17/12/2024
FTS 8.30
*Israel killed two-thirds of all journalists who died violently in the world
*Ukraine claims responsibility for attack on senior Russian military officer
FTS 8.30
*Israel killed two-thirds of all journalists who died violently in the world
*Ukraine claims responsibility for attack on senior Russian military officer
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00:00In Haiti, the Living Together coalition of criminal groups has been setting fire to residences,
00:18schools and churches since Sunday in revenge for the death of one of its own leaders at
00:22the hands of police forces.
00:27The Committee for the Protection of Journalists denounces that Israel has killed two-thirds
00:31of the total number of journalists who have died violent deaths worldwide in 2024.
00:40Ukraine's security services killed General Igor Kirillov, chief of the radiological,
00:45chemical and biological defense troops of the Russian armed forces.
00:55Hello, welcome to From the South, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Televisu Studios in Havana,
00:59Cuba.
01:00We begin with the news.
01:01In Haiti, the Living Together coalition of criminal groups has been setting fire to residences,
01:06schools and churches since Sunday in revenge for the death of one of its own leaders at
01:11the hands of police forces.
01:12In the middle of a confrontation this weekend, national and multinational police forces neutralized
01:18AKA Jeff Mafia, the lieutenant of Jimmy Cherishier, head of the criminal coalition.
01:23In retaliation, the criminal groups maintained an incessant attack on residential areas,
01:28schools and religious centers in Nassau, Post Marchand and Avenue Poupalard in Port-au-Prince,
01:32the country's capital.
01:34The order from the leader of the criminal groups has spread to several provinces in
01:38the center of the country.
01:39In this context, they have warned of a forthcoming attack on the base of operations of the multinational
01:45police forces.
01:51In Venezuela, the executive secretary of ALBA-TCP reaffirmed that the multilateral organization
01:55is the one that has contributed the most to humanity while the NT is preparing to strengthen
02:00its shared development programs for the benefit of the peoples.
02:04The secretary stressed that the alliance was born to generate a true cohesion of nations,
02:08emphasizing that ALBA is synonymous of union.
02:12In turn, the executive secretary of the organization pointed out that ALBA has made great contributions
02:17for its member nations, but it seeks to promote the development of a multipolar and puri-centric
02:21world.
02:22Jorge Arriaza also emphasized that ALBA is one of the few integration mechanisms that
02:26remain in force, asserting that it is not only a mechanism that exists in theory, but
02:32has also had great achievements and agreements throughout its 20 years of existence.
02:45The Bolivarian category is of the union.
02:47Integration can be seen as a previous process in which the parts are integrated to constitute
02:51a union.
02:52The project of the liberator SimĂłn BolĂvar, both bilateral and multilateral, in the host
02:57congress of Panama, was the Union, League and Perpetual Confederation of the National
03:01Republics, and ALBA was born for the union, and it was born so that this union would not
03:06be for the dominant elites, not for economic policies.
03:11same.
03:12But for the peoples, the fact that Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro and then Evo Morales, Rafael
03:17Correa and the prime ministers of the Caribbean have joined it is because it is an expression
03:21of their peoples, and consequently, and some governments, that decide to set the goal of
03:27the integral union.
03:28So I believe that if ALBA has contributed more than any other international mechanism
03:33in our history, in the history of this continent, it is to rescue the project of the union and
03:38to advance in very concrete things.
03:49When you give life to a doctor in a community, to someone who needs it, and could have died
03:55without medical attention, it is generating union.
03:58When you give sight, as well as the miracles of Jesus Christ, you are bringing life to
04:03that community.
04:04When you achieve that through PetroCaribe they have the resources to have life, to build
04:08hospitals, to build infrastructure, then you are generating a true cohesion, a union for
04:14the peoples.
04:15So, if something is synonymous with ALBA, it is union.
04:22In the news in Colombia, a report by the Ombudsman's office has alerted several social movements
04:27to figures showing repeated violations of women's rights in the context of the armed
04:31conflict and transgressions of international human rights law for communities in that
04:35country.
04:36Let's see more details in the following work.
04:42The Ombudsman's office released a report with figures on violence against women during 2024.
04:48According to the data collected, 745 femicides have been registered, 44 of which were against
04:54girls, while between January and September alone, more than 26,000 cases of intimate
05:00partner violence and more than 300 cases related to human trafficking were reported.
05:05In addition, it was reported that 205 alerts have been issued on significant risks for
05:11women in conflict contexts.
05:16Today we make a call to improve early warning responses and work together with the most
05:20affected regions of the country to alleviate the serious situation in which the communities
05:25live, strengthen their proposals, and offer protection measures not only individually,
05:31but especially collectively with early prevention measures.
05:34In the face of fear, creativity and solidarity.
05:38Never silence.
05:45In the territories, violence is expressed with greater force against women who exercise
05:50leadership in their communities and fight for social and welfare demands related to
05:55the recovery of land and the implementation of comprehensive rural reform.
06:02And for this reason, for accompanying these people who are fighting to be heard, to be
06:07given their rights, to be listened to and to be given land to work, I am being threatened
06:12and stigmatized.
06:14I am being threatened and stigmatized by a guy named Mauricio Torres.
06:21Who is a retired colonel of the security forces.
06:25He is also the partner of the widow of Olmedo Ocampo, the drug trafficker who was the owner
06:30of the Cachepay farm.
06:32I am making this public denunciation because they are saying in all the media that I am
06:37a guerrilla swindler.
06:44Social organizations describe this scenario as a very complex situation.
06:49In the midst of the search for total peace that the current government has been promoting.
06:53Since only in the last two years, several armed groups have deepened their military
06:57actions and have degraded continuously violating international humanitarian law.
07:07Displacements, confinements, assassinations, massacres, extortions, kidnappings, recruitment
07:14of minors and planting of mines, in general, everything that is prohibited by international
07:19humanitarian law.
07:28But also the political discourse that relates them to society and the possibility of maintaining
07:33political and social recognition with the people.
07:36Has also been degraded because they have prioritized the taking of territories, the
07:46dispute of territories, the dispute of mines, drug trafficking, human trafficking of species
07:52and in general a series of illegal businesses that delegitimize them little by little and
07:56that if they continue along this route of lumpenization.
07:59The government will have to change its strategy of dialogue.
08:07The challenges for the current government are growing with each passing day.
08:13A total peace and dialogues with different armed actors totally fragmented.
08:18A difficult situation for the communities and their leadership in the territories.
08:22In addition to the social transformation projects that do not advance in the Congress where
08:27there is a parliamentary class that has been fed by the conflict.
08:37We now have a short break coming up but first remember you can join us on Tiktok at TELESURINGLISH
08:41where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
08:45We'll be right back, stay with us.
09:07Welcome back.
09:09In Uruguay, the President-elect Yamandu Orsi presented a new cabinet of ministers that
09:13will go in the country as of March next year.
09:16Correspondent Mateo will give you the details.
09:21The new Uruguayan government is beginning to take shape and after three weeks of negotiations
09:26with the different groups of the broad front, the President-elect Yamandu Orsi, together
09:30with the Vice President-elect Carolina Cusi, presented the new council of ministers that
09:35will take office on March 1st.
09:40This is the team that will be installed in the future government.
09:47This is the team that from now on will begin to articulate with those who have been designated
09:51for the exchange of the transition in order to shape the activities of the future government.
09:57After the election, negotiations took place to appoint the future leaders and begin to
10:02outline public policies.
10:06I would say that there are situations that may emerge that have to do with unresolved
10:10issues of the previous government, which may appear quickly, some related to health, others
10:15related to the pension system.
10:18It is such a vast ministry that the very program that the citizens voted for, which is the
10:22program of the broad front in its bases, talks about sovereignty issues, talks about the
10:28respect for the military career, talks also about the need to provide the best tools to
10:33exercise professionalism and, in short, the defense of sovereignty.
10:39As I was saying the other day, I am going to give the best of my technical capacity
10:44and my experience after so many years abroad to help Uruguay, that is the most important
10:50thing.
10:51The second thing is that I have the enthusiasm of having seen an extraordinary cabinet, of
10:56an extraordinary force, which I believe can be upheld by the people of Uruguay.
11:01The third thing is that I have the enthusiasm of having seen an extraordinary cabinet, of
11:05an extraordinary force, which I believe can be upheld by the people of Uruguay.
11:08to the challenges and objectives that the force that triumphed in these elections has
11:12set for itself.
11:18Another priority will be to reduce social inequality, which has increased significantly
11:23in recent years.
11:26Today Uruguay is a more unequal society than it used to be and there are structural problems
11:31and others that are more of an emergency and of the current situation that also need to
11:35be faced, and there are many people facing and doing things everywhere, in the neighborhoods,
11:40in the communities.
11:41We believe in this way of understanding social policy, with the participation of the people,
11:46encouraging the organization of the people, encouraging the strengthening of the capacities
11:50of the people so that they can be effectively freer and have a fairer society.
11:58For political scientist Mauro Casas, the cabinet presented stands out for its technical profile
12:03in key positions, although without losing political weight.
12:10It is a cabinet that combines several elements, as Yamandu had anticipated.
12:15It is a cabinet that has an important technical component, it has three or four people in
12:19key positions, not to mention the Ministry of Economy, the Chancellery, that have a
12:23technical profile that has a profile not so much of a backing of its own bench or of being
12:28leading the sectors of the broad front.
12:36In addition, Uruguay's new cabinet of ministers is the one with the highest representation
12:41of women in Uruguayan history, although without reaching gender parity, and all the heads
12:46of the cabinet come from public education.
12:48The new ministers will take office on March 1st, 2025.
12:58And the Mayan train, the emblematic work of former Mexican President Andres Manuel LĂłpez
13:02Obrador, has been in operation for one year.
13:04The current president, Claude Champagne, highlighted its value beyond transportation.
13:08Let's see.
13:10The Mexican president showed on this map how the Mayan train was completed, after the inauguration
13:15of sections six and seven of this flagship project of the so-called fourth transformation
13:20of Mexico's public life.
13:26The train is the recognition of the Mayan culture.
13:29This idea that the Spaniards arrived and brought civilization is totally erroneous and wrong,
13:35and the only thing it leads to is to give permanence to the discrimination that came
13:39with the colony.
13:45As of last August, 340,000 passengers had used this flagship facility, a few hours before
13:52its first anniversary.
13:53It was reported that the figure reached more than 600,000, 20 percent of the estimated
13:58goal of three million people.
14:01This dynamic of linkage with our airports, with the resorts that are in our state, which
14:06have a lot to offer in terms of tourism, is already beginning to be generated.
14:15The Mayan train created 44,000 direct jobs and 18,000 indirect jobs, a figure that will
14:22increase with the startup of the Mayan hotels along the route.
14:30The Mayan train also means social justice, because it provides welfare and development
14:35with justice for the communities and peoples of southeastern Mexico.
14:44The work, which took four years, has as one of its objectives to bring welfare to the
14:48native communities and to rescue the archaeological pieces found during construction.
14:54And today the 1,554 kilometers of railroads, social justice and narrowing the inequality
15:01gaps have been achieved.
15:07The Mayan train is consolidating its position as an important tourist link through vacation
15:12packages, in spite of the criticisms made by some people.
15:17There's no place here to have a sandwich or a coffee, nothing.
15:21Environmental groups have denounced the environmental damage caused by the project.
15:26Although, according to the government, 500 million trees have been reforested to repair
15:30the environmental damage.
15:33Daniel Rosas, Telesur, Ciudad de Mexico.
15:50The U.S. Geological Survey registered Tuesday a 7.4 magnitude earthquake in the South Pacific
15:55Archipelago of VanotĂş, which may activate a tsunami warning.
16:00The earthquake occurred 30 kilometers west of the coast of Port Vila, the country's capital.
16:05So far, authorities have not triggered and not reported any death or injuries.
16:10The U.S. Forecasting Service warned that smaller waves are expected in some nations close to
16:15the Pacific.
16:17In this regard, the Defense Minister of New Zealand, Mark Mitchell, said that the government
16:20is closely following the situation in the archipelago, noting the nation is ready to
16:24send the necessary aid.
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17:00Welcome back.
17:27The Committee for the Protection of Journalists denounces that Israel has killed two-thirds
17:31of the total number of journalists who have died violent deaths worldwide by 2024.
17:36According to Jordi Ginzburg, executive director of the organization, 95 journalists have been
17:40murdered worldwide.
17:41Two-thirds of these deaths are attributable to Israel.
17:44Since the beginning of the Genocide Operation against Gaza, which was simultaneously extended
17:49against Lebanon, the occupier's troops have killed 141 press workers, 133 Palestinians,
17:55two Israelis, and six Lebanese.
18:01And Israeli occupation forces step up their relentless assault on Kamal Adwan Hospital
18:05in northern Gaza.
18:06More than 30 Palestinians were killed across Gaza in the early hours of Tuesday.
18:11Despite repeated appeals by the director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom
18:15Ghebreyesus, who has described the situation in the hospital as a living hell, the siege
18:20against the center continues unabated.
18:22His director, Hossam Abu Safiya, confirmed power outages, shortages of medicines and
18:27medical supplies, and constant bombardments.
18:30The situation in other areas of the Strip is not better.
18:33Several areas have been bombed.
18:35In one of these attacks, the whole al-Tukhtabatibi family was killed, 10 people in total, almost
18:40all women and children.
18:46And on Monday, the self-proclaimed Syrian leader Mohammed al-Jolani assured a nation
18:51would not lend its territory to carry out attacks against Israel.
18:54He said so in an interview to a British media under the name he prefers to use now, Ahmed
18:59al-Shara.
19:00With this identity, he hopes to dissociate himself from his past as the founder of one
19:04of the most bloodthirsty branches of the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
19:08Al-Jolani, who is under an international arrest warrant for being considered by Washington
19:12as a specially designated global terrorist, has guaranteed the security of the Syrian
19:17entity, assuring that they will comply with the agreements.
19:26And Ukraine's security services killed General Igor Kirov, Chief of the Radiological, Chemical
19:31and Biological Defense Troops of the Russian Armed Forces.
19:34The news was confirmed by Svetlana Petrenko, representative of the Investigation Committee
19:38of the Eurasian nation.
19:39According to reports, in the event, which occurred near the residence of the high official,
19:44his assistant was also killed.
19:46The Investigation Committee published minutes after the fact was confirmed that the improvised
19:50explosive device was placed on an electric scooter park on Ryansanskiy Avenue.
19:55In this context, Ukraine's security services have claimed responsibility for the assassination.
19:59General Kirov led investigations that expose U.S. involvement in biological labs in Ukraine
20:05and other countries.
20:10Like this, we have come to the end of this newsbrief.
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