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00:00In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro denuncia the United States seizure of a chip carrying oil
00:18as a serious crime under international law and treaties that are binding on all states.
00:22More than three weeks after the general elections in Honduras, the National Electoral Council began special counting on Thursday of thousands of voting records with inconsistencies.
00:37On Thursday, Israeli military forces launched a series of strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon,
00:47allegedly targeting training and weapon sites used by Hezbollah's resistance movement.
01:00Hello, welcome to From the South. I'm Sophie Fernandez from the Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba. We'll begin with the news. Stay with us.
01:17In Venezuela, head of state Nicolás Maduro denounced the United States seizure of a chip carrying oil as a serious crime under international law and treaties that are binding on all states.
01:31During his speech, the President recalled that the 1958 international agreements against piracy, as well as the subsequent treaties of 1982, classified the armed assault of a ship carrying any goods as a serious crime that must be condemned by the international community.
01:48In this context, the President indicated that the time has come for loyalty and maximum national unity among all Venezuelans to defend the land, oil and the right to the future.
01:58On the other hand, President Maduro presented the people of Miranda State and Caracas with the total and comprehensive rehabilitation of the Mariche metro cable system,
02:07which connects communities in the Petare Norte neighborhoods with the capital's underground metro system.
02:13Hesitating in defending our richness and minerals is treason. Hesitating in defending our sovereignty and our right to peace is treason.
02:31Hesitating and repudiating the mafia of the criminal that calls the Venezuelan to take the richness of us. Hesitating in treason it is time of loyalty, of bravery, of patriotism and of the maximum national union of all of the Venezuelan men and women to defend our land, our richness, our wealth, our petroleum, our people, our present.
02:59And the right to the future as well. So it is a continuity, a heroic continuity.
03:14Likewise, the Venezuelan president protected by international law described any armed assault on a ship in international waters as an act of piracy and banditry.
03:24The national law condemns as crimes according to the agreements of 1998 against the piracy and international treaties that came from that of years of recent years of the year 82.
03:47They qualify the armed assault of a ship of any kind of good as a serious crime that must be condemned.
04:02For centuries of piracy, the similarity between a pirate and a coarser is that they are both criminals aside from the most simple answer.
04:13They were criminals and wherever they exist, they are criminals.
04:17They do very serious crimes. They are stealers among others.
04:21In this regard, the Venezuelan head of state, Nicolas Maduro, described this issue of an oil tanker transporting Venezuelan oil as a serious crime, protected by international treaties against piracy.
04:43After the Second World War in 1958 that the first international treaty signed by all of the governments of the world was approved.
04:58So it is an obligation of all of the governments of the world to qualify piracy as a serious crime in high sea and by punishing it severely.
05:08So what they did with the private ship that was taking the petroleum that had already been paid to commerce in its markets, it is a serious crime at the light of international law that is public and of the treaty of obligatory fulfillment by all of the states.
05:29We are in our law. And I say Venezuela is going to continue its path.
05:36We are going to continue producing the 14 engines and all of the products that are sold in Venezuela will continue going out to the international market because we are a country that is free and we will guarantee the free commerce of Venezuela, of the Caribbean and of all of South America.
05:52For his part, Brazilian President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva said Thursday that he could act as a bridge between Venezuela and the United States to avoid an armed confrontation in the region.
06:07I had the opportunity to speak with President Maduro for almost 40 minutes. Then I spoke with President Trump about the Venezuela issue. I told Trump about Brazil's concern with Venezuela because this is a sound of peace.
06:21Not a sound of war. I told him that things will not be resolved by shooting, that it was better to sit down at a table to find a solution.
06:30No one has ever said specifically what it is necessary to quench this war. I don't know if the interest is only in Venezuela's oil. I don't know if the interest is in critical minerals. I don't know if the interest is in rare hair elements.
06:49The fact is that no one is putting what they want on the table. I told President Maduro that if he wanted Brazil to help in any way, he had to say what he would like us to do.
07:04And I told Trump that if he believed Brazil can contribute, we are very interested in talking to Venezuela and talking to him and talking to other countries to avoid an armed confrontation.
07:19In Cuba, on December 18th, the sixth ordinary session of the National Assembly of People's Power concluded in Havana, according to the extensive legislature with the President of Army General Raul Castro Cruz and the President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.
07:37The National Assembly of People's Power adopted the declaration on the escalation of aggression by the United States government against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
07:46In this regard, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel denounced the sabotage carried out by the U.S. government against Latin America and the Caribbean countries, especially Venezuela.
07:55In an international context marked by geopolitical tensions and economic pressures resulting from the U.S. government's intensified blockade against the country, the implementation of the government program to correct distortions and boost the economy continues to move forward.
08:10The United States has reached the point of saying the intention of blocking totally petroleum ships that enter and exit Venezuela.
08:28It is about a brutal measurement of times of wars against a country that doesn't represent any danger for them.
08:37This shows the desperation of those who have betted on the foundation of that sister nation facing the violence of a group that has taken over the foreign policy of the United States.
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09:09Welcome back to From the South.
09:22More than three weeks after the general elections in Honduras, the National Electoral Council began special counting on Thursday of thousands of voting records awaiting consistencies.
09:33The President of the Electoral Council, Anna Hall, representatives of the Liberal Party, reported that the special recount will begin in the presence of national and international observers.
09:44During the recount, 2,792 ballots with inconsistencies from the November 30 elections, marked by allegations of fraud, will be reviewed.
09:53According to some analysts, this correction could change the results released so far by the electoral arbitrage, which shows Nasri Asfura and Salvador Nasrara, presidential candidates for the National Party and the Liberal Party, in a close race.
10:08Moving on, illegal mining in Peru generated $3,355 billion between October 2024 and October 2025, according to the Financial Intelligence Unit .
10:30The Illegal Mining Observatory alerted this Thursday about its rapid advance in the Peruvian Amazon.
10:36The UIF, the entity responsible for detecting suspicious operations linked to money laundering and terrorist financing, stated in its latest report that illegal mining has become one of the main sources of alerts within the national financial system.
10:51According to the report, illegal gold mining is present in nine regions of the country, impacting 73 indigenous communities and more than 250 rivers and streams.
11:02Moving on to the United States, after five days of intense search and involving several U.S. federal agencies, the suspect in the deadly shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island was found dead on Thursday, apparently having committed suicide.
11:26According to the Providence Police Chief, Oscar L. Perez Jr., the alleged perpetrator of the mass shooting at Brown University was found dead on Thursday night after taking his own life.
11:38The man was identified as Claudia Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese citizen and former Brown student.
11:45Peter Narona, the Rhode Island Attorney General, said that according to reports, the body was found in a warehouse in Salem, New Hampshire, alongside a bag of firearms and evidence matching the crime scene.
11:59He was identified as Claudio Neves Valente, date of birth, and he was a 48-year-old man.
12:12He was a Brown student. He was a Portuguese national, and his last known address was in Miami, Florida.
12:20And I will tell you that he took his own life tonight. We have members of the Providence Police Department up in Salem, New Hampshire, and we also have the BCI unit.
12:32Obviously, the FBI and the Evidence Recovery Unit is up there, so the process is being conducted as we speak.
12:39In other news, Brazilian President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva confirmed on Thursday his intention to veto the sentencing bill, known as the Dosimetry Law, approved by the National Congress.
12:51This law reduces sentences for those convicted of the coup attempt on January 8, 2023.
12:57The law could directly benefit former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to 27 years and 3 months in prison for his alleged participation in anti-democratic acts.
13:07The President said that he would veto the bill if this reached the desk.
13:11The bill, denounced as an amnesty for the coup plotters, was approved on Wednesday in the Senate, with 48 votes in favor and 25 against,
13:20after having been given the green light in the Chamber of Deputies the previous week.
13:26On Friday, the countries of the European Union decided to postpone the trade agreement with Mercosur, due to France's rejection and doubts expressed by Italy.
13:45The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, confirmed at a dinner with the European leaders that the agreement will not be signed in Brazil this weekend.
13:55According to European sources, the vote and signing of the treaty will be moved to early January at the request of the Italian government,
14:02which needs more time to analyze the agreement.
14:06The Italian Prime Minister informed the Brazilian President on Thursday that she is willing to sign the pact once farmers provide the necessary answers,
14:13and that she needs a few days to finalize her official position.
14:17Mercosur foreign ministers will meet on Friday to decide the bloc's course of action after another delay by the European Union inciting a trade agreement.
14:38On Saturday, Infosur Iguazú, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay were scheduled to sign the treaty during the Mercosur summit.
14:48However, the lack of internal consensus among European countries led Brussels to postpone the decision until January,
14:54which caused unease among South American governments, who consider that the negotiation process begun almost three decades ago, has come to an end.
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15:33Welcome back.
15:39On Thursday, Israeli military forces launched a series of strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon, allegedly targeting training and weapons sites used by Hezbollah's resistance movement.
15:51In southern Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes and drone attacks targeted several multiple locations near residential areas and along a highly vital road, raising concerns about the risk posed to civilians and essential infrastructure.
16:04For his part, Lebanese parliament speaker, Nabi Beheri framed the attacks as a politically motivated escalation rather than an isolated military incident, in the face of a new crucial meeting set to take place on Friday.
16:18The meeting in the southern Lebanon city of Nagura will bring together Israeli and Lebanese civilian representatives to monitor the implementation of the ceasefire agreement, despite the fact that Israel has violated the agreements on a regular basis.
16:33In other news, the Russian government expressed deep concern on Thursday about the recent joint military exercises between Japan and the United States in the vicinity of its territory.
16:51Moscow warned about the dangers of Japanese militarization and defense pending, factors that destabilize and escalate tensions in the Asia-Pacific region.
17:00Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zaharova reported that the official position had been conveyed to the Japanese ambassador in Moscow.
17:08During the diplomatic meeting, Lyudmira Voroviova, director of the 3rd Asian Department, emphasized the Kremlin's rejection of the Japanese and U.S. Air Force exercises, conducted on December 10th in border areas.
17:29And with a 25 basis point increase, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday to around 0.75%, their highest level in three decades.
17:40The Bank of Japan's board unanimously decided this shift in monetary policy after years of ultra-low interest rates, seeking to contain inflationary pressures and stabilize the economy.
17:51According to the financial institution, its experts expect real interest in rates to remain significantly negative and accumulate financial conditions to continue to strongly support economic activity.
18:04In an attempt to normalize the economy of this Asian nation, the Bank of Japan has gradually withdrawn a decade of massive stimulus since 2024.
18:13Japan has kept interest rates too low for about 30 years amid persistent deflation.
18:19After a series of delays, the Philippines blossomed in color, rhythm and joy with the 2025 Pinta Flores Festival.
18:47Let's find out more below.
18:49When there is difficulty, there is also relief.
18:54The popular Filipino proverb was demonstrated by the Pinta Flores Festival, which transformed the city of San Carlos into a lively display of color, music and dance after several delays related to the typhoons that hit the Visayas region.
19:12Pinta Flores is a flower festival, and it is one of the best and most vibrant festivals in the Philippines.
19:21Brilliant floral themed costumes and dynamic choreography take over the streets.
19:31Under the slogans, storms may stop us, but they cannot stop our colors, making it clear that despite the delays, the hearts of the Filipinos beat strongly for the celebration of their identity.
19:44Pinta Flores 2025 is exciting because it was postponed three times and now it will take place. Thank you all the spectators.
19:51The event began in 1992 when two local traditions that shared the same origin were merged. The legend of Princess Navinka, a young ruler who, as a symbol of peace and harmony, planted flowers throughout her kingdom, which inspired artists.
19:58to paint floral designs on their bodies on their bodies and dance, giving rise to the Navinka land.
20:05Tattoo festival and the flower dances.
20:06Every year, thousands of dancers arrive with their vibrant costumes, painted beautiful costumes, painted beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful and beautiful.
20:07The event began in 1992 when two local traditions that shared the same origin were merged. The legend of Princess Navinka, a young ruler who, as a symbol of peace and harmony, planted flowers throughout her kingdom, which inspired artists to paint floral designs on their bodies and dance, giving rise to the Navinka land, tattoo festival and the flower dances.
20:29Every year, thousands of dancers arrive with their vibrant costumes, painted faces and elaborate props to compete with their impressive performances at the closing of the event, representing the traditional legacy of the city of San Carlos, its natural wealth, body art and local cultural heritage.
20:50It's fun. I enjoyed it very much. And overall, it's a beautiful festival.
20:59The Pintaflores Festival 2025 is a reflection of the joyful and creative spirit of the Philippines, which remains undaunted in the face of challenges reminding locals and visitors alike that the strength of culture,
21:19and beauty can flourish in the midst of adversity can flourish in the midst of adversity.
21:26And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
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21:37For Telesure English, I'm Sophie Fernandez. Thank you for watching.
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