President Ciril Ramaphosa announced the accession of six countries in January 2024 to the BRICS alliance//In Greece, the forest fire emergency continues as firefighting services are trying to contain the numerous fires throughout the country//Zimbabwe police said on Thursday they had arrested 41 poll monitoring groups workers and seized their equipment including computers to tabulate the results of vote counting. teleSUR
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00:00 In South Africa, the 50th BRICS Summit continues.
00:08 President Sir Ibram Mahfouza announced the accession of six countries in January 2024
00:12 to the BRICS islands.
00:16 In Greece, the forest fires emergency continues as firefighting services are trying to contain
00:21 the numerous fires throughout the country.
00:26 Zimbabwe police said on Thursday they had arrested 41 pool monitoring group workers
00:31 and seized their equipment including computers to tabulate the results of the voting content.
00:39 Hello, welcome to From the South, I'm Ana Marrero from the TeleSUR headquarters in Caracas,
00:45 Venezuela.
00:46 Thank you for joining us.
00:58 On Thursday, South African President Sir Ibram Mahfouza announced the expansion of the BRICS
01:02 groups started in January 2024 with the accession of six countries.
01:07 With the entry of Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates,
01:13 it will comprise 46 percent of the world's population and 39 percent of the world's
01:19 gross domestic product.
01:20 Chinese President Xi Jinping described the expansion of the islands as historic and affirmed
01:26 that it will give the mechanisms greater quality.
01:33 We have consensus on the first phase of this expansion process and other phases will follow.
01:42 We have decided to invite the Argentine Republic, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Federal Democratic
01:53 Republic of Ethiopia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the
02:04 United Arab Emirates to become full members of BRICS.
02:10 The membership will take effect from the 1st of January 2024.
02:21 For his part, Alberto Fernandez, President of Argentina, one of the newest members of
02:25 the bloc, also participated in a BRICS+ dialogue via video link and expressed the importance
02:30 of the bloc's unity to build a new economic architecture worldwide as a poster development
02:36 instead of inequality.
02:39 We need solid consensus pilars to move forward towards a sustainable and reformed development
02:44 architecture that leads to equal conditions in this existing world.
02:49 We need to be the motors of a sustainable economy recovering with equity, inclusion
02:53 and respect to sovereign equality and its core.
02:57 The condition of possibility for that achievement to be reached and be sustainable over time
03:02 is to secure more resources to finance development and not financial speculation.
03:09 To apply immediate measures to make sure that is sustainable and put an end to the worst
03:14 practice shown today by the International Monetary Fund.
03:19 We need to favor balanced commercial exchanges that do not deepen existing asymmetries as
03:26 well as promote investment and scientific and technological cooperation.
03:32 Ethiopia was among the six countries invited on Thursday to join the BRICS bloc of the
03:37 European Development Academy.
03:39 Speaking to Athens of the Summit, Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Dami Samir, highlighted the
03:44 importance of the BRICS today's time.
03:46 The BRICS Summit is taking place at a critical moment in time when often unheard voices in
03:55 the global arena are striving to be heard.
04:00 The many crises we have faced as a global community, particularly after the COVID-19
04:07 pandemic, have further exposed how cooperation is key for our collective survival.
04:16 During his speech at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, Iran's President Ibrahim Raisi
04:26 hailed the bloc's decision to admit his country into the group.
04:31 The decision made by BRICS members to expand this group is a commendable move that paves
04:40 the way for a global expansion within the framework of justice.
04:47 BRICS is a symbol of such change and transformation in the international equation that is capable
04:54 enough to contribute positively in resolving global problems.
05:00 United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for the reform of the global
05:05 financial system during his address at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg on Thursday.
05:10 We are entering a multipolar world.
05:15 But history has shown time and again that multipolarity without strong multilateral
05:21 institutions is no guarantee for stability.
05:25 It might even become a catalyst for chaos.
05:29 So we must urgently restore trust and revigorate multilateralism.
05:34 And this requires the courage to compromise for the common good.
05:39 It requires effective international institutions rooted in 21st century realities based on
05:47 UN Charter and international law.
05:52 The pandemic has underscored once again how the global financial architecture is outdated,
05:57 dysfunctional and unjust.
05:59 It has failed in its basic function as a global safety net.
06:05 And so it needs deep structural reform.
06:09 But I also know that such change will not happen overnight.
06:12 And so I have proposed a number of measures we can take right now.
06:17 And they include providing a sustainable development goal stimulus to direct investments towards
06:23 the sustainable development goals, with a funding equivalent of 500 billion US dollars.
06:29 Overhauling the business models of multilateral development banks so that they massively increase
06:34 affordable financing and leverage far more private finance to the developing world.
06:42 And I'm joined by the director of the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Moscow State
06:47 University, Alex Keidem.
06:49 Maslov believes that BRICS is becoming a very important trans-subregional organization.
06:56 BRICS is working on several projects that were formally laid down many years ago.
07:02 But only now there is a real need for them.
07:05 The first is, of course, direct transfers of funds, trade funds.
07:10 And for this, BRICS has the new BRICS Bank, which basically works on infrastructure projects.
07:16 Secondly, these are various consultations in the field of, first of all, security, trade
07:22 security, security of transport of goods, cargo, which is also extremely important for
07:27 the current situation.
07:29 And finally, thirdly, today BRICS is becoming a very important trans-regional organization.
07:36 In the context of the 15 BRICS summits, the president of the Indian International Summit
07:41 of Commerce and Industry, Anil Tagwayanayat, said that the participation of countries from
07:47 different continents in the association could turn BRICS into a major economic and global
07:52 platform.
07:53 At the moment, there are about 40 countries that have directly or indirectly expressed
07:59 interest in joining BRICS.
08:01 And that means participation of countries from different continents, including the rich
08:05 Gulf countries, which could turn BRICS into a major economic and global platform, a kind
08:11 of new G20.
08:12 Let's take a very short break, but remember you can now join us on our TikToker, Acosta
08:16 La Sudie English, where you'll be able to see news in different formats and news updates
08:20 and more.
08:21 Stay tuned for more news.
08:34 Welcome back from the south.
08:35 Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez accused in a press conference on Thursday
08:41 that he called several leaders of the extreme right of making irresponsible calls to the
08:46 Bolivarian armed forces.
08:49 We have seen lately in the last weeks, in the last days, statements by several leaders
08:54 of the Venezuelan political opposition making irresponsible calls to the Bolivarian National
09:00 Armed Forces.
09:02 The armed forces have a constitutional role to fulfill.
09:05 It is not necessary that someone use the Bolivarian National Armed Forces for his own partisan
09:11 purposes.
09:12 We reject that outright.
09:15 That is not the role of a political party, of a democratic leader here in Venezuela.
09:21 It wouldn't be the role.
09:25 In this regard, Padrino Lopez, reaffirmed the commitment of the armed forces to enforce
09:30 the will of the Venezuelan people.
09:32 Well, we want to tell the people of Venezuela that the Bolivarian National Armed Forces
09:39 are here, ready and willing to carry out this free and fair election, free and fair election
09:50 to the greatest expression of national peace.
09:53 We have seen it throughout these years, even in the constituent elections, an event where
10:01 much of the violence prevailed.
10:04 More than a thousand machines were destroyed.
10:08 Well, we are going to be very vigilant and we are going to ensure the execution of these
10:14 elections established by our laws and our institutions themselves.
10:22 My Vice, the senior military official said that since 2014, more than 20 conspiracies
10:27 against the government authorities have been foiled.
10:35 We cannot forget that we continue to be classified as an unusual and extraordinary threat to
10:40 the United States of America, and that from 2014 to the present date, more than 20 conspiracy
10:47 plans have been plotted with the clear objective of attacking the integrity of the legitimately
10:52 constituted Venezuelan authorities.
10:59 The head of the defense portfolio denounced that the unilateral coercive measures imposed
11:03 by the U.S. and its allies are an attack on the Venezuelan people.
11:10 This agenda of the fascist right-wing is part of an escalation of actions that flagrantly
11:16 and treacherously affect the stability of the republic.
11:23 Hence the doomsayers of chaos and disaster have proposed, as an electoral strategy, to
11:32 hinder the current efforts of the Venezuelan state to achieve its most precious consensus,
11:38 such as preserving peace and unity, condemning and demanding the lifting of criminal sanctions,
11:47 and promoting economic recovery through the construction of a new diversified productive
11:52 model which will lead us towards the restitution of the state of social welfare.
12:01 Brazil's notorious military police, at a relic of the military dictatorship years, continues
12:06 to commit large-scale human rights abuses against the poor and the black population.
12:11 What can we done to stop them?
12:13 In Recife, our correspondent Brian Meir reports.
12:18 Jair Bolsonaro, who encouraged police violence, may no longer be in power, but the police
12:23 genocide against Brazil's poor, primarily black population on the urban periphery continues.
12:29 With 45 people killed by police in the first week of August alone, and dozens of summary
12:34 executions and episodes of torture registered by human rights groups during the first half
12:39 of 2023.
12:40 The problem with the military police here in Brazil is that they don't see us socially
12:45 as human beings.
12:47 We are identified by our color.
12:49 They don't give us a chance to show who we are as black mothers and fathers of families,
12:54 full workers or students.
12:57 The main culprit in this ongoing terror against Brazil's poor are its notorious military police.
13:03 Ostensibly run by the state governors, they operate on the margins of the law and their
13:07 actions aren't regulated by the criminal courts.
13:10 Between 2003 and 2016, the Workers' Party tried to pass a constitutional amendment disbanding
13:16 them three times, but each time they were blocked by conservative parties and their
13:20 own governing coalition.
13:22 It is fundamental that we demilitarize the police.
13:32 It's important to remember that the police are associated with tactics to repress the
13:37 population that were used during the military dictatorship period.
13:46 They view the people as agitators and they treat our nation's poor population with absurd
13:51 levels of violence and disrespect.
13:55 Brian Muir, Telus Sur, Recife.
14:13 The effects of the drought on the Central American region are beginning to have negative
14:18 impact on the Paramexana, the largest waterway in Latin America.
14:24 The drop in the nation's water levels has led its management authorities to limit to
14:29 24 the number of vessels that can transit it per day.
14:34 10 large vessels and 4 normal vessels through the Panamax locks and another 10 through the
14:39 New Panamax lock.
14:40 In total, about 8 vessels less in normal times.
14:50 In Greece, the forest fires emergency continues as firefighting services are trying to contain
14:56 the numerous fires throughout the country.
14:58 Winds continues to be one of the main problems in containing a blaze that has already devastated
15:04 more than 62,000 hectares since last Saturday.
15:07 Some 500 firefighters, including personnel from the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania,
15:12 and more than 100 vehicles and 6 aerial vehicles are trying to contain some from in Evros and
15:19 prevent extinguished outbreaks from wrangling.
15:23 Evros are focused on the Darias forest where the shorted bodies of 27 migrants and asylum
15:30 seekers who had entered Greece from nearby Turkey were found.
15:40 In Pakistan, families waded through water and cattle were loaded into boats in a massive
15:45 equation of around 100,000 people in the Mongya province.
15:49 According to the local authorities, several hundreds of villages and thousands of acres
15:54 of corporate lands in the central province were inundated when the Southland River was
16:00 urged to advance unscathed.
16:01 Rescue boats traveled from village to village over the past several days, collecting people
16:06 of all ages to wait on the roof of their homes as the water levels rose around them.
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16:40 Zimbabwe police said on Thursday they had a Reso41 pool monitoring software, hand-sized
16:51 data equipment including computers tabulated the results of boat hunting.
17:00 Police's boat person accused the workers of being involved in subversive and criminal
17:07 activities.
17:08 Coordinating the alleged release of the population by some civic organizations.
17:13 The arrest of all the workers with two active items on the terrain organizations which deployed
17:20 over 7,500.
17:33 In the midst of the elections process in Zimbabwe, the opposition party held a press conference
17:39 where they expressed their view of the process.
17:44 Electoral process is fundamentally flawed and is unable to produce a free and fair electoral
17:53 outcome.
17:55 Nonetheless, we knew this beforehand and we've prepared ourselves to win an unfree and unfair
18:06 election.
18:09 So far, the information we have is that we are leading on the presidential election comfortably
18:20 and we are doing well on the parliamentary elections.
18:25 We continue in Zimbabwe and now we will listen to the opinions of some citizens who have
18:31 gone to pools to exercise the right of vote.
18:35 We come here at 6am so that we can wake up to check the line so that we can enter but
18:42 we waited for a long time, around to 9 o'clock because people are saying that the ballots
18:47 will come around 9 but we waited until 9 o'clock and there's nothing.
18:52 They say that they come around afternoon, then we come at afternoon there was nothing,
18:57 then we go home, then we come back and check again around 4 and it was nothing.
19:02 Then I registered that they come in today at midnight.
19:05 Yesterday we wanted to vote but we were frustrated with the process.
19:09 We had to wait the whole day for the ballot papers.
19:13 I went back home, I came back here and then I heard over the phone that the papers came
19:18 at 2am in the morning.
19:21 So I came to cast my vote.
19:24 Rescue teams in Nigeria were still searching for survivors on Thursday after a building
19:28 collapsed in the country's capital, leaving two people dead and many trapped.
19:32 The two stories property located in Garkey at Pablo's Street in Abuja collapsed during
19:38 a downpour Wednesday night.
19:40 The building serves as both a shopping mall and a residential block and some of those
19:46 trapped are believed to be shoppers.
19:49 A spokesperson for the Federal Emergency Management Agency said 37 people have been rescued alive
19:56 from the rubble so far and that the rescue operation will continue until the debris are
20:01 researched.
20:02 The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has called for the
20:13 regulation of exception to the sanctions against Nigeria so that humanitarian aid required
20:17 by the country is not affected.
20:19 The organization has denounced the important quantities of urgent medical supplies, nutritious
20:25 food, equipment and food reserves are paralyzed in neighboring countries due to air and water
20:32 closures, in addition to other contingents generated as a result of the decision of the
20:37 economic community of West African states and the African Union in response to the size
20:44 of power by the so-called National Council for the Safeguarding of the Homeland since
20:48 July 26.
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