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00:02 In Mexico, as part of an annual demonstration,
00:14 relatives of the 43 Ayotzinapa students marched for justice.
00:18 In the Netherlands, the International Court of Justice
00:25 on Friday ordered the Israeli government
00:28 to take all the preventive measures within its power
00:31 to prevent the acts of genocide in Gaza.
00:34 And in France, the main farmers union
00:42 won a series of concessions from the government on Friday.
00:45 Hi, hello from the headquarters of Telos or English
00:55 in Caracas, Venezuela.
00:58 This is From the South, and I'm your anchor, Glaris Kessara.
01:01 Now we begin with the news.
01:19 The International Court of Justice on Friday
01:22 ordered the Israeli government to take all measures
01:25 within its power to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza.
01:29 In this regard, the United Nations High Court
01:31 based in The Hague issued a verdict
01:33 after the government of South Africa
01:36 filed a lawsuit against Israel for genocidal acts in Gaza
01:40 due to the ongoing offensive that has already
01:43 killed more than 26,000 people.
01:46 In turn, the ICJ attorney, John Donahue,
01:49 and other judges of The Hague Tribunal
01:52 ruled by 15 votes to 2 that Israel must take measures
01:56 to prevent the killings of civilians in Gaza
01:59 and all conditions detrimental to their livelihood that
02:03 could lead to their partial destruction
02:05 or prevent births among the Gaza population.
02:09 In this way, the tribunal will give Benjamin Netanyahu's
02:12 government one month to submit a report on the measures order.
02:16 It should be noted that a final ruling on whether Israel
02:20 committed genocidal acts could take up to a year or more.
02:24 In turn, the Hamas group also reiterated
02:27 that it will abide by any ceasefire ruling
02:30 as long as Israeli troops reciprocate.
02:34 I quote, "Gaza has become a place of death and despair.
02:38 Families are sleeping in it."
02:40 And the head of the top United Nations court
02:43 said that Israel must allow humanitarian assistance
02:45 for Gaza during the reading of the initial decision
02:48 in the case against Israel over genocide in Gaza.
02:53 16 votes to 1.
02:54 The state of Israel shall take immediate and effective
02:57 measures to ensure the provision of urgently needed basic
03:02 services and humanitarian assistance
03:04 to address the adverse conditions of life faced
03:07 by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
03:09 Meanwhile, on Friday in South Africa,
03:15 locals held the ruling of the highest court of the United
03:18 Nations ordering Israel to do everything
03:21 possible to prevent any act of genocide in Gaza.
03:25 The International Court of Justice in The Hague
03:27 issued its verdict in a landmark case brought by Pretoria,
03:31 also ordering Tel Aviv to allow humanitarian aid access
03:35 to the Palestinian territory.
03:37 Also, let us recall that South Africa accused Israel
03:41 of breaching the 1948 Union Genocide Convention established
03:45 in the aftermath of World War II.
03:48 "Free Gaza!
03:49 Free Gaza!
03:50 Free Gaza!
03:51 Free Gaza!
03:52 Free Gaza!"
03:54 "Perhaps now in this space we're
03:56 discussing the extent to which it can have an impact.
04:00 That's something that we're curious to see,
04:03 especially with what Israel is going to respond
04:06 with in a month's time as the court has instructed.
04:08 But I think for now it is a step in the right direction,
04:14 for sure."
04:15 "The judges have done the work.
04:17 They've applied their mind.
04:19 And it's 15 to 1, 16--
04:21 15 to 2, 16 to 1.
04:25 And it's good for our jurisprudence.
04:27 And it's good for humanity.
04:29 And I hope that Israel will respect the judgment
04:33 and will act accordingly."
04:36 In this regard, South African Foreign Minister Nalende Pander
04:40 stated that this is a decisive victory
04:43 for the international rule of law
04:45 and an important milestone in the pursuit of justice
04:48 for the Palestinian people.
04:50 But she said that the ICJ must issue a ceasefire order.
04:55 "I believe that in exercising the order,
05:01 there would have to be a ceasefire.
05:03 Without it, the order doesn't actually work.
05:08 I would have wanted a ceasefire.
05:11 No, they didn't.
05:13 But how--
05:14 But they didn't specify that.
05:16 I have no way that I'm going to say I'm disappointed.
05:19 I hoped for it.
05:21 But the fact of delivering humanitarian aid,
05:24 the fact of taking measures that reduce the levels of harm
05:29 against persons who have no role in what Israel is combating,
05:35 for me, requires a ceasefire.
05:38 And I believe Israel would have to attend
05:40 to how it conducts its search for the hostages
05:45 and for those Hamas individuals who carried out the October 7
05:49 attack."
05:51 We have more on the matter.
05:52 In the last 24 hours, the Israeli occupation forces
05:55 committed around 18 massacres, killing some 174 Palestinians
06:01 in the Gaza Strip.
06:03 According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza,
06:05 the attacks in Tel Aviv in the last hours
06:08 also left about 310 wounded, most of them
06:11 women and children.
06:13 Health authorities warned that ambulance and civil defense
06:16 teams are unable to reach the places attacked
06:19 by the occupation, thus hindering rescue and care
06:22 of the wounded.
06:23 According to official figures, since the beginning
06:26 of the Israeli aggression on October 7,
06:28 some 26,000 people have been killed,
06:32 and other 63,740 have been wounded.
06:46 And now let's take a short break.
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06:50 English, where you will find the news in different formats,
06:52 the news updates, and more.
06:54 We have other stories coming up.
06:56 Stay with us.
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07:19 - Welcome back.
07:19 In Mexico, relatives of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa normalista
07:24 students marched this Friday in the country's capital
07:27 as part of an annual demonstration
07:29 to demand justice and the return of their loved ones.
07:32 The demonstrators demanded the appearance of the youths
07:35 while carrying signs with photos of the disappeared students
07:39 and shouting, "We want them alive."
07:42 They also rejected the release of the eighth military
07:44 personnel allegedly involved in the case
07:47 and demanded the punishment of those responsible.
07:50 Let's remember that in December, the Mexican government
07:53 expressed that between January the 4th and March the 4th,
07:56 2024, it will open to the relatives
08:00 all the files in possession of the Mexican state of the Ayotzinapa
08:03 case.
08:04 And the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela
08:14 announced on Friday the first decisions
08:16 on the review of political disqualifications.
08:19 The highest court of justice of Venezuela
08:21 has so far informed that the citizens, Leosenis Garcia,
08:25 Richard Mardo, and the former governor
08:27 of the state of Zulia, Pablo Perez,
08:30 have been qualified to hold public office,
08:33 while the disqualification of Enrique Capriles Radonski
08:37 is maintained.
08:38 The decisions of the court were announced
08:40 within the framework of the Barbados Agreement,
08:43 signed between the national government
08:45 and the United Platform of the opposition last October.
08:49 This is the process of dialogue promoted
08:52 in the city of Bridgetown and in Barbados--
08:54 Barbados, I beg your pardon--
08:56 and refers to the promotion of political rights
08:58 and the protection of the vital interests of the nation.
09:01 During an interview with the president
09:14 of the National Assembly of Venezuela,
09:16 Jorge Rodriguez carried out during the Maduro podcast.
09:20 The leader emphasized that between 2018 and 2020,
09:23 at least 20 destabilization plans were detected,
09:27 among them five assassination attempts.
09:29 We made 20 substantiated complaints
09:37 of serious acts against the stability of the republic
09:39 and the peace of the republic.
09:42 Since you were a minister between 2018, 2019,
09:46 and 2020, you filed 20 complaints, at least 20
09:50 claims, which included attempted magnicide,
09:54 the frustrated magnicide of August 4, 2018,
09:57 which included training of mercenaries
09:59 in paramilitary camps in Colombia,
10:05 which included psychological warfare operations, which
10:08 included serious sabotage against the Venezuelan
10:10 electrical system, attempted assassination
10:13 of leaders of the Bolivarian revolution,
10:18 attempted takeovers of military posts,
10:21 theft of weapons in military units,
10:23 attempted coup d'etat of different sides,
10:30 called "blue strike" when they wanted
10:32 to involve deserting officers of the Venezuelan Air Force.
10:38 Because they have also developed a psychological field
10:40 war on our Bolivarian National Armed Forces,
10:43 and they have also been defeated.
10:50 But they always manage to get some traitor in the making,
10:52 who succumbs to the requests and offers they make.
10:54 But it is amazing the attempts of magnicide, for example,
10:57 five known assassination plans.
11:02 Discovered, unveiled, and defeated.
11:04 Defeated and cancelled, as people say.
11:07 And with confessions of those involved.
11:11 During the interview, Jorge Rodriguez and President Nicolás
11:15 Maduro Moros also highlighted the efforts
11:17 made by the government of Venezuela
11:19 to reactivate the Barbados Agreements.
11:23 The National Assembly presented the agreement, especially
11:26 the political agreements.
11:27 The three agreements were presented
11:29 in plenary session of the National Assembly,
11:31 and the text of those agreements were approved.
11:33 They have constitutional rank at the legislative level
11:36 of the National Assembly.
11:37 They have legal rank.
11:38 Consequently, they were published
11:39 in the official Gazette, with a rank that
11:41 corresponds to them, according to the Assembly.
11:44 It is very important that they were given a higher rank,
11:47 but in a dialogue understanding and respect
11:50 for the agreements that have strictly respected.
11:52 And the plenary session commissioned
11:56 me to present an appeal before the Constitutional Chamber
12:01 for that chamber to discuss the constitutionality
12:04 of the mechanism and those agreements.
12:05 And in fact, the Constitutional Chamber
12:10 decided that those agreements were perfectly
12:12 within the constitutional parameters.
12:13 That is to say, that the legislative power
12:18 and the judicial power endorse with their actions of juries.
12:21 These Barbados Agreements and the established mechanism,
12:27 all this in a tremendous effort that we have made.
12:29 Thank you very much, Jorge, for all the effort, the patience
12:35 you have had to talk with the gringos of the Trump
12:37 administration and with the gringos of the Biden
12:39 administration.
12:42 But above all, the most difficult thing of all,
12:44 to talk with the extreme right, with that extreme right
12:47 to whom we opened a door so that they could return
12:50 to the Constitution, return to the elections,
12:53 and get out of their own trap, the guaidó,
12:55 like politics in which they got into.
12:57 And now, let's move on to other topics.
13:04 In El Salvador, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal
13:06 and some of the members of the voting boards
13:08 will participate on Sunday, January 28,
13:12 in a simulation of the presidential and legislative
13:14 elections of next February the 4th.
13:17 On Sunday, 1,505 voting centers will be set up.
13:22 That is 94% of the 1,595 that will actually
13:29 be on election day.
13:30 And in each voting center, a voting receiving board
13:33 will be set up, each of one made up of five proprietary members
13:37 and five substitutes.
13:39 More than 5 million Salvadorans are
13:41 invited to participate next Sunday, February the 4th,
13:44 starting at 7 AM, in the election of the president, who
13:48 will govern in the 2024-2029 quinquennium,
13:52 and of 60 deputies of the legislative assembly
13:55 for the 2024-2027 period.
14:05 In Colombia, the government of Gustavo Pedro
14:07 carried out a strategic territorial mission
14:11 of the national drug policy of the Pacific coast.
14:13 The event took place in the Colombian municipality
14:16 of Tumaco of the framework of the government
14:19 with the people public policy, a strategy aimed
14:22 at taking young people away from drug trafficking networks,
14:25 preventing and attending to their consumption,
14:28 and promoting rural security and the disruption of drug
14:31 trafficking structures.
14:33 The minister of justice and law, Néstor Osuna,
14:36 said that the strategy shows the government's union
14:38 for the implementation of a drug policy
14:41 to create a real and sustainable change in the communities.
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14:48 And in Colombia, the investigation and accusation
15:02 units began its second intervention
15:04 at the cemetery in Turbo in search of more
15:07 so-called false positives.
15:09 This agency, attached to the Special Peace Jurisdiction,
15:13 the JEP, complies with the precautionary measures
15:17 ordered by the section of absence of recognition.
15:20 They are deployed in view of the possible presence of bodies
15:23 of victims of the conflict.
15:25 The information that ordered this search
15:28 came from a victim who facilitated the location
15:31 of the possible graves.
15:32 Previously, in a first intervention,
15:35 the JEP recovered in the area two bodies presumed
15:38 to be victims of forced disappearance, which
15:41 are currently under study by Medellin Forensic Medicine.
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16:30 Welcome back to From the South.
16:44 In France, the main farmers' union
16:47 won a series of concessions from the government on Friday
16:50 after blocking major access routes to Paris in protests
16:54 focused on wages, taxes, and regulations.
16:57 Facing his first major crisis as prime minister,
17:00 Gabriel Attal announced the measures
17:02 while visiting a livestock farm in the Haute-Garonne
17:06 department in the southwest of the country,
17:08 the scene of the first highway blockades.
17:11 Attal declared that the government
17:13 will put an end to the rise in the price of diesel
17:16 used for farm machinery.
17:18 There will also be an emergency fund
17:20 to help farmers fight diseases in their livestock.
17:23 The siege of Paris followed days of disruption on the highways,
17:27 as well as convoys of tractors through the main cities
17:30 and protests in front of the government buildings.
17:33 The rallies mobilized some 55,000 people.
17:42 Over the next three weeks, we're launching a month
17:44 of simplification throughout France,
17:46 as in this department, prefects will bring together
17:49 our farmers and their representatives
17:51 to look at what can be simplified,
17:53 prefecture by prefecture, standard by standard.
17:56 At national level, we're going to continue
17:58 to work with the government and representatives
18:00 of the farming community to see how we can simplify
18:02 day-to-day administration, taxation,
18:05 and the mutualized social, agriculture,
18:07 the French agricultural welfare system as much as possible,
18:10 with French agriculture minister, Mark Fesnos,
18:13 bill on agricultural guidance in mind.
18:15 And to prove to you that I'm motivated to see this work
18:18 bear fruit, I'm starting today, and I've
18:20 decided on 10 immediate simplification measures,
18:23 most of which are introduced by decree starting tomorrow.
18:26 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
18:29 On Saturday in Baghdad, Iraq and the United States
18:32 held a first round of talks on the future of American
18:35 and other foreign troops in the country.
18:38 Prime Minister of all Sudanese foreign affairs,
18:41 advisor said that the talks and whatever progress made
18:44 with the US will determine the length of these negotiations.
18:48 For Iraq's foreign ministry, the aim
18:50 will eventually lead to formulating
18:52 a specific clear timeline and to begin
18:55 the gradual reduction of its coalition's advisors
18:58 on Iraqi soil.
18:59 This, the talks which have been planned for months,
19:02 come at a time of heightened tensions in Iraq
19:05 and the region linked to the war between Israel and Hamas,
19:09 which has sparked a surge in attacks on American
19:12 and other coalition forces.
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19:18 And in this context, the Pentagon spokesperson,
19:25 Sabrina Sein, stated that the military commission meeting
19:28 will not address the withdrawal of the US forces in Iraq.
19:32 Let me be clear.
19:33 The HMC meeting is not a negotiation
19:36 about the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.
19:39 The United States and the coalition
19:41 are in Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government
19:43 to fight ISIS.
19:45 Our Iraqi partners have assured us
19:47 of their commitment towards working together
19:49 to shape this future on US military presence
19:52 and the enduring defeat of ISIS.
19:54 The HMC will enable the transition
19:56 to an enduring bilateral security partnership
19:59 between the US and Iraq, building
20:02 on the successes of the de-ISIS campaign in partnership
20:05 with the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent
20:08 Resolve.
20:09 And the Russian president, Vladimir Putin,
20:11 accused Ukraine of shooting down the plane
20:14 with US or French missiles.
20:16 According to the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin,
20:19 the Ukrainian military intelligence agency, the GUR,
20:23 knew that there were prisoners of war
20:25 aboard the Russian military transport plane that
20:28 was shot down by Kiev forces.
20:31 The mandatory also said that the full story of the downing
20:34 will become clear in a couple of days.
20:37 The IL-76 military transport plane
20:39 was shot down on Wednesday morning
20:41 over Russia's Belgorod region.
20:44 All the people on board were killed--
20:46 65 prisoners, six crew members, and the three Russian soldiers.
20:50 The Russian defense ministry says
20:52 the plane was shot down by Ukrainian anti-aircraft
20:56 missiles while en route to a prisoner exchange
20:58 in the town of Belgorod located near the Russian-Ukrainian
21:02 border.
21:02 [SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
21:09 Two missile launches were recorded
21:11 from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime at 11.10.
21:17 The aircraft was hit two or three minutes later.
21:19 It was almost impossible to react.
21:24 [SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
21:29 These are the latest crimes related
21:30 to the destruction of aircraft.
21:32 Every time it involves their citizens,
21:37 they don't hit soldiers.
21:38 Well, our only condolences are for our pilots.
21:45 [SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
21:49 I will ask the investigative committee
21:51 to make public as much as possible
21:52 all the circumstances of this crime
21:56 so that people in Ukraine know what really happened.
22:00 Well, we are working on every fact.
22:02 Investigative bodies are working on building up the evidence.
22:05 [SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
22:09 And Burkina Faso received on Friday
22:11 25,000 tons of free width promised
22:13 by President Vladimir Putin as part of a package of six
22:17 African nations.
22:19 The grain had been pledged by Putin at a Russia-Africa summit
22:22 in St. Petersburg last July, with Mali,
22:25 the Central African Republic, Eritrea, Somalia, and Zambia
22:29 making up the group.
22:31 Burkina Faso's Minister for Solidarity and Humanitarian
22:34 Action, Nandi Zamdiyalo, said that the width showed
22:37 Moscow's willingness to accompany
22:39 the efforts of the authorities.
22:41 In Uga Dugugu, who faced a security crisis,
22:45 Russian Ambassador Alexei Stoltykov
22:47 said the width was a strong signal
22:49 of the willingness of the Russian president
22:51 to give dynamic impetus to cooperation
22:54 with Burkina Faso, one of his strategic partners
22:57 on the African continent.
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23:06 Quantities of width were also delivered
23:08 to Eritrea, Mali, the Central African Republic, Somalia,
23:12 and Zimbabwe.
23:13 In 2023, Mali was supplied with cereals, fuel, and fertilizer
23:17 as humanitarian aid.
23:19 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
23:22 Our country will continue to contribute not only
23:26 to supplying Burkina Faso with basic necessities,
23:29 but also to its self-sufficiency in food, energy,
23:32 and technology through the transfer of our expertise,
23:35 skills, and know-how.
23:36 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
23:39 And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
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