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00:00In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro denounced that the far-right incest on its plans against
00:14social peace.
00:18In Palestine, the Israeli government announced plans to encircle occupied East Jerusalem
00:23by expanding a block of settlements that will house 100,000 Jewish citizens over the next
00:28four years.
00:33And in Somalia, at least 9 people were killed and 20 others injured after a terrorist car
00:38bomb attack in the capital Mogadishu.
00:45Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:50To begin with the news.
01:01In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro denounced that the far-right incest on its plans against
01:06social peace.
01:07He forwarded a reaffirmed his call for a great national front against fascism.
01:11During a large rally of the Polyhedron of Caracas, the revolutionary forces joyfully
01:17received the president backing his candidacy and rejecting the unilateral U.S. sanctions.
01:23The candidates for the great patriotic pole thanked the people for their support to defeat
01:27the actions of the far-right and promised to continue working for their national welfare.
01:32Maduro also condemned the fascist plans of the right-wing domestic sectors that intended
01:37to sabotage the electric service and generate violence against the population for their
01:42personal interest of taking office.
01:52I have to defend peace, because of the threats that you know, some of them are openly known,
01:57and others are known to me, we know them, and we are 24-7 watching over peace because
02:01they have some goals, the electric war, the electric war is their target, and they have
02:06some goals in what they are going to do, which we won't allow them to do, but if they were
02:10to do it, it would be perhaps the worst mistake they could make, I tell you very clearly,
02:15they are the far-right wing, they are, as we call them.
02:19You know Diosdado, they are abusive, arrogant egocentrists, they believe at the world, arrogant
02:24is the word, they think that the world is their oyster, the ego of their last names,
02:29they think that they are the eighth wonder of the world, of the far-right world, so the
02:33world has to surrender at their feet, that time, that time won't come back to Venezuela.
02:40The National Electoral Council continues audits of the electoral machines with respect
02:44to software and hardware to ensure that there are no failures during the presidential elections
02:49on July 28th.
02:50The auditing process was carried out on Sunday at the Caracas Square headquarters.
02:55The entity stated that the objective is to check the vote counting system and its components.
03:00During the process, representatives of the political organizations and the electoral
03:04bodies and technicians verified that the machines were produced with the corresponding
03:09certification codes.
03:11The purpose of this audit is to verify the hardware and software as well as the data
03:16of the voting machines and technological solution tests to confirm their optimal operating conditions.
03:26Venezuelan presidential hopefuls continue campaigning ahead of elections.
03:30In this way, the Chavista forces continue to fine-tune their structure together with
03:35President Maduro.
03:36More details from our correspondent, Leonel Ratamal.
03:40With two weeks to go before the elections, the Chavistas continue to organize through
03:44the electoral mechanism called One Times Ten Times Seven, with which they seek to activate
03:49the entire Chavista base, leaders, sympathizers and militants.
03:55Well, we are oiling the machinery today to give on July 28th a resounding victory to
04:00the Bolivarian revolution and to the memory of our eternal commander, Hugo Rafael Chávez
04:05Frias, and above all to that man who has been loyal to the revolutionary people, the Chavistas
04:11and the Venezuelan people, which is President Nicolás Maduro.
04:16We're checking the One Times Ten Times Seven of each of the heads of the UBCH, of the unit's
04:20structure, of the CLAP, of communal councils, of street chiefs, and everything has been
04:24a success.
04:25Today we will be successful.
04:28President Maduro participated in the check-up day making face-to-face contacts with the
04:32organizations throughout the country to continue giving indications of the work that remains
04:36to be done.
04:37He also presented a book, a film and a television series on his figure and political struggle.
04:44Here we have only one objective, to defend the independence of Venezuela, to defend the
04:50homeland, and to make, as we are going to do, a revolution within the revolution, because
04:56we are going for more changes and more transformations that the people demand and that the people
05:02need.
05:03The former candidate Edmundo González held an event at the Central University of Venezuela
05:10in spite of the refusal of the authorities of the university and other university sectors.
05:14The rally was also criticized by candidate Antonio Carri, who called for the preservation
05:19of university autonomy.
05:20Instead, he proposed to hold a debate in its facilities.
05:24Candidate Enrique Márquez also registered activity on his social networks with proposals
05:29focused on encouraging participation on July 28.
05:33Let's vote.
05:34Vote for you, for your future, for your family.
05:38Your vote is power to change authority.
05:41Vote without fear.
05:42On the border state of Tachibana, the candidate for Arepa Digital, Denise Valles, delivered
05:47proposals to modernize the state.
05:50Thanks to new technologies, people can once again recover their capacity to decide.
05:55Enough of particular interests, enough of the interests of parties, enough of the interests
05:59of some elites to control the Venezuelan state.
06:02Candidate Luis Eduardo Martínez called for maintaining a climate of peace and dialogue
06:06beyond the results of July 28.
06:09But more important is July 29 and the days after, because it will demonstrate the maturity
06:14of the Venezuelan people and the capacity of the political leadership to understand
06:17each other for the sake of Venezuela.
06:19Venezuela cannot stand any more confrontation.
06:21It cannot stand any more fights.
06:23A great portion of the situation we are living in is the result of that sterile confrontation.
06:28Two weeks remain for Venezuelans to go to the polls to cast their vote and elect the
06:34next president.
06:37On Monday, Syrians go to the polls to elect the fourth legislature of the People's Assembly
06:42with authorities setting up 8,151 polling stations across the country's 14 provinces.
06:48This way, 1,516 candidates are running for the 250 seats in the National Assembly.
06:55The voting day will end at 7 p.m. local time and may be extended for a maximum of five
07:01hours in all of some polling stations.
07:04Elections happen despite calls for boycott and attempts to disrupt the process and prevent
07:09citizens from exercising their right to vote by terrorist groups and separatist militias
07:14in areas outside government control.
07:16Regardless, authorities were determined to hold the elections on their packed constitutional
07:21date without changes.
07:27On Sunday, the leader of the left-wing Communist Party of Nepal, Sharma Ali, got appointed
07:32for his fourth term as the country's prime minister.
07:36Ali held this position for the first time in 2015 and also served as head of the government
07:41from February 2018 to July 2021 in two separate terms.
07:46Precisely, Ali won the appointment after banking on the support of 166 lawmakers, including
07:5388 from the Nepali Congress.
07:56It should be emphasised that the minimum number of seats needed in the 270-member House of
08:01Representatives to form a government is 138.
08:06This way, he was presented as prime minister by President Ramchandra Poudel.
08:14On Monday, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, received the prime minister of Belarus,
08:19Roman Goloshchenko.
08:20During the meeting, they took stock of the agreements signed between the two countries
08:25in 2023 and the path of cooperation, which Maduro described at the time as a new beginning
08:31in bilateral relations.
08:33In this regard, both authorities shared their vision for the future and reiterated their
08:37commitment to strengthen cooperation on strategic sectors.
08:41In the meantime, they also agreed to create spaces for the further growth of the strategic
08:46alliance while they also discussed the upcoming presidential elections of July 28, in which
08:51a Belarusian delegation will participate as international observer.
08:55On the other hand, both President Maduro and Goloshchenko sent fraternal greetings to their
09:00people and reaffirmed their will to strengthen brotherhood and solidarity.
09:11The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced that on July 16 he will sign the
09:15pension reform recently approved by the Congress of the Republic.
09:19Current figures reveal that only one out of every four Colombians has access to a pension
09:25and only one out of every eight women receives a pension.
09:29The pension reform aims to benefit more than 2 million grandfathers and grandmothers who
09:33never contributed despite having worked all their lives.
09:37The new law will establish a dignified solidarity income, especially for housewives who did
09:42not contribute to the system and for the elderly who did not meet the minimum requirements
09:47for accessing a pension.
09:53Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received on Monday his Italian counterpart,
09:58Sergio Mattarella, as part of the two nations' interest to strengthen their bilateral relations.
10:02During their meeting, the two leaders discussed the conclusion of trade agreements between
10:07Mercosur and the European Union, environmental issues and renewable energies.
10:12They also expressed their support for the two-state solution for the conflict in Palestine,
10:17call for peace in Ukraine and in the Middle East.
10:19Besides, both heads of state highlighted the G20's and the G7's efforts to fight hunger
10:25and poverty in the world.
10:35Let's take a short break, but remember you can join us on Tiktok at TELUSURI ENGLISH
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10:45We'll be right back, stay with us!
10:47Welcome back.
10:56The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, described as regrettable the attacks
11:01suffered by the former President of the United States, Donald Trump.
11:04In his morning conference on Monday, the President pointed out that nothing related to violence
11:09can be justified after considering that such irrational acts do not help or benefit anything,
11:15but rather only aggravate the political environment causing distrust.
11:19López Obrador ruled out that the attacks suffered by the former President of the United
11:22States will have consequences in Mexico.
11:25The Mexican President used the podium of the National Palace to mourn the deadly victims
11:30of this event, while advocating a political confrontation based on dissident and peaceful
11:35opposition.
11:45And that is what we think, that there should be no violence in the elections.
11:57It should be the citizens who freely and peacefully decide who should govern them.
12:05The first Vice President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, criticized
12:10the media's coverage of the assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump.
12:15In this context, he explained that the media emporiums are comparing the attack with the
12:19criminal actions of the extreme right in the South American country.
12:23Cabello pointed out that the Venezuelan people do not deserve the spill of blood because
12:27of the right-wing's attempts to destabilize the country.
12:31He also affirmed that the revolution is the best option to warrant peace and economic
12:35stability in the nation.
12:37He also stated that Venezuela condemns the acts of violence registered this Saturday
12:41against the U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump.
13:08The Israeli government announced plans to encircle occupied Jerusalem by expanding a
13:12block of settlements that will house 100,000 Jewish citizens over the next four years.
13:18The project is part of Israel's strategic plan to establish greater Jerusalem through
13:22the construction of a network of infrastructure, tunnels and roads that will occupy more Palestinian
13:28land.
13:29The project will extend from the Israeli northward city of Nazareth to Beersheba in the south
13:34of the region, crossing the occupied West Bank to connect with the settlements in that
13:39territory.
13:40Palestinian experts point out that these actions are considered illegitimate as they are conducted
13:45on occupied Palestinian lands through the demolition of homes and land confiscation.
13:57Also in Palestine, at least five people were killed after an Israeli bombardment on the
14:01Magasi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
14:04WAFA news agency reported three children among the victims of the airstrike, which targeted
14:09a home of the al-Manama family.
14:12The bombing occurred simultaneously with other strikes on the al-Maghraq area and the neighboring
14:18Nusayrat and Mureish camps, all in the heart of the destroyed enclave.
14:22The attacks come two days after the massacre perpetrated by Israel in the humanitarian
14:27zone of Mawassi, where 90 people were killed and more than 300 injured.
14:45In this context, and during Sunday, Israel perpetrated a new massacre by attacking a
14:49school of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees, located in the refugee camp of Nusayrat.
14:55The bombing claimed the lives of 16 people, 17 people, while 80 were wounded.
15:01From UNRWA, they denounced that Israel has destroyed 180 facilities of the agency since
15:07the beginning of the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip in October 2023.
15:12On Monday, the President of the Palestinian National Council, Raouf Fatou, accused Israel
15:31of increasing the number of massacres in the Gaza Strip.
15:34In this regard, Raouf Fatou denounced the latest massacres perpetrated by Israel on
15:39the school of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees and
15:44the humanitarian zone of Mawassi.
15:46In the meantime, the Palestinian leader also called on the United Nations and global organizations
15:51to protect the rights of women and minors.
15:54Furthermore, Fatou accused the Biden administration, responsible for thousands of victims killed
15:59and injured daily by U.S. weapons and smart bombs in the Gaza Strip.
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16:30In Somalia, at least nine people were killed and 20 others injured after a terrorist car
16:34bomb attack in the capital Mogadishu.
16:37In this sense, police authorities reported that the car exploded in front of a coffee
16:41shop in the Bombhir neighborhood, where locals were watching the final of the UEFA Eurocup
16:46Championship held in Germany.
16:48The explosion, which also caused material damage to vehicles parked in the vicinity,
16:53occurred in the context where five members of the extremist group Al-Shabaab were imprisoned
16:58and three guards were killed on Saturday in a shootout during an escape attempt of
17:02inmates in the Mogadishu Central Prison.
17:11The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
17:16began on Sunday.
17:17The topics to be discussed until next July 18th will be related to the country's modernization,
17:23the deepening of the reform, and the current economic situation of the Asian nation.
17:28According to the Xinhua News Agency, the meeting stressed that the goal is to further improve
17:33the socialist system with Chinese particularities and promote the modernization of the national
17:39governance system.
17:40In addition, the political bureau reiterated China's goal of becoming a great modern socialist
17:46country.
17:47At the meeting, they also called for the proper management of the relationship between economy
17:52and society, government and market, efficiency and equity, vitality and order, development
17:58and security.
17:59On Sunday, the Future Movement of Venezuela presented the Teresa Carreño Theatre in Caracas,
18:24a film and book inspired by President Nicolás Maduro, who thanked the authors for their
18:28interesting and moving work.
18:30The film, Nicolás, conceived as a series of five chapters, was directed by professor
18:35and filmmaker Grayson Chacon, and the first session summarizes in 63 minutes part of the
18:41president's life with his family, childhood friends and young people.
18:45Chacon told Venezolana de Televisión that it was a challenge and that many of the actors
18:50had no acting experience.
18:52Maduro said he was impressed and thanked the efforts of those who portrayed the characters
18:58and announced that the story will continue.
19:19On Monday, Argentina's fans celebrated winning the 2024 Copa América after beating Colombia
19:241-0.
19:26In this way, the Argentine national football team won their 16th trophy in just the 47th
19:31edition of this continental tournament, thanks to a goal scored by Lautaro Martínez in overtime.
19:37It is worth noting that with this victory, the Argentine national team surpassed Uruguay
19:42as the most winning team in Copa América, as they also materialized a back-to-back championship
19:46after the win in the 2021 edition.
20:15For this to happen in this socio-cultural and economic context is like a lifeline for
20:20Argentina.
20:24Some highlights of the match included the departure of captain and Argentine star Lionel
20:29Messi in the minute 65 after suffering an ankle injury.
20:33It was also Ángel Di María's last game for the Albi Celeste national team, where
20:37he played for more than 15 years.
20:39After the match, Colombian players James Rodríguez won the Best Player of the Tournament award,
20:44while Emiliano Eldío Martínez was the best goalkeeper and Lautaro Martínez won the Golden
20:49Boot after scoring five goals during the tournament, including the one that defined the final match.
21:01As Argentina reaches a new milestone in football history, Lionel Messi has broken the world
21:06record for most titles.
21:08In this sense, the 37-year-old won his 45th team trophy overall, making him the most decorated
21:14footballer of all time ahead of Brazil's Dani Alves.
21:18With the win, Messi also claimed his third international trophy in a row after reaching
21:23the gold in the 2021 and 2024 Copa América in addition to the World 2022 FIFA Cup.
21:29The superstar's career highlights include 12 La Liga titles, 10 with Barcelona, 2 with
21:34Paris Saint-Germain, 4 UEFA Champions League trophies and 17 Local League Cup titles, 15
21:41with Barcelona, 1 with PSG and 1 with Inter Miami.
21:45Messi also holds the record for most Ballon d'Or awards, with 8 and 6 European Golden
21:51Boots.
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