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*60 killed and over 280 injured after Israeli massacres in Palestine.
*Russia and Ukraine swapped 75 prisoners of war.
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00:00 In Venezuela, mobilizations continue throughout the country in support of President Nicolás
00:14 Maduro in view of the elections on July 28, in which the people are debating on peace.
00:21 In Palestine, the Israeli occupation committed five massacres against families in a Gaza
00:26 Strip, leaving 60 Palestinians killed and more than 280 injured in hospitals in the
00:33 last 24 hours.
00:36 In Russia and Ukraine, announced on Friday that they had exchanged thousands of prisoners
00:41 of war in one of the only areas of dialogue between the Belgrade countries.
00:55 Hello welcome to From the South, I'm Ana Marrero from the Telesur headquarters in Caracas,
00:59 Venezuela.
01:00 We begin with the news, stay with us.
01:15 On Friday, the National Electoral Institute of Mexico, IRENE, reassured that everything
01:22 is set to guarantee the transparency of the Sunday's presidential elections.
01:26 The president of the IRENE, Guadalupe Tadeji Zavala, reaffirmed that she seeks to strengthen
01:32 the democratic system in the upcoming elections.
01:35 In this regard, Tadeji inaugurated the Information Forum for Foreign Visitors, in addition to
01:41 the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power, an institution that seeks to ensure
01:46 the transparency of the process.
01:54 In Venezuela, mobilizations continue throughout the country in support of President Nicolás
01:58 Maduro in view of the elections on July the 28th, in which the people are betting on peace.
02:04 The mobilizations have been attended by leaders of the Bolivarian Revolution, as well as representatives
02:09 of the political parties and the supporters of President Maduro's candidacy for the elections.
02:14 Rallies in support of the Bolivarian Revolution have focused on the call to maintain the struggles
02:19 in defense of democracy and sovereignty in the face of the sublizing attempts by the
02:25 United States and the European Union.
02:27 Venezuelans have also shown their gratitude to the leadership of Nicolás Maduro and the
02:32 cooperation they have received from the state to confirm the sanctions imposed by the United
02:36 States.
02:37 During a meeting with members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela in the state
02:48 of Monagas, its first vice president, Isidro Cabello, questioned the behavior of a sector
02:55 of the opposition that, after the public lead requested sanctions and supported the imperial
03:02 side against the country, now walks the streets asking for votes.
03:06 These people that today are asking for votes, who were the same ones who asked for sanctions,
03:15 the same ones who asked for a blockade, for invasions, the same ones who tried to assassinate
03:20 President Nicolás Maduro, walk our neighbors today with their faces poorly washed, asking
03:25 for votes from those they harmed with their sanctions, because they are shameless.
03:31 They were also even saying until last year that they wouldn't go to elections with the
03:34 same CNE, that they wouldn't go to elections if there were no international observers.
03:39 If the OAS, the United States, the European Union were not there, they are political phonies.
03:53 On Thursday, President of Colombia Gustavo Petro requested to speed up the process of
03:58 making the agrarian reform in the country so that peasants, farmers could receive more
04:02 hectares.
04:03 The head of state expressed the request at an event held in Pueblo Nuevo, a municipality
04:10 in the northern department of CĂłrdoba.
04:12 During the gathering, Petro decreed the official gathering of 6,000 land hectares in the region
04:19 to agricultural workers and assured his government's intent to pay off the historic debt that Colombia
04:26 has with a humble people.
04:29 On Thursday evening, the defense minister of Colombia, Iván Velázquez, announced security
04:36 forces planned an attack in the southwest of the country.
04:40 A coordinated riot among the national police, the national army, and the air forces occurred
04:45 with a heavily blown TrinĂłn-Farga descendants operating in the department of Cauca.
04:50 The Jacobo Arenas Western Block of the self-styled Central General Staff were planning an attack
04:56 when intelligence work led to the arrest of Alias Esteban in the municipality of Llambalo.
05:09 On Thursday, the plenary session of the Peruvian Congress approved the reform of the mediated
05:13 re-election of mayors and general governors, but excluded the regional movements from the
05:19 upcoming elections.
05:21 These measures, approved with 82 votes in favor, have caused dissatisfaction in regional
05:26 movements.
05:27 In this sense, Freddy Bragdov, president of the Association of Regional Movements, rejected
05:33 the approval, pointing out that he violated the fundamental rights to participate in the
05:37 electoral process.
05:44 In Argentina, the recovered grandson Horacio Pietragala shows his condolences for the death
05:51 of human rights defender Nora Cortina, saying that she was a symbol of hope and resistance.
05:59 "Yes, the truth is that right now a mother, what a mother, and I say that every mother,
06:06 every grandmother that leaves us represent a big void, a big pain.
06:11 They are a symbol, a symbol of struggle, of hope, of resistance, of denunciation.
06:16 And well, we will have to be thousands committing ourselves to be able to carry forward a little
06:20 of that absence, that orphanhood that remains.
06:24 Mainly with our history, our mothers and grandmothers were fundamental."
06:32 In Brazil, representative of the communities affected by the operation of the Sao Paes
06:36 industrial port complex held public hearing to discuss violations and abuses by the company.
06:41 The meeting was held to reach a consensus that will benefit the residents of the Aequilombo
06:48 Ila de MĂ©rida in the city of Recife, who are mostly affected by the company's operation.
06:55 The general prosecutor's office stressed the importance of listening to the population
07:00 of those communities in order to learn about the most important situation of their concern.
07:07 The residents demand actions that will support and protect them from the businesses whose
07:13 they call have been harming them for more than 30 years.
07:20 Let's take a very short break, but remember you're going to join us on our TikTok account
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07:31 Stay tuned for more news.
07:32 Welcome back to "From the South."
07:58 In Palestine, the Israeli occupation committed five massacres against families in the Gaza
08:02 Strip, leaving 60 Palestinians killed and more than 280 injured in hospitals in the
08:08 last 24 hours.
08:09 The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that Israel carried out a military operation in
08:14 the Jabaleh refugee camp in another part of the Gaza Strip.
08:17 The health ministry estimates that the bodies of some 10,000 missing persons are still buried
08:23 under the rubble of residential areas due to the shilling of the Israeli army of occupation.
08:33 In Yemen, residents mobilized in the capital city of Sanaa, making a massive demonstration
08:37 in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
08:40 Flags and banners filed on the main streets of the capital, expressing the Yemeni people's
08:45 support of the armed forces defending the Palestinian Gaza from the West's aggressions.
08:51 Protesters affirm their backing to the displaced Palestinians and their just cause, stressing
08:58 the American and British aggressions against Yemen will not break the will of the Yemeni
09:02 people and the leadership of their pro-Palestinian sides.
09:07 In Lebanon, the Hezbollah resistance launched about 100 missiles at Israeli regime military
09:15 installations in response to the latest Zionist bombardment of the south region.
09:20 The Lebanese resistance said in a statement that its members attacked a headquarters with
09:25 heavy Baraka missiles and hid directly destroying it.
09:29 The sides attacked by Hezbollah includes settlements in Ramon Naftali in the upper Galilee city
09:38 and a building used by Israeli soldiers in the Shomeras settlements.
09:50 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi warns Israel against a new
09:55 force exited in Palestine.
09:57 The expert assured that the atrocious event in Rafah have made the world witness one of
10:03 the most serious war crimes in the memory of humanity.
10:06 He referred to the desperate situation of thousands of Palestinians who are currently
10:11 trapped and starving, trying to live, to save their lives.
10:22 In Palestine, in the occupied West Bank, local authorities report on the destruction of a
10:27 wheat plantation in a village of Zabaria north of the Neblus, for which they blame the shelters
10:33 of Ferdman Diaz are part of the tactic employed by the Israeli regime to appropriate more
10:39 lands and cattle to the displaced farmers.
10:48 In Palestine, the civilian population of the occupied West Bank continues to be struck
10:52 by the Israeli occupation army, riots and bombardments on Friday.
10:57 Local authorities reported the injury of a young man after an assault in the northern
11:02 West Bank city of Neblus.
11:04 The civilian was wounded by live ammunition and transferred by the Red Crescent Society.
11:27 Mexico's health secretary revealed that the unprecedented heat wave in the country has
11:33 already left 1,336 people affected.
11:36 Sixty-one of them died, breaking all records of previous years.
11:42 According to the official report, during the current heat season, which began on March
11:46 17 and will end on October 5, the most affected states are Veracruz, with 16 deaths, Tabasco
11:53 with 11, and San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas with 9 each.
12:07 Weeks after its worst floods in history, the waters are beginning to subside in the southern
12:14 Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.
12:17 But a far-right social media disinformation campaign against relief efforts by the Lula
12:23 administration continues.
12:24 Here is our correspondent Brian Mears with the details.
12:28 Today marks a month since the start of the worst climate change disaster in the history
12:33 of southern Brazil, when a freak rainstorm left dozens of towns underwater and caused
12:38 the worst flood in Porto Alegre's history.
12:40 And for the last month, far-right actors connected to the Bolsonaro family have been running
12:45 disinformation campaigns to undermine the federal government's relief efforts.
12:53 Every day there's new fake news.
12:56 Now I've seen a campaign they are operating on WhatsApp, using the same techniques as
13:00 the other disinformation campaigns, telling people to go to the supermarkets to buy everything
13:06 they can before it disappears.
13:08 They are clearly trying to create a food shortage.
13:11 Nothing is being done to damage the relief work.
13:15 Within hours after the start of the floods, the federal government sent national security
13:19 forces and the military into the state to join the search and rescue efforts.
13:25 And within days, there were 13,500 troops on the ground.
13:29 Instead of rushing in to support the victims, far-right businessmen and politicians pushed
13:34 a false counter-narrative on social media that federal forces hadn't arrived yet.
13:40 This was only the start of their actions, which members of the Lula administration classify
13:44 as sabotage.
13:49 President Lula has taken a series of measures so that Rio Grande do Sul can organize relief
13:55 for the flood victims, but unfortunately it's all been distorted to create a smokescreen
14:00 to relieve the culprits of guilt and redirect all of the anger and hatred.
14:05 Unfortunately, Brazil has a tradition of political agents fostering and organizing hatred so
14:11 that people have problems understanding what is true and what isn't.
14:16 The Justice Ministry has launched an investigation into illegal spreading of disinformation leading
14:21 to harm of Brazilian citizens.
14:24 Brian Meir, tell us, sir, Porto Alegre.
14:28 The Indian Meteorological Department, known as IMD, predicted a gradual reduction in ambient
14:34 temperatures for northwest and central India after reporting highs above 390 degrees Celsius
14:40 in Delhi a few days ago, which are considered a record for the current summer season.
14:48 Saturdays in New Delhi were not offerings of water scarcity as temperatures rise.
14:54 The state water minister, Aditya Marlena, called for collective responsibility to help
15:00 reduce water wastages.
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15:36 Russia and Ukraine announced on Friday that they had exchanged thousands of prisoners
15:40 of war in one of the only areas of dialogue between the Belgrade countries.
15:45 Despite large-scale hostilities, the two sides have conducted more than 50 prisoners' exchanges
15:51 since Russia launched the special denazification operation against Ukraine more than two years
15:57 ago.
15:58 The latest exchanges have provided demands from both sides, and following the breakdown
16:05 in January of Russian-planning Iranian-Ukrainian prisoners, the Russian defense ministry said
16:11 it had secured the release of 75 of its servicemen, who it claims were in mortal danger of being
16:20 held in Ukraine.
16:27 Thursday, the Spanish Parliament gave the green light to a bill that would amnesty the
16:32 hundreds of Catalans and Sicilians involved in the felicitation attempt seven years ago.
16:38 In this way, the bill passed by 177 to 172 votes, will secure the annual judicial records
16:47 of hundreds of officials and activists implicated in crimes related to Catalonia's secio-sionist
16:55 drive since 2011, paved the way for the return of the movement's leaders in exile, Carlos
17:02 Pudimont.
17:03 "Europe has said 'yes' to the amnesty, loud and clear, because it guarantees equality,
17:13 separation of powers, territorial function and what is more important, Europe has shouted
17:18 to the four winds that the amnesty helps institutional and political normalization in Catalonia,
17:23 and everything is thanks to this government."
17:27 In Beijing, the governments of China and Bahrain established bilateral strategy callouses at
17:33 a meeting between President Xi Jinping and King Haman bin Issa al Khalifa.
17:39 During the gathering, issues of economic, commercial and scientific interests were discussed
17:45 as well as current international and regional geopolitics.
17:48 For his part, the monarch al Khalifa highlights Beijing's work to maintain peace and stability
17:54 in the region, while Xi Jinping celebrates 35 years of China's ties with Bahrain and
18:00 apprised its ability to expand joint strategies to further their foreign relations to the
18:05 highest level.
18:06 China's Defense Minister Dong Yun and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met in Singapore
18:17 on Friday on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue being held in a Saudi Asian country.
18:24 This is the first meeting of these defense offices since 2022, the meeting which lasted
18:31 for more than an hour, when Don reiterated his country does not provide arms to any of
18:38 the parties of the conflict in Ukraine, but advocates for dialogue and peace.
18:49 On Friday, as Nicaragua celebrates Mother's Day, more than 15 pregnant women participated
18:54 in a contest in which the elected winner is mothered with the biggest baby bond.
19:00 The competition is part of a local tradition that has been held in Managua for 21 years.
19:06 Let's see.
19:07 "I didn't really think I was going to win, because I thought there are bigger bellies,
19:14 but God's mercy indeed, I had never participated in anything like this before."
19:20 "I'm expecting a baby girl and I'm very grateful to Radio Ya and all the sponsors.
19:26 I'm one of the winning mothers, I won the third place and it is a great blessing for
19:30 my baby girl I'm expecting."
19:32 "We're celebrating Nicaragua's Mother's Day with more than 15 expecting mothers participating
19:39 in this traditional contest which we have been organizing for 21 consecutive years to
19:44 inspire mothers, to give a special boost to those mothers with limited resources."
19:49 And with that story we have come to the end of this brief, but you can find this and many
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20:02 For TELESUDYINGLISH, I'm from the south, I'm Ana Marrero, thank you for watching.
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