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00:00 Israeli occupation forces launched the deadliest attack on the Gaza Strip.
00:07 Authorities denounced that the aggression has completely cut off internet and electricity
00:11 services.
00:12 Images show how the detonations hit residential areas in Gaza, causing a complete destruction
00:18 of the power grid.
00:19 The Palestinian telecommunications company also announced a total shutdown of all communications
00:24 and internet services, while multiple attacks on several areas of the Gaza Strip, from the
00:29 air, land and sea, are also being reported, which is worsening the situation in hundreds
00:34 of the Gaza hospital.
00:41 In this context, the Palestinian Red Crescent warns about the impact of the total loss of
00:45 communications in the health system of the Gaza Strip on the work of its ambulance team,
00:49 as the emergency teams continue to rescue the wounded following the ongoing Israeli
00:54 bombardment of residential areas from various points.
01:01 The UN General Assembly approved on Friday the long-awaited resolution on the Gaza crisis,
01:06 calling for a humanitarian truce and the cessation of hostilities in the area.
01:09 The resolution was submitted by Jordan and approved with 120 votes in favor, 14 against
01:15 and 45 abstentions.
01:16 The text is the first to be adopted by the United Nations body after four draft files
01:21 to the Security Council sealed the outbreak of violence on October 7.
01:26 Today, the General Assembly declared that a call, stop the war and stop it now, send
01:36 the humanitarian assistance now at scale, and also stop the ethnic cleansing and the
01:43 killing and protect the Palestinians, protect the civilians.
01:47 All these things were contained in this General Assembly resolution.
01:52 Therefore, we will take it.
01:55 The Security Council has to take it.
01:57 Palestinian Ambassador Edam Mansour also welcomed the new Europe's perspectives on Palestine.
02:05 The great majority of European countries either voted in favor or abstained, and we are beginning
02:13 to see what we wanted to accomplish, that the Europeans beginning to look at the situation
02:20 from humanitarian angle, and that that would be very helpful, whether in the Security Council
02:27 or in maximizing pressure in Israel to stop this war.
02:33 On the other hand, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilead Erdan, rejects the
02:38 resolution and accused the International Organization of what he called committing itself to ensure
02:43 no further atrocities.
02:44 Today is a day that will go down in infamy.
02:51 We have all witnessed that the UN no longer holds even one ounce of legitimacy or relevance.
02:59 This organization was founded in the wake of the Holocaust for the purpose of preventing
03:04 atrocities.
03:05 Yet, the spectacle we just saw proves beyond a doubt that the UN is committed, sadly, tragically,
03:14 not to preventing but ensuring further atrocities.
03:18 In Palestine, medical staff at Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical center in the Gaza Strip,
03:25 presented architectural plans of a facility to refute the Israeli claims that Hamas militants
03:31 are hiding in the hospital's basement's tunnels.
03:34 At a press conference, the doctor said that they operate in rooms of neonatology incubators,
03:40 and everything is at the marked end of the basement of the hospital.
03:44 They indicate that the plans are unknown, but all those who have been working for 70
03:52 years.
03:56 An aid convoy from the International Committee of the Red Cross passed the Red Cross into
04:01 the Gaza Strip on Friday.
04:02 The aid group said that the convoy includes trucks filled with food and medicine and other
04:07 medical supplies, and said 10 staff members, including a surgery team, are also expected.
04:13 It also stated that the arrival of a new humanitarian personnel would increase the ICRC's capacity
04:19 to continue supporting hospitals and live a life saving trauma surgery.
04:30 Hamas protests are taking place in West Bank, Palestine, against the actions of the Palestinian
04:34 occupation forces, and in condemnation of the thousands killed in Gaza.
04:38 The march started from the Al-Biri Grand Mosque to the Al-Manara traffic circle of the center
04:45 of Ramallah, but it serves to raise Palestinian flags, Hamas flags, and pictures of the effects
04:50 of the Israeli bombing.
04:58 On the other hand, thousands of Jordanians are also showing their solidarity and support
05:02 to the Palestinian people by demonstrating against the side of the Israeli occupation
05:06 forces.
05:07 Local authorities in Jordan inform that this is the third Friday that Jordanians have held
05:13 a massive mobilization in favor of the Palestinian struggle, and in rejection of the Israeli
05:18 violence against the people of Gaza.
05:21 Well, at this point, let's go to picture what is happening in the Gaza Strip.
05:28 The night has turned mean for the inhabitants of the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
05:33 The total cut of the communications was preceded by a terrible massive bombing by the Israeli
05:38 armed forces.
05:39 It has been a terrible night.
05:41 Catastrophic consequences are expected, an increase in the number of deaths that up to
05:46 the moment add up to more than 7,000.
05:49 The humanitarian crisis is already imminent.
05:51 We can see how the darkness is total.
05:54 Every few lights illuminates.
05:55 Until a moment ago, this dark night was broken by the detonations of bombs.
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06:26 Welcome back to From the South.
06:53 I think Colombia citizens are getting ready for the regional elections on Sunday, October
06:58 29th, which seeks to elect different authorities in the country.
07:02 On October 29th, the Colombian population will carry out a democratic exercise in which
07:07 the new departmental and municipal authorities of the country will be elected, who will govern
07:12 from 2024 to 2027.
07:20 On Friday, Vincent and the Granadines Prime Minister Raul Gonsalves announced benefits
07:24 for different sectors of the society, including nurses, farmers, and students during his speech
07:30 at the 44th Independence Day Parade.
07:32 Gonsalves unveiled a package of measures during the national holiday, including an increase
07:37 in the minimum wage in January and a non-taxable low-payment equivalent to 5% of their salary
07:44 for nurses inserted in categories.
07:47 I want you to listen to me particularly carefully as I make 16 specific announcements of real
07:58 immediacy.
08:00 First, as of January 2024, the salary threshold below which no personal income tax is charged
08:11 will be increased from the current $22,000 annually to $25,000.
08:18 Workers will pay less taxes as from January next year.
08:24 In this context, Prime Minister Raul Gonsalves also announced a new solar summit to be held
08:28 next year by the Caribbean nation as he holds the pro-temporary presidency of the organism.
08:33 In the first quarter of next year, St. Vincent and the Granadines as the pro-temporary president
08:41 of CILAC, the community of states of Latin America and the Caribbean, will host a summit
08:48 here.
08:49 CILAC, as you know, is the premier integration mechanism in our hemisphere consisting of
08:55 33 member states.
08:57 Gabriel Davalos is a visual artist who studied journalism but he decided more than a decade
09:20 to discover the mysteries of dance photography.
09:23 Cuba On The Move has his story.
09:29 Cuban schools of ballet.
09:31 To show their expertise, they don't have to dance in the elegant Grand Theatre Alize
09:36 Alonso.
09:37 They can't delight the most demanding ballet to Mano by dancing in Deep Havana.
09:42 This time, they pose for the lens of Gabriel Davalos, a journalist in love with ballet
09:47 and who has been dedicated to dance photography for more than a decade.
09:54 I have had the pleasure of publishing books, of exhibiting in several cities around the
09:58 world, of winning some awards, but what gratifies me the most is having exhibited in most of
10:04 the cities of Cuba, in the squares, in the parks.
10:08 That pleasure of accompanying people where daily life takes place and feeling accompanied,
10:12 that's me.
10:14 He says that he came to photography by chance.
10:16 He says that he was surprised by dance and ballet at the beginning of his career and
10:21 that for 10 years he was a photographer without a camera.
10:29 I like the metaphor.
10:30 I was a photographer without a camera because I did it in my mind.
10:35 That is, I had neither the camera nor the possibility of having one, but that didn't
10:40 limit me to dream it, to fantasize when I saw a work, to imagine photographs both on
10:45 stage and in the scene.
10:48 The idea of living on the stage to use the language of dance and photography to tell
10:53 the story of these times.
10:56 Davalos confesses that sometimes it takes him months to think about a series or a photo,
11:05 which is why many of the snapshots finally get marked for him an era, a story, a feeling.
11:13 And there is one in particular that reminds him of Cuba and the Cubans.
11:19 It took him a year between conceiving the idea and finding the exact moment to take
11:25 it.
11:26 And it's the one in which a dancer appears in the middle of the storm on the Havana Malecon.
11:37 The Malecon overflowing, the stones on the streets, the waves breaking hard against the
11:41 Malecon, and there is a dancer who is lying down, wet and holding on his feet, a dancer
11:49 who seems to be dreaming, who seems to be flying.
11:53 And I think that somehow that had to do with the whole history of the Cubans, because we
11:59 Cubans emerged from the resistance and the difficult times, the complex times, have not
12:04 been an impediment to dream, to think, to believe in more, to have faith.
12:10 These days, Davalos Times is also occupied by another type of creation.
12:16 Just when the pandemic was beginning and we could already glimpse that these were going
12:20 to be strange, difficult, different times, Greta Malecon, the first dancer of the Cuban
12:26 National Ballet, who also accompanies me in life, and I thought that we should find a
12:31 project that would make us grow.
12:33 And that is how we proposed to create a prototype of ballet shoes that would somehow represent
12:38 the Cuban ballet school, and that is where we are, in the final moments of that creation,
12:43 on a factory, on a small factory that aims to cover the demands for the ballet shoes.
12:50 The truth is that Davalos acknowledges that part of his success is due to having lost
12:56 his head over a dancer.
13:01 They say I lost my head for a dancer, but they say wrong.
13:05 I fell in love with all the dancers.
13:07 It is a Cuban roggery.
13:11 Although there is some truth in the fact that I have lost my head for a dancer, and that
13:15 I fall in love all the time with all the dancers because it is the way I have found that romance.
13:24 But that romance from the intellectual, from the thought to connect with that sensitivity
13:29 that dance has to communicate, to accompany, just to say, I think it is a symbolic, metaphorical
13:35 way to show what dance means to me.
13:38 It is of telling the story of the Cubans.
13:41 In these difficult times that Cuba is going through, Davalos says that he is pleased to
13:46 continue taking his art to the most popular places.
13:50 It happens that in his photos, the scenarios are as protagonists as the dancers who, he
13:56 warms, are just the pretext to tell the story of his people.
14:00 He confesses that he is interested in reflecting all Cubans.
14:05 That's why in each image, the spectator can discover sensations, experiences, joys, sadness,
14:13 pain, but a lot of faith.
14:16 Fabiola Lopez, Telesur, Havana.
14:18 Let's take our last break, but before we invite you to visit our YouTube channel at Telesur
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14:32 Bonne finale, short break, don't go away.
14:33 Welcome back.
14:34 The first official report on Poderosity in the Spanish Catholic Church revealed on Friday
14:55 that the Spanish Catholic Church is investigating a case of devastating data.
15:00 13% of the Coronado population has suffered abuses by the clergy, which would mean about
15:04 440,000 people.
15:05 This historic investigation, commissioned by the Congress in March 2022 and carried
15:10 out by the Aptman's Spain goes on from being one of the few Catholic countries without
15:15 officially recognized cases of Poderosity to being the one with highest protection of
15:20 victims.
15:21 Serbia and Kosovo reject the Council of Europe's latest proposal to advance in agreements of
15:31 normalization.
15:32 On Thursday, they hired representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Joseph
15:36 Borrell, confirmed by the response of Serbia and Kosovo to the latest proposal for agreements
15:41 on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina.
15:50 In Bangladesh, the Directorate General of Health Services reported on Friday that the
15:54 number of deaths from dengue fever exceeded 1,300 so far in the year 2023.
16:00 According to the press release, 1,300 deaths from the disease caused by the bite and a
16:05 half-infected mosquito were reported from January to the previous day.
16:08 The health department reported that this is the highest number of deaths since the year
16:14 2000 when the first case of dengue fever was detected in the country.
16:23 Several hundred people gathered in Senegal's capital, Dakar, on Friday to demand the release
16:27 of political prisoners.
16:28 Details during the recent unrest, a protest called by the political and civil society
16:34 organization Movement Es Force Vive du Senegal, was one of the few allowed by authorities
16:40 after the conviction of the opposition political Osama Bin Laden, who resulted in the deadly
16:46 clashes in June.
16:47 In Australia, on February, the Chandon Free Zone, Gulf Free, has just undone with the
16:52 dictatorship, with some carrying Russian flags and sounding whistles, horns and bobozelas.
17:00 "A very tense situation, it has to be said.
17:06 For the past two years, the situation has been very tense because the prisons are overcrowded.
17:12 As a member of civil society, we know what we are talking about.
17:15 So it's deplorable.
17:16 It's a very deplorable situation that we are experiencing in Senegal right now."
17:21 We have come to the end of this news brief.
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17:30 of Trinidad and Tobago.
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