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00:00Venezuela's acting president, Delce Rodriguez, celebrated the unanimous approval in first discussion of an amnesty bill in the National Assembly.
00:21Experts from the United States and activists and also around the world called for independent investigations led by civil society to ensure real justice in the Epstein case.
00:44And talks between Iran and the United States concluded in Muscat, the capital of Oman, amid high geopolitical tensions worsened by Washington's threats against Teheran.
01:14Hello and welcome to From the South. I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Caracas, Venezuela. We begin with the news. Stay with us.
01:21Acting President Delce Rodriguez celebrated the approval in first discussion of the amnesty law in the National Assembly.
01:40During an event to adopt the peace squadrons in the state of Bolivar, Delce Rodriguez emphasized that differences must be overcome through harmonious relationships and democratic coexistence.
01:50In this sense, she underlined that the forces of transformation and the Bolivarian revolution have once again extended their hand for democratic coexistence.
02:00Rodriguez also called for the consolidation of national and popular power to strengthen Bolivarian awareness.
02:07Also, she highlighted that the peace squadron plan has more than 3,000 units deployed throughout the national territory to guarantee citizen protection.
02:14The first national meeting of the Secretariat of Parliamentary Affairs of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, PSUV, was held in Friday this Friday at the Teresa Carreño Theatre in Caracas.
02:36To coordinate the legislative power of the political organization at its three levels.
02:42In the presence of more than 5,700 legislators gathered, the PD and National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez reiterated that the party's legislators' members must be the companions of the Venezuelan people in order to address their needs.
02:58In this context, he acknowledged that the country is going through complex but also constructive and reconciliatory times and called for the defence of the Republic's joy, peace and sovereignty from the grassroots.
03:11Moreover, Rodriguez urged legislators to not remain in the offices but to take to the streets following the examples said by Commander Hugo Chávez and President Nicolas Maduro.
03:22In this scenario, Rodriguez also referred to the recently approved Amnesty Bill highlighting it is a law that promotes forgiveness and calls for its thorough discussion as well as for all victims to be heard.
03:43In this context, the President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez demanded that the Spanish government extradite those responsible for the murder of the young man, Orlando Figuera.
03:53That amnesty law where he harassed the President of the Special Commission, that he is the one who wrote the law, who has to have articles related to repairing the victims.
04:06And from here, we demand to the Spain government to give back the cruel homicide that put fuel on the body of Orlando Figuera and setting him on fire.
04:27And from some protested only because of his skin color and the red things that he has on him.
04:37We demand it.
04:40In this context, the Deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro Guerra, recalled President Nicolas Maduro's strong trust in the Venezuelan people, a united and brave people.
04:50The trust in the trust in the people, the trust in the Venezuelan people, the first message that we receive and the last one that we have received till today has been maximum trust in the people of Bolivar and Chavez.
05:07That is the people of the miracles.
05:09That is the people of the difficulties.
05:11And I trust truly, always together with the people, he told me, always together with the people.
05:18And the President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, spoke with the families of those detained in Zone 7 of Boleita in Caracas during the meeting, in which he was accompanied by Congressman Jorge Arreaza and other parliamentarians.
05:32Rodriguez listened to the requests of the family members and committed to prioritizing cases involving health problems, as well as to manage the relevant release processes.
05:43Rodriguez announced that the second discussion of the amnesty law will take place on Tuesday, February 10th, at which time it will be finally approved.
05:52With firmness and sensitivity, he assured that once it is passed, everyone will be released, bringing relief and hope to the hundreds of families.
06:01And now we have a short break coming up. Don't go away, because we'll be right back.
06:13Welcome back to From the South.
06:26The Venezuelan people's support for their president, Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Celia Flores, as well as the rejection of the U.S. violation of the nation's sovereignty came right after the outrageous attack.
06:38To tell us more about the response, our correspondent, Paola Dragnik, with the fourth chapter of our series, The Signal of Victory.
06:45Cientos of drones flew over Caracas, lighting up the horizon as if in a ritual to heal those guys violated by imperial missiles. This time, they were lights of peace marking the horizon as if in a ritual to heal those guys violated by imperial missiles.
07:12This time, they were lights of peace marking the unmistakable path of Bolivarian loyalty.
07:19Several weeks have passed since the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and Celia Flores and Venezuela is calm. There's no doubt about it.
07:32We are asking the Venezuelan people, according to you, who is the president of Venezuela today?
07:38Nicolás Maduro, of course. He was voted in. There's no other.
07:42There is no other. Another thing is that there is a special situation due to the outrageous foreign invasion by the gringos.
07:53And based on our laws and constitution, our vice president, our comrade, Delsi Rodriguez, is tasked with the presidency, but only with an interim and provisional status.
08:04Who is the president of Venezuela today?
08:06Nicolás Maduro.
08:07Nicolás Maduro Moro.
08:08Maduro, Maduro, because I voted for him and I believe in my president.
08:14Maduro, Maduro because I voted for him and I believe in my president.
08:17Look, Mr. Trump, I'm going to tell you one thing.
08:23Without due respect because you're an elderly person, you shouldn't have done the atrocity you did because there are other means and issues.
08:36If you want oil and diamonds, there's something called diplomacy that comes first.
08:41Good afternoon. Bye. Give us back Maduro.
08:44What then is an empire looking for when it kidnaps each other?
08:49What then is an empire looking for when it kidnaps or disappears a ruler legitimately elected by his people?
08:56One of the answers fly away, as dictator Augusto Pinochet himself said on that fateful September 11th, 1973 in Chile.
09:05He confirmed that someone is on the coin.
09:10So we have to be ready to act as a result.
09:12Let's go and kill the people every time.
09:14Infunding terror.
09:17Desarticular all resistance.
09:20But the empire needs to...
09:22To instill terror and dismantle all resistance.
09:25But the empire also needs a cowardly and treacherous army, one capable of turning its weapons against its own people.
09:34In Chile, that army also massacred the people.
09:37But in Venezuela, it marches alongside them.
09:41That is Bolivar's doctrine.
09:43When he was kidnapped, they thought the people would surrender and take refugees in their homes.
09:48But the opposite happened.
09:50The people have taken to the streets to continue fighting.
09:54Rain or shine, it doesn't matter.
09:58Being in the streets was vital and Diosdado Cabello knows it very well.
10:02Here, in 2002, as vice president of the nation, he quickly took command of the country in the face of Hugo Chavez's kidnapping.
10:15The rule of law had to prevail while the people remained in the streets.
10:25Acting president of Venezuela?
10:27Yes, I swear.
10:29Just like today, Terzi Rodriguez did as acting president.
10:33Let's not be confused.
10:35We are the ones governing here.
10:37And yes, of course we are talking with the captors.
10:41And yes, of course we are selling oil.
10:44And we will sell it because it is our oil.
10:51It is not that difficult to understand despite the narrative chaos that they have strategically tried to impose.
10:59Long live our people.
11:04Long live our rebel homeland.
11:06In Venezuela, two totally opposing projects are facing off.
11:12Either the return to a Yankee protectorate that steals the oil and destroys the national and popular culture,
11:18where sovereign and independent nation that manages its own resources and organizes itself into communes and all neighborhoods.
11:26Nicolas is here with his people.
11:29He is in every heart, in every place, in every task, in every community council and in every commune.
11:35That's why we say to him from Venezuela that we will continue working.
11:39Nicolas communes are nothing.
11:41This is not a burst of populism.
11:45It is a long-standing political construction as old as the history of Venezuela itself.
11:51Because sovereignty is a fundamental desire of this country.
11:55This has not fallen apart because we have values.
12:00All the values that Commander Chavez installed in us.
12:03Values of love, friendship and thinking about others.
12:09There are so many things.
12:10I started with the missions.
12:12And today I am someone because of my Commander Chavez.
12:15I have so much to thank both Chavez and my commander today, Nicolas Maduro, for.
12:21And today I defend this with everything I have.
12:24Even with my nail.
12:29The death of Hugo Chavez was perhaps the hardest blow to date.
12:34And there, in the midst of that immense pain,
12:37listen to what this young man was already saying more than a decade ago.
12:45We have been preparing for 14 years for what is to come.
12:49Because the President told us that we have to be vigilant in case they want to come after our oil.
12:58And they came for it in the most brutal way.
13:10Venezuela is the victim of these attacks because of its natural resources.
13:15Oil, energy, strategic resources and our country's geopolitical position
13:20have historically been factors of greed and external pressure.
13:25When force is used to control resources, impose governments or redesign states,
13:31we are faced with a logic that harks back to the worst practices of colonialism and neo-colonialism.
13:38Despite the blockade and siege, Venezuela achieved an economic recovery that unleashed the imperial wrath.
13:43There is no doubt that the socialist project promoted by Hugo Chavez has continued.
13:47Because if there is anyone who had a clear vision of the people as a category,
13:54as a social category, as a cultural category, as an anthropological category, as a political category, it's Nicolás.
14:03That is why the people today write letters to him in Plaza BolÃvar in Caracas with a political clarity that, after so much, is simply breathtaking.
14:16They have now been able to defeat us through hunger, sanctions, blockades, media warfare, dirty wars, cognitive wars.
14:35They have used all the recipes of the CIA and the Pentagon manuals.
14:40They have now been able to defeat the Bolivarian revolution.
14:43And now, the Bolivarian revolution is growing even more.
14:46They have now been able to and will not be able to break the Bolivarian revolution.
14:50Long live the homeland.
14:52They have tried everything.
14:57The first media coup in history was against Hugo Chavez.
15:01On that occasion, none other than the head of the business community tried to be president.
15:09He wasn't the only one.
15:12There were paid protests, failed assassination attempts, forced migration, currency hijacking,
15:20and the broken record of fraud that repeats itself and no one believes anymore.
15:24How can we forget the histrionic street swearing in of Juan Guaidó, now repudiated by all,
15:31or the decadent heroine in white, always on the verge of a nervous breakdown?
15:39With nerves of steel, the Venezuelan people move forward.
15:43Here's our people with President Nicolás Maduro, and neither Maria Corina nor Armando González will come to Venezuela.
15:54And if they do, people themselves will kick them out.
15:58Nicolás Maduro is still present because he embodies a project that, as we do with Chavez, simply transcends him.
16:06Long live our homeland.
16:08The path is already set. The seven transformations of the homeland plan, the popular councils, the communal government.
16:19Delcy RodrÃguez lidera a team as presidenta encargada of that socialist project.
16:25As acting president, Delcy RodrÃguez leads a team to carry out a socialist project that her own father longed for,
16:31sacrificing his life in the dungeons of the fourth republic that tortured him to his physical death.
16:39Presa opens the door to her apartment with pride.
16:43She built it with her own hands in this housing complex that is indeed named Jorge RodrÃguez's father.
16:48When I was a girl, I never worked with blocks or cement or sand in my house. That was a man's work, not a woman's.
17:01But here my comrades and I have learned and worked hard to have today our own apartments.
17:06That's the Bolivarian revolution. That's the people's power that every Venezuelan today is grateful for in those letters to Bolivar Chavez or Maduro.
17:24And to our acting president, Delcy RodrÃguez, we offer our support as women, as patriotic women, as she said in her speech,
17:39with your head held high, with your dignity, we will defend him even if we had to go to Washington.
17:45Because in that oath, as in the previous ones, it was not only Delcy RodrÃguez who took the oath, the sovereign people of Venezuela also did.
17:59And now we have a second show coming up, but before we want to invite you to join us for another episode of Overlap,
18:15conversations from across the world, our special program together with China Academy,
18:20this time on our seventh episode addressing the US 21st century imperialism.
18:25Tune it on Sunday, February 8th at 9 p.m. Caracas time, 8 p.m. Havana time and on Monday 9th, 9 a.m. Beijing time, only on Telesur.
18:34Final short break, don't go away.
18:55Welcome back to From the South.
19:00Experts and activists from the United States and around the world call for independent investigations led by civil society to ensure real justice in the Epstein case.
19:10The reactions come after the release of the latest files, which consist of more than 3 million pages, nearly 2,000 videos and 180,000 photographs revealed in the magnitude of a child sex trafficking network.
19:25The name of the president of the US, Donald Trump, appears about 3,000 times in some cases in connection with very serious acts recorded in FBI files.
19:34However, he and his colleagues continue to dismiss the seriousness of these acts and attempt to remain unpunished.
19:43In this scenario, US groups assert that the Epstein case has exposed the systemic corruption of the White House and the international burges.
20:13In other information, talks on nuclear issues between Iran and the United States concluded on Friday in Moskhat, the capital of Oman.
20:23After the dialogue, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Zaragishi stated that there appears to be consensus on continuing the negotiations,
20:30a decision that will be announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Oman when the delegations consult with the respective countries.
20:39In addition, the Iranian top diplomat emphasized that the talks focused solidly on the nuclear issue and stated that Iran can read its positions and concerns on the matter in a positive atmosphere.
20:53Let's recall that Iran had held five rounds of talks on a replacement for the 2015 nuclear deal prior to the US-Israeli airstrikes on the country and its nuclear facilities in mid-June 2025,
21:10which put an end to possible negotiations until now.
21:23We are now at a stage where after eight turbulent months of going through a war and all the other issues, you know, a dialogue process can begin again.
21:42This huge distrust that has arisen during this time added to previous distrust is a serious challenge to the negotiations.
21:49And we must first overcome this prevailing atmosphere of distrust and then be able to design a framework for a new dialogue that, so to speak, can serve the interests of the Iranian people.
22:01Today, some good discussion were held on this issue and the views of both sides were heard and it was decided that it would continue.
22:13My impression is that if the same perspective continue on the other side, we can reach an agree upon framework for these talks in the next meetings.
22:21And in relation to the issues that are being raised, both, I don't want to judge now. In my opinion, it was a good start and it could continue well.
22:31It depends on the other side and, of course, on the decision that will be made in Tehran.
22:36And now we go to the United States where Treasury Secretary Scott Besant admitted that Washington helped sparked recent protests in Iran by creating a US dollar shortage.
22:50leading to runway inflation. While testifying before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, Besant described the move as part of US President Donald Trump's maximum pressure campaign on Iran that was launched after his return to the White House in January 2025.
23:08Amid the shortage, Iran's Ayyande Bank collapsed in October, leading to the fall of the Iranian real and helping spark protests over the economic situation two months later.
23:21On January, the Treasury Secretary had stated in an interview that US sanctions deliberately devalued Iran's currency.
23:28As economic protests in the Persian nation have subsided, Tehran has repeatedly accused Washington of inflaming tensions and interfering in internal affairs.
23:40What we can do at Treasury and what we have done is created a dollar shortage in the country.
23:53At a speech at the Economic Club of New York in March, I outlined the strategy.
23:58It came to a swift and I would say grand culmination in December when one of the largest banks in Iran went under.
24:09There was a run of the bank. The central bank had to print money.
24:12The Iranian currency went into free fall. Inflation exploded. And hence, we have seen the Iranian people out on the street.
24:19We will continue monitoring all the partners, all the Iranian partners.
24:28And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
24:31You can find this and many other stories on our website at telesurenglish.net.
24:35For Telesur English, I'm Alejandra Garcia. Thank you for watching.
24:42We'll see you next time.
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