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00:00Palestinian authorities announced that Israeli occupation forces have massacred 77 Ghassans
00:13and injured 174 others in the last 24 hours in the Gaza Strip.
00:25Russian armed forces launched a long-range precision-guided weapon strike against Kiev
00:31military targets in response to the Ukrainian aggressions towards a defence facility.
00:40Cuba held the closing of the fourth session of the Cuba Parliament, in which President
00:46Miguel DĂaz-Canel presented a balance sheet on the government's actions in 2024.
00:55Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Ana Marrero from the TELESUR headquarters
01:02in Caracas, Venezuela.
01:03We'll give you the news today with us.
01:21Palestinian authorities announced that Israeli occupation forces have massacred 77 Ghassans
01:26and injured 174 others in the last 24 hours in the Gaza Strip.
01:32Overnight, Israeli forces dropped shellings on a residential building in the Baid Hanoun
01:38city, claiming the lives of a married couple and their two daughters, in the north of the
01:43besieged Gaza Strip.
01:45Other occupation aggressions towards the cities of Rafa and Gaza have left six deaths and
01:50several injured.
01:51Meanwhile, thousands of people are still missing under rubble, as 90% of the Gaza Strip's infrastructure
01:57has been destroyed.
01:58Moreover, female and male thousands of children and others were left to die.
02:03The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that 45,206 Palestinians have been slain as a result
02:10of the Israeli genocidal campaign in force since October 7th, 2023.
02:20Israeli senior officers ceded their posts in the occupation forces while they are now
02:29in military operations against Palestine, Lebanon, Iran and Syria.
02:33Over 500 active senior officers have deserted, arguing that their returnments are due to
02:40the ongoing conflict.
02:41The Israeli National Press expressed such crisis has been going on since 2022, where
02:47over 610 officers have been discharged despite the fact that there are economic conditions
02:53for the reservists' personnel.
02:56In this context, the Israeli occupation forces have shown concern over the attempt to search
03:01the number of high-level officers, but official sources revealed that they have lost over
03:07800 active and reserved personnel since October 7th, 2023, after the current offensive.
03:18In Syria, social organizations and civil youth groups marched to demand a democratic and
03:23civil state in the country.
03:25Demonstrators gathered in Damascus' Umayyad Square to the first of its kind after the
03:30fall of the Bashar al-Assad government by the ongoing popular movements to build Syria.
03:37Participants called for a civil state free from military or religious rules.
03:41The organizations pointed out that they want a Syria that includes a pro-building and pro-emerging
03:46segments of society and no governments based on narrow religious foundations.
03:52Moving on, Russian Armed Forces launched a long-range precision-guided weapon strike
04:06against Kiev military targets in response to the Ukrainian aggression towards a defense
04:11facility.
04:12The Russian Defense Ministry reported having hit a command center of the Ukrainian Security
04:18Service and positions of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system.
04:23Moreover, the Russian Armed Forces struck the launch of the Sain-Berul Headquarters
04:28in Kiev, which develops and manufactures NAPTO missile systems and OLAG group-launched cruise
04:35missiles.
04:36On Thursday, the ministry announced that on December 18, the Ukrainian army targeted a
04:42Southwestern Russian company with six U.S. main missiles and four Storm Shadow cruise
04:47missiles.
04:48The Ukrainian Armed Forces struck Russia in the Kursk province, killing at least five
04:57people and injuring the other 20.
05:00The Rilsk town hall gathered at the Ukrainian army and have dropped 15 bombings on various
05:07residential buildings, schools and recreational centers.
05:11Many highlighted that emergency services have been deployed in areas to cope with damage.
05:20In view of these attacks, the investigative committee of Russia reported that a criminal
05:26case has been opened for a truce committed by the Ukrainian military in Kursk.
05:38In Russia, a passenger and a freight train collided this week in Murmansk province,
05:45bringing about two deaths and 14 injured so far.
05:49Authorities reported on Thursday that a crash within the Murmansk-Petersburg road, due to
05:55the derailment of 21 cars, including four of the passengers trained, made foot or an
06:01ounce increase, are underway to find out the causes of the accident.
06:06Likewise, they informed that police had arrested the driver of the freight train and his assistants
06:11as main suspects of having violated security rules.
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06:48The President of China, Xi Jinping, led both the art in commemoration of the 25th anniversary
06:53of the reunification of Macau with China and the Ceremony of the Sixth Government of the
07:01Special Administrative Region.
07:03Both events were held in the morning at the Macauese Asian Games Dome, in which the President
07:09praised the oath of office of the new chief executive of the Macau Special Administrative
07:16Region, SART-5.
07:17Likewise, seeing authorities of the new administration attempt the so much warmly received sworn
07:25in act, it is worth to recall that China resumed its exercise of sorority over Macau on December
07:3320, 1999.
07:34Therefore, the Chinese government sent Macau as the country's second Special Administrative
07:40Region after Hong Kong.
07:46The Sri Lankan Navy rescued on Friday over 100 people estimated to the Royal Refugees
07:51after they were found adrift on a fishing boat off the country's coast.
07:57The authorities unfolded that fishermen had supported the refugees, including 25 children
08:04and 30 women.
08:05Moreover, the Sri Lankan Navy provided support to the refugees, not all of which standing
08:12their whereabouts have not been confirmed yet due to communication problems.
08:17The footer revealed that those rescued received medical attentions as well as food and water.
08:23It is worth noticing the fact that hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas, namely Muslims,
08:29have fled Myanmar in recent years due to discrimination and persecution against the ethnic group.
08:41In the U.S., two workers were killed and three people were injured when a freight train collided
08:47with a trailer in a town in the south of Texas.
08:52The accident took place at five in the afternoon local time following a collision between the
08:58train and the vehicle, which was stopped at a crossing in the town of Pecos.
09:04Local police chief Lisa Tarango said that the crash caused three cars carrying hazardous
09:10materials to derail, but they are not chemical leaks.
09:15One of the injured was taken to the Odessa Hospital in critical condition while the two
09:19others were taken away with minor injuries.
09:28Official data revealed the highest rate of U.S. deportations since 2014 under Biden's
09:34administration.
09:35The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement report having deported at least 271,484 immigrants
09:47in this fiscal year.
09:48The highest figure in a decade.
09:50The NAD asserted that it had been surpassed the massive deportation processes under the
09:56first Donald Trump's term.
09:58U.S. President Joe Biden justified the upsurge of deportations and alleged threats to public
10:03safety and national security from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024.
10:14In Argentina, the government authorized this Thursday two office officials to request support
10:19from the armed forces in place that they consider of strategic values of the state.
10:25The executive power authorized the Minister of Defense Luis Pedrilla and of the Security
10:31Patricia Bulrich to request support from military personnel or from provisional police forces
10:37and from the city of Buenos Aires in situations of internal conmotions.
10:42The decree goes into question the defense law since it does not clearly or explicitly
10:50define what a strategic value of the treaty is.
10:53Therefore, it gives national police the power to define or to ratify this concept.
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11:49The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, became the target of criticism from local
11:54residents during his visit to the archipelago of Mayotte, devastated after the passage of
11:58Cyclone Chirou.
12:00The president faced the impatience and anger of the people who demanded his resignation
12:05and denounced the government's lack of actions to come to aid of the people affected by the
12:10cyclone.
12:12In response to the criticism, Macron could not detail the supposed measures taken to
12:16solve the crisis in the area and lashed out at the residents, saying that he is not responsible
12:22for the catastrophe.
12:23The French leaders indicated to the residents that if they were not in France, they would
12:28be much worse off, as he considers that they are not receiving sufficient aid.
12:43In the Macquarie Republic of the Congo, a flash flooding of Alberta laid effect over
12:48the 55,000 locals in Aturi province.
12:52The Civil Protection Authority detailed that water overflows are due to rise in the river
12:57levels after downpours that fall during the season in the area.
13:02They further specified that thousands of evacuees are facing very poor food conditions.
13:09The NDI members request the government to assess the situation in order to allocate
13:13humanitarian aid to the victims.
13:26This Friday, Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek Williams confirmed that Fernando MartĂnez
13:31Motola, a far-right activist from Vente, Venezuela, who has been residing in the Argentine embassy
13:37in Caracas, surrendered to the Venezuelan authorities yesterday.
13:41The Public Prosecutor's Office informed that on Thursday, December 19, 2024, Mr. Fernando
13:46MartĂnez Motola, who was residing in the embassy of the Republic of Argentina in Venezuela
13:50with a group of members of the extremist organization Vente Venezuela, who are the fugitives, voluntarily
13:56present himself at the main office of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Caracas.
14:00The aforementioned citizen was brought to justice and made a statement at the Prosecutor's
14:06Office regarding the serious violent, conspirational and destabilizing acts that have been organized
14:12from their diplomatic headquarters during the last month after the presidential elections
14:19of July the 28th.
14:20It is important to highlight that MartĂnez Motola decided to actively collaborate with
14:25the Venezuelan justice system within the framework of the process provided for in Article
14:3039 of the Constitution of the Republic.
14:33Finally, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rector and holder of criminal investigations
14:39remains firm in its duty to guarantee justice as well as in its fight against any national
14:45or international group or entity outside the law that attempts against the peace of the
14:50Venezuelan nation.
14:55Cuba held the closing of the fourth session of the Cuba Parliament in which President
15:04Miguel DĂaz-Canel presented a balance sheet on the government's actions in 2024.
15:08During the event, the President explained the enormous efforts and the still insufficient
15:14results of the presidential administration in the face of the obstacles imposed on the
15:19islands such as the U.S. blockade and the prevailing injustice in international economic
15:24relations.
15:25In his speech, the President called once again on the heroism, intelligence and creativity
15:31that distinguish the Cuban people to overcome the difficulties faced by the island nation.
15:39Marxists, Martianos and Fidelistas, we will not get tired of fighting against the pro-imperialist
15:50fascist world-like exclusionary predatory currents that threaten humankind and we will
15:56continue to insist on the development of the just and responsible humanist model of solidarity.
16:05The President of Cuba Miguel DĂaz-Canel points out the United States promotes the Israeli
16:09genocide against the Palestinian people and the use of nuclear weapons through the organization
16:13of the North Atlantic Islands.
16:19The threat of nuclear conflagration has been closer than ever before for more than half
16:24a century. The expansionist ambition of the imperialism promoted by the United States
16:29through NATO raises the danger of the use of nuclear weapons in Europe to seriously
16:35worrying limits. Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people with the open support
16:40of the United States and other allies is already one of the most merciless atrocities humanity
16:46has ever known and it is taking place before the eyes of all with the impotence of the
16:52United Nations, the International Court and the many international organizations supposedly
16:58designed to promote and protect human rights.
17:04The Cuban President recalled that the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden tried to collapse
17:09the revolution in Cuba with the imposition of the unilateral coercive measures.
17:15The awareness of what has been done in these four years by the outgoing government of the
17:19United States is to bet on the collapse of the revolution through the ruthless application
17:24of a system of coercive measures established by its predecessor to reinforce the economic
17:29blockade.
17:30Also in Cuba, authorities reiterated on Thursday the calls for a popular march in front of
17:38the U.S. Embassy to be held on Friday, December 20, against the blockade. The march, called
17:43by the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, will take place at
17:49the end of the session of the National Assembly of Peoples Powered, with the aim of expressing
17:55in front of the U.S. Embassy in Havana the condemnations of the economic, commercial
18:00and financial blockade imposed with Washington and the permanence of Cuba in the legitimate
18:05list of countries allegedly supporting terrorism.
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