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00:00Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reaffirmed his support for dialogue and diplomacy as means of building understanding between Caracas and Washington.
00:22Russia will not participate in Wednesday's meeting in Turkey between representatives of Ukraine and the United States.
00:30The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas rejected the United Nations Security Council's approval of the United States' plan for Gaza.
00:47Hello, welcome to From the South. I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Telesu Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:52We begin with the news.
01:00Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reaffirmed his support for dialogue and diplomacy as means of building understanding between Venezuela and the United States.
01:15Venezuela's head of state, Nicolás Maduro, declared that the most powerful thing a leader can have is his word, in reference to the statements made by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in which he considered holding talks with the leader of the Bolivarian nation.
01:28He also reaffirmed Venezuela's position of absolute respect for international law and his condemnation of the use of force to impose rules.
01:35The Venezuelan President also emphasized that it is only through dialogue that points of mutual interest should be seeked.
01:43I believe that the most powerful thing that a political, a true political leader can have is the word, and the word, the written word is there forever.
02:03You can see at this, in this letter that I have here, Caracas, September 6th of 2025, this letter was delivered of three pages to the President of the U.S. on September the 6th, September, October, November.
02:26Nine weeks exactly, it was delivered, and Venezuela has a position that has a change of absolute respect to international law.
02:41We firmly question the threat of the use of force, or the use of force to impose wars in the relationships between countries, and we ratify what is said by the UN Charter, what is said by our Constitution, what is said by our people.
03:00We ratify that only through diplomacy, the free countries should understand themselves, the governments, and only through dialogue should they look for common points in subjects of interest to both parties.
03:20In this sense, President Nicolás Maduro reiterated that in the face of the lies of the U.S. government, the Venezuelan people will not be silenced and will continue to defend their truth.
03:32This country will accuse us of total lies which are extravagant when the own organisms of U.S. intelligence for many years have affirmed the contrary to the lies that they say of Venezuela.
03:50We are not going to be silenced. This country will continue to say its truth in the streets, in the international forums, in the U.N., in social media, in the communication media.
04:05On Monday, Cuban President Miguel DĂaz Canero presided at the University of Havana ceremony, commemorating the 20th anniversary of Hilo Castro's historic speech.
04:15The ceremony was held in the main hall of the study center, where in 2005, the year of the revolution had commemorated the 60th anniversary of his entry into the institution.
04:25The ceremony began with the traditional ringing of the university bell and the march of the guard to the mortuary mask of Julio Antonio Meya, founder of the Cuban Student Movement.
04:35The ceremony included a symbolic roll call dedicated to the martyrs of the University Student Federation, read by a young man from the main stage,
04:43and concluded by highlighting the responsibility that Cuban youth assume today in defending the country's social project.
04:50The Brazilian government signed a series of resolutions announcing the demarcation of 10 indigenous territories, a key step in the process of recognizing the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples.
05:07The Minister of Justice, Public Security, Ricardo Lewandowski, in coordination with the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, has marked this return to territorial policies that have been on hold since 2018.
05:19The new demarcation spans six states and various biomes, from the Amazon to the Atlantic forests, aiming to strengthen climate protection and environmental justice amid a crucial context for global climate negotiations taking place in the city of Belém, in the north of the South American giant.
05:36The first break coming up, remember you can join us on Tik Tok at Televisual English, where you will find news in different formats, news updates, and much more.
05:47We want to be right back, stay with us.
05:49Welcome back.
06:12In Brazil, the complaints about the role of countries responsible for pollution during COP30 also extended to the impact of imperialism.
06:20Our team explains more in the following report.
06:25It is estimated that militaries are responsible for 5.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
06:35If they were a country, they would have the fourth largest carbon footprint in the world.
06:39This does not include emissions from reconstruction and caused wildfires.
06:44If the men who make war were here at this COP, they would realize that it is much cheaper to spend $1 trillion and $300 billion than to spend $2 trillion and $700 billion to wage war, as they did last year.
07:07The US, the largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases, is the great absentee at COP30, and also a central actor due to the genocide in Palestine and the military threat in the Caribbean Sea.
07:28Members of the Sumid flotilla, who attempted to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, were present at the COP to make it clear that environmentalism and the fight against imperialism go hand in hand.
07:41The military threat exists because they are after Venezuela's oil and Colombia's strategic minerals for the energy transition.
07:48We used to have a regulated liberal capitalism that exploited resources, but now we are moving toward an authoritarian military capitalism.
07:56And I believe we need to analyze this transition very carefully.
07:59They are not seeing culture, people, ecological diversity, or life in us.
08:04They only see resources to exploit.
08:06The debts of developing or underdeveloped countries to international organizations such as the IMF, or the World Bank, also hinder the development of their economies and climate agendas, especially in situations of economic blockades like those also promoted by the United States.
08:26Any effort related to climate financing must be unconditional, inclusive, and independent of ideologies or alternative political systems.
08:36It should not be used as a mechanism to subjugate those who have challenged the dominant ideological hegemony, nor should it discriminate against or exclude certain countries from the international financial system.
08:51At COP30, some warn that the protection of the Amazon and the development of its peoples cannot be considered under colonial regimes.
09:01Right now, in French Guayana, all the decisions come from Europe, come from France.
09:08We have no power of decision.
09:11And everything who's decided in France don't match with the reality of French Guayana.
09:18So we don't recognize ourselves in the decision of France.
09:24So that's it.
09:25We ask for, we emancipate our country for our independence, because we know that we alone could decide for ourselves and get the right decision.
09:40There is no time in the face of climate collapse, nor in the face of military threats to sides of the same coin for those who defend life and find neither consensus nor reaction from global leaders in the halls of the COP.
09:56Ignacio Lemus and Yulia Nassif for Telesur.
09:59President Obama reported his office announced that Russia will not participate in Wednesday's meeting in Turkey between representatives of Ukraine and the United States.
10:08Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated that Russia remains open to negotiations regarding the Ukraine conflict.
10:15Among other reasons, the spokesperson stated that Moscow has not received any information about the meeting in Istanbul.
10:21He only explained that Kyiv will have a meeting with the Turkish government, which he described as a friendly government to Russia,
10:28and that President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Wittkov, would participate in that meeting.
10:33The senior official added that Russia will wait for the outcome of these negotiations.
10:46China launched military maneuvers with live fire in the Yellow Sea.
10:50amidst escalating tensions with Japan after the recent Prime Minister's comments on Taiwan.
10:55Our colleague Bruno Falsi with more details.
10:59Greetings colleagues of Telesur.
11:01I am here in Beijing to inform that the Chinese authorities have announced a live fire exercise in the Yellow Sea from the 17th November to the 19th.
11:14This is according to the China Maritime Safety Administration and state media such as the CCTV.
11:23This exercise includes artillery fire and prohibit the entry of civilian vessels.
11:29China media and experts cited by the Global Times emphasize that these maneuvers have legitimate training and defense actions protecting China's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
11:44And reiterate that Taiwan is part of its territory.
11:49This is according to the One China policy and to the United Nations.
11:54Japan, through statement by its Prime Minister, Sanai Takeishi, has threatened military intervention in Taiwan,
12:03reviving the history of Japanese aggression during the World War II, when genocide and ethnic cleansing were committed against China,
12:14resulting in the death of more than 35 million civilians.
12:20Western media outlets such as Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post describe these maneuvers as a political and military message from China,
12:32highlighting the strategic sensitivity of the Yellow Sea and the importance of Taiwan.
12:39This without mentioning the history of Japanese aggression on China's sovereignty and China's sovereignty over these islands.
12:49With these news, we return to the studios in La Habana, Cuba.
12:54Cuba.
12:57We now have our second break coming up, before we invite you to visit our Facebook page at Telesur English,
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13:09The final break, go away.
13:24Welcome back.
13:39The United Nations Security Council approved the United States resolution to deploy an international stabilization force in the Gaza Strip.
13:47The resolution, presented by the United States and based on Donald Trump's 20-point ceasefire plan,
13:52was adopted with 13 votes in favor and to abstentions from Russia and China.
13:57The text authorizes the deployment of an international stabilization force,
14:01a coalition that would include Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia and Azerbaijan to secure Gaza overseas,
14:08demilitarization, protect civilians, and escort humanitarian aid.
14:12It also establishes a transitional administration with international coordination
14:17and a trust fund backed by the World Bank to finance reconstruction.
14:21Western countries have described these measures as a first step toward a Palestinian state,
14:26although without defining its borders or the Palestinian right to self-defense.
14:31In this regard, the Hamas movement responded to the UN Security Council resolution saying that
14:42it does not meet the political and humanitarian demands for the rights of the Palestinian people,
14:48especially in the Gaza Strip.
14:50Hamas criticized the resolution for imposing an international guardianship mechanism over Gaza.
14:56The movement argued that this initiative seeks to achieve objective that Israel did not accomplish through war
15:03and that it further separates Gaza from the rest of the Palestinian territories,
15:07attempting to impose a new reality that disregards Palestinian national rights,
15:12including the right to self-determination and the establishment of a state with Jerusalem as its capital.
15:20The Palestinian resistance movement warned that assigning tasks such as disarming or resistance to a regime
15:26of an international force would strip it off neutrality and make it part of the conflict.
15:31The movement maintains that any international force should be limited to operating at the border,
15:36supervising the ceasefire under full UN authority and in exclusive coordination with Palestinian official institutions.
15:44Finally, the Palestinian movement urged the international community and the Security Council to uphold international law,
15:51immediately stopped the war in Gaza,
15:53support reconstruction efforts,
15:55end the occupation and enable the Palestinian people to exercise the right to self-determination
16:00and establish an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
16:04For its part, Russia and China denounced the lack of transparency in the resolution approved by the United Nations Security Council for Gaza
16:23and rejected the ongoing colonial practices.
16:27The resolution, based on the 20 points proposed by the United States for the Palestinian enclave,
16:32was approved on Monday with the abstention of Beijing and Moscow.
16:35They affirmed that the organization supports an initiative based on the commitment of Washington,
16:41which has demonstrated opacity, ineffectiveness and irresponsibility in this and several other conflicts.
16:48Chinese representative Fu Kong reiterated the agreement is vague and does not clarify critical elements,
16:54while Vasily Nevencia, his Russian counterpart, questioned the fact that none of the countries supplying weapons to Zionism
17:00has committed to the demilitarization of the Palestinian enclave.
17:05And the national teams of Catalonia and Palestine will face each other this Tuesday at the Olympic Stadium in Montjuic,
17:21where around 30,000 spectators are expected to attend a solidarity match in which all proceeds will go entirely to initiatives supporting the Palestinian people.
17:31This is the second stop on the Palestinian national teams tour after they face a Basque country this past Saturday at San Mames,
17:41where more than 50,000 people filled the stands.
17:45Catalonia's coach Gerard Lopez confirmed on Monday after the customary photo of both coaches and the exchange of jerseys
17:52that approximately 26,000 of the 55,000 available tickets have already been sold.
17:57The match will have a dual dimension, both solidarity-based and sporting,
18:02while on the social side all proceeds will be allocated to the reconstruction of Gaza.
18:07A popular 14th on Monday urged countries at the United Nations climate talks to take concrete actions to stop climate change that is spreading on the planet.
18:13The Pope, in a video message, made his proclamation and encouraged countries to take concrete actions to stop climate change that is spreading on the planet.
18:38The Pope, in a video message, made his proclamation and encouraged countries from various ecological organizations to intensify their actions,
18:47declaring that efforts have been made but that they are still not enough.
18:52The Pope declared that one in three people live in a vulnerable situation due to climate change
18:58and that helping these people should be the highest priority of all states in the world.
19:03Scientists say that in addition to deadly heat, a warming atmosphere leads to more frequent and deadly extreme weather.
19:10The United Kingdom and Immersive Exhibition offers visitors a glimpse of the ancient city of Pompeii through an artistic
19:40journey that takes them nearly 2,000 years back in time. Let's see.
19:47At an exhibition center in London, the show The Last Days of Pompeii allows the public to learn about this famous city
19:54and experience up close the events that took place in 79 CE when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the city.
20:01With the help of immersive technology, the exhibition presents a rich historical narrative of the city from its discovery in the mid-18th century.
20:13It features around ten installations, ranging from virtual reality rooms to authentic relics from the period, offering a complete experience.
20:20We have cutting-edge technology, virtual reality area, we have metaverse room, we have immersive room, but that is just based on a very interesting and intense storytelling.
20:37We need to make this technology be just part of the experience and make people dive and feel immersed in the story.
20:44Make something that's impossible, in fact, which is travel back in time and be in a moment and in a period that was so interesting like the Roman Empire and in that moment when the Vesuvius exploded.
20:54Light and video projections recreate the entire area of Pompeii and its archaeological sites, which are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
21:06Among the most striking elements of the exhibition is a huge room that displays various 360-degree scenes, offering an unparalleled view of this ancient world.
21:16The last days of Pompeii has everything.
21:22It has history, has archaeology, has drama, has storytelling.
21:27We are really interested in this mix between fiction and reality.
21:31What was real at that time? Working with historians, working with archaeologists.
21:35And at that time, also in the 19th century, when the ruins were discovered, a lot of writers and creative people were really interested in making new storytelling on Pompeii.
21:46So that mix between fiction and reality was something really exciting to us, to go back to that story.
21:55One of the biggest challenges here, especially at the Excel in London, is the size of the exhibition.
22:01It's the biggest exhibition we've ever built, so it's like incredible for us when now we see the result of how it looks.
22:08London is the sixth city to host the exhibition The Last Days of Pompeii, following stops in Madrid, Vienna, Beijing, Berlin, and Oberhausen.
22:21Visitors will still be able to enjoy this experience until March of next year, before the installations travel to Shanghai and Buenos Aires.
22:33At least we have come to the end of this news brief. You can find this and many other stories on our website at telestoryenglish.net.
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22:48For Telestory English, I'm Luis Alberto Matos. Thanks for watching.
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