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00:00Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Caracas, Venezuela.
00:20We begin with the news, stay with us.
00:34In the United States, polling stations open in a very tight presidential election that
00:38will define whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump becomes the next US president.
00:43The opening hours vary by state and municipality in the country, but are mainly between 6 am
00:49and 8 am local time.
00:51More than 240 million people are eligible to vote this November 5th for President and
00:57Vice President of the United States.
00:59As of this Thursday, 75 million people had cast early ballots, a record high.
01:05The United States has a system of indirect democracy in which elections are not decided
01:10by popular vote, but by the allocation of electoral college delegates in each state.
01:21In this context, candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris won the same number of votes
01:26in the northeastern town of Dixville.
01:29The community of six gave three votes to Trump and three to Harris.
01:33In 2020, incumbent US President Joe Biden won a five vote to zero victory over former
01:39President Donald Trump.
01:46And to know all that, meanwhile, voters in Pennsylvania comment on their main concerns
01:51after casting their ballots.
01:56The main issue for me is the continuation of our democracy.
02:01I don't want an autocrat.
02:03I don't want someone who is convicted of a felon to be the number one person in our
02:11political environment.
02:13America great again.
02:14We need jobs.
02:15We don't need another four more years of high inflation, gas prices, lying, close the border,
02:24murder.
02:26America comes first and Harris is not going to support that.
02:28Good lately, but I feel like she's going to put us back together.
02:31I think that, you know, she'll put the whole community, the whole world back together again
02:36because we're so divided right now.
02:38And she's about peace and everything that her opponent has to say is like really negative
02:44all the time, like nothing ever positive, you know, everything.
02:48So I feel like, you know, that's why I'm voting for her because I want peace.
02:54In Phoenix, Arizona, crucial swing state voters express their reasons for voting on their
02:59general feelings regarding the electoral process.
03:08I mean, both candidates, they're not my first picks and they weren't even either of my top picks.
03:15I'm voting Harris.
03:16So that even matters.
03:17But I'm just nervous about what's going to happen.
03:21And why were they not your first picks?
03:24Trump's policies don't really, really align with mine.
03:27I agree with some of Kamala's, don't agree with all of them.
03:30But in this case, I'm choosing the less of both evils, if you want to say that.
03:36Absolutely.
03:37Abortion rights.
03:38I really want us to have access to safe and legal abortions in our state and across the
03:42country.
03:43So that was one of my biggest issues that I was voting for today.
03:47And as well as voting against anti-immigrant policies being implemented in our state.
03:57Former President Donald Trump cast his ballot in Palm Beach, Florida.
04:01After exercising his right to vote, the presidential candidate expressed his pleasure at the number
04:06of Republican voters lining up at the polling stations.
04:14I feel very confident.
04:15I have felt.
04:16You know, we went in with a very big lead today.
04:19And it looks like Republicans have shown up in force.
04:25In Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. Republican Vice Presidential Nominee J.D. Vance cast his vote
04:31on Election Day.
04:32This is what he had to say after voting.
04:38Look, I think our message is, first of all, we do expect to win.
04:41But obviously, no matter who wins, half the country, as you said, is going to be at least
04:45partially disappointed.
04:46I think my attitude is the best way to heal the rift in the country is to try to govern
04:49the country as well as we can, create as much prosperity as we can.
04:54For the American people and remind our fellow Americans that we are all fundamentally on
04:58the same team however we voted.
05:03In this context as well, hundreds of migrants set off from Tapachula in southern Mexico
05:08marching northward along a road to reach the United States.
05:12The caravan departed as the United States holds its presidential election.
05:16Those on the road travel amidst uncertainty as they do not know what situation they will
05:22find at the border, depending on the electoral results.
05:36To know all the latest information on this Election Day in the U.S., we contact Carlos
05:41Montero, Telesur's Special Envoy to Washington.
05:43Hi, Carlos.
05:44What can you share with us at this hour?
05:48So far so good.
05:50They are going to close in a few hours and the question is when we are going to start
05:57to know the first exit poll.
05:59It was Election Day with a lot of stir, you know, a lot of stake, you know, people are
06:06worried what's going to happen, but they were not big incidents.
06:09For instance, here in Washington, in the capital, a museum very close to where I was, a man
06:16was arrested with a flare and a gun, but it was somebody who has some kind of mental
06:22issues.
06:23The police is saying it was nothing to worry.
06:25There were also some minor incidents in different voting places all over the country, but nothing
06:34to worry.
06:35Let me talk about the candidates.
06:37Kamala Harris, the vice president, who closed last night her campaign in Pennsylvania, exhorting
06:46his followers to vote for her, to ask him for a new America, America without hate, America
06:52where we can love each other.
06:54And she's here already in the capital.
06:57She's going to wait for the result in Howard University.
07:01Howard University is a university that she studied a long time ago.
07:06She was a freshman there and that has an important symbolic value for her.
07:12On the other hand, Donald Trump, who closed the campaign in Michigan last night, really
07:17late, two o'clock, I was waiting for him to see what he was going to say in the closing.
07:22And really, I had to wait a long time because he finished two o'clock.
07:26He flew back to Florida and his headquarters, he's going to wait for the result in one of
07:35the resorts he has in Florida.
07:37And he's going to be, he has something really interesting in this world.
07:41We talk so much about social media.
07:43Elon Musk, the owner of X, he's been promoting very strongly Donald Trump.
07:50He's going to be with him.
07:51They are going to be together and they are going to be sharing information that we, you,
07:56me, and a lot of people write on X of former Twitter.
08:02So, I mean, he's going to have information beforehand how the USA, they are reacting
08:09about the election.
08:11But we have to wait, like I was telling you before, no big incident here in the capital.
08:17It's a beautiful day.
08:18Something about when Donald Trump went to vote, he voted this noon in Florida, close
08:27to his headquarters.
08:29He said, I don't think it's going to be any trouble.
08:32They were asking about the measure that is in Florida about abortion.
08:36He didn't want to ask, to answer that question, how he vote.
08:43And he was really, really calm, different than last night when he really showed his
08:50age.
08:51He was a little bit upset.
08:52I don't know why, but he wasn't himself.
08:54And this morning he was a little more upbeat and he said he's going to wait and he believed
09:00he's going to win this election.
09:03And they asked him, man, what's happening if you lose?
09:06Your people are going to accept the result.
09:08And he said, yes, of course, they are going to accept, but I'm going to win.
09:13What about the polls?
09:16So far, it's a tie, but let's wait for the exit polls to see if there is any difference.
09:21But so far, we're still waiting.
09:23In a few hours, they are going to start the first states.
09:30That's so important.
09:32They are seven states.
09:33They are swing states.
09:34They can go like North Carolina, like Georgia, like Arizona.
09:38They could go either way.
09:40Philadelphia, so important.
09:42So let's see what's happened there.
09:44And we are going to have a better idea of this election that's really historic, important,
09:50something we've never seen before in this country.
09:53A campaign like the one we had that finished last night and the election like today.
09:58But so far, this is the formation we have right now.
10:00And we are going to go back with you for the moment and come back in any minute.
10:05We have new information.
10:08Thank you, Carlos, for all the firsthand information on this crucial event.
10:12We will keep in contact for sure.
10:14We were listening to Carlos Montero, Telesur's Special Envoy to Washington,
10:18one day at this moment during the elections in the U.S.
10:22And with this report from our colleague, we are going to take a short break.
10:26But first, remember you can join us on TikTok at Telesur English,
10:29where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and more.
10:51Welcome back.
10:52In Venezuela, at the closing day of the World Antifascist Parliamentary Forum,
10:56the Vice President of Venezuela spoke out against the unilateral coercive measures
11:00imposed on 30 peoples worldwide.
11:03300 international participants from at least 17 nations
11:07have been discussing about the plans of action to combat fascism
11:11and how the peoples globally have faced the different ways of domination,
11:15aggression, colonialism and extermination.
11:18In addition, the Venezuelan people have arranged the meeting
11:21to respond to the far-right brutal crimes triggered after the July 28th elections.
11:26In the encounter, the Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez,
11:30recalled that the United States and Western countries have imposed
11:33over 37,000 unilateral coercive measures on 30 peoples and nations worldwide.
11:40Let's listen to her statements.
11:43Cuban women, the lawmakers that accompany us as part of our delegation in this forum,
11:49we all pronounce ourselves, as well,
11:52and we stand for the cause of the Palestinian people,
11:55that is the cause of the Cuban people,
11:57and that is the cause of all the peoples worldwide.
12:00And of course, it is the cause of us women standing for the Palestinian women
12:05in the struggle that will triumph on behalf of Cuba,
12:08on behalf of its women, Palestine will win.
12:25The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, declared Valencia as a catastrophe soon
12:30and announced funding for affected families in that community
12:33and announced funding for affected families in that community
12:36a week after the Dana weather event.
12:38The Council of Ministers decreed areas severely affected by the Civil Protection Emergency
12:43for the territories hit by Storm Dana.
12:46In this regard, they designated the first package of measures to help 78 municipalities.
12:52Likewise, the financing could be extended to other communities
12:55due to the magnitude of the devastation caused by Dana.
12:58In this context, dozens of local victims described
13:01the authorities' management of the crisis as poor
13:04due to their slow response to the emergency.
13:13The National Civil Protection System of Panama reported on Monday
13:16five fatalities from sustained heavy rainfalls and floods in the last couple of days.
13:22Authorities registered that over 1,500 people have been affected by the heavy rainfalls,
13:27noting that the country is still on alert at national level.
13:31The Storm Rafael has caused rivers to swell, landslides, floods,
13:35trees to fall and bridges to collapse.
13:38The Meteorological Institute forecast that the intensity of rainfalls
13:41will increase in the next hours as a result of the storm.
13:49In Indonesia, authorities reported on Tuesday that over 2,000 people
13:53had been evacuated after the eruption of the Lowotobi Laki-Laki volcano,
13:58located in the east of the country.
14:00The volcano erupted on Sunday, forcing the evacuation of 2,472 people.
14:06The lava and burning rocks impacted the settlements closest to the eruption zone,
14:11killing 10 people and injuring 64, including one in critical condition and 31 seriously.
14:17In this regard, the Indonesian Disaster Agency reported
14:21that flash floods and cold lava flows could arrive in the next few days.
14:26The local government declared a state of emergency for the next 58 days
14:30in order to provide aid to the 10,000 residents who were affected by the eruption.
14:42I heard a loud thunderous sound and, as I ran, rocks fell on my feet.
14:46They were hot stones and ashes, which burned and hurt my feet,
14:49causing blisters and heavy bleeding.
14:51The falling rocks also hit my head, but I managed to help another victim.
14:58In western Indonesia, the Riau Natural Resources Conservation Agency announced on Tuesday
15:03the birth of a female baby elephant at the Bulu Sina Eco Park on Sumatra Island.
15:09The World Wide Fund for Nature noticed there are from 2,400 to 2,800 Sumatran elephants left.
15:17Thus, they are considered as a critical endangered species as a result of habitat loss,
15:22human-wildlife conflict and poaching.
15:25Regarding the newborn calf, vets are providing her and her mother vitamins
15:30to boost their immune system and appetite.
15:33The head of Riau Conservation Agency shared his views on the health of the elephants.
15:39Thank God, the calf is healthy, and as we can see, he moves around normally.
15:45And so is the mother, she is healthy.
15:48For the mother, we give her vitamins to help her recovery after giving birth.
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16:35Welcome back to From the South.
16:37U.S. citizens are deciding who will lead the nation in the upcoming four years.
16:42And to offer more context on this key event, we contact Yvonne Tellez, international law expert.
16:47Hi, Yvonne, welcome to From the South.
16:50Hello, good afternoon, happy to be here.
16:53Thank you for your time.
16:55So, businesses near the White House are boarding up store windows
16:59and putting up security fences in preparation for possible unrest around the election.
17:04Do you think the U.S. is on the wake of another violent power transition?
17:11Well, it is true that we are facing some different elections in the United States due to different factors.
17:22However, I don't think that the country will go to some violent riots.
17:29There's a vague and evident polarization between the population,
17:36but I don't think that we can actually talk about violent riots.
17:42I think it's just that this is the result of the conflict,
17:49or maybe, as I said before, the polarized atmosphere,
17:55the polarized scenario that United States citizens are facing at the moment.
18:02But I am positive that this will not end in violent manifestations in the end.
18:08Just the normal manifestations of people supporting their candidate.
18:17As you mentioned, this election day has been marked by a high polarization.
18:22At this hour, the winner remains being a big question mark.
18:26Why are the U.S. citizens so divided?
18:30Well, there's some very strong events and some very important events that we have to take into account,
18:42and that those do not just belong to the current election.
18:47I'm talking about the 2024 election, but what we have faced before.
18:52Remember, for example, that Donald Trump has been racing for these elections
18:57since the moment he ended his period in office back four years ago.
19:05Then we have, for example, just 170 days of Kamala Harris running for president
19:13when Biden dropped out from his candidacy.
19:22We have Ukraine war, we have the Gaza genocide, we have China.
19:30We have some very strong topics, also climate change,
19:35the abortion that has been on the main tabloids and on the principal line,
19:41also immigration issues.
19:45This, of course, Kamala and Trump reflect a very strong and different point of view regarding those topics.
19:55That means that even you're in or you're out, you're in favor, you're against,
20:02because the flags regarding these topics are completely different.
20:08I think that reflects a very strong opposition between ideas supporting each of the candidates,
20:18also because they are reflecting their discourse, their campaign lemmas, their discourses,
20:28their public discourses.
20:29Of course, what we've seen from them, talking about Kamala in office
20:34and talking about Donald Trump during this whole time, has been completely different
20:39and they have opposed each other very strongly.
20:43That means that I think the United States citizen has been facing very strong lines
20:52that differ very evidently.
20:57That could be one of the answers why they are facing this strong polarization.
21:04The whole world has its eyes upon the U.S.
21:07Why is the general election a key moment, not just for the U.S. society,
21:12but also for the rest of the world, the entire international community,
21:15especially for Latin American countries?
21:18Of course, because we have to take into account
21:23that the United States still holds one of the main roles in the international scenario,
21:31just to begin with.
21:33Second, we're talking about, for example, one of the strongest polarizations,
21:38or the strongest, in a way, cold war between the economic system.
21:44Right now I'm talking about China, I'm talking about Russia,
21:47and I'm talking about the United States,
21:49also because what happens in the United States has a strong impact
21:53because that has to do with the foreign policy, with economy,
21:57with those key elections we're talking about,
22:03also the country's global alliances.
22:06Even those existential questions, for example,
22:09just for the future of the American democracy,
22:12and also for the entire planet I'm talking about,
22:16for example, the policies regarding the climate change mitigation processes
22:21that countries are supposed to go in favor of.
22:27So that means that we're talking about, for example,
22:29how the United States is going to face, in this case,
22:34the strong rise of the BRICS bloc.
22:38How is the United States going to assume
22:43how the dollar and the inflation that they have been facing
22:48during these last years, how are they going to manage
22:54and how this is going to impact?
22:56Also, another big, big topic that has a very great impact worldwide,
23:02it's immigration, because we're seeing that,
23:06as far as Trump has said and has stated,
23:10he will go back to these strong, very anti-human rights measures
23:17regarding, for example, immigration and banning some countries
23:20and banning some citizens from different countries.
23:23So that means that it will have an impact
23:27not just on the regular migration processes,
23:30but also on the economy, and not just the economy of the United States,
23:34but the economy back home where people and immigrants
23:37go work in the U.S. and send back their money to their home country.
23:42So there's a lot of topics that depend on the United States.
23:52Also, I think the two main conflicts that we're seeing right now,
23:58and I'm talking about Ukraine and Russia,
24:00and the support and the role that the United States is going to play
24:04by supporting or not Ukraine and Ukraine's weapons,
24:09in this case, just to defend from Russia,
24:12or a more, not just so clear position,
24:16that's what Trump reflects regarding Russia and Ukraine,
24:21and also, of course, the Gaza and Palestine and Israel conflict
24:28that is escalating right now and is now involving more countries.
24:35So that means that either we see how the United States is going to support Israel,
24:40because if this strong support from the United States continues to Israel,
24:44that means that the Palestinians and the whole region
24:49will probably see an escalating of the conflict,
24:53even a more tragic one, a more dangerous one, a more serious one,
24:57as we've seen right now.
24:59So it has a great impact on what is happening today in the United States.
25:05Thank you. Thank you, Yvonne, for your time here in From the South.
25:08We were talking to Yvonne Tellez, international law expert
25:12in the framework of the US general elections.
25:14And with this interview, let's go to the end of this news brief.
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25:34For Telestudio English, I'm Alejandra Garcia.