03/12/2023
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*China cuts exports of key metals to the U.S.
*Member countries of the Brasilia consensus support integration for energy transition
FTS 8.30
*China cuts exports of key metals to the U.S.
*Member countries of the Brasilia consensus support integration for energy transition
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00:00The Palestinian Hamas movement and its rival Al-Fatah party agreed to set up a joint committee
00:19for the post-war governance of Gaza.
00:28In China, authorities banned exports of key metals to the United States after Washington
00:32increased technology restrictions.
00:40South American countries agreed to strengthen energy cooperation at the second meeting of
00:44Vice Ministers of Energy of the Brasilia Consensus.
00:54Hello welcome from the south, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Televisa Studios in Havana, Cuba.
01:00We begin with the news.
01:20The Palestinian Hamas movement and its rival Al-Fatah party, which supports President Mahmoud
01:25Abbas, have agreed to set up a joint committee for the post-war governance of Gaza.
01:30According to this plan, which was reached in Egypt's capital, Cairo, and which still
01:35needs the approval of the Palestinian presidency, the committee would be made up of a group
01:39of 10 to 15 non-partisan figures with authority in matters related to the economy, education,
01:45health, humanitarian aid and construction.
01:48Hamas and Al-Fatah have also agreed that this committee would administer the Palestinian
01:53side of the Rafah checkpoint bordering Egypt, the only passage to the territory they do
01:58not share with Israel.
02:08And a newly released report by the United Nations warns of starvation in northern Gaza
02:13due to the Israeli siege, which has completely deprived many people of food and water.
02:19The siege maintained by the Israeli Zionist troops for almost two months now includes,
02:24in addition to the constant bombardments, a restriction on the entry of humanitarian
02:29aid.
02:30This way, out of the 200 trucks a day contemplated in the UN Assistance Agreement, Israel does
02:36not allow more than 36.
02:38As consequence, bakeries in the north have closed due to the lack of flour, leaving the
02:43people trapped in destroyed homes, without food or water, having to resort to negative
02:48habits such as skipping meals and or eating out of the garbage to alleviate hunger.
03:02And also in Palestine, artist Maisa Youssef continues to share her creativity through
03:07her works as a means to help the people of the Gaza Strip in the midst of the Israeli
03:11aggression in the territory.
03:13According to local media, the renowned painter expresses her ideas and emotions through her
03:18unique artistic style, transforming the pain of destruction into art on the shattered campuses
03:25left behind by Israeli bombardments.
03:27Youssef stated that she intends to continue her artistic career despite the hardships
03:32she has faced and the fact that her studio is under rubble.
03:36The Palestinian painter expressed she is documenting her reality through art in order to immortalize
03:41it in the history of humanity.
03:51During the first displacement, we faced extremely difficult conditions.
03:55We left under fire and shelling and returned when the situation improved.
04:00But in the second displacement, there was a military order to evacuate the area.
04:04We had to leave everything and focus only on saving our lives and our children.
04:09When we returned on August 24th, my house was 85 percent destroyed and now I live in
04:14what can barely be considered a house.
04:16Despite all this, I am still going ahead with my artistic career.
04:20My studio used to be a space full of life and creativity, where I also organized workshops
04:25for children.
04:26Now, although I no longer have that space, I try to continue because I believe that creativity
04:30does not stop.
04:32I am working to document what we have lived through during this war and to transmit my
04:36experiences through my art.
04:38We are still living and we are still creating to tell our story.
04:45In other news, the Syrian Defense Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that its fighter jets
04:49alongside Russian allies are carrying out heavy operations against terrorist formations
04:54in the north of the Middle Eastern nation.
04:57This way, raids were mounted in southern Idlib and northern Hama, neutralizing dozens of
05:01terrorists from the Hayat Tahir al-Sham group, backed by the United States and Israel.
05:07Syrian troops, with the support of Russia's military, managed to contain the group's advances,
05:11destroying ammunition and vehicles.
05:13In this context, while the Syrian-Russian alliance curbs terrorism, posing a threat
05:17for the whole region, the Israeli regime dropped bombs on a nearby Damascus airport in support
05:22of the extremists, where outlets reported the destruction of a vehicle.
05:35The Democratic Republic of the Congo denounced the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, before
05:40the African Court of Human and People's Rights for serious human rights violations in the
05:44province of North Kivu.
05:47According to the claim, Rwanda is alleged to have committed such serious crimes as the
05:51plundering of minerals, rape of children, women, and massacres, as well as decades of
05:56aggression.
05:57According to the Congolese Vice Minister of Justice Samuel Memba, the hearing will take
06:01place on February 12 at the tribunal's headquarters in Tanzania.
06:06Kinshasa has already denounced Kigali to the International Criminal Court, which accepted
06:11the Congolese's invitation to investigate the alleged crimes and violations.
06:24We now have a short break coming up, but first remember you can join us on TikTok at TELUS
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06:58Welcome back.
07:01On Tuesday, China responded firmly to U.S. measures banning exports of key metals to
07:05the North American country.
07:07The move comes after Washington announced new technology restrictions.
07:11Precisely, as of Tuesday, any organization or individual from any country or region that
07:16violates this decision of the Chinese government will be held accountable under the law.
07:21In turn, after accusing the United States of an act of economic coercion, China decided
07:25to suspend exports of gallium, germanium, antimony, and graphite, key metals, for both
07:31civil and military use.
07:33The Chinese Ministry of Commerce claimed the measure is aimed at protecting the nation's
07:37security and interests.
07:46And Russia discussed the elaboration of a strategy for the development of the education
07:51system until 2040.
07:53The document is being prepared on behalf of the president and will be presented in the
07:57spring of 2025.
07:58I'll let Justin Ski with the details.
08:05The development of a unified education strategy for the country is under preparation in Russia.
08:11This national project, as part of Youth and Children, is to be submitted to the government
08:16in March 2025 and will involve experts in the field of education, teachers, rectors
08:22of leading universities, business representatives, state corporations, students and young people.
08:28The country faces great challenges.
08:34There is still a great demand to improve the quality of national education.
08:38But there are also serious problems.
08:41This involves a high bureaucratic burden on teachers and a shortage of teachers in several
08:45regions.
08:46Several systemic decisions have already been taken to improve this area.
08:50The president has developed a comprehensive action plan aimed at improving the quality
08:54of education in mathematics, physics and natural science subjects in general in all schools
08:59in the country, and at increasing the level of teacher training in these disciplines and
09:03eliminating the shortage of personnel.
09:10The issue of youth policy is of strategic importance to the country, especially at this historic
09:15moment.
09:16Today's young people are the future of the country and everything possible must be done
09:21to help them learn to express themselves and their talents, set goals and achieve success.
09:27Many reforms in recent years have been counterproductive for educational development, so they need to
09:31be re-evaluated.
09:32We must return to traditional Russian education.
09:39We can no longer train high school students for the unified state exam, instead of providing
09:44them with real skills.
09:46The indicator of education was not the quality, but the number of machine-readable points.
09:50I think one of the important achievements of last year's State Duma was the passage
09:55of the Unified Curriculum and Unified Textbook Law in the Humanities.
09:59We got rid of hundreds of actual textbooks written under the dictation of Soros consultants.
10:08The needs and wishes of the students themselves and their parents are also taken into account
10:13when developing the strategy.
10:15To collect data on their expectations, sociological studies are conducted on the Government Services
10:20Portal.
10:21There are working groups with university students, as well as with middle and high school students.
10:31This is work on a scale unprecedented in our country's modern history.
10:36In fact, the whole country is involved in it.
10:39The education system as a whole must meet the national goals and objectives set for
10:43us by the President and help to strengthen economic sovereignty in all key areas.
10:48To this end, it is necessary for the educational field to fully meet the personnel requirements
10:53of the industry.
11:01State policy in the field of education will be implemented by granting subsidies to the
11:06regions, while emphasizing the importance of aligning regional projects with federal
11:11objectives, as well as the principles on which education policy is based.
11:19This coordination is aimed at increasing efficiency and achieving the goals of the National Education
11:25Project.
11:30And South American countries agreed to strengthen energy cooperation at the second meeting of
11:35Vice Ministers of Energy of the Brasilia Consensus.
11:38Representatives of the 12 member countries of the Brasilia Consensus met in the Colombian
11:42capital at the second meeting of Vice Ministers of Energy.
11:46This consultation mechanism was created to strengthen ties between neighboring countries
11:50in South Africa.
11:52In this framework, they agreed to consolidate integration to address the energy transition
11:57as a bloc.
11:58They also highlighted the importance of the technical reports prepared by the Latin American
12:02Energy Organization, which will be a key tool to guide the political and energy decisions
12:08of the bloc's member countries.
12:19And the normalization of relations between Colombia and Venezuela has enabled the government
12:23of Gustavo Petro to assist communities isolated by heavy rains through Venezuelan territory.
12:29The government authorized the opening of a humanitarian corridor to bring assistance
12:32to the indigenous communities in the north of the Colombian department of La Guajira.
12:37The opening includes land transit from Paraguasón to Castelletes, facilitating the delivery
12:43of food, hygiene and kitchen kits, among other aid to the municipalities such as Maicao and
12:49Uribia.
12:50In addition, it will allow the access of organizations such as the Civil Defense and the Colombian
12:55Red Cross, ensuring medical attention and the provision of basic supplies.
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13:52In Argentina, the People's Economic Workers' Union, informed of the Ministry of Human Capital,
13:56led by Sandra Petruello, will reincorporate 66 community soup kitchens through the program
14:02Alimentar Comunidad.
14:03In this respect, the Union's Secretary General, Alejandro Gramajo, expressed the action signifies
14:09a very important victory since it allows these centers to supply food to hundreds of families.
14:15Gramajo also pointed out that they will continue to organize popular mobilizations to fight
14:20hunger and strengthen community organization.
14:23The soup kitchens were reincorporated into the program after a federal judge gave an
14:27ultimatum to the ministry, warning the state would have to pay a large fine if it failed
14:32to comply with the order.
14:42The United Nations World Food Program announced that it will expand its services in Port-au-Prince,
14:46the capital of Haiti, to respond to the increasing food needs of Haitians.
14:51The displacement of at least 50,000 people due to criminal armed violence worsened the
14:55country's food crisis.
14:57Juan Yacarria, local director of the program, clarified the commitment with the people,
15:02detailing that they are working in the main office in Port-au-Prince and in four others
15:06throughout the country to attend to 5.4 million people facing acute hunger.
15:13So far this year, the program has assisted a total of 1.7 million people, prioritizing
15:18pregnant women, nursing mothers, and children under five years of age.
15:31Venezuela will initiate a new electoral campaign on December 4th to elect justices of peace
15:36in over 4,800 communal circuits.
15:40The Venezuelan Minister of Communes, Ángel Prado, confirmed there are already over 52,000
15:44dominees for the historical date set for December 15th.
15:49Precisely 4,840 out of the 5,297 communal circuits of the country will go to the polls
15:56to elect justices of peace, with 353 indigenous communities also casting their votes.
16:02In this regard, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, instructed the executive
16:05to support the communes in preparation for the election and called for large rallies
16:09to generate information for voters.
16:21Also in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro stated that not a single migrant would reach
16:26the United States if the agreements of Qatar and Barbados were complied with and all the
16:30illegal sanctions applied against the Venezuelan people were lifted.
16:33The Venezuelan head of state stated that the country's ultra-right, together with the
16:38United States, prepared and infected the social medias with hate to sabotage the presidential
16:42elections of last July 28th and its aftermath.
16:46In this regard, the head of state affirmed that the Venezuelan people managed to defeat
16:50a cyber-fascist coup d'etat.
16:53Furthermore, he assured that if the sanctions against the Venezuelan people were lifted,
16:58no citizen would migrate to the U.S. and those who are outside the country could voluntarily
17:03return to their homeland.
17:13I've already said it and I have told it to the government of the United States.
17:18I sent President Joe Biden to be told, although I don't know if they did it, if the agreements
17:24of Qatar and Barbados had been complied with by the United States government.
17:33I said it and I repeat it here, Madelaine, I repeat it here.
17:38Once Venezuela fully recovers and if all the economic sanctions on Venezuela were lifted,
17:45the recovery would accelerate and in less than a year, counted from the date when all
17:50the sanctions were lifted, not a single migrant would arrive in the United States.
17:56And furthermore, all those migrants who voluntarily wanted to return would be able to do so.
18:03I am sure that this would be so because it is already being seen.
18:12In Mexico, during the 16th International Afro-Indo-American Colloquium, specialists denounced the fact that
18:18racism seeks to gain recognition in various spheres, including politics.
18:22Let's see.
18:26Donald Trump's electoral triumph in the United States is a clear example of how racist discourse
18:31is gaining ground in terms of social acceptance, says this specialist.
18:39The rise of Donald Trump to the presidency creates a lot of questions, I think, for both
18:43the right and the left.
18:54Racism is gaining ground, as Durbin told us in 2001, how we see it as an important revival
19:01of the strengthening of hate speeches with a racist patriarchal harassment, the legitimization
19:05of these speeches and racist practices, both in the political, media and cultural spheres.
19:17During the 16th International Colloquium on Afro-Indo-America held at the Metropolitan
19:22Autonomous University Iztapalapa unit, academics warned that historically subjugated Afro-descended
19:28peoples must continue to struggle for the recognition of their rights.
19:35Creative justice, climate justice, digital justice.
19:43We go with these three key demands as a key anti-racist paradigm with historical reparation
19:48at its core.
19:53The colloquium on African-American people seeks to develop a critical panorama that
19:57goes beyond the academic debate and materializes in social actions.
20:05I feel that these types of spaces are extremely important because they generate reflections
20:10and because it is directly a call to action so that from the academic world we can also
20:16think about how to face these social problems that contribute to the perpetuation of practices
20:22that end up generating these social inequalities.
20:30The presence of Afro-descended peoples must be manifested in all areas to avoid the invisibility
20:36of their important contributions to Latin American culture.
20:42Through the invisibilization of these populations, bad practices are perpetuated.
20:54I believe that an important theme to visualize these populations is precisely to insist on
20:58the cultural presence in all aspects of these populations, in the different Latin American
21:08countries and in general in America, in all of America, from the north to the south.
21:18In Latin America, there are an estimated 134 million people of African descent, representing
21:2420% of the region's total population, most of them living in poverty or vulnerability.
21:35In addition to the ongoing struggle against racism, Afro-descended peoples seek to discuss
21:40new demands such as climate justice, Afro-feminism, and human and labor rights.
21:45Antonio Aranda, Telesur, Ciudad de Mexico.
21:49And this, we are from the end of this news brief.
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22:00For Telesur English, I'm Luis Alberto Matos, thank you for watching.
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