06/09/2024
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*France’s left-wing alliance claims Macron is 'stealing' electoral win by appointing conservative PM.
*In Yemen, thousands rally against Israeli genocide in Palestine.
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00:00The president of Honduras, Yamada Castro, condemned the destabilizing actions taking
00:14place in the country against democracy.
00:19In France, the left claims President Emmanuel Macron is stealing the legislative election
00:23from the people by appointing conservative Michael Barnier as prime minister and rejecting
00:28to appoint economist Lucie Kastetz.
00:34And thousands of people took to the streets in Yemen on Friday to demonstrate against
00:38the Israeli genocide in Palestine.
00:45Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:50We begin with the news.
00:51The president of Honduras, Yamada Castro, condemned the destabilizing actions taking
00:55place in the country against democracy.
00:57The head of state ratified this Friday that her government belongs to the people and that
01:02she will continue defending their rights in spite of the complex circumstances the country
01:07is going through due to the interference of the United States.
01:11The president pointed out that her government is facing a crisis and assured to be ready
01:15to repel the attacks in defense of the will of the Honduran people.
01:19Yamada Castro emphasized that the armed forces, the popular organizations and the unity of
01:24the Free Party will defend democracy, its independence, sovereignty and dignity without
01:29forgetting to be an axis of anti-imperialist resistance.
01:42In this context, Honduran president Yamada Castro stressed that her administration seeks
01:46to recover the economy from the debt left by past governments.
01:56We received a country in rags.
01:59That is the depth of what we received.
02:02And we always said that this government was going to be a transitional one, from dictatorship
02:13to democracy.
02:21How much we have done and we are building, not only in the different towns and cities.
02:33We are building a different country, we started by organizing the finances of the state that
02:39before were managed with trusts.
02:47I am paying penny after penny the debts that the country acquired in the last government.
02:57In Venezuela, the Vice President, Elsie Rodriguez, who is also Venezuela's Minister of Energy
03:01and Petroleum, has toured the Orinoco oil belt to see that the industry continues to
03:06strengthen.
03:07The facility, one of the most important in the country and named after Commander Hugo
03:11Chavez, was toured by the delegation, which also included the President of Petroleos de
03:15Venezuela, Héctor Obregón, and in a leading role, the plant's workers.
03:20During the visit to the facility, located in the south of the country, which extends
03:24over five states, they reviewed the recovery and development plans and reaffirmed the commitment
03:30to contribute to peace and the growth of the country.
03:46The Government of Colombia reached an agreement with the transport union to end the nationwide
03:50strike over the increase in diesel prices.
03:53This way, the comprise came after four days of the national action that caused blockades
03:58in several cities of the country.
04:00Regarding the agreement, the Ministry of Transportation emphasized that the transporters will accept
04:05the gradual increase in diesel, which will be 800 Colombian pesos per gallon and translates
04:11to 0.19 dollars compared to 0.46 dollars initially intended.
04:17In addition, 14 other points were agreed upon, including the suspension of additional increases
04:23until structural transformations in the sector are achieved.
04:38Pilots of Argentina's national airline Aerolíneas Argentinas go on strike and several air routes
04:43have been cancelled at two of Buenos Aires' main airports.
04:47The airline pilots' association ceased activities at 5 a.m. local time and remained on strike
04:52until 2 p.m. local time, affecting 150 flights.
04:57Through social networks, the union announced that given the lack of willingness on the
05:02part of the airline to advance in a salary increase, they will begin to deepen the measures.
05:08Meanwhile, the aeronautical unions have also been actively demanding improvements for the
05:12sector's salary for two weeks.
05:16Let's take a short break, but remember you can join us on Tiktok at Velasuri English,
05:24where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and more.
05:27We'll be right back, stay with us.
05:39Welcome back.
05:40In France, a poll reveals that more than 50% of the French reject the appointment of Michael
05:46Barnier as Prime Minister.
05:47The poll shows that 57% of French people distrust Barnier's abilities as Prime Minister, as
05:53well as the political class of the authorities.
05:56The text reflects dissatisfaction and growing fatigue on the political class and the general
06:01atmosphere of distrust towards successive leaders.
06:11In this regard, the leftist leader and founder of France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélechon, stated
06:16that the appointment of Barnier as Prime Minister would not have majority support in the National
06:20Assembly.
06:21He also denounced the thief of the results of the legislative elections of July 7th.
06:26Mélechon argued that the new Prime Minister Barnier has no relation to the results of
06:32the elections and his position would be promoted by the ultra-right wing of Marine Le Pen.
06:46For its part, the French Socialist Party announced that it will censure the government of the
06:50new Prime Minister Michael Barnier, considering that it lacks political and democratic legitimacy.
06:55The Socialists pointed out that in the last legislative elections, the New Popular Front
07:00won 193 deputies in the National Assembly.
07:03Therefore, it would be this political party that has the right to propose a new Prime
07:08Minister.
07:09In view of this fact, they are asking people to take to the streets next Saturday to protest
07:14against the appointment of Michael Barnier.
07:24In this context, French citizens have reacted to Macron's newly appointed Prime Minister
07:29with some claiming it evidences a lack of respect for the people's voice.
07:37It's not a surprise in the sense that Barnier's name was already out there, but it is a surprise
07:42in the sense that the less Republican's party was largely in the minority in terms of the
07:47number of members of Parliament.
07:50So it's an anomaly that it should be a politician from that party who is appointed Prime Minister.
07:56It's astonishing.
08:02It's boring.
08:03It's like a huge denial.
08:06It proves a lack of respect for the voice of the people.
08:11The majority of French people voted for the New Popular Front.
08:15It would be a question of playing the game, Macron, anyway.
08:34In China, more than 400,000 citizens were evacuated due to floodings caused by the arrival
08:39of Typhoon Yagi in Hainan province in the south of the country.
08:43The heavy rainfall caused the suspension of educational and work activities, in addition
08:47to the interruption of the electric service that affected the operation of ports, airports
08:52and other basic services.
08:54Residencying provided barriers with sandbags on the periphery of residential areas due
08:59to the risk of flooding.
09:01Authorities confirmed that other provinces such as Guangdong and Guangzhou were affected
09:06and activated maximum alerts to protect the population.
09:10The National Meteorological Authority stated that Yagi is the strongest autumn typhoon
09:15ever to strike the Asian country.
09:26In this context, Vietnamese meteorological authorities issued an alert for the arrival
09:31of Typhoon Yagi and ordered the withdrawal of fishing vessels as well as the preventive
09:35evacuation in some northern regions of the country.
09:38Additionally, the Vietnamese government suspended activities at ports and airports, including
09:43the Hanoi International Airport.
09:45They also urged the population to stay indoors for their safety.
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10:11world's most recent events.
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10:29In Myanmar, at least 13 people were killed on Friday after a Burmese military junta carried
10:35out an air raid against the city of Nakhkham, near the northeastern border with China.
10:41According to the website of Tang National Liberation Army, which controls the city since
10:45December 2023, a Burmese army plane dropped bombs early Friday morning on at least two
10:51points of the city, killing at least 13 people and wounding 11 others, including women and
10:57children.
10:58Rescue operations are still continuing, searching for bodies under the rubble of the houses
11:03and buildings destroyed by the attack.
11:12The government of Russia announced on Friday it will impose restrictions on US media, an
11:17action that comes in response to Washington's sanctions against Russian media outlets.
11:21The restrictions were announced on Friday by the spokesman of the presidential office,
11:25Dmitry Peskov, in reference to the coercive measures imposed on media outlets such as
11:31Sputnik and some of its workers.
11:33For his part, the Russian ambassador accredited in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, assured that
11:39sanctions have become a kind of discipline in political sports for the United States.
11:44Furthermore, the diplomat stressed that these measures are aimed at pressuring independent
11:48countries and highlight the risk of a dollar-centered system.
11:58In the Philippines, the former major of Bamba, Alice Leal Wu, was extradited back to the
12:02country early Friday after being arrested in Indonesia.
12:05Wu, who had been on the run since July, is accused of human trafficking and links to
12:10organized crime, specifically involving a gambling center where hundreds were allegedly
12:16forced to run scams or face torture.
12:18Her escape route included Malaysia and Singapore before her capture on September 3, 2024.
12:25Upon arrival in Manila, she was taken into custody by national police.
12:29Wu faces multiple charges including graft and money laundering.
12:34Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. called her capture a significant step in combating
12:39crime.
12:55Thousands of people took to the streets in Yemen on Friday to demonstrate against the
13:08Israeli genocide in Palestine.
13:10Around 70 massive rallies were registered in the country as part of the weekly mobilizations
13:15of solidarity with the Arab country.
13:17The demonstrators waved Yemeni and Palestinian flags and chanted slogans in favor of the
13:22Palestinian cause.
13:23The organizers of the rallies issued a statement criticizing the Israeli regime for what they
13:28described as their crime of the century in Gaza and against the Western supporters of
13:33the Tel Aviv regime.
13:35In the statement, they also said the mass rallies will continue until the victory of
13:39Gaza, emphasizing that the Yemeni nation will stand firm in its principled support for the
13:44oppressed Palestinian people.
13:54The Western countries that supply the Zionist enemy with weapons to kill our Arab people
14:00in Palestine are very biased countries and are aligned with the enemy, so we consider
14:06their condemnation of our operations in the Red Sea, an attempt to protect the Zionist
14:12entity and its crimes.
14:18A message to the European people, your governments today are contributing to the genocide against
14:22the Palestinian people in Gaza by submitting to the Americans' orders by militarizing the
14:27Red Sea.
14:28America involves you in their own problems.
14:30The solution to stop the Red Sea operations is to stop the aggression against Gaza and
14:35lift the siege.
14:36This is the easiest solution.
14:39The Israeli occupation forces shelled the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, leaving
14:44at least six dead.
14:45Health authorities informed that the bodies of the victims were recovered after the airstrike
14:50and transferred to the Nasser Hospital in the neighboring city of Kanjounis.
14:53Meanwhile, emergency teams of the Palestinian Red Crescent reported injuries following other
14:58attacks by the Tel Aviv army on the center of Kanjounis.
15:02The ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people has killed more than 40,878 people
15:09and wounded 94,454 since the October 2023 onslaught.
15:21We remember Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, who died 26 years ago today, on September 6, 1998.
15:36Kurosawa directed 30 films during a rich career that spanned over five decades.
15:42He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history
15:47of cinema and played a bold, dynamic style strongly influenced by Western cinema but
15:53different from it.
15:54In 1990, Kurosawa won the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement and was posthumously
16:00named Asian of the Century in the Arts, Literature and Culture by the Asian Week magazine and
16:06CNN, which considered him among the five people who most probably contributed to the improvement
16:12of Asia in the 20th century.
16:14He is mostly remembered for his iconic films No Regrets for Our Youth, Scandal, Rashomon,
16:21Ikuru and The Seven Samurai, among others.
16:29And 17 years ago, on September 6, Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti died at the
16:34age of 71.
16:35Endowed with an intense voice in his highest notes and richness in the middle range, Pavarotti
16:41is considered one of the most famous singers of the last decades of the 20th century and
16:46the first decades of the 21st century and the best tenor in history.
16:50He sold over 100 million records and joined Spanish opera singers Plácido Domingo and
16:56José Carreras to form the so-called Three Tenors, whose first recording became the best-selling
17:01classical album of all time.
17:03During the late part of his career, Pavarotti crossed over into popular music, sharing stage
17:09with renowned singers such as Sting, Bono, Brian Adams, Tom Jones, Celine Dion, among others.
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