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00:00In Norway, social movements mobilized against the Nobel Committee's decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan far-right representative Maria Corina Machado.
00:30Venezuelan head of state Nicolás Maduro stated on Tuesday that the National Council for the Productive Economy has been an instrument of national consensus that has enabled the growth of the country's new economy and will turn the nation into a multidiverse export hub in the coming years.
01:00Honduran former president Manuel Zelaya denounces the interference and fraud in the presidential elections held on November 3rd.
01:07Hello, welcome to From the South. I'm Sophie Fernanda from the TELASUR studios in Havana, Cuba. We'll begin with the news. Stay with us!
01:28This Tuesday, Norwegian social movements demonstrated in rejection of the Nobel Committee's decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the representative of the Venezuelan far-right, Marina Coria Machado.
01:43This Tuesday, Norwegian social movements demonstrated in rejection of the Nobel Committee's decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the representative of the Venezuelan far-right, Marina Coria Machado.
01:58Precisely, an alliance of Norwegian organizations dedicated to peace and solidarity called for a massive demonstration on December 9th and 10th in front of the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, stating that the committee's decision contradicts this proof of absolute Nobel's will to reward efforts for disarmament and for peaceful resolutions of conflict.
02:20They pointed out that Maria Coria Machado publicly supports a military intervention against Venezuela by the U.S. government, the unilateral coercive measures imposed on the country and is linked to violent and destabilizing actions.
02:33Maria Coria Machado is set to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on December 10th, on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
02:41In other news on Tuesday, China sent a new communications technology test satellite into space from the Xi'an Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Xi'an Province.
03:01The Xi'an Satellite Launcher launched abroad along the Mars III-B carrier rocket at 11.08pm local time and entered its planned orbit as scheduled.
03:13The satellite will support services such as satellite communication, data transmission and radio and television broadcasting.
03:20It will also conduct relevant technical tests and validations.
03:24This launch marked the 650 mission of China's long Mars rocket series.
03:54In Palestine, the Alihelou International Hospital in the Gaza Strip urges funded donations and funding to guarantee the blood transfusions of patients with talazinia.
04:06The suffering of the sick is intensified due to the shortage of blood units and filters at the medical center, forcing them to choose alternatives that affected daily lives.
04:16The lack of food, medicines and special supplies, as well as the continuous shortage of blood donations, add to the list of complications patients face in continuing with their daily lives.
04:27In this regard, those affected and the health authorities have issued a call for help to address the situation.
04:33Moving on to Australia, following demand on social media implemented in the country for children under 16, Prime Minister Antony Albanese said it is one of the biggest social and cultural changes this country has even faced.
04:57Albany's address advocates, families, children and officials and an outdoor event for the school's social media at its official city presidency.
05:07Australia introduced the world's first social media event on Wednesday.
05:11Platforms raised fines of up to $32.9 million if they failed to recently remove accounts.
05:18Mayra, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, was the first tech giant to react by beginning to exclude suspected young children last week.
05:27The United Nations Children's Fund's executive director called for urgent action to safeguard children in Sudan during her visit to Kassala in the eastern region of the country.
05:45According to a report by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell, Sudan is facing one of the world's most severe humanitarian crises amid de-escalating conflict, rising hunger and the highest level of child displacement in the world with an estimated 10 million people displaced, half of them children.
06:04Furthermore, the agency stated that more than 30 million people require humanitarian assistance in the country.
06:10Russell also highlighted the vulnerability of women and girls who are experiencing horrific levels of sexual violence.
06:19UNICEF calls for an immediate end to the violence and for all parties to uphold international humanitarian law.
06:29And now we have a short break coming up.
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06:43Welcome back.
06:55The Venezuelan Jaro state, Nicolás Maduro, stated on Tuesday that the National Council for Productive Economy has been an instrument of national consensus that has enabled the growth of the country's new economic and will turn the nation into a multi-diverse export hub in the world.
07:11During the National Council for Productive Economy, the President announced the major achievements of Venezuelan economic development during 2025, including significant milestones in pharmaceutical centers.
07:26He also indicated that industrial capacity is approaching 50% growth.
07:30On the other hand, the President signed the decree establishing the unified protocol for non-oil exports, postal services and related activities, with the aim of boosting the country's diversified economy with agricultural, fishing and community products, among other strategic sectors.
07:46The head of state explained that, amid the ongoing context of economic aggression, there are still elements that need to be consolidated.
07:53During his participation in the National Economic Council, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called all economic factors to accomplish the goal of producing everything in Venezuela, and carried out a radical substitution of imports.
08:15Businessmen, creators of wealth, creators of wealth, creators of wealth, with the technology and the Venezuelan science, we have to accomplish that short-term goal.
08:27That short-term goal, I am not talking about three years, I am talking about the short-term, and through phases, we have to produce everything in Venezuela, and the line is very clear, a radical substitution of imports.
08:46Also in Venezuela, the President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, denounced that today the Caribbean Sea has become a field of horror, where more than 80 people have been killed by U.S. military actions.
08:59During an ordinarization of the National Assembly, the President Jorge Rodriguez condemned the acts of violence and extermination that have taken place in the Caribbean, and how the International Criminal Court has failed to act in response to the situation.
09:14Describing these representatives as slaves and puppets in the interests of the United States.
09:20Also, the President denounced that peace has been distorted, pointing out that even the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the person who has called for military invasion against Venezuela.
09:31On the other hand, Jorge Rodriguez highlighted that to date, 1046 unilateral coercive measures have been imposed against Venezuela's economy,
09:39and pointed out that their main objective is to attack the nation through economic siege.
09:44What the hell is that International Criminal Court used for? Why was it founded, and what's the use of it? The world was horrified when, immediately after World War I, they appeared and emerged. There were no social networks, nor cell phones.
10:09And only the presence of the Red Army, of the Soviet Army, in the countries of Eastern Europe, could show the planet the extent of the horror inside the concentration camps in Eastern Europe, and Germany.
10:32And 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.
10:47The 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.
11:08The president of the National Assembly also denounced the subordination of some international bodies to the U.S. interests, and aimed that the U.S. government only attacks the three countries.
11:22Because they are completely at the mercy of their owners. And it is such a paradox because their owners are obviously the U.S. State Department. But it turns out that the U.S. did not sign the Rome Statute. Hypocritically, Clinton approved it when he was president.
11:43But the next day George Bush took office and a few months later he refused to sign it. In other words, the United States is not a signatory to the Rome Statute. They didn't even take a newspaper clipping, sorry for the archaism.
12:07They didn't even take the webpage of a newspaper to paste it into a report about the sanctions. They don't care. They are not there to administer justice or defend human rights. They are there to attack free peoples. They are there to make life impossible, and ruin the lives of the countries that the United States orders them to ruin.
12:37Meanwhile, Nicaragua's co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo presided the graduation of 26 new army officers in the capital Managua, while rallying regional support for Venezuela.
12:53During the ceremony, honoring guerrilla priest Gaspar García Labiana, Ortega reaffirmed his unconditional support for President Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan people amid a new U.S. military escalation in the Caribbean.
13:06He also condemned the imperialist threats, economic siege and theft of Venezuelan assets, warning that any foreign intervention would destabilize the region.
13:16Ortega said the alliance between the Sandinismo and the Bolivarian revolution remains firm in all times and circumstances.
13:23And urged Latin American governments to reject the regime, change operations and defend regional sovereignty.
13:29During the graduation ceremony in Nicaragua, co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo presided the act and expressed their support for Venezuela in the face of U.S. actions.
13:47We are with you, and we are certain that no war will break out there.
13:54We have confidence and faith in God that he will not allow any war to break out.
14:00That Venezuela will not be attacked.
14:11It has already suffered enough aggression to be subjected to an invasion, an invasion that no one wants.
14:19Make peace reign in Venezuela and also in Colombia, because Colombia has been threatened by the government of the United States.
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14:55Final short break, but we'll be right back with more from the South. Don't go away.
15:06Welcome back. The United States President Donald Trump stated that he does not rule out a future military operation against countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in a context of growing U.S. interference in the region.
15:23In a televised interview, the head of state argued that drug trafficking is a structural problem and that he would therefore use force against targets in Mexico and Colombia,
15:33whom he considers responsible for the alleged trafficking of fentanyl to the United States.
15:39In this regard, Trump avoided answering questions about the possibility of sending troops to Venezuela following the growing U.S. militarization of the Caribbean.
15:48Let's recall that this supposed fight against drugs, which has justified attacks on more than 20 vessels and the murder of some 80 people,
15:56is an illegality denounced by international human rights bodies.
16:01Also in the United States, Miami elects first Democratic major in nearly 30 years, Aileen Higgins, a former Miami-Dade county commissioner,
16:16who will also be the city's first female major and the first Hispanic major since the 1990s.
16:22Miami voters elected Aileen Higgins, 61, as mayor in a rout on Tuesday, choosing a Democrat to lead the city for the first time in almost 30 years.
16:33The defeat for the Republican in the race, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump, gives momentum to Democrats heading into the 2026 midterms.
16:42Let's recall that Cuban U.S. Republicans have dominated city politics over the past three decades.
16:48With this outcome, Higgins can now continue their party's national over-performance in special elections.
16:54Staying in the U.S., at least one student was killed and another was critically wounded in a shooting at a presidency hall at Kentucky State University on Tuesday.
17:15Police in Frankfurt, this state's capital city, said the campus was on lockdown and a suspect is in custody.
17:23One student who was shot at the residency hall, Whitney Young Jr. Hall, is in critical condition, but stable.
17:30Meanwhile, the school is not immediately releasing the names of the students.
17:34For its part, Frankfurt Police said it responded to an incident involving an active aggressor and that the campus was secured and planned to release more information at a news conference.
17:45Moving on to Honduras, former President Manuel Zelaya called on the communities of Tegucigalpa and Comayahuela to mobilize with the aim of denouncing fraud in the elections held on November 30th.
18:04Selea stated that the Libre body does not accept the results of the preliminary election results broadcast system, asserting that the alteration of the source code of the transmission system was part of a plan to manipulate the elections.
18:18In this regard, Marlon Ochoa, a member of the National Electoral Council, backed up the concern by confirming that the software was modified without the authorization of the electoral authority.
18:31Ochoa also detailed that 13,000 records presented inconsistencies and that structural faults were detected in the system since the simulation carried out on November 9th.
18:41Meanwhile, in Argentina, on Tuesday, citizens from the province of Mendoza mobilized in rejection of the approval of the Environmental Impact Statement for the PSJ Cobre Mendocino Mining Project,
19:01despite widespread public opposition due to its potential environmental impact.
19:06The provincial Senate of Mendoza gave the green light to the mining company with 21 votes in favor and 6 against, amid a large police presence with a legislator fenced off.
19:17Before the vote, social and environmental groups converged on Mendoza's capital to reject the mining initiative,
19:24overgrowing concerns about the pollution of the river that supplies water to 75% of the province's population.
19:32According to its promoters, the project, which will be developed over 27 years, includes a $600 million economic incentive and the creation of 4,000 jobs.
19:44Also in Argentina, Javier Millet's government published the Educational Freedom Law on Tuesday, which aims to reform key aspects of education,
20:02including the elimination of progressive funding of up to 6% of Argentina's GDP.
20:08Millet presented the already controversial education reform that unions considered to be privatizing, defunding and eliminating the state as a guarantor of the right to education.
20:19The law will allow the national education system to fund demand at all levels and in all forms.
20:25The Argentine government would give families vouchers to pay for their children's education using a market-based demand-side subsidy.
20:34The Union rejected vouchers because they are a failed model with a racist, mercantiles and anti-democratic history.
20:41On Tuesday, the first of a series of powerful storms hit the Pacific Northwest, dumping heavy rain and swelling rivers, which caused roads to close and prompted high-water rescues in the United States.
21:00Residents in parts of Oregon and Washington dealt with power outages, flooding and school closures.
21:16Meanwhile, drivers navigated debris slides and flooded roads that submerged vehicles.
21:22Forecasters warned that the worst was yet to come, as some major rivers are expected to crest later this week.
21:29The National Water Service forecasts several days of heavy rainfall along the coast and over a foot of new snow in northwestern Wyoming.
21:38And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
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