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00:00On Monday, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, a growing
00:17concern regarding his state policies.
00:24The World Health Organization has urged the international community to join in the construction
00:29of Palestine given the health challenges faced by the people of the nation and the
00:34destruction of its health system.
00:41And Venezuela welcomes more than 1,000 Colombians who are fleeing from the armed conflict in
00:47the neighboring country's northeastern region.
00:54Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Ana Marrero from the Telesura headquarters in
00:58Caracas, Venezuela.
00:59Now we will be with the news, stay with us.
01:15On Monday, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, a growing
01:21concern regarding his state policies.
01:24In light of his first terms, Republicans assume a unified control of Washington and
01:29set out of reshaping the country's institutions.
01:33Trump will lie swiftly after the ceremony with the executive orders already prepared
01:41for his signature to clamp down on border crossing, increase fossil fuel development
01:46and end diversity and inclusion programs across the federal government.
01:51The executive orders are the first step in what Trump called the complete restoration
01:56of the country and a revolution of common sense.
02:21at our southern border.
02:23Next, I will direct all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal
02:29to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices.
02:42The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices.
02:49That is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency.
02:54We will drill, baby, drill.
02:58Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he hoped the United States will remain
03:03a historical pointer of his country after Donald Trump's return to the White House on Monday.
03:09There are people who say that Trump's election could cause problems for world democracy.
03:17Trump was elected to govern the United States and I, as President of Brazil, hope that he
03:21has a successful administration, that the U.S. people improve, and that the U.S. continue
03:27to be the historical partner of Brazil.
03:29On our side, we don't want any fights with Venezuela, with the U.S., with China, with
03:34India, or with Russia.
03:37What we want is peace.
03:41Social movements and trade unions in Panama have expressed their unwillingness to resist
03:46U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to the nation's sovereignty.
03:50The group is led by the organizations that make up the Union of People's Alliance, who
03:54rejects Trump's declarations on the Panama Canal.
03:57The U.S. President assured that tariffs charged in the Panama Canal are too high and that
04:03if they are not lowered, he will demand that the canal be handed over to the U.S. quickly
04:09and without questions.
04:11On the other hand, the National Union of Workers of Constructions and Similar Industries instructs
04:16that the sovereignty of the Panamanian people is intact.
04:24Russia expressed its intentions to dialogue with the incoming state governments and establish
04:30a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine.
04:33Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow remains open to dialogue with
04:37Washington in order to establish agreements to ensure a lasting peace in its region.
04:43Putin also stressed that his government has always been open to dialogue with the U.S.
04:48administration and emphasized that these agreements will be built on the basis of equality and
04:53mutual respect.
04:54Likewise, the Russian President points out that the goal should not be a brief truce
04:59but a long-term peace.
05:04We believe that dialogue will be built on an equal, mutually respectful basis, given
05:08the significant role played by our country on a number of key issues on the global agenda,
05:13including the strengthening of our strategic stability and security.
05:17We are also open for dialogue with the new U.S. administration on the Ukrainian conflict.
05:22Let's take our very first break, but remember you can join us on our Tiktok account at Celestine
05:30English, where you'll be able to see news in different formats, news updates and more.
05:33Stay tuned for more news.
05:38Welcome back to From the South.
05:57As we inform, this Monday Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United
06:02States.
06:03In this context, we can thank our special envoy to Washington, D.C., Carlos Monteros.
06:08Hi, Carlos.
06:09What can you share with us at this hour?
06:13Thank you very much.
06:14We are almost at the end of a historic night.
06:16Donald Trump finished that day in the basketball stadium, the Capital One Arena, where he's
06:24with all the people who wanted to be outside on the street, but the weather didn't let
06:29them.
06:30They have to cancel all the celebration outside.
06:33All the ceremony of the swearing of the president has to be inside of the Congress, what is
06:39called the Rotunda.
06:42Trump did his first speech.
06:44I mean, he talked about everything.
06:46You've mentioned some of those points.
06:48He talked from Mars, that the American flag, they're going to be in France.
06:52He talked about the deportation.
06:54He talked about the militarized, the South Frontier with Mexico.
07:00He talked about the Canal of Panama.
07:03He talked about the Gulf of Mexico.
07:05That's going to change the name, Gulf of America.
07:08He talks there are two genres, only men and female.
07:12That's a very hit for LGBT community.
07:17What he did when he finished, he has a ceremony.
07:20He has lunch in the Congress.
07:22Then it was a ceremony there with the militaries.
07:27From there, he went to this arena where he signed a lot of executive orders, 100.
07:36He signed some at the Congress and the rest here in the arena.
07:41The arena is a few blocks from where we are.
07:45The people went crazy because those people, they wanted to celebrate on the street.
07:49Like I said before, they couldn't do it for the weather.
07:52So in that place, it has a capacity for 20,000 people.
07:56Those people, they are there the whole day watching the ceremony in the Capitol.
08:01But there were different celebrities talking to them.
08:04There was music.
08:05It was some show.
08:06And the strong performance is the performance of Donald Trump, who is going to sign there
08:12the executive order and talk to them about saying how great America is going to be.
08:19It's going to be the first time that people are not going to believe how great America
08:25is going to do.
08:26People went crazy when he is saying that.
08:28American people are his followers, but the reality is America is in deep trouble, especially
08:34here with the situation of the immigrants, the people who don't have documents, who live
08:40on the shallow.
08:41There are around 12 million people.
08:43We don't know what's going to happen.
08:45The rumors are that tomorrow in Chicago is going to be a lot of search of those people
08:51and deport them.
08:54That's generate here, you know, a lot of confusion, a lot of stress in this community
09:00that they don't know what's going to happen with them from today or tomorrow morning in
09:05Chicago, especially, and another sanctuary cities.
09:09Those are people who are here looking for a better life, trying to work, honest people.
09:14Most of them, even Trump tried to say that a lot of people are criminals.
09:19They don't respect the law, but most of them are honest people.
09:22I know quite a lot of them and what's going to happen tomorrow is going to be really a
09:28situation, really tough for all of them.
09:31We are going to follow that story very close.
09:34For the moment, this is all.
09:35I'm going back to you to the studio.
09:53And now we move on off topics in Palestine.
09:57After the ceasefire deal came into action, displaced civilians returned to destroy homes
10:02in the Gaza Strip to try and rebuild their life.
10:05From Al-Mawassi, our collaborator, Huda Heghazi, tell us more.
10:09I'm currently in the Al-Mawassi area in the center of the Gaza Strip, a coastal area which
10:20is full of gas and refugee camps where people evacuated to during this genocidal war.
10:26After the ceasefire, when I came here, I thought I was going to find people taking down their
10:30tents and going back to their homes, like, for example, in the southern area in Rafah,
10:36where the army has withdrawn.
10:37But unfortunately, I found that despite the ceasefire, despite the end of the war, people
10:43are in the same situation.
10:50I mean, the tents are still there.
10:52I didn't find an image of people returning to their homes, at least in the center and
10:56south of the Gaza Strip.
10:57And the humanitarian situation literally is the same.
11:01Even when I arrived at this camp, I met a family coming from the Rafah area, specifically
11:06from the south of the Gaza Strip, who today went to see their home, or at least what is
11:10left of it, and literally found nothing of their home.
11:14Now we will talk to them so they can tell us what they will do in this case, where would
11:18they move to now, and whether they will return to their destroyed home or remain in this
11:22place.
11:31Today when you went to Rafah, what did you find?
11:34I found a lot of destruction in Rafah.
11:36Even my house was destroyed.
11:37We had two houses, and both of them are destroyed.
11:40I tried to take out some of our things, but there was hardly anything left.
11:44We were in shock with what we saw.
11:46Even my father was going to faint from what he saw.
11:48He could not assimilate why our two houses were destroyed.
11:53When you saw that you had no house, what are you going to do now?
11:56Are you going to stay here or what?
11:58I don't know what we are going to do, and we don't know where we are going to go.
12:01We are going to wait to see what is going to happen, and we will do the same thing that
12:05people are going to do.
12:07I mean, the war is over, but life will not go on the same.
12:10Yes, of course, the war is over, but the situation is still very, very difficult, and there are
12:14still very difficult days ahead for us.
12:28As this young man has assured us, despite the end of the war, the humanitarian and catastrophic
12:33situation that the Gazans are living is the same.
12:36There is still a long process of reconstruction, there is still a long process for the people
12:40to know what they are going to do.
12:42We were saying before that, yes, the war is over, at least the bombings are over, the
12:47death is over.
12:48But nevertheless, now the people will have to face a much more difficult war, that of
12:52returning to life.
12:54The Gazans need a lot of time to return at least a little bit to what their life was
12:58before.
12:59The people, as we can see, are still in the same condition, living in tents, in inhuman
13:04conditions.
13:12Without having a place where they can take shelter, without having access to a house,
13:21and therefore, that return that everybody had in mind, unfortunately so far, will not
13:26be possible.
13:27People will continue to live in these camps for a long time, or they will even remove
13:31their tents from this place and install them on top of the ruins of what used to be their
13:35main home.
13:36Therefore, life in shelters, in tents, will continue being a reality in the Gaza Strip
13:41for many years to come.
14:11for many years to come.
14:41Welcome back.
14:49Venezuela welcomes more than 1,000 Colombians displaced by armed conflict in the Catatumbo
14:54region.
14:55The Venezuelan government activated the Simón Bolívar humanitarian task force, where it
15:00established four support centers to provide comprehensive assistance to people affected
15:04by the violence.
15:06Refugees receive medical care, food, shelter, dignified shelter, my pardon, and physical
15:13or social support.
15:15The Colombian region of Catatumbo is marked as the epicenter of violence between armed
15:20groups seeking control of drug production.
15:28The vice president of the Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, delivered
15:33statements on Monday about the armed conflict in Colombia and the assistance Venezuela
15:38has been providing those who have crossed the border into the Bolivarian nation fleeing
15:43the violence in the neighboring country.
15:45And regarding the humanitarian aid from Venezuela to Colombia, it's not the first time, nor
15:52it will be the last one.
15:58The Colombian people displaced by violence in their territory, by the lack, and in a
16:10study from the 87, the abandonment of the borders in Colombian territory by the Colombian
16:19governments, until now, Venezuela is safeguarding its border, a conflict there, and some people
16:31come here fleeing the violence.
16:34That's not new.
16:37Up to five million Colombians came to Venezuela.
16:42They live here today.
16:44In another part of his address, Cabello criticized far-right opposition leader Corina Machado's
16:50repeat calls for violence and curbs in Venezuela, and stressed that she is only the leader of
16:55a small part of the opposition, the majority of which does believe in election.
17:00Yesterday, in an address of this lady, that some believe she leaders the opposition in
17:11Venezuela, but she only is the leader of a small part of the opposition.
17:16She says that call for elections, it's not qualifying.
17:34So she said that a good data must be carried out.
17:38That's her usual position.
17:42Now she's being honest, at least.
17:46A few moments ago, she said that elections won't be possible to be carried out without
17:53her.
17:54She said that it was not possible to go to election.
17:59While we all know that's the meaning of that sector of the opposition, meanwhile, there
18:03are sectors of the opposition that are ready for the elections.
18:08The Venezuelan Public Prosecutor's Office informed national and international audiences
18:12that the fight against stronger organized crime groups is a central focus on its work
18:18in defense of peace, justice and human rights.
18:21Intense work has been carried out to dismantle criminal groups such as the Tren de Aragua,
18:26Oregans of El Coqui, Wilmer Bachiller, El Conas, Carlos Capas, Eduardo Delicias and
18:32El Gigi Boscan, among others.
18:34The process to dismantle Tren de Aragua was carried out in two stages and a total of 48
18:40people have been arrested and persecuted for their participation in these criminal groups.
18:45As an institution that guarantees legality, the Public Prosecutor's Office is committed
18:52to fight against crimes and is willing to resume criminal cooperation with the U.S.
18:57government to achieve the extradition of every Venezuelan member of the transnational criminal
19:02groups that commit crimes throughout the continent.
19:09One year after the passing of the Colombian Senator Pilar Cordoba, her legacy and work
19:14on humanitarian and peace agreements for the country and Latin American integration are
19:18still fresh in our memory.
19:20Since she was a teenager, Pilar Esmeralda Cordoba Ruiz was committed to social and political
19:26work with the most vulnerable communities.
19:29Committed as a senator for the first time in 1994, she worked tirelessly from the Parliament
19:35for a negotiated solution to armed conflicts in Colombia and a humanitarian agreement.
19:41In 2007, she was appointed as a mediator for the liberation of military and political prisoners
19:47held by the former FARC EP and tells her witness her tireless work towards this goal.
19:54Her legacy of struggle, of perseverance, and of fortitude remain present in the people
20:00of the South.
20:03I have come to the end of this news brief and in this context, this Monday, January
20:11the 20th, we honor the memory and work of Pilar Cordoba.
20:15So we commemorate the first years of her past in Venezuela and President Nicolás Maduro
20:19recalled the work of this woman who was able to defend the Afro-descendant community.
20:26Remember, you can find these and many other stories on our website at TELESURY ENGLISH
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20:31From TELESURY ENGLISH and from the South, I'm Ana Marrero, thank you for watching.