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*China: Palestinian movements agree to “reconciliation government”
*France: new Popular Front nominates Lucie Castets as Prime Minister
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*China: Palestinian movements agree to “reconciliation government”
*France: new Popular Front nominates Lucie Castets as Prime Minister
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00:00In Venezuela, the candidate for the Great Patriotic Pole, Nicolás Maduro, reiterated
00:15his denunciation that international media, together with local far-right, seeks to make
00:20invisible the forces of the Bolivarian revolution.
00:25In China, 14 Palestinian movements signed the Beijing Declaration agreeing to promote
00:30a national unity government in the midst of the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the expansion
00:35of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
00:40And in France, the New Popular Front proposed Lucie Castex as Prime Minister of France.
00:51Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Alejandra García from Telesur studios in
00:55Havana, Cuba.
00:56We begin with the news.
01:10In Venezuela, the candidate for the Great Patriotic Pole, Nicolás Maduro, reiterated
01:14his denunciation that international media, together with local far-right, seeks to make
01:19invisible the forces of the Bolivarian revolution.
01:22In this sense, during his visit to the state of Mérida, Maduro warned that the Venezuelan
01:27far-right, together with its communicational allies such as the Spanish agency EF and the
01:33public television of Spain, the Spain newspaper El País, financed by the United States, are
01:39preparing to show a fraud in the upcoming presidential elections.
01:43In this way, Maduro described these international media as anti-Venezuelan communicative secretaries
01:49who are linked to the far-right to generate violence and hate in this nation.
02:00They have the resource of shooting fraud left, they are already doing it, with their United
02:06States allies, the far-right and what I call the media hitmen of the first and the like,
02:14the Spanish agency EF, the Spanish public television, the newspaper El País, are the
02:20three sources in Spanish, where every day they speak badly of Venezuela.
02:26Every day they lie and they are ready to shoot fraud, CNN in Spanish, media hitmen, anti-Venezuelans,
02:33but I have news for you.
02:37After 30 elections we are used to it and we are going to win, we are going to celebrate
02:42and on the 29th Venezuelan dongs, in peace, peace, peace.
02:51Likewise the candidate for the great patriotic poll assured that in Venezuela the fascist
02:55far-right will be defeated through the votes on July 28th.
03:03And that those garbage international hitmen stay with their lies and manipulations, because
03:09the fascist far-right like Vox in Spain, the fascist far-right like Bolsonaro in Brazil,
03:16the fascist far-right like Uribe, Iván Duque, the fascist far-right like Millet in Argentina,
03:22in Venezuela shall not pass, they will not come here, they will not return.
03:28We will defeat them with votes, vote, vote, vote, and popular triumph.
03:37We go now to Caracas as our special envoy Juno Zuner brings us an update from the Bolivar
03:42Theater, where the second gathering for the World Social Alternative is taking place.
03:48Hello from the Bolivar Theater in the city center of Caracas, Venezuela, where the second
03:54World Social Alternative Convention has started.
03:58The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America, Treaty of the Peoples, as well
04:04as the Simon Bolivar Institute have convened to this international meeting gathered here
04:12in the center of Caracas.
04:14Today on Tuesday and tomorrow on Wednesday, hundreds of experts and also activists and
04:20politicians from Latin America as well as other continents will discuss global issues
04:26such as constructing an alternative social order, fighting the interventions of imperialism,
04:34and also media.
04:36So today's first session was about media, the role of media in imperialist attacks and
04:42forces of resistance.
04:45First spoke Jorge Arellaza, who is the executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the
04:52Peoples of our America, and he said that the upcoming elections in Venezuela do not take
04:58place between two candidates or different candidates, but between the homeland and imperialism.
05:04That is, Venezuelan people will choose the country, the patria, said Jorge Arellaza.
05:11After him spoke Patricia Villegas, who is the president of TeleSUR, our channel that
05:17will commemorate its 19th birthday tomorrow at the day, the birthday of Simon Bolivar,
05:25the great founder and liberator of Venezuela as well.
05:29So Patricia Villegas said also, took up the topic of the elections and said that there
05:36will be a huge imperialistic media operation against the elections.
05:41She emphasized that first they will spread out illegal numbers about election results
05:49because the only legitimate authority here in Venezuela to announce any results is the
05:55National Election Council.
05:57But before that announces, they will spread news about results and international media
06:03will pick up these results, distribute them worldwide, and start a campaign of deinstitutionalization
06:13actually against the National Election Council here in Venezuela and the political system
06:20as a whole.
06:21Villegas called for three things against this.
06:25First, articulation.
06:27She said that every one of us, every individual is a media responsible as well, be it on social
06:34networks, be it working in media, and that one has to articulate himself or herself on
06:40all spaces available.
06:42Second, she called for a digital alphabetization, reminding that the social media networks currently
06:49available are not ours.
06:52They are dominated by imperial powers who manage them, who execute bans on politicians,
06:58who guide the discourses.
07:01So one needs to alphabetize the citizens how to follow, how to read social media news.
07:08Thirdly, Patricia Villegas also demanded or called for the creation of our own spaces.
07:14She reminded that China has WeChat, she reminded that Russia has created Telegram, and she
07:20said it's the duty of the Latin American countries to create its own independent space, virtual
07:27space also on social media, which she considers a matter of sovereignty actually, and also
07:34of liberty from imperial interventions.
07:37The convention will take place today on Tuesday, and will continue on Wednesday with more speakers
07:44touching on topics of imperialistic intervention, creating alternatives, social movements, and
07:50better networking among each other.
07:53Let's take a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok at TeleCity English
07:59where you will find news in different formats, news updates, and more.
08:03We'll be right back, stay with us.
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08:17Welcome back.
08:45In Palestine, the Israeli Occupation Army killed around a hundred Palestinians after
08:49shelling the central and southern Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours.
08:53Palestinian authorities reported that Israeli forces targeted Gaza and Homs in the center
08:58and south, leaving over 200 injured, including children and women.
09:02They further warned that thousands of Palestinians were forced to move amid humanitarian and
09:07medical conditions described as catastrophic as a result of the Israeli Occupation Army's
09:13aggressions.
09:14Palestinian rescue teams denounced the difficulties they faced in reaching thousands of victims
09:19who are still messing under the rubble or scattered on the roads in the aftermath of
09:23the constant bombardments by the Tel Aviv regime.
09:31Meanwhile on Tuesday, 14 Palestinian movements signed the Beijing Declaration agreeing to
09:36promote a national unity government in the midst of the Israeli genocide in Gaza and
09:41in the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
09:44This way, under the mediation of China, the signatories, including Fatah Hamas and the
09:49Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, pledged to promote comprehensive national
09:54unity, including all factions within the framework of the Organization for the Liberation of
09:59Palestine.
10:00In this regard, they also agreed to establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem
10:06as its capital, in accordance with the United Nations resolutions.
10:10The signing culminated a second round of intra-Palestinian dialogue that took place
10:15in China.
10:18Today, we sign an agreement for national unity, and we say that the path to completing this
10:27journey is national unity.
10:29We are committed to national unity, and we call for it.
10:36For his part, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who attended the signing ceremony, called
10:41the event an important historic milestone in the cause of Palestinian liberation.
10:49The most important consensus of this Beijing dialogue among Palestinian factions is to
10:54commit to the great reconciliation and great unity of all 14 factions.
11:00The core result is that it is clear that the Palestine Liberation Organization is the only
11:06legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
11:10The most prominent highlight is the agreement to form an interim national reconciliation
11:14government around the governance of post-war Gaza.
11:20In this context, the head of the Chinese diplomacy called for a comprehensive ceasefire in the
11:24Gaza Strip.
11:28The first step is to push for a comprehensive, lasting and sustainable ceasefire in the Gaza
11:33Strip as soon as possible to ensure smooth access for humanitarian aid and relief.
11:39No excuse can justify harming civilians and prolong the war.
11:43The international community should further consolidate its efforts on the issue of ceasefire
11:48and cessation of hostilities.
11:53And in this context, on Monday, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrived
11:57in the United States amidst demands for his accountability in the genocide perpetrated
12:02in the Gaza Strip.
12:03Netanyahu landed in Washington, D.C., where the far-right leader will address a joint
12:07session of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, despite boycott plans by dozens of Democrat
12:12legislators.
12:14The Prime Minister forwarded plans to meet with President Joe Biden, who kept strong
12:18economic and military support to the Tel Aviv regime during his administration.
12:23The visit by the Zionist Prime Minister comes two months after the Chief of Prosecutors
12:27of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, requested an arrest warrant for the
12:32Israeli Prime Minister for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
12:37I will seek to anchor the bipartisan support that is so important for Israel, and I will
12:46tell my friends on both sides of the aisle that regardless of who the American people
12:50choose as their next president, Israel remains America's indispensable and strong ally in
12:57the Middle East.
13:06In this context, dozens of activists protested in front of the White House to condemn the
13:10visit of the Israeli Prime Minister.
13:13With banners and speeches, the demonstrators questioned the authorities who were on the
13:17scene.
13:18Meanwhile, the Center for Constitutional Rights urged the U.S. Justice Department to investigate
13:22Netanyahu for his responsibility in acts of genocide, war crimes and tortures against
13:28the Palestinian population.
13:36In Yemen, residents attended the funeral of nine workers killed during Israeli attacks
13:41on the port of Hodeidah city.
13:43For the burial, the coffins were carried out in a caravan through the streets of Hodeidah,
13:48accompanied by a crowd of relatives, friends and other residents of the town.
13:53The Zionist aggression targeted the city's port and Hodeidah's electrical and oil facilities,
13:59leaving at least 80 people injured in addition to those killed.
14:03The Yemeni army promised a resounding response to the attacks and bombardments launched by
14:07the Israeli occupation forces, so it warned of a strike in Tel Aviv once again.
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14:57On Tuesday in France, the New Popular Front proposed Lucie Castex as Prime Minister of
15:02France.
15:03In this way, after 15 days of negotiations, left-wing parties through the New Popular
15:08Front reached an agreement to propose Lucie Castex as Prime Minister of France.
15:13The appointment comes after Laurent Tuviana, the previous candidate proposed by the Coalition
15:19of Socialists, Ecologists and Communists, announced her withdrawal on Monday after considering
15:24that her name did not receive the necessary consensus.
15:28Castex has made her career as a civil servant fighting tax fraud and organized crime.
15:34It must be noted that these proposals still need Emmanuel Macron to agree the appointment,
15:39in addition to requiring the support of the French Parliament.
15:47The European Parliament, with the most extreme right-wing in history, is being used by the
15:51ultras to spread their ideas.
15:54What could be the consequences of this situation?
15:56Let's see the details with our correspondent Andres Flores.
16:02Following the European elections last June, far-right groups have become more prominent
16:07in the European Parliament.
16:10In the new composition of the European Parliament, the element that stands out after these European
16:15elections is the much stronger emergence of the extreme right, including three groups
16:19with Marine Le Pen, with Meloni, with Vox, and also with Alternative for Germany.
16:24With this anti-rights agenda against women, against LGBT people, and in the case of the
16:28European Union, also very strongly against migrants.
16:34For Castilla, the militarization of the continent is a key issue on the current European Parliament
16:38agenda.
16:40There have also been very strong agreements is in the line of increasing the rearmament
16:43of all the European powers, and of increasing those military budgets, above all in the line
16:48of militarizing borders, an absolute support and shielding of European imperialism, and
16:53also the absolute consensus in the support to the genocidal State of Israel with the
16:57massacre it is carrying out against the Palestinian people.
17:03The European Union defines the Green Pact as a package of policy initiatives aimed at
17:06setting the block on the path towards a green transition, but historian Salvador Loa disagrees
17:10with that vision.
17:16Another of the axes is to maintain the Green Pact, which from my point of view is not only
17:21an impotent policy in the face of climate change, since it leaves the supposed solution
17:26in the hands of those who generated it.
17:29It also hides behind it a clearly imperialist policy of placing European companies at the
17:34head of this new nook of green capitalism.
17:38Although the far right fell farther short of the breakthrough many polls predicted,
17:42it has still managed to build a lobby to push for its policies.
17:46What they are achieving is that the political chessboard is turning more and more to the
17:49right.
17:50I believe that the extreme right must be very happy, not only because of the results they
17:54have obtained electorally, but because what they are really achieving is that their political
17:58agenda is being implemented by others.
18:00Margaret Thatcher said that her main victory had been Tony Blair, a social democrat who
18:05applied the policies of neoliberalism, well, today the main victory of Meloni.
18:10Of Le Pen, of Vox, is that we have supposedly progressive governments or governments of
18:14conservatives and others that are applying the migratory policies that the extreme right
18:18wing have in their programs or that have been their agitation campaign in the last years.
18:23This new European Parliament will be a challenge for the left, which will have to mobilize
18:27an alternative agenda in a hostile political context.
18:31Andre Flores, Telesur, Barcelona.
18:35On Tuesday in Kenya, the anti-government protest movement is holding demonstrations across
18:39the country after President William Ruto appointed members of the cabinet he had dismissed a
18:44week earlier.
18:45In this sense, demonstrators organized a nationwide rally, while in Kenya's capital they also
18:51mobilized to march to the airports, prompting a police warning.
18:56For their part, social activists reiterated that they want Ruto's government to step down
19:01and demanded reforms to end corruption and address poor governance and service delivery
19:06in national and regional governments.
19:08Meanwhile, protesters continue to defend their constitutional right, despite government repression.
19:26We are presently in CBD exercising our constitutional right to protest under Article 37.
19:34It is our right to be here.
19:36It is our right to fair comments.
19:39It is our right to peacefully share our concerns.
19:43And no one has a right to stop us from exercising our rights.
19:56On Tuesday in Italy, the airport of Catania in the region of Sicily suspended its operations
20:06due to the eruption of Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe.
20:11In this sense, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology reported that due to the eruptions
20:16and ash emissions up to 8 km high, it was decided to suspend air operations areas of
20:22southern Italy, but it also caused a shower of ash in the region of Catania and other
20:27nearby towns due to the volcanic cloud that rises from the crater.
20:37Authorities in Ethiopia on Monday reported near-death linked to the landslides caused
20:42by heavy rains.
20:43In this regard, a local official of Kensho Shakacha Ghozi district in the Ghofa region,
20:49the south of the country, stressed that while search operations continue in the area, they
20:53have reported 55 new bodies, thus rising the number of dead to 146, with most of the victims
21:00being children and pregnant women.
21:03Landslides are common in Ethiopia during the rainy season, which began in July, and is
21:07expected to last until mid-September.
21:19The Argentinean women's field hockey team, known as Las Leonas, was among the first to
21:34settle into the Paris 2024 Olympic Village.
21:37The team dreams of winning their first-ever gold medal after losing in the final of the
21:42Tokyo 2020 Games.
21:44In this context, although Argentina is among the favourites to finish at the top of the
21:48podium, the Dutch team makes the road ahead for the South American nation even more difficult,
21:54since it has dominated the history of women's Olympic field hockey with nine medals overall.
22:00In turn, Las Leonas have three second places and two third places under their belt as they
22:06head to the Paris tournament, where 12 teams will compete for the gold medal.
22:18I think we are very dedicated players.
22:21That's what they teach us here.
22:23Humility, commitment, effort.
22:25We know that the key to being where we are is always training.
22:28So we all know that we train here.
22:31We train one session, two sessions, three sessions all year round."
22:35Las Leonas are always on top, like I said, there's a reason for that.
22:42We put in a lot of effort, a lot of training, nothing comes for free, nobody gives us anything.
22:47It's pure hard work.
22:49It's really about putting the shirt above everything else.
22:51It's a lot of love for the shirt.
22:53So to fulfil my wish, I would like the girls to give me the best Olympics of my life, which
22:58of course will be the gold medal.
23:01On Tuesday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for the commitment
23:05to promote solidarity and work for peace in the context of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
23:11Bonjour and welcome to the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
23:17The world gathers in Paris to celebrate the power of sport, to bring hope, to transcend
23:21cultures, to unite people, to promote mutual respect and fair play.
23:26These are also the ideals of the United Nations.
23:30In the spirit of the Olympic truce, I call on everyone to lay down their arms, build
23:35bridges, foster solidarity, and strive for the ultimate goal, peace for all.
23:41I wish every success to the Olympians and Paralympians.
23:46You inspire us to dream bigger.
23:49May the Olympic flame light the path to a world of peace and harmony.
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