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00:00The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, congratulated the people for the wide participation
00:16in the elections of justices of criminal peace and called for a new popular consultation
00:21in 2025.
00:26At least 20 Palestinians, among them women and children, were killed in a recent Israeli
00:31attack on a United Nations school in Kanjunis.
00:37And South Korea's ruling party president, Han Dong-hoon, resigned on Monday amid growing
00:43political conflict following an impeachment motion in the National Assembly to remove
00:47President Jung Suk-kyo.
00:48Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Alejandra García from Telesur Studios in
00:58Havana, Cuba.
00:59We begin with the news, stay with us.
01:01The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, congratulated the Venezuelan people for the
01:05wide participation in the elections of justices of peace on December 15th that coincided with
01:12the 25th anniversary of the constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
01:16The head of state also called for a new popular consultation on January 26th, with the purpose
01:22of opening 2025 with new criminal projects.
01:26In declarations to Venezuelana de Televisión, he committed that Venezuela will have four
01:31fixed consultations per year, plus two others to approve projects for the youth and projects
01:38linked to culture.
01:40Maduro described as beautiful the election day, when for the first time justices of peace
01:45were elected by direct vote on the Venezuelan people.
01:53Venezuela keeps constructing a different kind of government and democracy, a process that
01:57was evidenced with a massive turnout for the elections of justices of criminal peace.
02:03Details with our correspondent Gladys Casado.
02:06Close to 20 million Venezuelans were summoned to the polls once again this Sunday, this
02:12time to elect the justices of the peace, an instance of the communal power designed
02:18to settle minor disputes, family or neighborhood unrest, as well as to maintain order and civility
02:25within each commune.
02:27It is the first vote of this kind in the country.
02:33Today we are very happy and grateful to God because since very early in the morning we
02:37are here in the voting center to exercise our right to vote and thus continue to ensure
02:44the peace of our country, Venezuela, as our president Nicolas Maduro has indicated.
02:53From here we can show the whole world that we are a symbol of peace, Venezuela is a symbol
02:58of peace, and that is why I exercise my right to vote on this beautiful Sunday.
03:05The opening of the center was at 8 o'clock in the morning without any inconvenience.
03:09Thank God we have had enough people coming to the center.
03:12So far there are no problems at the voting center.
03:16This process will officially see 15,000 peace justices and their respective alternates elected
03:23from among 52,288 registered candidates.
03:29Thus, it is in compliance with the provisions of the Organic Law of the Special Communal
03:35Justice of the Peace Jurisdiction approved last November.
03:41This is the result that we are offering the revolution.
03:43This is the proof that our president Nicolas Maduro can count on the organized people,
03:47on the popular power, on the communal councils, on the local committees of supply and production,
03:52and the communes, to continue advancing and transforming our beautiful Venezuela.
03:59With this voting, the nation also celebrates the 25th anniversary of the current constitution
04:05approved under the government of late Commander Hugo Chavez.
04:09The current leaders know its value.
04:14Today we are seeing the popular power, and 25 years ago we were moving as a Venezuelan
04:19people, exercising our right to vote.
04:24And we managed to reach 71%, more than 71% voted yes to this constitution of the Bolivarian
04:31Republic of Venezuela, which is allowing us today to crystallize that article 258.
04:39We all said yes to that article 258, which is currently being implemented in each of
04:44the territories, when it says that all justices of peace must be elected by a direct, secret
04:50and universal election.
04:53Venezuela advances in the construction of the communal state, the future of popular
04:57governance and the conception of horizontal structures from the people and with the people.
05:04Gladys Casara, Telesur, Caracas, Venezuela.
05:09In Venezuela, the National Electoral Commission informed that several regions of the country
05:13are already proclamating the criminal justices of peace after the election day.
05:18According to the information provided by the Vice President of the National Electoral Council,
05:23Carlos Quintero, the proclamation of more than 30,000 community peace judges elected
05:29by the people is accompanied by the electoral committees deployed in each state and municipality.
05:35He also pointed out that the accreditations will give way to the beginning of the training
05:40processes for these justices.
05:42Quintero emphasized that Venezuelans once again made use of the right to vote as a constitutional
05:48mechanism to advance the development of the country, giving an example to the world of
05:53participative democracy.
05:59In Ecuador, the President Daniel Novoa handed over the Galapagos Islands to the United States
06:04to build a military base amidst the rejection of environmental and social organizations.
06:10The decision comes into effect on the Military Cooperation Treaties of the United States
06:15with Ecuador, signed by Novoa on February 15, 2024.
06:20In this way, ships, military personnel, armament, equipment and submarines from the United States
06:25will be able to settle in this archipelago, declared a National Patrimony of Humanity
06:30by UNESCO in 1978.
06:33In addition, the measure is given with the pretext of fighting drug trafficking and illegal
06:39fishing.
06:40Meanwhile, citizens denounced that this will generate losses to the archipelago because
06:45it will alter the ecosystem due to the activity of submarines, where in previous events there
06:51was U.S. military presence and the established norms of the Constitution of Ecuador were
06:56not respected.
07:01The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, arrived on Sunday in Mexico with the objective
07:06of advancing a bilateral agenda with President Claudia Sheinbaum.
07:10The Colombian head of state was received by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Juan Ramón
07:14de la Fuente, at the Felipe Ángeles International Airport.
07:18On Monday, both presidents will meet.
07:26Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, along Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's most
07:32powerful minister, has announced she is resigning from the Cabinet.
07:36Freeland, who also was Deputy Prime Minister, said Trudeau had told her Friday that he no
07:42longer wanted her to serve as Finance Minister and that he offered her another role in the
07:48Cabinet.
07:49Freeland, in her resignation letter, stated that the one honest and viable path was to
07:55leave the Cabinet.
07:58The Cabinet shake-up comes as Trudeau struggles with declining popularity and raises questions
08:03about how much longer he can stay in his job.
08:28Welcome back to From the South.
08:44German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost Monday the confidence motion in the German Federal
08:49Parliament, Bundestag, which officially opens the way to early general elections next February
08:5523rd.
08:56This motion puts a definitive end to the weakest coalition government in Germany in recent
09:01decades.
09:02Of the 717 votes cast, 207 members of the parliament backed Scholz, 394 voted against
09:11and 116 abstained.
09:13Scholz's management has been strongly questioned by both the opposition and his own allies.
09:19As the election date approaches, Germany is entering an election campaign that promises
09:23to be short, intense and decisive, with a high level of uncertainty about the country's
09:29political future.
09:47In France, officials report that densely populated neighbourhoods on the islands of Majority
09:52were completely destroyed and buildings severely damaged by Cyclone Chiro.
09:56The total number of deaths is still unknown and it could be several days before the official
10:01toll is known.
10:02According to the French Weather Service, Chiro's winds hit the island at more than 220 km per
10:10hour, making it a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest on the Saffir-Sinsen scale.
10:16The territory of about 300,000 people had not seen a hurricane of this magnitude since
10:211934.
10:22The French Minister of the Armed Forces said rescue teams and supplies, such as generators
10:28and military rations, were sent from the nearby island of Réunion.
10:37Cyclone Chiro caused severe damage in the north-eastern province of Cape Delgado as
10:42it passed through Mozambique.
10:44Local media reported that dozens of infrastructures were totally or partially destroyed in the
10:49area.
10:50Chiro made landfall on Sunday with winds of up to 200 km per hour that destroyed roofs,
10:56knocked down trees and power poles, leaving part of the province without electricity and
11:01water.
11:02From December to March, the southeastern Indian Ocean and southern Africa are affected by
11:07the cyclone season.
11:12In Australia, authorities on Monday issued fire warnings for several locations in the
11:17country's southeast in the wake of a heatwave that will send thermometers soaring to record
11:23highs of 47 degrees.
11:25Melbourne will experience a record day of 41 degrees, the hottest since 2020.
11:31Authorities also predict that Sydney will see a similar temperature on Tuesday, especially
11:36in its western neighbourhoods.
11:38In the southeastern state of New South Wales, temperatures will reach 47 degrees in the
11:43towns of Wilcannia and Yvonnehoe, more than 840 km west of Sydney.
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12:47The Israeli regime once again targeted a United Nations safe haven school in the Gaza Strip.
12:54At least 20 Palestinians, including children, were killed in the attack and several were
12:59wounded.
13:00The Wafaa News Agency reported that the Israeli army shelved at the Ahmed Bin Abdul Aziz School,
13:06run by UNRWA, which was sheltering displaced families in southern Cairo.
13:11According to testimonies, the building was full of children.
13:15The attack followed an assault on a school in northern Beit Hanoun, in which 43 people
13:20were killed and another on a civil defence post in which Al-Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Al-Low
13:26and five rescue workers died.
13:29At least 44,976 civilians have been killed by Israel and more than 106,000 have been
13:36wounded since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza in October 2023.
13:46They bombed the school, which was a shelter for children, and there were no resistance
13:49fighters or anything in it.
13:51They were all children and we were sleeping.
13:53So why didn't they tell us to evacuate the school?
13:56How can they bomb a school?
14:01I say to the world, enough.
14:04As you can see in front of you, children.
14:08Who kills children?
14:10Enough.
14:11We were sleeping, we heard the sound of the bombing, our houses shook.
14:18All the martyrs are civilians and children, as you can see.
14:23There are children with severed heads and torn limbs.
14:27Israel deliberately kills children.
14:30It does not kill soldiers or resistance fighters.
14:34This is a school affiliated with UNRWA.
14:38Where is UNRWA's protection?
14:39There is no protection for it because it was bombed.
14:44And I tell you, President Trump is more stubborn than the outgoing president.
14:51We were sitting and went to sleep in our room.
14:55Suddenly, we heard a strong bombing in the school.
14:59We did not know the target and we did not know anything.
15:04The martyrs and the wounded were transferred to Nasser Hospital.
15:07The school is empty of targets.
15:10And as you can see, the school was destroyed and there are injured and martyrs.
15:15The sound is terrifying.
15:18We were sitting in our room and thank God we were not harmed because the shrapnel was
15:23flying from everywhere.
15:26The martyrs are all civilians, among them women and children.
15:31There is no safe place.
15:33They bombed a place that shelters displaced people affiliated with UNRWA.
15:43This Sunday, the Israeli regime approved a plan to increase the number of settlers in
15:47the Syrian Golan Heights illegally occupied since 1967.
15:52The decision comes days after seizing more Syrian territory following the overthrow of
15:57President Bashar al-Assad and the seizure of power in Damascus by extremist factions.
16:04Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the government had unanimously
16:07approved the demographic development of the occupied territory, which would seek to double
16:12the Israeli population there.
16:14The new plan applies to the part of the Golan Heights that Israel has occupied since 1967
16:20and where some 31,000 settlers live in dozens of illegal settlements.
16:25The president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, through a statement on his former Telegram
16:35channel, broadcasted as well by the Russian news agency TASS, declared that he remained
16:40in Damascus until the early hours of December 8.
16:44Part of the communique states the following and I quote, I did not leave the country in
16:50a planned manner as had been reported, nor did I do so in the last hours of the fighting.
16:56I remained in Damascus fulfilling my responsibilities until the early morning hours of Sunday, December
17:028, 2024.
17:04Continues explaining that Moscow requested the base command to organize an immediate
17:08evacuation to Russia and the option of asylum or resignation was never considered, neither
17:14by him nor any person or entity related to him.
17:18Al-Assad follows reaffirming that since the first day of the war he refused to exchange
17:23the salvation of his homeland for the personal benefits and stood by the officers and soldiers
17:29of his army on the front lines at the most critical and dangerous points of combat.
17:34Al-Assad finished by saying and I quote, this does not imply in any way a renunciation of
17:40my national and authentic belonging to Syria and its people.
17:44My commitment to Syria is unwavering regardless of any position of circumstance and is filled
17:50with hope for the return of a free and independent Syria.
17:54End of the quote.
18:00On Monday, South Korea's ruling party president Han Dong-hun resigned.
18:04The leader of the People Power Party now announced his resignation amid growing political conflict
18:10following an impeachment motion in the National Assembly to remove President Jun Suk-kyo.
18:15Han initially assured that he would continue to serve, but his stance changed after five
18:21members of the party's Supreme Council expressed their intention to resign.
18:25A serious political crisis erupted in the country after President Jung Suk-kyo declared
18:31the imposition of a short-lived martial law last December 3rd.
18:41I am resigning from my position as the leader of the People's Power Party.
18:47The resignation of the Supreme Council members has destroyed the Supreme Council, making
18:52it impossible for me to carry out my normal duties as the leader of the party.
19:01I sincerely apologize to all the people who are suffering from this emergency situation.
19:08The now former party leader admitted that bloodshed could have ensued if the martial
19:13law had not been lifted.
19:18If we had not lifted the martial law that night, there could have been bloodshed between
19:22our citizens who would have taken to the streets and our young soldiers the following morning.
19:26That night, I was deeply afraid that I might not be able to prevent such a tragedy.