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*U.S. pres. Trump sanctions ICC over Israel probe
*UNICEF: 1m+ children in Gaza face trauma
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*U.S. pres. Trump sanctions ICC over Israel probe
*UNICEF: 1m+ children in Gaza face trauma
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00:00In Ecuador, the election silence has started with three days to go to the polls.
00:19The President of the United States, Donald Trump, imposed sanctions on the International
00:23Criminal Court, the ICC, for having issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister
00:28Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:34And UNICEF denounced that over one million girls and children are facing psychological
00:39trauma after more than 15 months of genocide at the hands of Israel.
00:51Hello and welcome to From the South.
00:53My name is Belén de los Santos.
00:54I'm from the Televisual Studios in Caracas, Venezuela.
01:02We begin with the news.
01:10I begin with the information in Ecuador.
01:12The election silence has started on Friday, with three days left to go to the polls.
01:18Near 14 million Ecuadorians are eligible to vote next Sunday, February 9th, so that they
01:24can decide among nominees the best for running the nation's future.
01:29These general elections will be held amid instability triggered by political violence,
01:34energy crisis, and the accusations against President Daniel Navarro for not being abided
01:39by electoral rules.
01:41The National Electoral Council announced that the voting process initiated on Thursday,
01:46with the suffrage of those deprived of freedom, without a fixed sentence.
01:50Then, it will continue on Friday with the home voting program for people with physical
01:55limitations.
02:04And we go now to Venezuela, as President Nicolás Maduro reiterated his denunciation of the acts
02:10of corruption of the extreme right, stressing that the sanctions requested by this sector
02:15has robbed the country of more than $600 billion.
02:19In the closing of the 5th Congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the President
02:24denounced that in the last few years the country has been in the presence of an extreme right
02:30wing that used politics to enrich itself.
02:33In this sense, the Venezuelan head of state condemned the terrorist actions that this
02:37group has also promoted in the country, promoting violence and economic destabilization.
02:43President Nicolás Maduro also stated that with these actions, they forced Venezuelan
02:47families to migrate to other countries, profiting with their groups of coyotes who were in charge
02:54of mobilizing these migrant citizens.
03:06Because if we are saying that they pocketed $31,000 million directly, that they put their
03:14hand in the pocket of the gringos with their actions of sanctions and blockades, they made
03:23the country lose more than $630,000 million.
03:41They forced thousands of families to leave the country and set up mafia companies of
03:47coyotes to take them first to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and down there.
03:57And then, in the year 2021-2022, the same companies of coyotes directed by the same
04:06people will take them to the United States.
04:15We go now to Haiti, as on Thursday a new contingent of Kenyan officers arrived in Port-au-Prince
04:21to support the so-called multinational security support mission.
04:24Kenya's Interior Ministry said that it had deployed 144 additional police officers to
04:30Haiti, bringing the total number in the country to more than 700.
04:35It must be noted that the Kenyan-led multinational security support mission, the MSS, under United
04:40Nations auspices, has been in Haiti since the year 2023.
04:44However, the mission has been plagued by problems, with the UN chief saying that at the beginning
04:50of this year, that more aid was needed for it to be effective.
04:54Today, we are honored to receive the Kenyan contingent, which includes a very special
05:05team called SWAT ladies, which is equipped with unique skills and expertise that will
05:11be invaluable in this theater of operations.
05:15Like their male counterparts, they will play a critical role while working alongside the
05:20We are engaged in a battle between good and evil, because a gang that kills children and
05:31rapes others is evil.
05:36We in the government, and our international partners who are helping us, have decided
05:40to put an end to insecurity, and it won't be for long.
05:46In other news, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Honduras, Enrique Reyna, presented on Thursday
05:51before the United Nations Agency the program of attention designed by the executive branch
05:56to assist migrants expelled by the Republican government of the United States.
06:01The Migration Governance Council, which is made up of several institutions, has presented
06:06one of its most important plans to UN agencies, the comprehensive program, Hermano o Hermana
06:12Vuelve a Casa, or Brother Sister Come Home, focused on strengthening the legal coverage
06:17of their nationals in the United States, protecting and assisting the most vulnerable migrants,
06:23and promoting their social and economic integration.
06:27This was discussed with the multi-state agencies to define their participation in each of them.
06:38And now we have a short break coming up, but we'll be right back.
06:41Stay with us.
06:42Welcome back to From the South, we continue with more information.
07:03U.S. President Donald Trump met on Thursday at the White House with GOP leaders to present
07:08his priorities on tariffs.
07:10None of the policies will directly impact Social Security beneficiaries.
07:14The encounter was held behind closed doors, in which the U.S. right-wing learned of the
07:19President's tax priorities.
07:22Reports estimated that the tax cut will affect the Internal Revenue Service, with the intention
07:27of modifying the administration of Social Security, so rhetorics will be hit directly.
07:32Although the initiative may be positive for thousands of beneficiaries, it could generate
07:36an economic imbalance.
07:3941 states eliminated income tax on pensions years ago, with the target of avoiding economic
07:44crisis for this age group.
07:53We continue with more on the United States with President Donald Trump, who imposed sanctions
07:58on the International Criminal Court, the ICC, for having issued arrest warrants against
08:03Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
08:06This order was carried out in the context of the visit to the White House of the Israeli
08:10Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court
08:16for the genocide against Gaza.
08:18The Trump administration alleges that the court issued unwarranted arrest warrants for
08:24Netanyahu, in addition to asserting that the investigations against Israel pose an extraordinary
08:30threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy.
08:34It is important to note that the United States and Israel are not part of this court and
08:38do not recognize it.
08:58And more on the Middle East, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, UNICEF,
09:03denounced that over one million Gazan children are facing psychological trauma after more
09:08than 15 months of genocide at the hands of Israel.
09:12The Zionist aggression has killed more than 61,000 Palestinians since October 2023, according
09:18to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
09:21The death toll has left over 38,000 orphaned children who now deal with the sequels of
09:28the genocidal operation.
09:29In this context, UNICEF alerted on the magnitude of the humanitarian situation in the Strip
09:34and the challenges the Palestinians currently face, including the lack of clean water, food
09:40and basic services and commodities.
09:43In this regard, UNICEF stressed that the entry of humanitarian aid is insufficient to meet
09:48the demand of their needs.
09:57Now in other news, 80 years ago, Soviet soldiers took Berlin to end the Second World War.
10:03However, Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared that he was grateful to the United States for liberating
10:08his country from the Nazis.
10:10From Moscow, our colleague Oleg Yasinski with more.
10:14Eighty years ago, Soviet soldiers took Berlin to end the Second World War.
10:22For the Soviet Union, this was the great patriotic war costing millions of soldiers and civilian
10:28lives.
10:29An inconvenient truth for the West today, whose leaders, such as the United States President
10:33and the German Chancellor, openly deny and misrepresent it.
10:37So my view is that Germany has a good reason to take the responsibility that comes from
10:44the bad past.
10:45We are very happy about the United States that freed our country and helped us to become
10:51a democracy again.
10:55Changing history has in fact become a weapon against Russia, demerit the effort and sacrifice
11:01of the Western Soviet people to justify United States hegemony on the European continent.
11:08Scholz wants to insult the Russian people, intentionally, to please the U.S. deep state.
11:14This is part of his policy, mandated by the previous U.S. administration.
11:20My best prizes were for the victory over Germany and for the capture of the city of
11:24Berlin.
11:29Russia was also not invited to the 80th anniversary celebrations of the liberation of Auschwitz
11:33by the Soviet army.
11:35Its absence from the commemoration events is more than an insult to the memory of those
11:39who gave their lives to save the world from Nazism.
11:42Rewriting history to suit political interests is a way of creating new conflicts.
11:51In the concentration camp, people came up to us, they wanted to touch the stars.
11:55They were trying to convince themselves that the Russians had come and liberated them.
11:58They were all like skeletons.
12:00It was impossible to stay there for more than three minutes.
12:03It was scary to watch, it was impossible.
12:11With the authority of the Soviet Union, they had no chance for revenge.
12:15And now, for the first time in many decades, they have the opportunity.
12:19And they are taking advantage of it in every possible way.
12:22It is enough to listen to the absolutely disgusting statements of almost all European leaders.
12:28And first of all the French, Germans and English.
12:37Hitler's words are an offense not only to Russia, but to thousands of anti-fascist Germans,
12:43the real heroes of their people who went to the death camps together with communists and
12:46Jews and those who managed to save their lives.
12:49It was thanks to the Red Army.
12:56Now we have a second short break coming up, but we'll be right back with more from the
12:59South, so stay with us.
13:00Welcome back to From the South.
13:21In Andalusia, February is the month of La Desbanda, a date in which memory, justice
13:26and reparation for the victims of the fascist forces during the biggest massacre of the
13:31civil war are still being demanded.
13:33Our colleague Lucia Munoz brings us more information.
13:40The philosopher and writer Maria Zambrano, born in Andalusia, transformed the way we
13:46understand reality in the 20th century through her work.
13:49At the end of the civil war, after Franco's persecution and genocide, she was forced into
13:55exile in Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico.
14:01It is true that she had established that her homeland was the exile.
14:04She settles in exile.
14:05Really, if we think about it, it is more than 40 years that she will be living more living
14:10in those countries where she could work, give courses, lectures, conferences and write articles.
14:15But contrary to what it may seem, her philosophical message is not installed in rancor nor in
14:20hatred.
14:21But she is a woman who speaks of hope, love, peace.
14:30In February 1937, like Zambrano, thousands of people fled along the Malaga-Almeria highway
14:36from the bombardment by air and sea of the fascist forces, an unprecedented massacre
14:42in Spain known as La Desbanda.
14:44The Association for the Democratic Military Memory has demanded the Ministry of Defense
14:50to exhume the pro-Franco admirals responsible for these war crimes from the military mausoleum
14:55and honors in accordance with the law of democratic memory, which they have not complied with.
15:02Therefore, they are ultimately responsible for the war crimes committed by the rebel
15:08navy during the war, in particular, the naval bombardment that massacred the terrified civilian
15:14population in the Despandment episode.
15:17The two brothers Moreno from the cruisers and Cervera from Franco's general staff.
15:21During the Desbanda, also known as the Andalusian Guernica, between 3,000 and 5,000 people were
15:33killed in that journey of horror.
15:35There is no exact inventory with the data of the forced disappearances that took place
15:40in this massacre.
15:41In Andalusia alone, according to Fernando Martinez of the University of Almeria, more
15:46than 57,000 people were executed at the hands of Franco.
15:56As long as Spain continues to be one of the countries that has the most problems with
15:59memory, Spain will continue to be a country in democratic terms with deficiencies that
16:03go far beyond being the second country with graves and forced disappearances after Cambodia.
16:15The exile of the Desbanda was not only from Malaga to Almeria, but the road from Murcia
16:21to the north of France is also full of missing persons from this war.
16:25Lucia Muñoz Lucena and Francis González, Telesur, Andalusia, Spain.
16:44We now move on to other topics.
16:45In Chile, government authorities have announced a heat wave with temperatures of 37 to 40
16:51degrees, adopting measures to protect the population.
16:55According to the National Service for Disaster Prevention and Response, the areas most affected
16:59by the event are the coastal mountain range, the valley and foothills of the Andes, where
17:04thermometers are expected to rise to 37 degrees Celsius and up to 40 in the southern communes
17:11of Pichidegua, Curico and Talca.
17:13Likewise, a red alert was established from this Thursday until Sunday for the metropolitan
17:18regions of Santiago, the yellow phase for Villavillo and the preventive alert in Valparaiso
17:24and Coquimbo.
17:25Authorities also recommend the population to avoid exposure to the sun for prolonged
17:30periods of time, to stay hydrated and to use sunscreen.
17:41We go now to Argentina, as a river in Buenos Aires has turned a deep red, causing concern
17:46among residents who say this is due to pollution.
17:50The waters of the SarandĂ River were stained a deep red color on Thursday.
17:55The Ministry of the Environment of the province issued a statement in which detailed that
18:00water samples were taken to determine what substance caused the discoloration, which
18:06by the end of the afternoon had been diluted and lost intensity.
18:10The official part also added that it is estimated that it could be some kind of organic dye.
18:17The neighborhoods of the municipality of Avellaneda, 10 kilometers away from Buenos
18:21Aires city center, were concerned because the stream crosses an area of textile and
18:27leather treatment factories and that some locals also say that this is not the first
18:32time that the stream has been dyed.
18:42The smell woke us up.
18:44In the daytime, when we looked at this side of the river, it was completely red, all stained.
18:49It looked like a river covered in blood, it's horrible.
18:59We have seen the river in other colors, we've seen it bluish, greenish, pink, purplish,
19:04with grease on top that looks like oil, brownish like cement.
19:09It looked like you could walk across it.
19:16And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
19:18You can find these and many other stories on our website at telesurenglish.net and also
19:23join us on social media for TELUS for English.
19:26My name is Belén de los Santos, thank you for watching.