Leaders of the Global South arrive in Cuba for the G77 and China Summit. // Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro held a meeting with legislators of the National People's Power of China. // Thousands of people have died in Libya as a result of devastating floods. teleSUR
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00:00 Head of state and government from the global south continue to arrive in Cuba's Havana
00:13 house the G77+ China summit.
00:19 The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, held a meeting with lawmakers of the National
00:24 People's Powers of China to strengthen cooperation and friendship ties with the ASEAN.
00:33 The Libyan city of Derna has buried thousands of people in mass graves as search teams search
00:39 ruins left by devastating floods.
00:49 Hello welcome to From the South, I'm Ana Marrero from the Telesur headquarters in Caracas,
00:54 Venezuela.
00:55 For BGP the News stay with us.
01:10 Head of state and government from the global south continue to arrive in Cuba's Havana
01:14 house the G77+ China summit.
01:17 United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Rwandan President Paul Mbugakagme arrived
01:22 in the Cuban capital on Thursday.
01:24 Both officials were received from a head of honor at San José Martín International Airport.
01:31 During the next hours other heads of state and representatives of the international organizations
01:36 are expected to arrive in the Caribbean nation.
01:39 According to the Cuban authorities, around 100 delegations are expected to participate
01:43 in the G77+ China summit to be held on September 15th and 16th under the theme "The Current
01:50 Challenges of Development, the Role of Science, Technology and Innovation".
01:59 The UN chief was received by the Minister of Labor and Social Security of the Caribbean
02:04 nation Marta Elena Feito after his arrival at the José Martín International Airport.
02:09 Guterres also plans to meet with the UN team in Cuba.
02:12 On Friday, the Secretary General will call on members of the states of the G77+ China
02:17 to advocate for a system-based on equality during the opening ceremony of the summit
02:21 of the G77+ China, the largest group within the United Nations.
02:34 The government of the Dominican Republic announced the closing on Friday of all land, sea and
02:40 air borders with Haiti.
02:42 The Dominican President Luis Abinader said that the decision will not affect the talks
02:47 with the neighboring country.
02:49 The President also assured that next week he will participate in the UN General Assembly
02:54 where the investment issues with Port-au-Prince will be discussed and clarified that the Dominican
03:00 Republic will not participate in those actions.
03:04 As of 6 a.m. tomorrow Friday, the sea, land and air borders of the Dominican Republic
03:15 with Haiti will be closed.
03:20 According to the information that we offered to the National Security Council and the planning
03:25 that was done in that sense, the Ministry of Defense is already prepared and both the
03:33 Army and the Air Force will be ready to fulfill that order.
03:39 The government of Colombia acknowledged war doings committed by previous administrations
03:44 against trade union movements in the context of the armed conflict.
03:47 During an event held under the slogan "Repairing the Dreams of Freedom", the government of
03:52 Gustavo Petro initiated a new project to vindicate the state's position with the different union
04:00 movements in the country.
04:02 The movement points out that they have suffered violence since the early 70s and highlights
04:08 that more than 1,000 teachers were killed during the armed conflict.
04:16 For the first time a government, a government that we recognize as the government of change,
04:28 recognizes that there have been acts against union leaders and that there must be a process
04:35 of collective reparation to the union movement and that there must also be a process of individual
04:43 reparations for all the victims of the conflict in Colombia.
04:48 In Colombia, the Army has suspended 10 officers after investigating images of armed soldiers
04:53 threatening the villagers in northern Colombia that were passed on the social network.
04:58 Later it was learned that they were members of the Infantry Battalion N33 de Batalla de
05:04 Junina of the Army's 11th Brigade and they intimidated the inhabitants of the village
05:10 of El Manso in the jurisdiction of the Tierra del Alto department of Córdoba.
05:17 An inspection commission of the National Army was promptly sent to the scene of the events
05:27 to carry out the corresponding verifications.
05:30 It is appropriate to report that there are 10 committed military personnel who moved
05:38 away from the institutional policy, the postulates of the National Army, the laws, the doctrine,
05:46 the norms and the constitutional framework as it has been identified so far.
05:52 The National Army ratifies the compliance and the commitment of zero tolerance to the
05:59 violation of human rights and it is important to clarify that what happened is not part
06:05 of the education given to the members of the National Army in the schools of formation,
06:12 retraining and retraining as well as in any part of the military doctrine.
06:16 In Argentina, the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies debates amendments to the income
06:22 tax law.
06:23 In a parliamentary session, the Budget and Finance Committees were convened to discuss
06:28 Abel's Day, September 12, 2023, which proposed substantial changes to the income tax law
06:35 and its subsequent amendments.
06:36 During the meeting, the legislators focused their proposal on having the highest tax code
06:42 for all taxpayers that generate the highest amount of public revenue.
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07:03 Welcome back from the south.
07:25 Afterwards President Nicolás Maduro held a meeting with the Assembly of the National
07:29 People's Powers of China to strengthen cooperation and friendship ties with the ASEAN alliance.
07:34 The Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro described a successful and productive meeting with representatives
07:39 of the public power of China, the President of the Standing Committee of the Assembly,
07:45 Cao Leji.
07:46 Likewise, the head of the Beijing Parliament highlighted historical ties of friendship
07:50 between Venezuela and China and saluted efforts of the Venezuelan head of state in firmly
07:54 promoting the friendly relations between both countries for a long time.
08:04 I am happy to be in this assembly.
08:07 I have visited on many occasions as a deputy, as president of the National Assembly of Venezuela
08:13 and as president of the Republic because I appreciate the work you do for the development
08:18 of China, for the strengthening of China and I appreciate the friendship we have cultivated
08:24 between the National People's Assembly of China and the people and the National Assembly
08:29 of Venezuela.
08:30 I want to convey to you a message of solidarity greetings from the President of the National
08:35 Assembly of Venezuela, Comrade Jorge Rodríguez, and the entire legislative body of the country.
08:42 This visit we have made has been extraordinary.
08:46 In this context, the Venezuelan popular leader also described historical of Asia as historic
08:54 due to the 31 agreements reached with the ASEAN.
09:02 All the working days, all the agreements, all the plans, all the documents approved
09:07 and signed in Shenzhen, in Shanghai, in Shandong.
09:12 We arrived in Shenzhen in the middle of a storm.
09:15 We landed in the middle of a heavy rain and a truly historic tour began.
09:20 And then our arrival in Beijing, the working days, the signing of 31 agreements.
09:28 For her part, on Thursday, the Executive Vice President of Venezuela, Delsi Rodríguez,
09:32 visited the Chinese company's construction group.
09:35 Venezuela, the strengthening cooperation with China in housing construction, the four of
09:40 the bilateral agreement signed by both presidents in recent days.
09:44 The Vice President's visits preceded that of the President of the Nation signing 31
09:49 cooperation agreements in infrastructure, technology, education, and in the Railroad
09:53 Initiative.
09:54 And as part of the Venezuelan delegation, the Vice President for Social and Territorial
10:05 Socialism, Mervyn Maldonado, reaffirmed the importance of the strategic alliance between
10:10 China and Venezuela.
10:14 With this historic working tour of President Nicolás Maduro and President Xi Jinping,
10:19 the strategic alliance has been raised to a higher level.
10:23 And within the social framework, we have worked, the President of the Republic, together with
10:29 Director General of the International Poverty Reduction Center of China, where we have seen
10:35 and studied the model of how China has managed to lift more than 98 million Chinese out of
10:42 extreme poverty in the last eight years, and that this has generated a great global impact.
10:48 For his part, the Venezuelan Minister of Productive Agriculture and the Land, Wilmer Castro, highlighted
10:56 the new alliance between China and the states of Ansuat and Guayamonagas in the Venezuelan
11:01 territory.
11:02 The brotherhood with the state of Ansuategui and Monagas in Venezuela was ratified and
11:11 strengthened.
11:12 Where President Maduro has launched a new special agri-food economic zone.
11:17 And in this way, we are going to work with a technopolitical team from both countries
11:22 to strengthen investment, development, growth, and progress in food production for export.
11:31 And we stayed on topic because in this context, Beijing affirmed on Thursday that during the
11:36 visit of the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a strategic partnership between China
11:40 and Venezuela was achieved.
11:43 This visit by Venezuelan President Maduro has achieved substantial results.
11:49 The two sides issued a joint statement on the establishment of an all-weather strategic
11:54 partnership between PRC and Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
12:00 Chinese signed dozens of cooperation agreements, jointly reaching consensus in various fields,
12:06 including the economy and trade, culture, tourism, airspace, civil aviation, science
12:12 and technology, and the media.
12:18 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman added that China will continue to support Venezuela's
12:23 commitments to protect its sovereignty and promote cooperation at the highest level.
12:31 China will continue to support Venezuela in its efforts to protect its national sovereignty
12:37 and social stability, also supporting Venezuela's right to undertake and to oppose external
12:43 interference.
12:44 We believe that this visit will effectively promote bilateral ties and cooperation in
12:50 all fields to achieve a higher level and broader scope of development, also bringing more benefits
12:58 to the people of the two countries.
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13:35 Myanmar's Foreign Minister Daesh met with his Russian counterparts in Kyrgyzstan during
13:40 an official visit to Moscow on Thursday.
13:43 The two sides discussed trade, economic and defense cooperation as well as the geopolitical
13:49 situation in the Saudi East Asian region.
13:52 In the meeting, Lavrov criticized NATO for trying to spread its influence in the region.
14:01 "Unfortunately, at the moment, these mechanisms are being challenged in the context of the
14:06 so-called 'inter-Pacific' strategies of the West, which tries to block elements in the
14:14 Asian-Pacific region to implement mechanisms that are aimed at holding back other countries,
14:24 mechanisms that, generally speaking, are competing and trying to rob the ASEAN of its traditional
14:29 leading role regarding issues of security and cooperation in this region.
14:37 Extreme danger, of course, is posed by NATO's openly announced plans to infiltrate the region
14:42 and create their own rules there."
14:46 The government of Armenia received peace proposals from Azerbaijan and will respond within a
14:52 reasonable period of time.
14:54 At a meeting of the Councils of Ministers, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reported
14:58 that he received new comments on the treaty on the regulations of relations and on the
15:03 establishment of peaceful relations between the two countries, so they will work to provide
15:08 their observations to the Azerbaijani side.
15:11 In this regard, Pashinyan noted that the situation on the border remains tense and his troops
15:16 and military equipment are deployed along the border zone with Armenia and on the line
15:21 of contact in our North Carabakh.
15:23 On Thursday, the Egyptian Foreign Minister Samir Shoukry met with his French counterpart
15:37 Catherine Colonnaud in Cairo.
15:39 During their meeting, the two ministers discussed bilateral relations between Egypt and France
15:44 as well as the latest developments in the region, including the Palestinian issue.
15:48 In this context, as part of the joint new conference, Shoukry extended his condolences
15:53 to the people of Libya who recently faced massive polluting that resulted in the loss
15:59 of thousands of lives as well as to the Moroccan nation, who are the crowd leader with the
16:04 aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck last week.
16:15 Iran and Iraq announced that the implementation of the security agreement reached to confirm
16:19 terrorism will start on Friday.
16:21 The announcement was made by the diplomatic head of both nations who met this Wednesday
16:26 in Tehran.
16:27 Both the Iraqi foreign minister and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahin spoke positively
16:35 of the agreement signed earlier this year to protect their common border, especially
16:39 in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
16:46 We have received very good information about the elimination of terrorist groups from areas
16:52 near the borders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, their relocation deep into Iraqi territory
16:58 and the Kurdish region of the Republic of Iraq, and the efforts to disarm them and fully
17:05 implement the clauses of the security agreement between the two countries.
17:10 The next steps will be fully implemented in the coming days within the framework of the
17:17 security agreement.
17:19 Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Fouad Hossein stressed the viability of dialogue as a means
17:26 of obtaining permits and contents in order to confront irregular groups that use the
17:32 border crossing.
17:36 The issue I want to emphasize is that the relations between the two countries are good
17:41 and we hope that if there are some problems, they will be solved through dialogue and negotiations.
17:49 Sometimes we see that the sovereignty of Iraq, the Kurdistan region of Iraq, is threatened
17:56 with bombing or a military attack.
17:59 I think we should move away from these tools because we have other ways.
18:04 We have a way to talk and negotiate.
18:07 We have a security agreement.
18:23 The Libyan city of Derna has buried thousands of people in mass graves.
18:28 Search teams have scoured ruins left by devastating floods.
18:32 The floods swept away entire families on Sunday night and exposed vulnerabilities in the old
18:38 low-rich country.
18:39 Health officials have confirmed 11,000 deaths and said 9,000 people are still missing.
18:46 A UN official said on Thursday that most casualties could have been avoided if there had been
18:51 a normal operating meteorological service that could have issued timely warning.
18:57 Officials in eastern Libya reportedly warned the public about the coming storm but did
19:02 not suggest that a dam could collapse or present an evacuation plan.
19:13 A spokesperson for the European Union confirmed on Thursday that the bloc has provided Libya
19:20 after an unusual storm, a strong storm caused the flooding.
19:26 A spokesperson for the European Commission, Balazs Youvaris, said at a briefing in Brussels
19:32 that 500,000 euros have been released to cover the most urgent needs, adding that additional
19:39 assistance might be sent over the coming hours and days.
19:42 Youvaris also said several European countries have pitched in to help the flood-stricken
19:48 North African nation cope with the devastation.
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