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00:00In Norway, social movements mobilized against the Nobel Committee's decision to award the
00:18Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan far-right Maria Corina Machado.
00:21The Venezuelan head of state, Nicolás Maduro, stated on Tuesday that the National
00:29Council for Productive Economy has been an instrument of national consensus that has
00:34enabled the growth of the country's new economy and will turn the nation into a multidiverse
00:39export hub in the coming years.
00:43Honduran President Xiomara Castro said Tuesday she will denounce before the international
00:51community, the electoral coup going on in her country.
01:01Hello, welcome to From the South.
01:03I'm Sophie Fernandez from the Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba.
01:06We'll begin with the news.
01:09This Tuesday, Norwegian social movements demonstrated in rejection of the Nobel Committee's decision
01:26to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the representative of the Venezuelan far-right Maria Corina Machado.
01:32Precisely an alliance of Norwegian organizations dedicated to peace and solidarity called for
01:38a massive demonstration on December 9th and 10th in front of the Norwegian Nobel Institute
01:43in Oslo, stating that the Committee's decision contradicts the spirit of Alfred and Nobel's
01:49will to reward efforts for disarmament and for peaceful resolution of conflicts.
01:54They pointed out that Maria Corina publicly supports a military intervention against Venezuela
01:59by the U.S. government, the unilateral coercive measures imposed on the country, and is linked
02:04to violent and destabilization actions.
02:07Maria Corina Machado is set to receive the Nobel Prize in Oslo on December 10th, on the anniversary
02:13of Alfred Nobel's death.
02:24In other news on Tuesday, China sent a new communications technology test satellite into space from the
02:30Xinjiang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Xi'an province.
02:36The Xi'an 22 satellite launched abroad along March 3B carrier rocket at 11.08 pm local time,
02:44and entered its planned orbit as scheduled.
02:47The satellite will support services such as satellite communication, data transmission and
02:52radio and television broadcasting.
02:55It will also conduct relevant technical tests and validations.
02:59This launch marked the 615th mission of China's Long March rocket series.
03:04This launch marked the 615th mission of China's Long March rocket series.
03:06In Palestine, the Alelo International Hospital in the Gaza Strip urges for donations and funding
03:11to guarantee the blood transfusions of patients with thalassemia.
03:18thalassemia.
03:19The suffering of the sick is intensified due to the shortage of blood units and the filters
03:25at the medical center, forcing them to choose alternatives to the blood transfusions of patients.
03:29In Palestine, the Alelo International Hospital in the Gaza Strip urges for donations and funding
03:30to guarantee the blood transfusions of patients with thalassemia.
03:31The suffering of the sick is intensified due to the shortage of blood units and the filters
03:44at the medical center, forcing them to choose alternatives that affect their daily lives.
03:50The lack of food, medicines and special supplies, as well as the continuous shortage of blood donations,
03:54at the least of complications patients face in continuing with their daily lives.
04:01In this regard, those affected and the health authorities have issued a call for help to address the situation.
04:15Moving on to Sudan, the United Nations Children's Fund executive director called for an urgent action
04:20to safeguard children in the country during her visit to Kassala in the eastern region of the country.
04:27According to a report by UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell, Sudan is facing one of the world's
04:33most severe humanitarian crises amid de-escalating conflict, rising hunger and the highest level of child
04:40displacement in the world, with an estimated of 10 million people displaced, half of them children.
04:46Furthermore, the agency stated that more than 3 million people require humanitarian assistance in the country.
04:52Russell also highlighted the vulnerability of women and girls who are experiencing horrific levels of sexual violence.
05:00UNICEF calls for an immediate end to the violence and for all parties to uphold international humanitarian law,
05:06to ensure the safety and dignity of every child and civilian.
05:18And now we have a short break coming up, but first remember you can join us on TikTok at Tele Sur English,
05:22where you will find news in different formats, news updates and more.
05:26We'll be right back, stay with us!
05:36Welcome back.
05:42The Venezuelan head of state, Nicolás Maduro, stated on Tuesday that the National Council for Productive Economy
05:48has been an instrument of national consensus that has enabled the growth of the country's new economy
05:54and will turn the nation into a multi-diverse export hub in the coming years.
05:59During the National Council of Productive Economy, the President announced the major achievements of
06:04the Venezuelan economic development during 2025, including significant milestones in the pharmaceutical sector.
06:12He also indicated that industrial capacity is approaching 50% growth.
06:16On the other hand, the President signed the decree establishing the Unified Protocol for Non-Oil Exports,
06:22Postal Services and Related Activities, with the aim of boosting the country's diversified economy with agricultural,
06:28fishing and community products, among other strategic sectors.
06:33The head of state explained that amid the ongoing context of economic aggression,
06:37there are still elements that need to be consolidated.
06:50During his participation in the National Economic Council, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called all economic factors
06:56to accomplish the goal of producing everything in Venezuela,
07:00and carried out a radical substitution of imports.
07:05Creators of wealth, with the technology and the Venezuelan science,
07:11we have to accomplish that short-term goal.
07:15I am not talking about three years, I am talking about the short-term.
07:20And through phases, we have to produce everything in Venezuela,
07:25and the line is very clear, a radical substitution of imports.
07:32Also in Venezuela, the President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez,
07:38denounced that today the Caribbean Sea has become a field of horror,
07:43where more than 80 people have been killed by U.S. military actions.
07:48During an ordinary session of the National Assembly,
07:51the President Jorge Rodriguez condemned the acts of violence and extermination
07:55that have been taking place in the Caribbean,
07:58and how the International Criminal Court has failed to act in response to this situation,
08:03describing its representatives as slaves and puppets of the interests of the United States.
08:09Also, the President denounced that peace has been distorted,
08:12pointing out that even the Nobel Prize has been awarded to the person
08:16who has called for military invasion against Venezuela.
08:19On the other hand, Jorge Rodriguez highlighted that, to date,
08:221046 unilateral coercive measures have been imposed against Venezuela's economy,
08:27and pointed out that their main objective is to attack the nation through economic siege.
08:47What the hell is that international criminal court used for?
08:50Why was it founded, and what's the use of it?
08:53The world was horrified when, immediately after World War I,
08:57they appeared and emerged, there were no social networks, nor cell phones,
09:03and only the presence of the Red Army, of the Soviet Army, in the countries of Eastern Europe,
09:13could show the planet the extent of the horror inside the concentration camps in Eastern Europe, and Germany.
09:26And as a result of that perception, of that the feeling that remained in all the humankind that fundamental principles of the human condition had been violated, the United Nations was created.
09:41The Geneva Convention of 1949 was signed, and all organizations seeking no other objective, according to their foundation documents, according to the written word, than the defense of humanity, and the punishment of crimes against humanity.
10:00The President of the National Assembly also denounced the subordination of some international bodies to the U.S. interests, and affirmed that the U.S. government only attacks the free countries.
10:19Because they are completely at the mercy of their owners.
10:24And it is such a paradox because their owners are obviously the U.S. State Department.
10:29But it turns out that the U.S. did not sign the Rome Statute.
10:33Hypocritically, Clinton approved it when he was President.
10:46But the next day George Bush took office and a few months later he refused to sign it.
10:51In other words, the United States is not a signatory to the Rome Statute.
10:57They didn't even take a newspaper clipping, sorry for the archaism.
11:10They didn't even take the web page of a newspaper to paste it into a report about the sanctions.
11:16They don't care.
11:17They are not there to administer justice or defend human rights.
11:21They are there to attack free peoples.
11:23They are there to make life impossible and ruin the lives of the countries that the United States orders them to ruin.
11:36Venezuela holds the Assembly of People for Peace and Sovereignty in North America
11:40in the face of the United States military threats against the Caribbean.
11:46The event takes place in the Venezuelan Room of the Military Circle from Tuesday, December 9th to Thursday, December 11th,
11:53with the participation of international experts.
11:56In this scenario, the dialogue aims to raise awareness and add more voices against the military threat from the United States in the Caribbean,
12:03which endangers the security of the region.
12:06At Tuesday's meeting, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ivan Hill and Cuban intellectual Abel Prieto denounced the ongoing menace to our peoples
12:13and urged the actions for peace.
12:15Moving on to Nicaragua, co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo presided the graduation of 26 new army officers in the capital, Managua,
12:22while rallying regional support for Venezuela.
12:25During the ceremony honoring guerrilla priest Gaspar García La Viana, Ortega reaffirmed his unconditional support for President Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan people,
12:32aimed at new U.S. military escalation in the Caribbean.
12:35He also condemned the imperial threat from the U.S. military escalation in the Caribbean.
12:40He also condemned the imperial threats, economic siege and the theft of Venezuelan assets, such as CITCO,
13:00warning that any foreign intervention would destabilize the region.
13:04Ortega said the alliance between the Sandinismo and the Bolivarian Revolution remains firm in all times and circumstances,
13:12and urged Latin American governments to reject regime change and operations to defend national sovereignty.
13:19During the graduation of the 26 new army officers in Managua, co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo presided the act
13:40and expressed their support for Venezuela in the face of U.S. actions.
13:44We are with you, and we are certain that no war will break out there.
13:51We have confidence and faith in God that he will not allow any war to break out.
13:57That Venezuela will not be attacked.
14:08It has already suffered enough aggression to be subjected to an invasion, an invasion that no one wants.
14:16Make peace reign in Venezuela and also in Colombia, because Colombia has been threatened by the government of the United States.
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14:51Final short break, but we'll be right back with more from the South. Don't go away.
14:55Welcome back. United States President Donald Trump stated that he does not rule out a future military operation
15:14against countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in a context of U.S. growing interference in the region.
15:21In a televised interview, they had a state argued that drug trafficking is a structural problem,
15:27and that he was, therefore, the U.S. force against targets in Mexico and Colombia,
15:32whom he considers responsible for all the alleged trafficking on fentanyl to the United States.
15:37In this regard, Trump avoided answering questions about the possibility of sending troops to Venezuela,
15:43following the growing U.S. militarization of the Caribbean.
15:46Let's recall that this supposed fight against drug trafficking,
15:50which has justified attacks on more than 20 vessels and the murder of some 80 people,
15:55is an illegality denounced by international human rights bodies.
15:59Also in the United States, Miami elects first Democratic major in nearly third years, Aileen Higgins,
16:14a former Miami-Dade County Commissioner, who will also be deceased's first female major,
16:19and the first non-Hispanic major since the 1990s.
16:22Miami voters elected Aileen Higgins, 61, as mayor in a rout on Tuesday,
16:28choosing a Democrat to lead the city for the first time in almost 30 years.
16:32The defeat for the Republican in the race, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump,
16:37gives momentum to Democrats heading to the 2026 midterms.
16:41Let's recall that Cuban's U.S. Republicans have dominated city politics over the past three decades.
16:48With this outcome, Higgins can now continue their party's national overperformance in special elections.
16:56Staying in the U.S., at least one student was killed and another was critically wounded
17:11in a shotgun at the Residency Hall at Kentucky State University on Tuesday,
17:17and a suspect was in custody.
17:19Police in Frankfurt, the state's capital city, said the campus was on lockdown.
17:24One student who was shot at the Residency Hall, Whitney M. Young, Jr., is in critical condition, but stable.
17:32The school is not immediately releasing the names of the students.
17:36Frankfurt Police said it responded to an incident involving an active aggressor,
17:40and that the campus was secured.
17:43Authorities planned to release more information at the evening news conference.
17:54Moving on to Honduras, President Xiomara Castro said Tuesday she will denounce before the international community
18:03the electoral coup going on in her country.
18:06The President of the Central American country also informed she will launch a diplomatic offensive
18:10before international organizations, such as ELAC and the United Nations,
18:15to denounce the interference of U.S. President Donald Trump in Honduras' democratic life,
18:21by releasing former president and drug lord Juan Orlando Hernández.
18:25Castro also condemned the actions of her U.S. counterpart in pressuring Hondurans to vote in favor of right-wing candidate,
18:32Nasir Yafura, and recalled the irregularities that led to what she described as a colossal election fraud.
18:53We are experiencing a process marked by threats, coercion, manipulation by the TREP, and alteration of the will of the people.
19:04These actions constitute an ongoing electoral coup that we will denounce before the United Nations.
19:10The United Nations, the European Union, the CELAC, the OAS, and other international organizations.
19:19My duty as president and as a woman who emerged from the resistance is to defend democracy.
19:30National dignity and the sovereign will of the people. That is an unbreakable mandate in our constitution.
19:48That is why I affirm these elections, as revealed by the 26 audio recordings presented, are invalid.
19:55The United States, they are viciados of nulidad.
19:59On Tuesday, the first of a series of powerful storms hit the Pacific Northwest, dumping heavy rain and swelling rivers.
20:19This caused roads to close and prompted high-water rescues in the United States.
20:24Residents in parts of Oregon and Washington dealt with power outages, flooding and school closures.
20:31Meanwhile, drivers navigated their risk slides and flooded roads that submerged vehicles.
20:36Forecasters warned that the worst was still to come, as some major rivers are expected to crest later this week.
20:44The National Weather Service forecast several days of heavy rainfall along the coast and over a foot of new snow in northwestern Wyoming.
20:51And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
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