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00:00The United Nations Security Development Program reported that the reconstruction of the gas
00:16strip will require $17 billion, of which $20 billion will be needed over the next three years.
00:22In Venezuela, during the meeting of the National Council for Sovereignty and Peace, the Secretary-General Jorge Rodriguez affirmed that the media has the responsibility of showing and defending the truth and reality of the country.
00:39Bolivia is experiencing the final days of the election campaign ahead of the unprecedented presidential run of election to be held on October 19,
00:52between the right-wing candidates Rodrigo Paz and Jorge Quiroga.
01:02Hello, welcome to From the South. I'm Sophie Fernanda from the Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba. We'll begin with the news. Stay with us!
01:22The United Nations Development Program reported that the reconstruction of the gas strip will require $70 billion, and of that amount, $20 billion will be needed over the next three years.
01:40The organization highlighted the existence of very feral indicators regarding the funding allocated to this task.
01:48The organization estimates that the territory has accumulated at least 55 million tons of debris, representing an unprecedented logistical challenge.
01:57The Government Information Office in Gaza reported that the Israeli occupation forces dropped more than 200,000 tons of explosives on the territory.
02:07In over 24 months of aggressions, Israel totally or partially destroyed some 500,000 homes in the Palestinian enclave.
02:15Meanwhile, Israel announced that it will limit the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza to 300 trucks per day, starting on Wednesday.
02:30Half of what was agreed upon and with the Rafa crossing closed, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the territory.
02:37This decision also includes a ban on the entry of fuel and gas, except for specific humanitarian infrastructure needs, in the context of famine and tensions in the ceasefire with Hamas.
02:50On Monday, the crossings from Israel remained closed, although the UN collected supplies inside Gaza, according to Deputy Spokesperson Farhad Haqq.
02:59The UN had previously denounced obstacles to aid distribution, attributed to Israel and local Arnaqi, where recent data shows that most of the aid is stolen by multitudes or armed groups.
03:17And from Turkey, the Ship of Benevolence sailed to the Gaza Strip, with more than 900 tons of humanitarian aid.
03:24Following the beginning of the ceasefire, humanitarian aid activities have accelerated to provide food to the Gazan people.
03:31Nearly 17 non-government organizations send their contributions to the Palestinian people, including food, canned goods and baby food.
03:39In view of the humanitarian deployment, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerelikaya stated that the ship is carrying cargoes of mercy, conscience and humanity.
03:49For its part, Israel hunts over the first group of Palestinian bodies from those who were killed in the Gaza Strip.
04:03Within the framework of the ceasefire agreement, the bodies of those killed during the Israeli genocide arrived in Gaza.
04:08In disregard, the International Committee of the Red Cross revealed that the return of the remains from all of Gazans who have died will take time,
04:17describing it as an enormous challenge given the difficulty of locating them among the rubble.
04:22In other news, the United States Senate fell on Tuesday for the eighth consecutive time in its attempt to approve a temporary funding resolution to end the partial shutdown of the federal government, which has not been in effect for 14 days.
04:44This afternoon's vote in Washington ended with 49 senators supporting the measure and 45 rejecting it, well below the 60 votes required to advance the proposal.
04:56The measure, crafted by Republicans and already cleared by the House of Representatives, would have kept government agencies operating until November 21.
05:05Democrats, however, blocked it unanimously, arguing it failed to provide a long-term commitment to funding public health protections and the Affordable Care Act, both of which failed funding cuts this year.
05:18Meanwhile, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, threatened to impose tariffs on countries belonging to the BRICS group after accusing them of attacking the dollar's hegemony in the global financial system.
05:35The U.S. President stated that the BRICS Association represents an attack on the dollar's hegemony in global finance, and announced that he would impose sanctions on the group's member countries,
05:46in an attempt to pressure the nations to abandon the bloc. During the first day of the summit, the leaders of the economic bloc rejected the protectionist measures and tariff policies promoted by the U.S. President,
05:58giving empathic support to multilateralism and rejected protectionism.
06:05Also in the United States, on Tuesday, Congressional Democrats gathered outside the White House Budget Office to condemn the layoff of federal workers, decreed by the Trump administration amid the government shutdown.
06:20Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, called it a lie and illegal for the White House to use shutdown to impose mass layoffs.
06:29The Democrats stood behind people that held signs printed with Budget Director Ross Broad's face and his quote about wanting to put federal workers in trauma.
06:38Democrats have focused on trying to keep Affordable Care Act subsidies from expiring for millions of U.S. citizens who purchase insurance on Obamacare exchanges.
06:49Meanwhile, without his federal support, costs are expected to soar across the healthcare economy.
06:56The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said that the economic and political survival of Javier Millet's government in Argentina depends on his ability to guarantee an electoral victory and maintains his alignment with the White House.
07:13In a meeting with his counterpart, Javier Millet, held at the White House, the U.S. President stated in a clear interference in internal affairs that economic support for Argentina is conditional on the victory of the far-right President in the upcoming October 26 elections.
07:29Trump praised Millet's management but made it clear that any additional financial support depends on an alignment with Washington, including reducing relations with China and opening up to U.S. investments.
07:41These statements have generated concern in the Argentinian government, which, according to all the polls, would lose the vote by more than 10%.
07:54And now we have a short break coming up, but first remember you can join us on TikTok at TheLosuitEnglish, where you will find news in different formats, news updates, and more.
08:03We'll be right back. Stay with us!
08:05Welcome back to From the South.
08:20On Tuesday, the National Council for Sovereignty and Peace of Venezuela held a meeting with the media, led by Secretary Jorge Rodriguez.
08:28During the event, Rodriguez affirmed that the media has the responsibility of showing and defending the truth and reality of Venezuela.
08:36In this context, the Secretary General called for the defense of the peace of the communications world that is being waged against the country from abroad.
08:45He also urged the creation of a media chapter within the Council, emphasizing that regardless of where each person stands on the political spectrum, what really matters is defending Venezuela.
08:56We will always, as we have said many times before, the first victim, it is a way, and that's why we are doing this calling to you, of defending the truth, of taking care of the truth.
09:16When they come here, they find themselves in a country that is in peace, a country that is peaceful, but the peace that we have to defend and that we have to take care of can't be a peace that makes us unmovable or a peace that puts us at the mercy of the lies that generally come through social media.
09:44In this sense, the Secretary General of the National Council for Sovereignty and Peace, Jorge Rodriguez, asserted that all of the aggression of the U.S. Empire is based on lies.
09:59All of this aggression on the part of the most powerful empire and the most aggressive one that the humanity has known in its history, it's based in lies, in insults, in saying things that they do not stand.
10:26And the minimum analysis that anyone wants to do because there the objective is not to look for the truth.
10:39Likewise, Jorge Rodriguez reiterated that if the U.S. government wanted to combat drug trafficking, it should start by tackling the large-scale laboratories operating within the salt waters that are responsible for the opioid epidemic.
10:53The intention of combatting the war and fighting drug trafficking, they could listen to the analysis that the New York Times just posted when they point out the truth that had already been signed by the President, Nicolas Maduro, and the Vice President, Delsi Rodriguez, that 85 percent of the drugs that reaches the United States goes through the Pacific,
11:20and they should be happy.
11:23And they should be happy, the drug traffickers of Ecuador, starting by its President and the drug traffickers of Peru, of the Dominican Republic, of Colombia, and of Mexico, because the action in the Caribbean Sea and the threats in the Caribbean Sea,
11:39and on all of the countries of the Caribbean region, especially on Venezuela, it just opened the path for drug trafficking that curiously one wonders why is the United States of America fighting drug trafficking dozens of kilometers away from their territory if the consumption happens in their territory,
12:04if the United States citizens addicted to drugs don't go to the Caribbean or don't come to Venezuela or don't go to another country.
12:13The cocaine, they sniff it in the United States of America.
12:19In Brazil, during the preparatory conference for COP30, Venezuela reiterated its commitment to climate justice and the right to development despite the imperial war threats the country faces.
12:44During the event, Caracas warned of the consequences that could come from limiting developing countries' use of fossil energy,
12:51and denounced the effects of the unilateral coercive measures on the capacity to confront the impacts of climate change.
12:58It also maintained that the results of the group's first global assessment should not impose conditions on national policies, financing or technology transfers.
13:07It is important to note that COP30 will take place between November 10 and 21, in the city of Belém, in the state of Pará, Brazil.
13:22In other news, the Honduran Secretariat for Rescue and National Contingency Management, COPECO, extended the red alert in the central district for 24 hours due to heavy rains that have caused 12 deaths and affected almost 11,000 people in the country.
13:38The measure announced on Tuesday, October 14, affects Tegucigalpa and Comayalegüela, regions severely impacted by the rainfall that is hitting several areas of Honduras, according to an official statement from COPECO.
13:52The alert, which implies immediate evacuation, was extended until Wednesday due to a surface drought and the low-pressure system in the Caribbean Sea interacting with a tropical disturbance in the Pacific Ocean.
14:04These alerts will be in effect for a period of 24 hours, starting at 12 noon on Tuesday, October 14.
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14:30Final short break, but we'll be right back with more from the South. Don't go away.
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14:46Welcome back.
14:47Bolivia is experiencing these final days of election campaigning ahead of the unprecedented presidential run of elections to be held on October 19.
14:56After a long election process, the opposition tandems led by the right-wing candidates Rodrigo Paz Pereira and Jorge Tuto Quiroga are facing off the elect president and vice president.
15:09In the wake of the ruling movements defeating the August elections, the candidates ended their campaigns with conflicted economic proposals, a prohibition on alcohol its degree from 12 am local time on October 17 until the morning of Monday, October 20.
15:25On election day is prohibited to carry guns, hold public events or transport voters.
15:31This bulletin is a mechanism introduced in the 2009 constitution that is being activated for the first time in the history of the country.
15:45Moving to Ecuador, one person died and several were injured after a powerful explosion on Tuesday in a busy commercial area in northern Guayaquil.
15:53An area where drug trafficking is common.
15:56The public security company of the conflict raid in the city of Ecuador said it was responding to the emergency caused by the detonation of explosive devices and polished photos of the road closed by police cars and fire trucks.
16:10The area where the explosion occurred is surrounded by restaurants, businesses, shops, doctors offices, a hospital, hotels and the city's largest shopping center.
16:21The police reported that it was an explosion, the causes of which are being determined by specialized teams.
16:27In other news, three people died on Tuesday when a small plane crashed near an indigenous village in western Guatemala, firefighters reported.
16:41The National Association of Municipal Firefighters responded to the plane crash.
16:46The emergency occurred in a village in the jurisdiction of Chimalatenango.
16:51Upon arriving at the scene, rescuers found a scene filled with debris.
16:55They immediately began searching for the crew but found no survivors.
16:59Preliminary reports indicate that three people have died, identified as Carlos Javier García Villatoro, Franklin Alexander Francisco Santos and a third person who was not listed on a flight manifest at the time of takeoff from La Aurora International Airport.
17:15We move now to Nicaragua, where the government announced a 4% salary increase for more than 132,000 public sector workers.
17:30Starting November, authorities said the Ministry of Finance has ensured all necessary measures for the pay raise.
17:37Additionally, more than 55,000 employees with the lowest wages will receive an extra 3.98%.
17:44bringing their total raise to 7.98%.
17:48They emphasized that they increased seeks to improve living conditions for Nicaraguan families.
17:53They also confirmed that the 2026 general budget bill will be presented to the National Assembly this Wednesday,
18:00to outline new government spending and priorities.
18:03Panama's National Assembly is debating granting 60 days of strike to teaching staff without risk of dismissal.
18:16The Democratic Revolutionary Party proposes to regulate the right to strike law, since it is not governed by the labor code, despite being ensured in the country's constitution.
18:26The Foreign Ministry of Panama, through an international labor organization, opposed including the right to strike in the agreements.
18:34In the sense, parliamentaries propose granting 60 days of strike for teachers, in view of demands that condemn the limit on protest.
18:42The 6th edition of the Montevideo V&L will be held in Uruguay, which will pay tribute to the Amazon, coinciding with the upcoming COP30 on climate change in Brazil.
19:00This event will be held from October 23 to November 30, under the name Ascestral Amazon.
19:19The V&L will feature works by 34 artists, including 12 Uruguayans, and will be dedicated to former president José Mujica.
19:27This meeting will seek to promote South-South cultural dialogue, as well as establishing a documentation center to preserve the heritage of Latin American contemporary art.
19:37The event will also issue the warning about the dangers threatening the rainforest.
19:42And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
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19:59For Telosur English, I'm Sophie Fernandez. Thank you for watching.
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