Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated the request to suspend Ecuador as a member state of the United Nations. // Israeli forces target UNICEF aid convoy in Gaza. // Sudan war marks its 1-year anniversary. teleSUR
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00:03 In Mexico, President Andres Manuel López Obrador
00:14 reiterated the request to suspend Ecuador
00:16 as a member state of the United Nations
00:18 after the attack to the Mexican embassy in Quito.
00:21 A UNICEF humanitarian aid convoy was hit by Israel gunfire
00:28 on its way to northern Gaza to deliver lifesaving supplies
00:32 to children.
00:33 And Friday marks one year since the beginning
00:39 of the war in Sudan, which has left the country
00:41 with millions displaced.
00:43 Hello and welcome to From the South.
00:49 I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:52 We begin with the news.
00:54 The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel López Obrador,
00:56 reiterated in a press conference the request
00:59 to suspend Ecuador as a member state of the United Nations
01:02 after the attack to the Mexican embassy in Quito.
01:05 The president detailed that his government demands reparation
01:09 of the damage caused by Ecuador.
01:11 Mexican head of state demands also the suspension of Quito
01:15 from the United Nations until the emission
01:17 by Ecuador of a public statement of apology
01:20 and a non-repetition agreement.
01:22 López Obrador referred to the lawsuit filed at this ICJ
01:26 reflecting the arguments for the transgressions committed
01:30 against the Vienna Convention, which
01:32 states the inviolability of diplomatic premises
01:35 without exceptions.
01:37 We have to wait for the International Court of Justice
01:50 to decide on our claim.
01:53 And Mr. Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations,
01:58 is right when this is also for the member states of the United
02:04 Nations organization to decide.
02:08 So we are going to the Court of Justice,
02:10 and we are asking for Ecuador to be suspended from the United
02:15 Nations until it pronounces itself
02:19 and recognizes that they violated international law
02:25 and our sovereignty, which is what we want.
02:28 The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador,
02:35 has said that the petition seeks to impose a penalty
02:38 and prevent the violation of international law.
02:44 What we want, it is the decision of the United Nations
02:51 to expel any member state that violates international law
03:01 and violates the sovereignty of countries and their embassies
03:12 to become a maximum.
03:13 In this press conference, the Mexican head of state
03:22 highlighted the international community's solidarity
03:25 with Mexico after the siege of its embassy in Quito.
03:28 We are going to have a meeting on Tuesday,
03:38 a video conference which is being convened
03:43 by the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, whom
03:48 I thank very much, as I thank other presidents,
03:53 because the truth is that there has been a lot of solidarity
03:58 with Mexico.
04:01 All the countries are very supportive of Mexico,
04:05 and we are very grateful to her.
04:09 So she is convening this video conference for Tuesday
04:15 at 9 in the morning.
04:19 And we are going to participate, and some presidents
04:24 are confirming to participate on this issue.
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04:38 Ecuador's National Court of Justice
04:40 denies Abea's corpus to ex-vice president Jorge Glass detained
04:43 during the assault on the Mexican embassy in Ecuador.
04:46 Their sentence released on Friday
04:49 declares that the detention was illegal and arbitrary,
04:52 but rejects the defense petition for his release.
04:55 For the detention, there was no search warrant
04:58 issued by a judge, which makes it
05:01 an illegal and arbitrary detention.
05:03 The court stressed that this action was not
05:05 justified by the decree of internal armed conflict
05:08 declared by the government three months ago
05:11 to confront organized crime.
05:13 The arrest warrant had been issued on January 5
05:17 by the national judge Luis Rivera
05:18 to warranty Glass' appearance in a new criminal process.
05:22 Glass will remain in prison because he
05:24 has two convictions, one to six years for illicit association
05:29 in the Odebrecht case, and another to eight years
05:32 for aggravated bribery in the bribes 2012 to 2016 case.
05:42 Venezuela's attorney general's office
05:44 informed it will collaborate in a transnational investigation
05:48 with the Chilean government.
05:50 Venezuela's attorney general, Tarek William Saab,
05:53 stated that he received a request
05:55 for inter-institutional cooperation
05:58 from the Chilean attorney general's office.
06:00 The Chilean agency requests the personal information
06:03 and criminal records of five individuals
06:05 linked to the murder of former Venezuelan military officer
06:09 Ronald Ojeda.
06:10 Saab further clarified that the public ministry
06:13 is in process of locating the individuals allegedly involved
06:17 in the crime for their immediate arrest
06:19 if they are in Venezuelan territory.
06:22 The Cuban embassy in Venezuela remembers the 22nd year
06:31 of the siege against its diplomatic delegation
06:33 in Caracas during the coup d'etat against Commander Hugo
06:36 Chavez.
06:37 During a meeting at the facilities of the Cuban embassy
06:39 in Caracas, several legislators highlighted the organization
06:43 of the people to rescue the constitutional order
06:46 and return President Hugo Chavez, Hugo Rafael Chavez
06:49 Frías during the coup d'etat.
06:51 Likewise, the Cuban ambassador in Venezuela,
06:53 Dagoberta Rodriguez, recalled the words
06:55 between commanders Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez
06:58 in their conversation during the failed coup d'etat.
07:02 In turn, the deputy of the National Assembly,
07:05 Jesus Faria, expressed that the Cuban revolution has always
07:08 been a symbol of freedom and anti-imperialist struggle.
07:18 On April 12, 2002, in the context of the coup d'etat
07:22 against President Chavez, a group
07:24 of counterrevolutionaries of Cuban origin
07:26 and followers of the Venezuelan right-wing parties
07:29 besieged for 36 hours the diplomatic headquarters.
07:34 The fascist groups, in conspiracy
07:36 with the municipal government of Barucha,
07:38 attacked the embassy, leaving without electricity and water
07:42 and destroying the official vehicles.
07:44 During that time, they threatened and used
07:47 all kinds of insults against the Cuban officials.
07:50 The return of Chavez to power after his kidnapping
07:54 by this loyal military with the complicity of business sectors,
07:57 opposition unions, the Catholic Church, and the private media,
08:01 he put an end to that charper of siege
08:03 in which hate and fascism acquire a human face.
08:06 In this context, in his account on the social network X,
08:16 the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel,
08:18 stated the following.
08:20 "The Cuban president encouraged to remember
08:22 that 22 years ago, the fascist right-wing that
08:26 took power in Venezuela for a few hours
08:29 promoted an assault and siege on the Cuban embassy.
08:32 Díaz-Canel ended by recall that when the far right did not
08:36 achieve their purpose, cut the basic services
08:39 to the headquarters where there were women and children."
08:43 At the same time, the president of Venezuela,
08:45 Nicolás Maduro, in the social network X,
08:48 points out the following.
08:50 "22 years ago, the fascism of the far right
08:52 led to the siege of the Cuban embassy in Venezuela
08:56 and the coup d'etat against Chavez,
08:57 the same ones who ask for sanctions
09:00 and have always attempted against the Venezuelan people.
09:03 Enough of cynicism, long life to free and re-establish
09:07 the Cuban people, and the Cuban people
09:09 enough of cynicism, long life to free and conscious people
09:13 of the homeland."
09:14 In Cuba, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
09:24 issued a statement on the situation of the government's
09:26 dealings related to doctors Asel Herrera-Correa and Landy
09:30 Rodríguez Hernández, kidnapped five years ago in Africa.
09:33 According to the statement, the two Cuban doctors
09:36 were kidnapped in Kenya five years ago, on April 12, 2019.
09:41 On February 17, this year, it was news the presumed death
09:45 of the two doctors following an air attack on February 15
09:49 by the African command of the United States
09:51 operating in Somalia.
09:53 Data is insufficient to corroborate the truth about
09:56 what happened, which is why Cuba has repeatedly
09:59 asked the US government for precise information
10:03 about the incident.
10:04 The US government confirmed that an attack took place
10:07 in the area where the doctors were,
10:10 but it has not clarified the location, information
10:13 on the victims, or if the doctors were among the casualties
10:16 of the attack.
10:16 Let's take a short break.
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10:29 updates, and more.
10:30 Other stories coming up.
10:31 Stay with us.
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11:08 Welcome back.
11:09 A UNICEF humanitarian aid convoy was hit by Israel gunfire
11:13 while on its way to northern Gaza
11:15 to deliver life-saving supplies to children.
11:18 The organization stated that the incident
11:20 occurred on Wednesday near the military checkpoint
11:23 in Wadi Gaza, where the convoys was hit
11:26 by three rounds of gunfire.
11:28 After the incident, the aid workers
11:30 decided that they wanted to continue with the mission,
11:32 but it was impossible for them, as the occupying army kept
11:36 them awaiting at the checkpoint for more than two hours.
11:39 The convoy was part of a joint mission of UNICEF
11:42 and the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees,
11:46 carrying food, medicine, and fuel to feed the sanitation
11:49 and running water systems in Havalia
11:52 in the north of the Strip.
11:53 In Lebanon, the press union denounces the attack perpetrated
12:02 by Israel against a vehicle belonging to the Al-Majdine
12:05 press team in the south of the country.
12:07 The organization asked the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign
12:10 Affairs to register the attack as one of the crimes
12:13 against journalists.
12:14 It also requested the submission of a complaint
12:17 of this heinous act to the Security Council of the United
12:21 Nations organization.
12:22 In this context, the Israeli occupation forces
12:25 fired in the morning hours from boarded roads
12:28 at the Pan-Arab Al-Majdine channel team,
12:31 an attack which, according to the authorities,
12:34 did not register any casualties.
12:36 In Palestine, at least 30,000 people
12:45 attended Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque
12:48 in occupied Jerusalem.
12:49 Thousands of worshippers prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque,
12:52 despite the repercussion of security forces
12:56 of the Israeli regime in the building sacred to Muslims.
12:59 During the prayers, troops of the Israeli occupation army
13:03 arrested many believers after storming the mosque
13:06 at the end of prayers.
13:07 Israel continues its aggression against Palestinians
13:10 in the different cities without respecting the holy places.
13:14 In Jordan, thousands of citizens participated in a march in Amman
13:24 in solidarity with the Gaza Strip, which
13:27 has been under aggression by the Israeli regime for months.
13:31 The rally was held at the invitation
13:33 of the National Forum in support of the Palestinian resistance.
13:36 The march began in front of the Al-Husseini Mosque
13:39 in the capital until reaching Palm Square.
13:42 The protesters denounced the support
13:44 given by the United States to Israel
13:46 during the siege against Palestine,
13:48 with slogans indicating that Washington
13:51 is the mother of terrorism.
13:52 Likewise, in Bahrain, thousands of citizens
14:03 also held popular marches after Friday prayers
14:07 in the city of Tiraz in support of Palestine
14:10 and the resistance in Gaza.
14:11 The demonstrators rejected the 199 days
14:15 of Israeli aggressions against the Gaza Strip,
14:17 as well as the support of the United States to this genocide.
14:21 Members of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday
14:30 failed to reach an agreement on Palestine's application
14:33 for full membership in the United Nations.
14:36 Last week, the Palestinians relaunched their 2011 United
14:40 Nations membership application.
14:42 The Security Council launched its formal review process
14:45 within the ad hoc committee of the Council,
14:48 made up of the same member states.
14:50 At the end of a second closed-door meeting,
14:52 Vanessa Frazier, Ambassador of Malta,
14:55 who will chair the Council in April,
14:57 said two-thirds of Council members
15:00 are in favor of full Palestinian membership.
15:03 According to diplomatic sources, the vote
15:05 could take place on April 18 at the initiative of Algeria.
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15:37 Welcome back to From the South.
15:52 In Moscow, the president of Belarus,
15:54 Alexander Lukashenko, said that the conditions
15:57 for negotiations in the Russia-Ukraine conflict
15:59 exist, provided that the West wants to talk about peace.
16:04 At a meeting with President Vladimir Putin,
16:06 Lukashenko expressed his support for Moscow's position
16:09 on the peace proposal to end the conflict.
16:12 Lukashenko stressed that he absolutely
16:14 supports a process of negotiations
16:16 to defeat the conflict, and urged the parties
16:19 to sit down to negotiate.
16:21 He referred to Ukraine by its actions
16:24 that does not want to sit at the table, but in his opinion,
16:28 if the West wants to talk about peace,
16:30 they will hear that voice in Ukraine as well.
16:33 Lukashenko emphasized that three rounds of meetings
16:36 were held earlier, where certain agreements were reached.
16:40 Friday marks one year after the so-called Forgotten War
16:48 in Sudan, which has left the country with millions
16:51 displaced, infrastructure devastated,
16:53 and a pressing risk of starvation.
16:55 Sudan is in a catastrophic situation
16:58 due to a dispute between generals, which
17:01 for the past year has left, according to aid workers,
17:04 thousands of victims of sexual and ethnic violence.
17:07 Fighting began on April 15, 2023,
17:10 between Army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his one-time
17:14 number two, Mohamed Hamdan Daglow,
17:17 leading the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces,
17:19 and experts see no end in sight to the conflict.
17:23 The Northeast African country is experiencing
17:25 one of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent history,
17:29 and the largest internal displacement crisis
17:31 in the world, according to the United Nations.
17:34 In this context, more than 10 million children
17:43 have been affected by armed conflict, bombings,
17:45 and various types of lethal violence in Sudan.
17:49 Human rights organizations have noted
17:51 that children in the country have witnessed or suffered
17:53 devastating injuries, death, displacement,
17:57 psychological damage, and destruction of their homes
17:59 and communities.
18:01 They also warned that millions of Sudanese children
18:03 do not have adequate food, and thousands
18:06 are at risk of dying from diseases.
18:09 In this context, the World Health Organization
18:11 reported that more than 3 million Sudanese children
18:14 under five years of age suffer from acute malnutrition,
18:18 and more than 710,000 children suffer
18:21 from severe acute malnutrition.
18:24 And let's go now to the world of sports.
18:27 Yulima Rojas, the queen of athletics,
18:29 will miss the Olympic Games due to a tendon injury
18:33 on her left leg.
18:34 This was confirmed by the world record holder, an Olympic
18:38 triple jump champion, who underwent surgery
18:41 at the age of 18.
18:42 She is currently in the process of recovering
18:45 from a brain injury.
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