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*Canada announces retaliatory tariffs on several U.S. goods
*Israeli forces raid UNRWA training center in East Jerusalem
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*Canada announces retaliatory tariffs on several U.S. goods
*Israeli forces raid UNRWA training center in East Jerusalem
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00:10Two months after the twin earthquake that hit Venezuela, Acting President
00:14Delce Rodríguez addressed the nation, reforming the government's commitment to its people's
00:18well-being. Canada announced on Tuesday retaliatory tariffs ranging from 15 to 50 percent on several
00:29United States products in an escalation of the regional trade war between the historically
00:33closed allies. Israeli forces raided on Ras Calendilla Training Center and occupies
00:41Jerusalem, firing tear gas inside the compound and forcibly expelling all employees from over the site.
00:53Hello, welcome to Front the South. I am Lorena Fon, Front the Telesur Studios in Caracas, Venezuela.
00:58We'll begin with the news. Stay with us.
01:12The Venezuelan government announced that it had reached its highest level of oil production and
01:18exports since 2019 with the figure of more than 1.2 million barrels per day, which translates into
01:24benefits for the Venezuelan people. The announcement was made by Venezuela's Acting President Delce
01:29Rodríguez in a message to the nation marking the two-month anniversary of the double earthquake.
01:34The leader reported that thanks to diplomatic efforts, they have succeeded in signing more
01:39than 50 energy agreements covering more than 76 hydrocarbon production areas and in the first seven
01:45months of the year or to increase the production from 924 thousand barrels to more than 1.2 million
01:51barrels per day. Finally, she emphasized that these results are due to the efforts of the workers together
01:57with the national government's economic recovery policies to boost to Venezuela's main economic driver.
02:07In the middle of the emergency, our oil production did not stop. Today, it exceeds 1,230,000 barrels a
02:22day,
02:22its highest level since February 2019. We have also signed 50 strategic agreements
02:31in the oil and gas sector that will bring new investments to more than 76 productive hydrocarbon
02:36fields across the country. ECLAC, on the other hand, forecasts Venezuela's growth at 6.0% for this year,
02:47the highest in the region, and we have now accumulated 21 consecutive quarters of expansion.
02:55These are important figures, but they are by no means the ultimate goal, because there is still
02:59a long way to go to recover an economy severely impacted by sanctions. The goal is for economic
03:04growth to translate into jobs, higher incomes for workers, services and opportunities for families.
03:15Barbados and Venezuela deepen their bilateral relations with the signing of a joint declaration to
03:20strengthen cooperation in different fields during Prime Minister Mia Moore Mottley's visit to the
03:25Bolivarian nation. Our colleague Luis Alberto Matos has the details.
03:30The meeting brought together Venezuelan and Barbadian officials to review bilateral initiatives with a
03:35special focus on support for communities, cooperation in the field of health and proposals aimed at
03:41strengthening ties between the two Caribbean nations. Among the issues discussed were joint agricultural production,
03:51potential energy projects, increased air connectivity and the strengthening of maritime trade and tourism.
03:56At the Miraflores Palace, both governments signed and ratified a joint declaration aimed at
04:01continuing the bilateral cooperation established during Dos Rodríguez's official visit to Barbados in April.
04:07We believe the time has come, as we said in our previous meeting, to deepen that cooperation now
04:13in very tangible ways from the areas of agriculture and food security, fisheries, tourism, international transport,
04:24be it be it air or maritime transport and of course education and health.
04:32The Conviasa flights between Venezuela and Barbados will make it easier for this not to simply be a matter
04:39about governments cooperating but people to people cooperation as well. This is what mature diplomacy looks
04:46like. We will not always agree on everything but those areas in which we can agree we must make progress
04:53always for our people. Thank you.
05:01The day's activities underscore the continued strengthening of Venezuela-Barbados relations
05:05with both governments seeking to give continuity to bilateral cooperation and advanced initiatives
05:11designed to deliver benefits to their peoples. So today we've signed agreements to start working
05:18in agriculture, in culture, in education, in tourism, also in air and maritime travel,
05:26and today we also signed a joint declaration for the work to come.
05:34So in all these projects in tourism, education, language exchange, we have so many fields where the
05:41relationship between our peoples can be strengthened. From Caracas and Guarenas, the official visit highlighted
05:47cooperation ranging from community production to healthcare, reinforcing the growing ties between
05:52the two Caribbean nations. José Luis Briseño on camera and Luis Alberto Matos for Telesur.
05:59The President of Colombia, Abelardo de Lespriella, ordered migration in Colombia and the police to launch
06:04operations in Barranquilla this week to identify on the poor foreigners with irregular status,
06:09prioritizing those in both terms. According to the President, this measure is related to the fight
06:14against organized crime. El Espriella said that operations would focus on undocumented migrants,
06:19regardless of their nationality, and warned that he would not accept illegal migrants,
06:24no matter where they come from. This decision marks the tightening of Colombia's immigration policy
06:29and echoes policies of other far-right governments that seeks to criminalize migrants. This comes
06:35amid criticism over what communities describe as insufficient support in the aftermath of the earthquake
06:41that struck the Indian country.
06:48Let the coordinated operations with the police begin to track down illegal immigrants first,
06:53those who are committing crimes second, those whose immigration status is not in order,
06:59who will eventually have to be deported. I will not accept illegal immigrants, no matter where they
07:05come from, who are committing crimes in Colombia. They will leave, and we will deport them. It is a
07:12political decision, and I take responsibility for it. And it is an administrative decision. I take responsibility for it.
07:19Here you are.
07:21Yes, Dr. Javier Giraldo Moreno. One of the leading ethical voices in the fight against paramilitarism
07:27activity in Colombia, and guardian of the San Jose, the apartado peace community, passed away in Bogota
07:33at the age of 81. The cause of his death was a fall at his home that led to a
07:38critical condition, despite the
07:39efforts of san ignacio hospital trained in liberation and theology and inspired by the
07:44legacy of camilo torres giraldo dedicated his life to document the massacres and paramilitary terror
07:50from the center for research and popular education he coordinated the human rights database and
07:56founded the intersource commission for justice and peace his research demonstrated how paramilitarism
08:02emerged under the protection of degree 33 98 of 1965. his legacy includes a dozen books his
08:10spokes of the fiction surrounding the demobilization of the united self-defense forces of colombia
08:16and this very year the location of the remains of camilo torres giraldo leaves behind an invaluable
08:22archive for understanding how paramilitarism operated and how it persists in colombia
08:34and now we have a short break coming up but first remember you can join us on tiktok at
08:39telesurenglish there you will find news in different formats news updates and much more
08:46we'll be right back stay with us
09:10welcome back from the south the cuban president miguel de escanel defended his country's sovereignty
09:15and reiterated that the 176 economic measures recently approved refer on the island socialist
09:21course in an interview with a brazilian media outlet the president dismissed any speculation about an
09:26alleged neoliberal shift he explained that the transformations being carried out by the cuban
09:31people and government are the result of a debate on improvement that has been ongoing for more
09:37than a decade and aim to strengthen the national economy not to please washington he also emphasized
09:42that social justice remains a central principle of the cuban project and highlighted the social
09:47program supported by the state budget when referring to import to a possible military intervention he
09:53also read that anything can be expected from the current administration and added that cuba despite
09:57being a peaceful country is preparing in the face of threatening rhetoric with actions standing firm
10:03fighting and without surrendering
10:09and we see it's very cynical to question a system when you haven't allowed that system to develop to
10:14its full potential and you've been holding it back one would then have to ask if we're so incapable
10:19so clumsy so inefficient why do you block us why do you block me if supposedly since i'm so inefficient
10:25we're going to fail on our own no there are other reasons and that is the example of cuba and
10:30they
10:30know that cuba even under the blockade has managed to solve problems that remain unresolved even today
10:36in the u.s in terms of social justice so just imagine what would cuba be like without the blockade
10:45on monday nicaragua's co-president rosario murillo referring the defense of sovereignty national dignity and
10:51the country's right to live in peace as he recalled the legacy of 1978 seizure of the national palace
10:56during a speech the co-president highlighted the accomplishment of the regoberto lopez perez
11:01commander and honoring the memory of the heroes of the nicaraguan story she also linked these
11:06principles to the process of amending the constitutions whose wild consultations will conclude on
11:12thursday with the participation of the sandinista youth the conclusions and final debates on the proposed
11:18amendments will be presented on september 1st at the start of the great month of the homeland the co-share
11:24stated that these reforms aims to strengthen national identity and guarantee nicaragua's right to live in
11:37meanwhile chile reforms its sovereignty over the strait of magallanes in response to statements by the
11:43chief of the argentine air force who said that the straight fell within argentine sovereignty argentine
11:48general gustavo javier balverde issued statements in which he affirmed that the strait of magallanes
11:54the south and the drake strait are part of argentine sovereignty emphasizing that the military presence
12:00must be established because it is a key bi-oceanic corridor in response the chilean foreign ministry
12:06affirmed that chile's sovereignty over the strait of magallanes is indisputable in this context
12:12foreign minister francisco perez call on the authorities of other countries to act responsibly in their
12:17statements
12:35the department of tolima in colombia sandian region is experiencing moments of strict tensions nine
12:41active forest fires have six municipalities on alert while residents complain of neglect by the
12:47government the most critical hot spot is in coelo where the flames have reached 14 meters in the last
12:52few hours and are advancing dangerously toward the homes in the village of chaguala laures and potrerillo
12:59what began as a fire in the upper parts of the hills rapidly spread toward populated areas
13:04in the absence of resources it has been the community itself that has stepped in to contain
13:10the fire with whatever means they have at hand more than 600 people including residents and supporters
13:16staff are fighting the fire to prevent it from destroying their homes animals and crops
13:26we've been asking the president for three days now to please send us to hercules
13:31so we can control this fire some houses have already burned down and some motorcycles are burning
13:38are they waiting for fatalities before sending the aid that is meant for the department of tolima
13:43tolima is also part of colombia chaguala escolo bia and coelo are all part of colombia you can watch the
13:51videos circulating on social media people crying out for help and unfortunately aid has not arrived as it should
14:00the colombian geological service reported on monday two new earthquakes in the department of choco
14:06in the northwest of the country they occurred just 24 minutes apart and are among the more
14:11than 300 aftershocks recorded since the strongest 7.4 magnitude earthquake on august 10 the first
14:17earthquake occurred at 5.05 pm with a magnitude of 3.7 and a depth of 59 kilometers its epicenter
14:24was
14:24located on the san juan coast 31 kilometers from cpi shortly afterward at 5 29 pm a second earthquake was
14:31recorded with a magnitude of 3.1 and a depth of 43 kilometers with its epicenter in the municipality of
14:38east mina 28 kilometers from cpi following these new events emergency response agencies and local
14:44authorities are continuing to monitor this area of colombia's pacific coast closely
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15:34welcome back to from the south on monday united states president donald trump announced a new 50
15:39percent tariffs on automobiles and crossroad raw materials from canada the latest deterioration
15:44in trade relations between the two neighbors with historically strong economic ties trump's announcement
15:49follows the last minute collapse this weekend of a potential deal to lower tariffs on automobiles
15:54and other materials to what trump said that the increased status will start on january 1st 2027
16:00on all cars truck automobile parts and steel in this regard canadian prime minister mccartney rejected the
16:07latest deal between the two nations on saturday after trump imposed another 50 percent tariffs on 20
16:14billion dollar worth of canadian experts including hockey equipment and electronics mark carney also
16:20added that that canada is ready to move forward with talks as long as the united states negotiate
16:25with the right attitude toward canadian industry and true partnership
16:35in response canada announced on tuesday retaliatory tariffs ranging from 15 to 50
16:40percent on several u.s products in an escalation of the regional trade war between the historically
16:46closed allies today i'm announcing that canada will match the united states tariffs dollar for dollar
16:54rate for rate effective september 8th canada will impose counter tariffs of up to 15 25 or 50 percent on
17:0527.6
17:06billion in imports from the united states of america for each product our tariff would match the american
17:13tariff on the same type of canadian good
17:36in iran on tuesday foreign minister avasar actually met with his omani counterpart bader al-busaidi
17:42in tehran with the strait of hormuz and the prospect of renew negotiations high on this agenda
17:47the face-to-face talks came to just the four days after the pair spoke by phone about regional
17:53developments shipping throughout hormuz and creating conditions for a return to dialogue
17:58in previous days iranian foreign ministry spokesperson esmail bagey had stated that the meeting will
18:04address bilateral relations in addition to issues related to the security of hormuz and transit routes
18:10given that the two countries are coastal states on this waterway oman has repeatedly mediated
18:16contacts involving tehran and washington previously hosting indirect negotiations and carrying messages
18:22between the two sides
18:31on tuesday israeli forces raided the kalandiya training center a key facility operated by the united
18:37nations relief and work agency for palestinian refugees unra in the town of kafir agab in occupied
18:43jerusalem israeli forces fire tear gas canisters inside the compounds of the unra in the occupied
18:49west bank camp of kalandiya and they are positioned near the kalandiya checkpoint entrance after forcibly
18:56expelling all unra employees from the site israeli officials alleged that the site had been owned by
19:02jewish national fund since 1937 and had been allocated to the jerusalem municipality for the project
19:10arguing that unra had fenced off the land for decades without legal ownership rights unra however
19:16firmly rejects the claims maintaining that the kalandiya training center is a united nations facility
19:22and is protected under international law
19:32precisely in a press statement shared on tuesday or unra denounced the events emphasizing it
19:38unequivocally condemns this unauthorized and deeply concerning incursion into the kalandiya training center
19:44and stressing that the entry of almost security forces into our united nations facility without
19:51the authorization or consent of the united nations is unacceptable in this context on raw underscored
19:57that the kitty etc is a united nations facility protected by the and immunities afforded to the
20:04organization under international law its inviolability must be fully respected the organization ended
20:11its missive by arguing that any attempt to take possession of interfere with or otherwise undermine the
20:18functioning of a number of facilities strikes at the ability of the united nations to carry out its mandate
20:30the united nations mission in south sudan informed on monday that armed men ambushed the patrol
20:36traveling to a remote area of south sudan killing two united nations peacekeepers seven others were wounded
20:42including three peacekeepers two members of the south sudanese police and two civilian staffer as no
20:49group has claimed responsibility for the attack the killing brings the number of peacekeepers laid by
20:55militias since january 1st of 2026 to nine in this context the spokesperson for the secretary general of
21:02the united nations stefan duharric stressed that attacks against united nations peacekeepers may
21:08constitute war crimes under international law furthermore united nations secretary general
21:13antonio guterres urged for a prompt investigation that would lead to the prosecution of those responsible
21:29moving on to spain the government acknowledged on monday that at least 2 200 migrants continue to
21:35spend the night on the streets in the autonomous city of ceuta in the south of the country three
21:40weeks into a serious humanitarian crisis and operational overcrowding and local shelters government
21:46spokesperson and minister of inclusion social security and migration elmasais reported that the
21:52current facilities are housing 1 800 people while about 4 000 come daily to receive basic assistance given
22:00the situation the executive branch announced the imminent opening of new temporary facilities
22:05to alleviate overcrowding for his part the minister of economy carlos cuerpo traveled to the area to
22:11coordinate the financial aid plan with the local residents president juan jesuivas while members of
22:18the cabinet will appear before the congress of deputies to detail the implementation of the budgets allocated for
22:24the emergency
22:31and like this we have gone to the end of this news brief remember you can find this and many
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