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*Typhoon Gaemi approaches the Chinese region of Taiwan
*U.S: Jewish activists protest against Israel’s actions in Gaza
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*Typhoon Gaemi approaches the Chinese region of Taiwan
*U.S: Jewish activists protest against Israel’s actions in Gaza
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00:00In Venezuela, the candidate for the Great Patriotic Pole, Nicolás Maduro, assures the
00:15revolutionary forces are the only ones that can guarantee peace and stability in the country.
00:22In Asia, the passage of Typhoon Kaimi caused severe damages in the Philippines, while Taiwan
00:26prepares for its arrival.
00:31And in the United States, Jewish activists gather at Capitol Hill, calling for an end
00:34to arms transfers to Israel ahead of Netanyahu's speech.
00:43Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Televisa Studios in Havana,
00:47Cuba.
00:48We begin with the news.
01:02In Venezuela, the candidate for the Great Patriotic Pole, Nicolás Maduro, assures the
01:06revolutionary forces are the only ones that can guarantee peace and stability in the country.
01:11Candidate Nicolás Maduro visited the people of Maracay, in the state of Aragua, where
01:15he was received by the crowd awaiting his arrival, raising flags and banners as a token
01:19of their support before the presidential elections to be held on Sunday, July 28.
01:24During this visit, the candidate for the Great Patriotic Pole assured that the map of Venezuela
01:28will be painted red, because today, more than ever, the people will come out to defend their
01:33convictions and the project of the homeland.
01:35In this sense, the candidate for the Great Patriotic Pole assured that the extreme right
01:39only intends to privatize all the institutions and companies of the country, as well as to
01:43destroy Commander Uchave's great missions.
01:54It is time to open the door to permanent peace.
02:03It is not time to improvise, new pretenders, new demagogues.
02:07It is not time to open the door to the monster of savage capitalism.
02:14To come and privatize everything to the people, do you want a savage capitalist president
02:19to come and privatize education, privatize the right to education, privatize petroleum
02:34of Venezuela and give away the oil to the foreigners, privatize the right to housing,
02:39to eliminate and destroy the missions and great missions of Chávez?
02:51Also the candidate for the Great Patriotic Pole, Nicolás Maduro, assured that if the
02:55far right tries to generate chaos in the elections of July 28, it will be the last time they
03:00will do it.
03:01During his visit to Valencia in the state of Calabobo, the candidate was received also
03:05by a crowd that was waiting for his arrival.
03:07The candidate for the Great Patriotic Pole qualified this great mobilization as the greatest
03:11mobilization in the history of the party, assuring that this was a sign of a great victory
03:16that will be achieved this coming July 28.
03:18On the other hand, Nicolás Maduro stated that if the far right tries once again to
03:22undermine peace of the country by generating scenarios of violence in the presidential
03:26elections, this will be the last mistake they will make, affirming that he will be in charge
03:30of doing justice.
03:40Because Maracaibo today took to the streets to tell the fascists, you in Venezuela will
03:45not pass, and I say it from Valencia and I say it from Maracaibo, if you eat the light
03:54on Sunday you will regret it for 200 years, if you make a mistake to harm the people it
03:59will be the last mistake the fascists will make.
04:19There will be justice, there will be dignity.
04:22And I tell you, we are going to win, we are going to win very well, we have the strength,
04:27we have the power, we have the people, we have the one time ten times seven.
04:38In turn the candidate for the Great Patriot Poll recalled that in 1988 more than 5,000
04:42people died after Carlos Andrés Pérez won the presidency in that year.
04:52And we lived on February 27th and 28th, do you remember?
04:56Raise your hand, who remembers what was called the Caracaso and the Venezolaneso?
05:07And why was it February 27th?
05:095,000 dead, a bloodbath, they killed the people, why was it?
05:171988, Carlos Andrés Pérez appeared and they said El Gocho para el 88, and he came
05:26out with a government plan of lies, promises.
05:42He published and explained his government program lying to the people.
05:46Carlos Andrés Pérez, may he rest in peace, was one of the main leaders of the 12 apostles,
05:52so called, of the surnames.
06:00And the Venezuelan people will go out and vote on July 28th to see the context in which
06:03they arrived to this election day.
06:06In a grand agreement, all the country's political actors met to propose dates for the presidential
06:13elections at the end of February.
06:15500 proposals were received, including 27 dates at 150 meetings, 90% of the political
06:22parties participated, and 152 organizations from the political, social, and economic life
06:28of the country signed it.
06:33These proposals were sent to the electoral authorities, who finally decided to hold elections
06:37on Sunday, July 28th.
06:39The countdown to a new electoral process began.
06:43We are deeply pleased that you, this legislative branch, are respectful of the constitution,
06:49that you are respectful of the constitution order, and that, once again, you go to the
06:53electoral branch before the National Electoral Council to bring a proposal that will begin
06:57to evaluate starting this week.
07:07What do we expect?
07:08In all humility, Mr. President, that you attend to and evaluate this document, which we have
07:13no hesitation in describing as historic, that you can review based on your preferences
07:18and your functions, what is contained in this document, and that you set the table so that
07:24the electoral party can be activated.
07:34This meeting was considered crucial, because it summarized several dialogue processes that
07:38unblocked paralyzing solutions such as the 2015 legislative branch, the renewal of the
07:43electoral branch, and the judiciary isolating violent sectors in the process increasingly
07:48diminishing position.
07:53It's calm.
07:54I think we got used to it.
07:55We do our duty, and there is no longer that.
07:58Like years ago, many years ago, people used to see nervous purchases, that something is
08:03going to happen.
08:04But no, that is something we have overcome.
08:11The question of the elections that are coming, we are waiting for what can happen, but I
08:15think that here in the country nothing is happening, and we are in Venezuela, and Venezuela
08:20is the best country in the world, and let's hope that our brothers who are outside the
08:24country come, and remember that when they ask for bad things for the country, we have
08:28to remind ourselves to the times of 2017, 2016, 2018, when they were burning people,
08:34when they were killing people for being black.
08:40Venezuela's electoral power is one of the five branches of the Venezuelan state.
08:43It is elected by the parliament after a wide-ranging debate.
08:46It was sworn in August 2023 before the full assembly.
08:50Its first task was to organize the plebiscito for the Ezequiel on 3 December last.
09:00It is a political gesture, a message, that there are different factors in Venezuelan
09:04society, in political factors, that can come to an agreement, that they can agree on authorities
09:09and from there, well, organize an electoral process as important as the presidential elections
09:14and future elections, such as the regional, municipal and parliament elections, that have
09:18dates, at least, for the next two years in Venezuela.
09:2538 political parties have participated in these presidential elections, voting 10 presidential
09:34candidates, the largest number of candidates in the last 13 years.
09:41The Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas, Venezuela, was a gathering place for thousands of cultural
09:46workers who expressed their all-out support to presidential candidate Nicolás Maduro.
09:50Our special envoy Brian Meir has the story.
09:54Hundreds of folk music, theater and circus performers and musicians gathered in the Teresa
10:00Carreño Cultural Complex in Caracas, Venezuela, to show their support for incumbent president
10:05Nicolás Maduro in this Sunday's presidential elections.
10:10One of the themes that was discussed between over a dozen musical and dance performances
10:15was what would happen to people who work in the cultural industry if the far-right wins
10:19the elections.
10:23Nobody will protect us, like in Argentina.
10:25I don't know how the culture workers would survive, because this has been the government
10:29that has protected our rights.
10:31No culture worker should go to the right.
10:35After the 2000 coup against Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff, one of interim president Michel
10:40Stemmer's first acts was to destroy the Ministry of Culture.
10:44In Argentina, far-right president Javier Mele, who has close relations with the Venezuelan
10:48far-right opposition, has butchered spending on culture and is threatening to also eliminate
10:54the ministry completely.
10:56This has many in the Venezuelan arts community worried.
11:02The fascist right, which calls itself libertarian now, is the negation of culture.
11:07If you don't believe me, read the news from Argentina, where a government supposedly bearing
11:13the banner of freedom has been dismantling all the culture-supporting policies that historically
11:18existed in Argentina.
11:21For many Venezuelan cultural industry workers, re-electing President Nicolas Maduro seems
11:26like a matter of economic life or death.
11:29Brian Muir, Telesur, Caracas.
11:32Let's now take a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok at Telesur English,
11:36where you'll find news in different formats, news updates, and much more.
11:43We'll be right back. Stay with us.
12:06Welcome back.
12:07In Panama, sociologist Olmedo Beluche denounced in an interview that corporate sectors are
12:12pressuring the current government to reopen the copper mine, claiming that the national
12:16economy needs it.
12:18Well, because the issue has not been settled, business sectors are pressuring the current
12:25government to reopen the mine, with or without the excuse of opening to close.
12:30That is one of the excuses that has been used.
12:33But lately the National Council of Private Enterprises and other unions have asked to
12:37speak directly because supposedly the national economy needs it.
12:41In the business sectors are pressuring to reopen and even with that they violate both
12:44the popular will expressed in the streets, as well as the decision of the Supreme Court
12:49of Justice, which pointed out that the contract violated the constitution.
13:12In the Philippines, the passage of Typhoon Kaemi caused severe flooding that affected
13:16the infrastructure of hundreds of thousands of people in the country.
13:19According to reports from the Philippine National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council,
13:24Monday Kaemi went from tropical storm to typhoon with winds of up to 150 km per hour and gusts
13:30of 185 km per hour while moving towards the northwest territory of the archipelago.
13:35The agency also indicated that the typhoon affected close to 800,000 people, causing
13:40the death of eight of them so far.
13:42The phenomenon has caused heavy rains and floods in several regions.
13:47In this context, the Chinese region of Taiwan is preparing for the arrival of Kaemi in the
13:55evening hours of this Wednesday.
13:56The Central Weather Agency ordered the suspension of classes and on-site work in 21 cities and
14:02counties, as well as the cancellation of more than 100 flights.
14:05The agency also issued a warning for extremely torrential rains in the mountainous regions.
14:15In Ethiopia, a death toll rises to 229 after two landslides triggered by heavy rains.
14:21The Gofa Communications Service reported that 148 men and 81 women are confirmed dead so
14:26far.
14:27The death toll has risen sharply from the initial toll of 55 recorded on Monday night.
14:32According to the Gofa administrator, most of the victims were buried to death while
14:37trying to help the inhabitants of a house as rescue teams searched the ground for survivors
14:41of another landslide the previous day.
14:48The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that violence
14:52that plagues the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has suffered an upsurge in spite
14:57of the humanitarian troops in force until August 3.
15:01The agency denounced that the constant attacks against civilians in Lubero, in the province
15:04of North Kibu, violated one of the points of the Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities,
15:09thus hindering the entry of humanitarian aid into the territory.
15:12According to the agency's reports, between March and early July, the escalating violence
15:16in the province has displaced some 390,000 people who are currently facing grave shelter
15:23food and sanitation needs.
15:29We have a final short break coming up, but before we invite you to join our WhatsApp
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15:41the Caribbean, as well as the rest of the world.
15:43Final short break, don't go away.
15:59Welcome back, in Palestine at least 11 people were killed by the Israeli army in assault
16:29on the occupied West Bank during the last 24 hours.
16:32In this sense, on Wednesday, a 16-year-old teenager was killed after being shot during
16:35clashes with Israeli soldiers in Qalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem.
16:40On their hand, a large contingent of vehicles of the occupation army also stormed family
16:44residences as part of their policy of collective punishment of the Palestinian population.
16:49Meanwhile, six people were reported wounded by bullets and two by beatings by Israeli
16:53soldiers while the rest of the death occurred during assaults in the localities of Tubas
16:58and Qalandia.
16:59In Palestine, the genocidal Israeli army bombed several eastern areas of Handunis, killing
17:09at least 71 people and injuring 200 in the Gaza Strip.
17:13Medical authorities stated that in the face of the violent aggression, thousands of Gazans
17:17were forced to move in very bad humanitarian and sanitary conditions.
17:22Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced that two of its clinics in the east of Handunis
17:26were withdrawn by order of the Zionist occupation.
17:31The eastern areas of Handunis have been subjected to constant Israeli attacks, forcing civilians
17:36to seek refuge in distant areas.
17:45Look at the people, how they are now.
17:47It is a very painful scene.
17:49Where is the Arab conscience?
17:51Where is the world?
17:52They are looking at what is happening to us, that there is no treatment and no life.
17:57They look at the children and the elderly.
17:59They just look at them while they are being displaced.
18:08We were sitting in our house, then the Israeli army called us to evacuate the area and leave.
18:14We don't know what happened.
18:16We have no money, no food, no nothing.
18:20Where are they going?
18:22We and our children will sit in the street while the shelling is over our heads.
18:27In other news, in the United States, activists from Jewish Voice for Peace gathered at Capitol
18:32Hill calling for an end to arms transfers to Israel ahead of Netanyahu's speech.
18:37Hundreds of demonstrators suddenly floated the rotunda of a congressional office building,
18:42staging an unexpected protest against Israel's military actions in Gaza.
18:46Capitol Police swiftly designated the area of limits and detained numerous protesters
18:50who remained.
18:51This demonstration occurred on the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
18:55scheduled address to Congress, an invitation extended by leading lawmakers from both major
19:01political parties.
19:02Netanyahu's administration has presided over a nine-month genocide in Gaza.
19:12In this context, U.S. lawmakers said that they will boycott Benjamin Netanyahu's speech
19:16in Congress.
19:17Several Democrat congressmen announced that they will not attend the legislative chamber
19:21in the rejection of the presence of the head of the Israeli government.
19:25In this regard, Senator Bernie Sanders stated that Netanyahu is a war criminal and that
19:29his far-right government should not receive one more percent from U.S. taxpayers to continue
19:36the inhuman destruction of Gaza.
19:38Also, Representative Rashida Laib and Senators Patty Murray, Tim Kaine, Chris Van Hollen,
19:43and Juan Oros will take part in the boycott.
19:51President Biden has prioritized the safe return of all hostages.
19:55Prime Minister Netanyahu has not.
19:57He continues to put his own political survival first, above the interests of the people of
20:02Israel and the U.S. citizens.
20:04Mr. President, I renew my call for an immediate ceasefire and the return of all hostages.
20:13Let's now learn about Tibetan opera and china, an art that survived thanks to the
20:26heir Tenzin Jeshi and whose performance combines singing, acting, dance, and literature.
20:38With a history of more than 600 years and rooted in the teachings of Buddhism, the Tibetan
20:43opera has maintained its original essence through samples of chants and narrations,
20:47which relate the victory of good and the condemnation of evil.
20:51One of the most representative implements of the attire is the traditional mask, with
20:55different shapes and colors, but mainly with dark blue representing bravery and perseverance,
21:00white for the pacification of misfortune, yellow for the increase of merit and black
21:04for the subjugation of evil.
21:13I feel that Tibetan opera has been with me for as long as I can remember.
21:17Whenever I heard the sound of Tibetan opera, I was very excited and very eager to get there
21:22and see it, and I felt a special kind of joy every time I saw it.
21:30The opera is performed in public squares, theaters and temples, where the central nucleus
21:35of the piece is a theatrical work recited by a single narrator and performed by several
21:39actors accompanied by groups of singers, dancers and acrobats, thus combining acrobatics with
21:45religious rites.
21:46In 2009, this cultural expression of Western China was declared an Intangible Cultural
21:51Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
21:58The protection and preservation of opera is not just for heirs like us.
22:03I think it is a crucial part of heritage protection and preservation when it attracts more and
22:07more people's attention.
22:09I hope the public will pay more attention to Tibetan opera and the traditional culture
22:13of our Chinese nation, which I think is the most important thing.
22:21Tibetan opera has gained momentum in recent years thanks to efforts to preserve this cultural
22:26heritage, to the point where it has attracted the attention of more young people, and coupled
22:30with the many courses offered at the region's Folk Art Hall, more people have shown interest
22:34in learning this art.
22:39And this would have come to the end of this news brief.
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22:53For Telestro English, I'm Luis Alberto Matos, thank you for watching.
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