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00:00In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro ratified that he will sign a decree to promote a constitutional
00:16reform after the BNs were named in January the 10th.
00:23Ferocious wildfire in the suburbs of Los Angeles devoured buildings and sparked a panic
00:30evacuation on Tuesday as hurricane-force winds tore through the region.
00:39An investigation continues in Cuba after the explosion of a munitions warehouse in Municipio
00:45Rafael Freire in the province of Holguín.
00:55Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Ana Marrero from the Telesur headquarters
00:58in Caracas, Venezuela.
00:59We'll be with the news, stay with us.
01:15In Venezuela, the Presidency of the National Assembly met with President Nicolás Maduro
01:19to notify the executive branch of the start of the 2025-2026 legislative period.
01:26The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said that the democratic challenge of 2025
01:30will be greater than those of the previous year and that it will be an important year
01:35in the country's democratic history.
01:38The President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, also announced efforts to speed
01:42up the process of restructuring the National Assembly with community laws that will allow
01:48for a prosperous future for the country.
01:52President Maduro ratified that he will sign a decree to promote a constitutional reform
01:58after being sworn in on January the 10th.
02:04Today the situation is different, but their craziness, their hate, have turned into fascism.
02:15In 2016 we didn't speak about fascism.
02:18I said it then, deputies of the opposition, many of you were part of that coalition bloc
02:27that was victorious.
02:29Today you continue to be part of an important opposition coalition here in Venezuela, and
02:34I respect the differences that exist between us, between our political parties.
02:47Opinion is welcome.
02:50In democracy all is possible.
02:56The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, described 2025 as a year of Venezuelans' post-great
03:01democratic challenges as the countries that will be holding non-elections to build up
03:05the nation's future.
03:13This National Assembly fulfills its 5th anniversary this year, and we pose big democratic challenges
03:21this year.
03:25Perhaps we'll be witnessing the most important democratic outburst ever in the history of
03:29our republic.
03:33Because this year, we will be holding 9 elections in Venezuela.
03:42So we live in a country that intends to build up its own destiny, by exercising its freedom
03:47and sovereignty.
03:50The Constitution stipulates sovereignty lies in the people.
03:55Thus the people will demonstrate this year 2025 that sovereignty lies in the people who
04:00exercises it permanently.
04:12The Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro condemned the political and popular moral power that
04:16the Bolivarian revolution has.
04:25We should remember how Venezuela unfortunately began a cycle of pain, of sacrifices that
04:32we call of iron resistance to all forms of cooperation, how they dedicated themselves
04:40year after year to promise the overthrow of the government as if the Venezuelan voters
04:45had elected them to overthrow the legitimate government, in order to replace the legitimate
04:50government with unconstitutional lives, always making the mistake of overestimating their
05:00strength, of misusing their strength, of offering lies, of not fulfilling what they had offered.
05:07And the worst mistake, of underestimating us, of underestimating the immense political
05:13and popular moral power that the Bolivarian revolution has, has had and will have in this
05:1821st century.
05:21A fundamental force to talk about politics and the history of Venezuela in this century.
05:33On January the 7th, work and school life began in Venezuela after the December holidays.
05:38Our team made a tour around the educational centers and the businesses districts of Petare.
05:42Let's see if this is true with our special envoy, Daisy Tuzón.
05:47The Romulo Gallegos School, located in one of the most popular areas of Petare, opens
05:52its doors to welcome students for classes after their Christmas holidays.
05:56Teachers agree that the first days are usually less attended.
06:03It is always usual or normal for students to join the school gradually.
06:07The same happens when they come back from the July-August holidays for the whole holiday
06:11period, and it takes them about a week longer to join the school in September.
06:16In January, it has always been the same, especially when it starts during the week.
06:22In other schools in the area, we verify their gradual return to school.
06:28We continue our tour in Petare, one of Venezuela's most iconic neighborhoods.
06:36This is a residential and commercial epicenter of Caracas, and its streets are always bustling
06:40with commerce, and passerbys are a viable indicator of the country's activity.
06:47In recent weeks, Social Network has shown a distorted reality of the moment the country
06:54is going through, while the reality on the streets is different.
07:01As a Venezuelan, I tell you that this is pressure, more pressure for this population, but no.
07:07We are very convinced that if nothing has happened so far, the 10th will be even less,
07:12and let the pressure go and let him work so that they can see how a country grows.
07:18This year, the authorities are respecting a large influx of travelers to interior of
07:22the country.
07:24It is flowing and that we are all calm.
07:30People are making a fuss and saying things, but no, I see that everything is calm.
07:36They're going around saying they're closed, but I don't know where.
07:39In La Guaira, Jigarote, all is normal.
07:41I went to the beach and everything's open, everything's normal.
07:47It comes a few days before the swearing-in of President Nicolás Maduro.
07:51Let's take a very short break, but remember, you can join us on our TikTok account at Celeste
07:58English, where you'll be able to see news in different formats, news updates and more.
08:02Stay tuned for more news.
08:06Welcome back to From the South.
08:25A ferocious wildfire in the suburbs of Los Angeles devoured buildings and sparked panic
08:31evacuations on Tuesday as a hurricane-force winds threw throughout the region.
08:37Firefighters and residents abandoned their cars on one of the only roads in and out of
08:42the upscale Pacific Palisades area, fleeting on the foot from almost 1,200 tourists placed
08:52engulfing an area packed with multimillion-dollar houses in the Santa Monica Mountains.
09:01Firefighters used bulldozers to push thousands of vehicles, including expensive models such
09:06as BMWs, Teslas and Mercedes, to one side, leaving many crippled and with their alarm
09:15burning.
09:16Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Christine Crowley said that despite the chaotic evacuation,
09:22there were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries.
09:32Investigations continue in Cuba after the explosion of a ammunition warehouse in the
09:38municipality of Rafael Lefraer in the province of Holguin.
09:41During the early morning of Tuesday, a fire was reported in a warehouse in the community
09:46of Melones, where at least 13 soldiers are missing due to the accident.
09:52The armed forces and the government maintain their full attention in the area to carry
09:56the outsearch and rescue work.
09:59So far, no official reports on the cause of the fire and the evolutions of damage to the
10:05patrimony are still awaiting.
10:11The president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, threw the social network X-State.
10:15We deeply regret the fire that occurred in a warehouse of the municipality of Melones
10:21in the Holguin municipality of Rafael Lefraer.
10:25We stand in solidarity with and accompany the families of 13 missing people.
10:32Full attention is being paid to what happened.
10:37The causes are being investigated.
10:45Cuba commemorates on January the 8th the 66th anniversary of the arrival in the capital
10:50of the Caravan of Freedom of the Rebel Army, led by Fidel Castro, after the revolutionary
10:56victory on January the 1st, 1959.
11:00Leaders entering Giovana will be at Vogue on Wednesday morning at Poinsettia in the
11:04capital, where a convoy arrived on that date after more than a thousand kilometers of journey
11:09in contact with people from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.
11:15The reenactment of the historic event will begin in factory complexes in Cotorro municipality.
11:22Then a floral offering will be placed before the Gantman Yards at the Museum of the Revolution
11:28in Hull, Havana.
11:29In the afternoon, the caravans will pass along 23rd Street in the Havana neighborhood of
11:35Vedado until they arrive at the Ciudad Escolar Libertad, a scientific pedagogical complex
11:42located in the municipality of Mar y Hinal, where the central national ceremony for the
11:48anniversary will take place.
11:54The United Nations organizations warned that in the last year more than 5,600 Haitians
12:00have been killed as a result of the crisis of violence that the Caribbean island is experiencing.
12:06The international organization warned that victims continue in spite of the presence
12:11of the international media support by the UN and led by Kenya in the country.
12:17For its part, the Human Rights Office denounced that the homicide rate increased by 20% due
12:23to the violence of the guns that control 85% of Port-au-Prince, the capital.
12:28In this regard, the UN Office warned that there have been 315 lynchings and 280 people
12:36have been murdered in the last years.
12:39This country faced a crisis of gun violence, which increased since 2021 when President
12:43Jovenel Moïse was assassinated.
12:51In Brazil, the Air Force said on Monday it had extracted from two black bags a record
12:56of the crash observed by an airline plane.
13:01The Brazilian main anniversary of the 190 crash lands in Zastava after being diverted
13:09from its schedule, leading to the changing capital of Khorasny in southern Russia, killing
13:1538 of the 67 people on board.
13:21Surveillance has stated the plane was shot down by Russian air defense, which Moscow
13:25says were operating in the area at the time.
13:28Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized for the incident in his country's airspace,
13:34but has no response to claim that the plane was hit by Russian weapons.
13:42In Brazil, the company in charge of Sao Paulo's electricity service, Enel, reported on Tuesday
13:47that about 150,000 homes were sealed without electricity after heavy rains.
13:52By early afternoon, 650,000 users were without power.
13:57Enel reported 500,000 homes with the homes' electricity was restored in the first 30 minutes.
14:04In the capital, heavy rains accompanied by winds and hail were reported prompting the
14:09Mayor's Office of Weather Emergency Management Center to declare a state of alert for flooding
14:14in the southern, southeastern and eastern zones.
14:27And moving on.
14:32In Uruguay, the small town of Garzon, located 170 kilometers from Montevideo, is undergoing
14:38a unique transformation that has captivated international artists, tourists and collectors.
14:46Now in its 8th edition, the GAMBO festival has been responsible for putting Garzon on
14:54the Global Art Radar.
14:56Created by U.S. photographer Heidi Linder, the event brought together more than 20 international
15:02artists and one of the highlights of the festival was the sauna installation by artist Lucas
15:08Nguyen, who replaced the traditional benches of the local chapel with a series of sandboxes
15:15and rubber hammers.
15:17Let's take our last break, but before we invite you to visit our YouTube channel at
15:25TeleCity English, where you'll be able to see news in different formats, news updates
15:28and more.
15:29Stay tuned for more news.
15:47Welcome back.
16:03In Palestine, at least 49 people were killed in a new attack by the Israeli occupation
16:07army in the devastated Garzon Strip.
16:10The Nasser Hospital in Kanuni, the main hospital in the south of the Strip, received 20 bodies
16:16in the last hours, 10 of them children and 5 women.
16:20Seven people, including 5 minors, were killed in the shelling of a house in Kisam Rashav
16:25neighborhood where several families were sheltering.
16:29After 460 days of the Saudi regime's genocidal campaign, the number of people killed has
16:36reached 35,885 and more than 108,000 wounded.
16:44Suddenly without prior warning, I heard the sound of the missile I told myself, may God
16:48protect us then.
16:49The missile fell on our neighbor's house.
16:51I didn't know what happened after that.
16:53I checked on my wife and children and felt that I had been injured and bleeding from
16:56the head.
16:57I took my children and went out to a safe place until now.
17:00There are people under the rubble.
17:04In this context, health authorities in Gaza said a wave of Israeli strikes hit the territory
17:09southern district of Kanuni on Tuesday evening, killing thousands of people, 7 of them children.
17:16At least 5 strikes targeted parts of Kanuni, including one in Al-Mawasi area where thousands
17:23of displaced Palestinians are living in tents along the coast.
17:31Hospitals are being bombed.
17:32Where is the safe?
17:33UNRWA schools are being bombed.
17:34Where is safe?
17:35Even if we went to the safe areas they would bomb us.
17:37There is nothing left.
17:38Have mercy on us.
17:39What is happening?
17:40Where are the Arab countries?
17:42What is the fault of this child or this woman?
17:44These people are civilians and have nothing to do with anything.
17:46We are sleeping in our tents and have nothing to do with anything.
18:04In other topics, the Japanese Meteorological Agency warned of a heavy snowfall affecting
18:10the sea coast of Honshu.
18:13Authorities report that the northeastern and central areas could be covered with snow as
18:19heavy rainfall is expected for the next few hours.
18:22Meanwhile, the Ministry of Transportation and Tourism detailed that highways or main
18:28roads could be closed as a precaution.
18:31The authorities recommend residents to avoid non-essential exits.
18:38Meanwhile, in South Korea, a cold wave alert will be in effect as on Wednesday, with minimum
18:48temperatures falling to minimum 10 degrees.
18:52The central government and 24 other districts reported that they will operate a 24-hour
18:59situation room to minimize damage, as well as monitor and respond to damage reports.
19:06Authorities will contact vulnerable citizens to ensure their welfare while simultaneously
19:12providing homeless people with heaters and other items for their safety.
19:23Saudi Arabia's National Meteorological Center activated a red alert due to a torrential
19:28downpour, thunderstorms and strong wind gusts in several cities in the west of the country.
19:35Meteorological authorities issued a measure in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in
19:40the west of the country, as well as in the eastern region due to the torrential rains
19:45and floods that sweep away streets and neighborhoods in the kingdom.
19:49Meanwhile, the Red Crescent and Civil Protection is preparing for rescue operations for those
19:54who would require it.
19:56In this regard, they urge the inhabitants to remain alert and stay away from villages,
20:03low areas and areas where rainwater may accumulate.
20:14We have come to the end of this brief, but we leave you with the winners of the reality
20:19show Factor M, winners of the son of the campaign of President Nicolás Maduro.
20:26So remember that you can find all these stories and information on our website at Telesudio
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20:37For Telesudio English, I'm from the south, I'm Ana Marrero, thank you for watching.
21:26And we'll see you in the next video.