CNBV, declared temporary management intervention of two financial institutions following accusations of money laundering by the US government.
14:17The financial institution announced that it temporarily intervened Sibanko and Intercamp, banks that were accused on Wednesday on allegedly laundering money for drug cartels by the US government.
14:29The agency also stated that the aim of the intervention is to replace their administrative bodies and legal representatives in order to safeguard the rights of the savers and clients of these institutions in view of the implications that the measures announced by the US Treasury Department may have on these banks.
14:48In this sense, he explained that the financial authorities maintain their confidence in the strength and resilience of the Mexican financial system and will continue to work in permanent coordination to promote the stability and correct functioning of the system.
15:07During the balance of the implementation of the UNDES 2025 task force, the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, offered a balance of the damage caused by intense rains in several states of the nation.
15:28The head of state said that the intensity of rainfall is being evaluated mainly in western Venezuela and also across all the states of the country.
15:38Likewise, he stressed that constant coordination has also been maintained with all the governors of the affected areas to assess the people and to protect them from the registered rainfalls.
15:49The president specified that in case of the state of MĂ©rida, 25 bridges, 370 houses and 8,826 families were affected as a result of the heavy rains.
16:02Moreover, President Maduro reiterated that the United States and Europe deny that there is a climate change and the causes of these changes, yet they continue to promote more pollution deteriorating the environment of the planet.
16:15That is why we are invincible, historically indestructible, and his example and his name marks this valuable people, the heroic way that the people mobilized themselves.
16:36I was in contact with Governor Orlando Sanchez on an hourly basis from the night of the 24th till the early morning of the 25th.
16:47Because we don't rest.
16:48Because we don't rest.
16:49While others conspire and call to bomb Venezuela, we work at all hours for the protection and support of Venezuela, to guarantee everything under any circumstance.
17:01Nothing will ever surprise us, neither rain nor lightning, nothing.
17:06We activated the teams in the early morning, our forces everywhere, our personal presence.
17:17Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro affirmed that capitalism destroyed nature's balance and has put at risk the habitat where human life develops.
17:25Climate change is generating temperatures well above what the planet Earth has been experiencing for millennia.
17:36There has been a change.
17:38Capitalism destroyed the ecological balance of the planet.
17:43It destroys all the balances by polluting the whole planet.
17:52Capitalism has been likened deadly evil against the habitat where human life was created, where human life is developed, and now we are running with the consequences of two centuries of destruction,
18:10of contamination of the environment, with a thousand types of particles that changed the wholly invisible balance that this planet had, and that balance has been disrupted.
18:23On the other hand, the Venezuelan head of state announced that the President of China, Xi Jinping, made a donation of machinery to Venezuela as part of the China-Venezuela Expo.
18:35The President of China, Xi Jinping, has made a very timely and powerful donation to Venezuela of a set of machinery, which was precisely unloaded these days, as part of the China-Venezuela Expo Fair, that opens on July 4.
18:54And the China-Venezuela Expo Fair of great achievements, now we are with China in the 70 plan, 70 Venezuela, China, a plan until 2031 of Chinese investment, infrastructure, industrial works,
19:10development, technology, artificial intelligence, military cooperation, social and educational cooperation, cooperation of all kinds with our people's Republic of China.
19:27And like this, we have come to the end of this brief, but you can find this and many other stories on our website at www.telesuryenglish.net and join us on social media.
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19:39For Telesury English, I'm Alejandra Garcia. Thank you for watching.