International Court of Justice in the Netherlands ordered the Israeli government to stop the genocide against Gaza. // Venezuela's Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, offered statements on conspiracies against the nation. // France: Prime minister offers protesting farmers key concession. teleSUR
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00:03 In the Netherlands, the International Court of Justice
00:14 on Friday ordered the Israeli government
00:16 to take all measures within its power
00:19 to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza.
00:21 In Venezuela, the Attorney General Tarek William Saab
00:27 offered statements on the acts of conspiracy
00:30 of the Venezuelan far right to lash out against the country.
00:33 And in France, the main farmers union
00:37 won a series of concessions from the government on Friday.
00:41 Hello and welcome to From the South.
00:48 I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:51 We'll begin with the news.
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00:56 The International Court of Justice on Friday
01:11 ordered the Israeli government to take
01:13 all measures within its power to prevent
01:15 acts of genocide in Gaza.
01:17 In this regard, the United Nations High Court
01:20 based in The Hague issued a verdict
01:22 after the government of South Africa
01:24 filed a lawsuit against Israel for genocidal acts in Gaza
01:28 due to the ongoing offensive that has already
01:31 killed more than 26,000 people.
01:33 In turn, ICJ Attorney Johan Donahue
01:37 and other judges of The Hague Tribunal
01:39 ruled by 15 votes to 2 that Israel must take measures
01:43 to prevent the killing of civilians in Gaza
01:46 and all conditions detrimental to their livelihood that
01:49 could lead to their partial destruction
01:51 or prevent birth among the Gaza population.
01:54 In this way, the tribunal will give Benjamin Netanyahu's
01:58 government one month to submit a report on the measures ordered.
02:01 It should be noted that a final ruling on whether Israel
02:05 committed genocidal acts could take up to a year or more.
02:09 In turn, the Hamas group reiterated
02:11 that it will abide by any ceasefire ruling
02:14 as long as Israel troops reciprocate.
02:16 The head of the top United Nations court
02:22 said that Israel must allow humanitarian assistance
02:25 for Gaza during the reading of the initial decision
02:28 in the case against Israel of a genocide in Gaza.
02:32 Votes to 1.
02:33 The state of Israel shall take immediate and effective
02:36 measures to ensure the provision of urgently needed basic
02:40 services and humanitarian assistance
02:43 to address the adverse conditions of life
02:46 faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
02:48 Meanwhile, on Friday in South Africa,
02:54 locals hailed the ruling of the highest court of the United
02:57 Nations ordering Israel to do everything possible to prevent
03:01 any act of genocide in Gaza.
03:04 The International Court of Justice in The Hague
03:06 issued its verdict in the Latin Marques brought
03:09 by Pretoria also ordering Tel Aviv
03:12 to allow humanitarian aid access to Palestinian territory.
03:15 Let us recall that South Africa accused Israel
03:18 of breaching the 1948 United Nations Genocide
03:21 Convention established in the aftermath of the World War II.
03:25 Perhaps now in this space we're discussing the extent to which
03:34 it can have an impact.
03:36 That's something that we're curious to see,
03:38 especially with what Israel is going
03:40 to respond with in a month's time
03:43 as the court has instructed.
03:44 But I think for now it is a step in the right direction,
03:49 for sure.
03:51 The judges have done the work.
03:52 They've applied their mind.
03:54 And it's 15 to 1, 15 to 2, 16 to 1.
04:00 And it's good for our jurisprudence.
04:02 And it's good for humanity.
04:05 And I hope that Israel will respect the judgment
04:09 and will act accordingly.
04:11 In this regard, South African Foreign Minister
04:14 Naledi Pandor stated that this is a decisive victory
04:18 for international rule of law and an important milestone
04:21 in the pursuit of justice for the Palestinian people.
04:24 But she said that the ICJ must issue a ceasefire order.
04:29 I believe that in exercising the order,
04:35 there would have to be a ceasefire.
04:37 Without it, the order doesn't actually work.
04:42 I would have wanted a ceasefire.
04:44 But the minister, they didn't specifically call it a ceasefire.
04:45 No, they didn't.
04:46 Are you disappointed that they didn't specify that?
04:50 I have no way that I'm going to say I'm disappointed.
04:53 I hoped for it.
04:55 But the fact of delivering humanitarian aid,
04:59 the fact of taking measures that reduce
05:02 the levels of harm against persons
05:05 who have no role in what Israel is combating, for me,
05:10 requires a ceasefire.
05:12 And I believe Israel would have to attend
05:15 to how it conducts its search for the hostages
05:19 and for those Hamas individuals who carried out the October 7.
05:24 Palestinians in West Bank's Ramallah
05:27 expressed their disappointment by the International
05:29 Court of Justice ruling on Israel,
05:31 saying they are unhappy.
05:34 It is unacceptable for the world to remain silent,
05:37 just watching after more than 112 days
05:41 without taking an immediate ceasefire decision,
05:45 and a decision to bring food and medicine into Gaza
05:48 and evacuate the wounded.
05:51 The ruling is a green light for the occupying state
05:53 to carry on with its war against Gaza,
05:56 but rather a soft war.
05:58 That's the ICJ ruling.
06:01 The International Court of Justice
06:02 was required to call for an immediate ceasefire.
06:07 We were very optimistic, but now we are unhappy.
06:10 We feel that the court could have clearly
06:13 called for a ceasefire, in addition to facilitate
06:15 the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
06:19 Palestinian authorities announced on Friday
06:22 that the Israeli occupation army has killed 26,083 people
06:26 in the Gaza Strip.
06:27 In this regard, the Gaza Health Authority
06:29 added that of the total number of dead, more than 18,000
06:33 are women and children, and also confirmed 64,487 wounded.
06:39 None of these records include the bodies under the rubble.
06:42 This update on the Tel Aviv regime's harassment
06:45 comes in a context in which the International
06:48 Court of Justice made a pronouncement on the genocide
06:54 lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel.
06:57 It should be noted that Benjamin Netanyahu's government does not
07:00 recognize the death toll, despite the support
07:03 of the Red Cross and the United Nations.
07:05 Let's take a short break, but remember,
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07:15 updates, and more.
07:17 Other stories coming up.
07:18 Stay with us.
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07:23 Welcome back.
07:40 On Friday, the Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab,
07:44 offered statements on the acts of conspiracy
07:46 of the Venezuelan far right to lash out
07:49 against the country.
07:50 The Attorney General's statements
07:52 reaffirmed that the opposition, with its conspiratorial acts
07:55 in conjunction with organized crime,
07:57 wants to fill the country with blood and violence.
08:01 In this way, Saab also affirmed that at least six persons were
08:05 charged with the responsibility for the wide armband operation
08:10 for crimes of trading the country, political conspiracy,
08:13 classified attempt of intentional homicide
08:16 against President Nicolás Maduro.
08:18 In this sense, the Attorney General
08:20 reiterated that those who plan and conspire
08:22 against the peace and stability of the country
08:25 will be punished with the full weight of the law.
08:27 We have acted with the evidence in hand,
08:37 with the elements of conviction, arrest, accuse--
08:41 excuse me, charge--
08:42 present before the courts in the fifth plot.
08:45 But in the four previous ones, we already
08:47 have charges, accusations, and we're
08:49 going to have a definitive and firm sentence.
08:53 The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab,
08:56 emphasized that the wide armband plan consisted
09:00 in attacking the Venezuelan state from the border states
09:03 and carrying out an assassination
09:04 against the President Nicolás Maduro.
09:06 The wide armband case consisted in the planning
09:11 of an attack against the 21st Infantry
09:14 Brigade of the Bolivarian Army.
09:16 The most important facility in the state of Tachira,
09:19 bordering Colombia.
09:20 In order to take over the weapons on the military unit
09:25 and then make an attempt against the life of the governor Freddy
09:28 Bernal.
09:29 And obviously, from there, to escalate in several states,
09:32 such as Barinas, Cogeres, to reach Caracas,
09:39 and what has been the obsession of all these subjects
09:41 to attempt against the life of President Nicolás Maduro
09:44 in an attempt of assassination.
09:48 The Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela
09:50 announced on Friday the first decisions
09:53 on the review of political disqualifications.
09:56 The highest court of justice of Venezuela
09:58 has so far informed that the citizens, Leosenis Garcia,
10:02 Richard Mardo, and the former governor of the state of Zulia,
10:06 Pablo Perez, have been qualified to hold public office.
10:10 While the disqualification of Enrique Capriles Radonski
10:14 is maintained.
10:15 The decisions of the court were announced
10:17 within the framework of the Barbados Agreement signed
10:20 between the national government and the United Platform
10:23 of the opposition last October.
10:25 This is the process of dialogue promoted
10:28 in the city of Bridgetown in Barbados
10:31 and refers to the promotion of political rights
10:33 and the protection of the vital interest of the nation.
10:36 In El Salvador, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal
10:43 and some of the members of the voting boards
10:45 will participate on Sunday, January 28
10:48 in a stimulation of the presidential and legislative
10:51 elections of next February 4.
10:53 On Sunday, 1,505 voting centers will be set up.
10:58 That is 94% of the 1,595 that will actually
11:04 be on election day.
11:05 And in each voting center, a voting receiving board
11:09 will be set up, each one made up of five proprietary members
11:13 and five substitutes.
11:14 More than 5 million Salvadorans are
11:16 invited to participate next Sunday, February 4,
11:20 starting at 7 AM local time in the election of the president
11:23 who will govern in the 2024-2029 quinquennium
11:28 and of 60 deputies of the legislative assembly
11:32 for the 2024-2027 period.
11:39 In Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
11:42 will propose a prohibition on the use of chemical drugs
11:46 in the country.
11:47 The Mexican president indicated that as an initiative
11:50 of the reform of the Magna Carta is
11:52 to ban the consumption of chemical drugs
11:54 such as fentanyl.
11:56 The chief executive argued that the consumption of fentanyl
11:59 is lethal.
12:01 And neighboring countries, such as the United States,
12:03 it is already considered a pandemic which kills
12:06 100,000 young people a year.
12:09 AMLO also affirmed that preventing drug addition
12:12 is of vital importance by seeking alternatives
12:15 to stop its spread by active severely.
12:18 In Colombia, the government of Gustavo Petro
12:25 carried out a strategic territorial mission
12:28 of the national drug policy in the Pacific coast.
12:31 The event took place in the Colombian municipality
12:33 of Tumaco in the framework of the government
12:36 with the people public policy strategy
12:39 aimed at taking young people away from drug trafficking
12:42 networks, preventing and attending to their consumption,
12:46 and promoting rural security under disruption of drug
12:49 trafficking structures.
12:50 The minister of justice and law, Néstor Osuna,
12:54 said that the strategy shows the government's union
12:56 for the implementation of a drug policy
12:59 to create a real and sustainable change in the communities.
13:07 In Colombia, the investigation and accusation unit
13:10 began its second intervention at the cemetery in Turbo
13:13 in search of more so-called false positives.
13:17 This agency attached to the Special Peace Jurisdiction,
13:20 the GEP, complies with the precautionary measures ordered
13:24 by section of absence of recognition.
13:27 They are deployed in view of the possible presence of bodies
13:30 of victims of the conflict.
13:32 The information that ordered this search
13:35 came from a victim who facilitated the location
13:38 of the possible graves.
13:39 Previously, in a first intervention,
13:41 the GEP recovered in the area two bodies presumed
13:45 to be victims of forced displacement, which
13:48 are currently under study by MedellÃn Forensic Medicine.
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14:36 In France, the main farmers' union
14:38 won a series of concessions from the government on Friday
14:41 after blocking major access routes to Paris in protests
14:44 focused on wages, taxes, and regulations.
14:48 Facing his first major crisis as prime minister,
14:51 Gabriel Attal visited a livestock farm
14:53 in the Haute-Garonne department in the southwest
14:56 of the country, the scene of the first highway blockades
14:59 to announce measures.
15:00 Attal declared that the government
15:02 will put an end to the rise in the price of diesel used
15:05 for farm machinery, a consequence of the fasting out
15:09 of tax breaks on this fuel.
15:11 There will also be an emergency fund
15:13 to help farmers fight diseases in their livestock.
15:16 The siege of Paris followed days of disruption on the highways,
15:20 as well as convoys of tractors through the main cities
15:23 and protests in front of the government buildings.
15:26 The rallies mobilized some 55,000 people.
15:36 Over the next three weeks, we're launching a month
15:38 of simplification throughout France,
15:40 as in these departments, prefects
15:42 will bring together our farmers and their representatives
15:44 to look at what can be simplified, prefecture
15:47 by prefecture, standard by standard.
15:49 At national level, we're going to continue
15:51 to work with the government and representatives
15:53 of the farming community to see how we can simplify
15:56 day-to-day administration, taxation,
15:58 and the mutualized social, agriculture,
16:00 the French agricultural welfare system as much as possible,
16:04 with French agriculture minister, Mark Fesnos,
16:06 bill on agricultural guidance in mind,
16:09 and to prove to you that I'm motivated to see this work bear
16:11 fruit.
16:12 I'm starting today, and I've decided
16:14 on 10 immediate simplification measures, most of which
16:17 are introduced by decree starting tomorrow.
16:21 The Russian president accused Ukraine
16:23 of shooting down the plane with US or French missiles.
16:27 According to the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin,
16:30 the Ukrainian military intelligence agency, the GUR,
16:33 knew that there were prisoners of war
16:35 aboard the Russian military transport plane that
16:38 was shot down by KIE forces.
16:40 The mandatory added that the full story of the downing
16:44 will become clear in a couple of days.
16:46 The IL-76 military transport plane
16:49 was shot down Wednesday morning over Russia's Belgorod region.
16:54 All the people on board were killed--
16:56 65 prisoners, six crew members, and three Russian soldiers.
17:00 The Russian defense ministry says
17:02 the plane was shot down by Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles
17:06 while en route to a prisoner exchange
17:08 in the town of Belgorod, located near the Russian-Ukrainian
17:12 border.
17:12 Two missile launches were recorded
17:21 from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime at 11.10.
17:27 The aircraft was hit two, three minutes later.
17:32 It was almost impossible to react.
17:38 These are the latest crimes related
17:40 to the destruction of aircraft.
17:41 Every time it involves their citizens,
17:47 they don't hit soldiers.
17:48 Well, our only condolences are for our pilots.
17:54 I will ask the investigative committee
18:00 to make public as much as possible
18:02 all the circumstances of this crime
18:06 so that people in Ukraine know what really happened.
18:10 Well, we are working on every fact.
18:12 Investigative bodies are working on building up the evidence.
18:17 Burkina Faso received on Friday 25,000 tons of free wheat
18:21 promised by President Vladimir Putin
18:23 as part of a package for six African nations.
18:26 The grain had been pledged by Putin at a Russia-Africa summit
18:30 in St. Petersburg last July with Mali,
18:33 the Central African Republic, Eritrea, Somalia, and Zambia
18:37 making up the group.
18:38 Burkina Faso's Minister for Solidarity and Humanitarian
18:41 Action, Nandi Somediallo, said the wheat showed Moscow's
18:45 willingness to accompany the efforts of the authorities
18:48 in Ouagadougou who face a security crisis.
18:52 Russian Ambassador Alexei Saltykov
18:54 said the wheat was a strong signal of the willingness
18:57 of the Russian president to give dynamic impetus to cooperation
19:01 with Burkina Faso, one of its strategic partners
19:04 on the African continent.
19:05 Quantities of wheat were also delivered
19:16 to Eritrea, Mali, the Central African Republic, Somalia,
19:20 and Zimbabwe.
19:21 In 2023, Mali was supplied with cereals, fuel, and fertilizer
19:25 as humanitarian aid.
19:31 Our country will continue to contribute not only
19:34 to supplying Burkina Faso with basic necessities,
19:37 but also to its self-sufficiency in food, energy,
19:40 and technology through the transfer of our expertise,
19:43 skills, and know-how.
19:43 The Iraqi resistance warned on Friday of US manipulation
19:50 to withdraw its military forces from the country
19:53 after years of malicious agenda in the region.
19:56 In a statement, the movement stressed
19:58 that the US's acquiescence to the Iraqi government's request
20:01 to form a committee to set the status of its troops
20:05 would not have happened without the resistance operations.
20:08 The group warned of Washington's treachery and its attempt
20:12 to buy time to carry out more crimes and plans to harm
20:16 the people and the nation.
20:17 In this regard, the resistance reiterated
20:19 to continue with the operations against the foreign presence
20:23 until the true intentions of the US
20:25 and the seriousness of its commitment
20:27 to withdraw the invading forces from Iraq are made clear.
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