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*Murder toll in Gaza rises to 39 480 after Israeli attacks.
*UNRWA denounces that Israeli shellings lead to devastated schools in Gaza.
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00:00In Venezuela, the re-elected president Nicolás Maduro announced that the Venezuelan extreme
00:14right wing will try to carry out a terrorist act in the mobilization that will take place
00:19on Saturday in an attempt to destabilize the country.
00:26The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported during the last 24 hours 35 people killed
00:31and 551 wounded as a result of Israeli occupation attacks.
00:39And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, ONRA, on Friday referred
00:44that constant Israeli shellings led to devastated schools in Gaza.
00:53Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Alejandra García from Telesur Studios in
00:57Havana, Cuba.
00:58We begin with the news.
00:59In Venezuela, the re-elected president Nicolás Maduro announced that the Venezuelan extreme
01:04right wing will try to carry out a terrorist act in the mobilization that will take place
01:09on Saturday in an attempt to destabilize the country.
01:11During an official press conference at the Miraflores Palace, the president asserted that
01:16the disqualified political leader María Corina Machado plans to carry out a coup d'état
01:21against the welfare of the people.
01:24In this sense, the Venezuelan head of state also denounced that during the last violent
01:28protest of this week by violent demonstrators, many schools, universities and hospitals were
01:34seriously affected.
01:36Also the re-elected president Nicolás Maduro affirmed that he has already prepared the
01:40intelligence commands and military troops to counteract Saturday's attack by the Venezuelan
01:46extreme right wing.
01:50I thought it through, because we could be revealing a source of information that we
01:59have been working on, of groups of criminals of the comanditos.
02:11But I must make this denouncement, part of these groups of comanditos, armed with grenades
02:16and other weapons, intend to carry out an attack tomorrow in the area of Belo Monte,
02:28Caracas, among them, brought from Zulia.
02:38Part of these criminals, terrorists of the comanditos of Zulia, they were responsible,
02:42Minister Ceballos, for attacks to the police here, from Olari Square, in San Martin Avenue,
02:55in Petar they brought from there, from outside, from Caracas, there we have two audios and
03:07a chat.
03:08And given the precise orders for the intelligence, counterintelligence, security and police forces
03:23to protect the greater Caracas and these areas, which are under threat, these criminals are
03:28already being sought.
03:34The Venezuelan head of state condemned U.S. imperialism for conspiring against the country
03:39and attempting to generate a popular social outburst.
03:49We chose the peaceful electoral, dialoguing, democratic way since 1997, Zulia, on April
03:5619, 1997 in Valencia, in the National Plenipotentiary Assembly of the Bolivarian Movement 200, five
04:04hundred delegates and spokesmen of the country, together with Commander Chavez, we voted unanimously,
04:10to go the electoral way, to leave behind the insurrectional way, to go for the peaceful
04:15electoral road, which is our road, it has been and is our road.
04:19In spite of the fact that North American imperialism with its conspiracies has wanted to take us
04:24to the road of an armed popular revolution, they have wanted to take us to an armed popular
04:29revolution, but our road is the constitutional, electoral, peaceful, democratic, dialoguing
04:36road.
04:42In addition, the re-elected president Nicolás Maduro emphasized his rejection of the criminal
04:47ambitions by Venezuelan ultra-right-wing groups that attacked schools and universities in
04:52the country.
04:58In the midst of the criminal ambush on Monday and the criminal ambush on Tuesday, where
05:0212 universities of the country were attacked, 12 universities of the country were destroyed
05:07and burned, including the recently recovered Central University of Venezuela, where 7 schools
05:17of initial education, 21 schools of primary education, 34 high schools were attacked,
05:23you tell me, Mr. Blinken and the government of the United States and the world right,
05:32if attacking universities, schools and high schools are peaceful demonstrators, it is
05:37protests, they were attacked, they were burned, they were destroyed, completely destroyed,
05:42burned in the streets.
05:48In Venezuela, the National Electoral Council issued the second bulletin regarding the July
05:5228 presidential elections reaffirming the victory of President Nicolás Maduro.
05:57On Friday, the president of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso, informed the results
06:02of the Venezuelan electoral process with 96.87% of transmission.
06:07The electoral body confirmed the win of constitutional president Nicolás Maduro, candidate of the
06:12Great Patriotic Poll, who achieved 51.95% of the votes after obtaining a total of 6,408,844
06:23votes while opposition candidate Edmundo González obtained 43.18% with 5,326,104 total votes.
06:38Nine of the ten former presidential candidates attended the hearing of the Electoral Chamber
06:43of the Supreme Court of Justice as part of the beginning of the investigation, verification
06:48and certification of July 28 elections, the major response to the contentious electoral
06:54appeal presented by the re-elected president Nicolás Maduro in order to preserve the constitutional
06:59order of the country.
07:01Nine out of the ten former presidential candidates headed the call of the highest court and signed
07:06a document in which they committed themselves to appear as many times as this court deems
07:12necessary as part of the investigation of the electoral process.
07:26With the promulgation of the supreme law of the nation was born what we know today as
07:30the Venezuelan electoral justice system, established in its article 297 whose central
07:42objective is to protect the exercise of the political rights of the population among which
07:46stand out the right to participation, the right to suffrage established in articles
07:5662, 63 and 64 of the constitutional text hence the electoral chamber acts within the
08:02framework of the constitutional principles of due process and effective judicial protection
08:13to guarantee access to the mentioned electoral justice system with the application of the
08:17regulations.
08:22Claudio Fermin, former presidential candidate for the Soluciones Venezuela party, signed
08:27the contentious appeal to investigate, verify and certify the results of the July 28 election.
08:36But I would like to report that the reason for this situation has been the appearance
08:40before the electoral chamber, which has taken it upon itself to collect the minutes and
08:49documents for the verification or final validation of the electoral results.
08:54That is what we have witnessed.
09:00It has been a brief act and those present have simply subscribed to our presence and
09:05our information will be aware of the sentence issued by the electoral chamber.
09:11Also the former presidential candidate of the Centrados party, Enrique Marquez, reaffirmed
09:16his commitment to respect the popular will expressed in the elections of July 28.
09:24From here, I ratify my firm commitment to the constitution of the Bolivarian Republic
09:29of Venezuela.
09:37To peace in our country, I ratify my commitment to the popular will expressed on July 28.
09:45Let's take a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok at TELUS or English
09:49where you will find news in different formats, news updates and more.
09:52We'll be right back, stay with us.
10:15Welcome back.
10:19The General Secretary of the Lebanese Islamic Resistance Movement, Yves Hezbollah, Sayed
10:24Hassan Nasrallah, denounced on Thursday that Israel is carrying out an operation of deception
10:30and fraud to blame the Shi'ite militia for the murder of a dozen people in Masjdal Shams.
10:36Without evidence, Nasrallah recalled that the explosion in Druze town of Masjdal Shams
10:42was caused by an Israeli interceptor missile and stated that the occupation does not want
10:46to admit it in order to exonerate its army of such a crime and try to escalate the conflict
10:52in the Middle East.
10:53He also stressed that this crime is part of the Israeli-American war in the region, the
10:59aggression of the occupation and the battle being waged to the north of the occupied Palestinian
11:05territories.
11:12The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, on Friday
11:20referred that constant Israeli shellings led to devastated schools in Gaza.
11:25On eggs, UNRWA noted nearly 85% of school buildings in the Gaza Strip have been hit
11:31or directly damaged, according to satellite assessments by the Global Education Cluster
11:36Organization.
11:37Some of these schools will need complete reconstruction.
11:41The war is destroying the present and future of Palestinian children.
11:51Meanwhile in Palestine, the Israeli occupation army bombed areas of the Gaza Strip on Friday,
11:56leaving several casualties on the day 301 of the genocidal war in the devastated coastal
12:02enclave.
12:03Meanwhile, rescue teams searched for survivors after an Israeli airstrike on a residential
12:08building in the city of Gaza killed four people and wounded 12.
12:13On the other hand, the refugee camp of Nusayrat was also hit from the air, as was the southern
12:18town of Kanchanis, which has suffered two ground invasions since October 7.
12:23Precisely more than 39,000 people were killed and another 91,000 have been injured since
12:29the beginning of the Israeli genocide in October 2023, while thousands remain buried
12:34under the rubble.
12:41In Yemen, massive demonstrations in several cities of the country ratified their support
12:45to the struggle of the Palestinian people.
12:48Hundreds of thousands of people gathered on Friday in the city of Saddaq and in other
12:52localities such as Marim, Amran and Taiz, among others.
12:57The rally was held under the slogan, Loyalty to the Blood of Martyrs, Wish Gaza Until Victory,
13:03and paid homage to Palestinian leader Ismail Hanije and Lebanese commander Fouad Choukour.
13:08The demonstrators waved Yemeni and Palestinian flags while uttering chants against the crimes
13:13of the Israeli regime and the United States.
13:21In Qatar, on Friday, the funeral ceremonies for Hamas leader Ismail Hanije are being held
13:26While around the world, several countries are paying homage to the assassinated figure
13:31symbol of Palestinian resistance.
13:33Thousands including Hamas, other Palestinian factions, and Hanije's families gathered
13:38at Doha's Qatar State Mosque for the burial of the chief and his bodyguard Abu Shaban
13:43in Lusail, northern Qatar.
13:46The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas had summoned people to come out each mosque
13:51and rally against the leader's assassination and the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
13:56Meanwhile, Turkey and Pakistan announced a day of mourning to pay tribute to Hanije.
14:01In addition, Iran set a special committee of experts to inquire into the assassination.
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14:30Financial break, don't go away.
14:38Welcome back to From the South.
14:40On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Biden and U.S. Vice President
14:45Kamala Harris met with their respective citizens exchange in a historic prisoner swap.
14:50Moscow and Washington exchanged a total of 26 prisoners in the largest such swap in
14:55modern history.
14:56The Russians landed at Moscow's Oknukhovo airport, where they were greeted with a red
15:02carpet and a guard of honour from the presidential regiment.
15:06Meanwhile, in the United States, President Biden and Vice President Harris greeted journalist
15:11Ivan Gershkovich and two other nationals upon arrival on U.S. ground after their release
15:16by Russia.
15:18The exchange was successfully carried out under the coordination of the Turkish National
15:22Intelligence Organization.
15:29In this context, in Moscow, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin welcomed and congratulated
15:34the prisoners released as part of the swap deal.
15:37Putin also thanked those who were connected with the army for their loyalty to the military
15:42oath and promised they would be decorated.
15:45The exchange was carried out under the coordination of the National Intelligence Organization
15:50of Turkey, where 26 prisoners from seven countries, including the United States, Slovenia, Poland
15:56and Russia, were swapped.
15:58As a result, eight Russian citizens were returned, according to the Federal Security Commission.
16:10First of all, I want to congratulate you all on your return to your motherland.
16:18Now I want to address those of you who are directly related to military service.
16:25I want to thank you for your loyalty to your oath, to your duty and to your motherland,
16:31which has never forgotten about you for a minute.
16:34And here you are, home.
16:51In southeastern China, heavy rainfalls caused by Typhoon Gaemi led to 30 deaths and 35 missing
16:57persons.
16:58Preliminary reports registered 118,000 residents affected and some 13,800 hectares of crops
17:06damaged, including 5,000 hectares destroyed in Hunan province.
17:10In this regard, Chinese Premier Li Xian called for a comprehensive investigation of the disaster
17:16to gain a good understanding of the infrastructure to be prepared.
17:19Meanwhile, the Ministry of Water Resources stated that China has recorded 25 major floods
17:25this year, the highest figure since it began keeping statistics in 1998.
17:35On Friday, in India, downpours claimed 13 lives in the Himalayan state as rescue operations
17:41continue.
17:42In this regard, authorities confirmed that monsoon rains caused flash floods, claiming
17:46at least 13 lives in the foothills of the Himalayas.
17:50Specialized teams are in the area working on search and rescue efforts.
17:54The Uttarakhand region was ravaged by record rain in 2013, when nearly 6,000 Hindu devotees
18:02and pilgrimages went missing.
18:04During the monsoon season in India, floods and landslides are common.
18:09However, experts underscore that climate change is increasing their frequency and severity.
18:20We have a rescue team stationed in Santraig.
18:24Last night, heavy rainfall caused the Mundakini River to overflow, resulting in the road being
18:29washed out.
18:31Following this, we safely began relocating tourists to a safe zone.
18:36From 7 a.m. this morning, we have been exploring an alternate route for the tourists.
18:55Six days after the Olympic Games of Paris 2024, representatives of South American countries
19:00bring new medals to their homelands.
19:03Just in the day, the Ecuadorian Daniel Pintado won a gold medal in the race walking.
19:08From the Brazilian delegation, Rebeca Andrade got a silver medal in artistic gymnastics and
19:13the Cuban Erislandy Álvarez classified to the boxing finals, ensuring a medal for the
19:17Caribbean country.
19:19Meanwhile, the Chinese delegation leads the medal tally with a total of 24 medals, 11
19:24gold, 7 silver and 6 bronze medals.
19:27Then follows the delegation from the US with 9 gold medals plus 15 silver and 14 bronze
19:33for a total of 37 awards.
19:36And on third place, the hosting nation France with 8 gold medals, 11 silver and 8 bronze,
19:42which makes a total of 27 medals.
19:51Let's have a look at the current medal tally of the Olympic Games in Paris, where China
19:56continues to lead with 13 gold medals and a total of 31 medals.
20:00In second place is the host country France, which has won 11 gold medals out of a total
20:06of 36 obtained.
20:08On the other hand, in Australia, third place with 11 golds from a total of 22 medals obtained.
20:14On the Latin American side, Brazil continues to be the most outstanding nation with 1 gold
20:19in addition to 7 overall in the 17th spot.
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20:38For Telesudy English, I'm Alejandra Garcia.
20:40Thank you for watching.