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00:12The candidates for the presidency of Brazil are holding their respective campaigns, closing events with motorcades and activities in various
00:21cities.
00:24In Spain, right-wing and conservative parties in Congress have joined forces to strike down two critical emergency housing decrees
00:32proposed by the government.
00:36The World Health Organization warns of devastating consequences for the Palestinian population due to the delayed entry of medical aid
00:45into the gas strip.
00:55Hello and welcome to From the South. My name is Pablo Michelillo from the Telesur Studios in Caracas, Venezuela. We
01:00begin with the news. Stay with us.
01:16The candidates for the presidency of Brazil are holding their respective campaign closing events with motorcades and activities in various
01:23cities.
01:24Candidate and President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva concluded his activities in Rio de Janeiro, while Candidate Flavio Bolsonaro focused
01:32his final campaign events in the city of Sao Paulo.
01:34This Sunday, October 4th, the first round of the general elections will take place, in which a candidate must secure
01:41more than half of the ballot votes to win in a single round.
01:45If no candidate reaches that percentage, the two with the most votes will compete again on October 25 in a
01:53runoff.
02:08And as Brazil is entering the final hours of the electoral campaign ahead of the October 4th general election, to
02:15take a closer look at how this final day is unfolding across the country, we now go live to our
02:20special envoy, Belen de los Santos, in Rio de Janeiro. Welcome, Belen.
02:27Hello, Pablo, exactly as you were saying. So final day of campaigning. Now we are just one day away from
02:34the election tomorrow.
02:35This first round of elections that will define at least the beginning of this electoral story.
02:41Let's recall we are looking at a very close race, apparently, from what we know about the polls.
02:48The last poll from Datafolia is showing Lula da Silva from the PT, the Workers' Party, standing at around 45
02:57percentage points of the vote with Flavio Bolsonaro from the far right.
03:03Let's recall the son of Jair Bolsonaro, who's at this moment serving with a sentence after the coup attempt in
03:112022.
03:12Well, we are looking at him standing at about five percentage points after Lula da Silva, so around 40 percent.
03:20This would place both candidates going into a runoff that will be held on October 25.
03:27In order for tomorrow to completely define the electoral scene, either one of them would have to reach the 50
03:36percentage points.
03:37So that is the scene right now. Of course, there is a lot of expectations just before in the last
03:43hours,
03:44because we know that statistically it is the last few days, the last few hours that is really setting the
03:50tone for those undecided voters
03:53or those voters who could, in the end, because of final news, final presentations, final rallies even, they could maybe
04:03switch votes.
04:04Statistically, that will be the deciding factor.
04:06And that is where both candidates are really placing their final efforts on the biggest topics and on the most
04:15relevant electoral district.
04:17So we've seen Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva have his final rally caravan actually here, first in Rio de Janeiro,
04:26then in Minas Gerais,
04:28and finally today, today morning in Sao Paulo, in the Paulista Avenue.
04:33There was some suspicion regarding if he could help this rally because there was some authorization that was not coming
04:42through until the very last minute, but actually it was approved.
04:45It was held today, a very important concentration in one of the most important cities of the country, Sao Paulo.
04:54And while that is the campaigning act, the final campaigning act for Lula da Silva, Flavio Bolsonaro is also having
05:02some motorcades,
05:03so motor caravans that are touring.
05:05Also the state of Sao Paulo particularly, but not so much in the city, but around the state.
05:13He is trying to consolidate that ground, that territory that has proven to be very close aligned to Bolsonaro's policies.
05:23It's one of the most important electoral districts to dispute.
05:27And Lula da Silva also knows that he needs to win as many votes from this key electoral districts in
05:33order to get as close to 50 percentage points as possible.
05:38We know that the most important sectors of influence for Lula are actually in the northeast of the country,
05:47but it's the southeast that controls the most amount of votes and will probably define the race, Fabio.
05:55I would like to ask you, after these weeks of intense campaigning, what message are Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro trying
06:03to leave with voters in these final hours,
06:06and which issues have dominated their closing appeals.
06:13Super interesting. So, of course, as we were saying, the final topics are the ones that truly resonate on voters
06:21when they need to head to the polls on Sunday.
06:24So, maybe if we get a little bit deeper into each of the discourse, we could say that on the
06:29one hand,
06:30Flavio Bolsonaro has been leading a campaign much focused on the appeal to conservative sectors, to evangelical sectors.
06:39This constant need for a supposed change in terms of focusing conservative values in particular.
06:48Also, a campaign that is mainly focused on its opposition against President Lula da Silva.
06:54There's a lot of analysts pointing this out.
06:56It's not so much the propositions themselves as it is the way that they are positioning themselves against Lula da
07:05Silva.
07:06And that is basically his main political value.
07:11That and the fact that he is the son of Jair Bolsonaro, because there is not much of a political
07:16career before that.
07:17So, on Lula da Silva's side, there's been a lot of focus on the main topics that all surveys show
07:25have to do with the core interests of most voters.
07:29So, we've had a lot of discussion of the indebtedness, for example, with the prohibition of bets agencies.
07:37We talked about this through the week.
07:39The prohibition of the online baiting agencies and their relation to household income and how a lot of people were
07:48getting into debt because of this profit-making industries.
07:53Also, a lot that has to do with the discussion of how the international scene is playing into this election.
08:01Lula da Silva from the UN days ago until this moment has been very vocal about the United States trying
08:08to intervene in internal matters.
08:11This is not just Brazil. This is a scene that we are seeing around the continent.
08:15But, of course, Brazil is a major player.
08:18So, also, Lula da Silva has been speaking in favor of defending sovereignty, defending resources, defending the decades-long projects
08:27that Brazil has been leading.
08:29And the fact that it is a sovereign matter that Brazil gets to decide on its own issues.
08:35So, those could be seen as maybe the main topics for both candidates.
08:40And, of course, we are just hours away from knowing what is going to happen tomorrow.
08:46We will see what happens tomorrow and we will reach you again in another news brief.
08:51Thank you for the latest information.
08:56Of course, Pablo.
08:58And with just one day to go before Brazil's general election, the candidates are out on the streets holding their
09:05final public rallies.
09:06Our correspondent, Brian Muir, has more details.
09:10Today is the last day in which candidates can stage public rallies.
09:17And across Brazil, all of the gubernatorial candidates, senatorial candidates, congressional candidates are on the streets.
09:24Here in Brazil, a crowd of tens of thousands of people has come out to see what could possibly be
09:30the last campaign rally of President Lula's career.
09:33He says he believes that he can win in the first round.
09:37To do that, he would need 50% of the votes plus one.
09:42Now, Flavio Bolsonaro is also saying he thinks he can win in the first round.
09:46So, it's up in the air.
09:48But if neither candidate wins, what that means is that there will be a second round election on October 28th.
09:55Not just for the two leading presidential candidates, but in all 26 states plus the federal district where gubernatorial elections
10:03are going on tomorrow.
10:04There will be runoff elections for them as well.
10:07So, there's been a lot of talk about U.S. interference.
10:11Brazil's federal police announced today that they're opening an investigation over what they believe might be a possible false flag
10:18operation by the U.S. government to undermine confidence in Brazil's electoral system.
10:23But for now, the mood is optimistic here on the streets of Sao Paulo.
10:28For the thousands of people who've come out to see Lula da Silva, gubernatorial candidate Fernando Haddad, and senatorial candidates
10:36Marina Silva and Simone Tebet parade down the street,
10:39they believe their candidates will win tomorrow, October 4th, Brazil's national day of elections.
10:48We're going now to Venezuela. Let's see what happens.
11:11From the colonial streets of Clarines to the heart of the Kuma Nagoto indigenous communities in eastern Venezuela,
11:18today we'll show you how grassroots organizations are driving local development. Let's see what it's all about.
11:27Crossing the western plains of An-Swa-Tegui on the way to Clarines means venturing into a corridor of low
11:34savannahs and farming fields,
11:36where the Kuma Nagoto indigenous peoples keep their territorial memory alive.
11:47There lies the community of Maracas, a Kuma Nagoto settlement that greets visitors with the word Mueyipun, a welcome in
11:55their native language.
11:56Here, the commune organization is growing stronger by driving key projects such as access to drinking water.
12:05We are at the water treatment plant, which serves 340 families and 600 residents.
12:17Before, we relied on water flowing from the Santa Clara dam.
12:22Now we drink clean water, and we've benefited from the new pipes.
12:28We have it in our community for our children, for our teenagers, for our residents, and for neighboring communities as
12:34well, so they can come here.
12:39In its rural streets, the community of Maracas preserves its ancestral legacy through an indigenous commune council.
12:46Through this council, they are prioritizing the replacement of the roof on the centralized national school in the national public
12:53consultation.
12:54During this round of consultations, the second edition, we receive funding for part of the stage roofing.
13:02We can carry out the projects ourselves with the money that comes to the commune.
13:07We ensure that the work is completed and executed in the best possible way.
13:12From the Ansoa Tegui region in eastern Venezuela, where colonial history remains alive in every corner,
13:18it is clear that the true driving force of this town is its people.
13:22Here, the collective effort demonstrates that development can only be achieved through commune organization.
13:29And now we have a show break coming up.
13:31First, remember that you can join us on TikTok at Telesur English, where you'll find news in different formats,
13:36and news updates on much more.
13:38We will be right back and stay with us.
14:01Welcome back to From the South.
14:03Brazil is just hours away from the general election.
14:06As the country prepares to go to the polls, questions remain about the security of its electronic voting system
14:12and the protection of electoral data.
14:14To discuss these and other key issues, we are joined by Tika Moreno, sociologist, popular educator and feminist activist.
14:22Tika Moreno, welcome to From the South.
14:28Hello, good afternoon, thank you for receiving me.
14:32Well, Tika, I would like to ask you first.
14:34Brazilian authorities have once again raised concerns about the possibility of atoms to undermine the electoral process.
14:41How significant is this risk that such efforts could emerge through the digital sphere?
14:52Yes, so the digital sphere is one of the main battlefields during these elections.
14:58It's not like the main one, but one of the main ones.
15:01And we need to understand that any possibility to external interference during our elections,
15:08to also going through this digital sphere.
15:12Because nowadays we are living in a situation that the debate, the political debate,
15:18is going through the digital platforms, social media, WhatsApp and etc.
15:24And they are controlled by the big techs and the big techs now are totally merged with the imperialist power
15:31of the US.
15:32So they control this sphere, this digital sphere.
15:36And what we know is that they are doing a lot of impulse to the contents that are against the
15:47left, against Lula.
15:49And they are doing more push on the contents that are for the far right.
15:54And the way they are doing this is not only in this electoral context,
15:58but because the far right here in Brazil, through the social media and the digital platforms,
16:04they have a very well established network to distribute and disseminate this kind of content,
16:12as misinformation, fake news and etc.
16:15Contents that are full of hate, misogynistic and transphobic perspectives,
16:22and a lot of attacks against the left.
16:26So any kind of interference of trying to delegitimize our voting here,
16:39will go through the same network of the far right that they are building,
16:44not only in this context, but through the whole year.
16:49And this is a very well established network of hate and far right in our Brazilian society.
16:56So yeah, the digital sphere is one of the main ones that will operate together with others.
17:02And Ms. Tique Moreno, how prepared are Brazil's electoral authorities to protect the electronic voting system,
17:09the integrity of the vote and the security of electoral data against potential cyberattacks or other forms of digital interference?
17:20Well, our authorities are very well prepared.
17:24Our electoral voting system, they are audited, we have all the security that we have, the cryptography of each voting
17:36place.
17:37And also we have different ways of combining the voting that are going to be sent digitally,
17:45and they are printed in each place of voting.
17:49Of course, we have one concern.
17:52As you may know, we have in Brazil, part of the North region, we have Starlink,
18:01one company that is connected to Starlink, that are going to do the transmission of the voting.
18:09And as we know, and it's well documented, that there's no way that they are going to change the results,
18:18but it's very easy for them to start questioning the results,
18:25because they have this kind of power to be the company that are connecting,
18:33sending and transferring the election results.
18:37But Brazilian voting systems are very safe, and this is audited,
18:42and we have different ways to reinforce our voting system,
18:48and this is not a problem, and this is part of what the authorities in Brazil are well prepared to
18:55handle.
18:58Tiga, related now with the electoral results,
19:01how could the spread of AI-generated content and disinformation during and after the election affect the public confidence in
19:09the results,
19:10and what measures are being taken to prevent atoms to undermine that trust?
19:16Yes, as you can see, both the Supreme Court and the Electoral Supreme Court are daily following what happened in
19:26the digital sphere,
19:27including with AI content.
19:29We know that the big techs have a lot of power in this,
19:34so we had just a research that was released this week that showed that around only 12% of the
19:45content against the left,
19:46against Lula, and even against Janja, her partner, his partner,
19:52that are AI-generated, that has the announce that is AI-generated.
20:00So this is a battle.
20:01So the big techs are not doing their work because they are not going to do their work,
20:07but the Supreme Court, our power, the judicial legal power, are there following each day.
20:16But this is a battle.
20:17And in this battle, I think that now we are well prepared,
20:23more than in the previous situation that we have been through.
20:27Our Supreme Court, they already showed and followed all the process,
20:33when we had the far right try to do a coup here,
20:38after Lula was elected in the previous elections.
20:44So they are well prepared now to follow each part of it.
20:49Thank you, TICAP, for your time and your information for us here from the South.
20:55Thank you once again for your time.
20:59Ladies and gentlemen, that was Tica Moreno, sociologist, popular educator and feminist activist.
21:05We continue with information in Spain.
21:07Right-wing and conservative parties in Congress have joined forces to strike down
21:11two critical emergency housing decrees proposed by the government.
21:16The vote follows nationwide mobilizations triggered by the eviction of 87-year-old Mari Carmen Navascal.
21:22The coalition government failed to secure a majority,
21:26as conservative factions voted to block measures designed to freeze evictions until 2030
21:32and capped speculative recent rent prices.
21:36The defeat removed proposed bans on corporate voucher fund acquisitions
21:40and automatic lease renewals, leaving housing protections dismantled.
21:44With right-wing parties leveraging the vote to challenge the administration,
21:49political analysts warned the defeat coup pushed President Pedro Sánchez to call early elections.
22:05The rage erupted outside Spain's parliament as thousands of demonstrators gathered to protest the defeat of housing protection laws.
22:14Organized by tenant unions, marchers surrounded Congress following weeks of protests sparked by the brutal eviction of 87-year-old
22:23Mari Carmen Abascal and mass encampments at Puerta del Sol.
22:27When the vote failed, activists in the gallery disrupt the proceedings shouting that corporate voucher funds govern parliament.
22:34Social movements insist that housing must be treated as a fundamental human right, promising to intensify national-wide mobilizations against
22:43speculative real estate markets.
22:47Social movements are the same.
23:08An Israeli airstrike on a residential area of Gaza City killed only five people
23:13as the Osiris genocide against the Palestinian population continues.
23:18According to medical staff at the Shifa Hospital,
23:20the Israeli air attack on a residential apartment in western Gaza City has killed at least five people and severely
23:27wounded at least six others.
23:29The strike hit the al-Salah building in the Ramal neighborhood early on Saturday without prior warning.
23:36Furthermore, Ramal is one of Gaza City's most crowded residential areas,
23:40home to thousands of displaced people sheltering in may-shift camps across the neighborhood,
23:45and the attack came in the middle of the night when residents were asleep.
23:49Civil defense crews were still searching the site for missing people and bodies on Saturday morning,
23:55as Israeli drones continued flying over the area.
24:06The World Health Organization warns of devastating consequences for the Palestinian population due to the delayed entry of medical aid
24:14into the Gaza Strip.
24:15WHO's representative in Palestine, Reinhilde Van de Vert, said on Friday that repeated delays in bringing life-saving medicines, prosthetics,
24:27and other supplies into Gaza risk having devastating consequences for Palestinians who urgently need them.
24:34In this context, approved, they can enter Gaza only through Karen Shalom at the southern tip of the territory,
24:42while Rafah, also in the south, is open only for limited movement of people, including patients needing medical treatment abroad.
24:49The WHO should shift from the call upon the Israeli government to release the pressure on medical supplies,
24:56while prison health workers still risking their lives in Gaza amid the ongoing Zionist genocide.
25:10And with this information, we have come to the end of this news brief.
25:13Remember that you can find this and many other stories on our website at telesurenglish.net,
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25:22For Telesur English, my name is Pablo Micheliche. Thank you for watching.