Public viewing of Pope Francis' coffin concludes // China and Venezuela strengthen bilateral strategic partnership // Over 500.00 displaced since Israel resumed its genocide on Gaza. teleSUR
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00:00In the Vatican, public viewing of Pope Francis opened coffin and on Friday afternoon after a three-day line in a state at St. Peter's Basilica.
00:20China and Venezuela strengthened their joint strategic partnership during the official visit of Venezuelan delegations to Beijing, led by Vice President Alci Rodriguez.
00:33And the United Nations Organization for Palestine, REFI, denounced almost 500,000 Palestinians forcefully displaced since the resumption of the Israeli genocide against Gaza.
00:47Hello and welcome to From the South. I'm Ana Marrero from the Telesur headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela.
00:58Will you deal with the news? Is it with us?
01:00In the Vatican, public viewing of Pope Francis opened coffin and on Friday afternoon after a three-day line in a state at St. Peter's Basilica.
01:20In this regard, the Vatican informed that more than 250,000 faithful bid farewells to the Argentinian pontiffate at the Holy See over a three-day open casket viewed,
01:30which caused the schedule of the first two days to be extended to the early hours of the morning.
01:36For the last day of the week, the viewing time was shortened for the preparations ahead of the funeral.
01:49Honduras President Xiomara Castro visits St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican to pay her respects on behalf of the Honduran people to Pope Francis.
01:58The Honduran President visits the Basilica in the company of her private secretary HĂ©ctor Zelaya, Foreign Minister Enrique Reyna,
02:05as well as the country's representatives to the Holy See.
02:08Castro will remain in the Vatican during the entire welfare ceremony for the Latin American Pope Act that will take place this Saturday.
02:27Of 250 head of states and 10 monarchs will attend the funeral of Pope Francis,
02:33as part of the 130 official delegations that have confirmed the attendance to the funeral mass in the Vatican City.
02:40Among the head of states attending the funeral, the President of the U.S., Donald Trump,
02:45and his Argentinian counterpart and French counterpart, Javier Millet, and Emmanuel Macron.
02:49The Brazilian head of state, Ignacio Lula da Silva, will also attend,
02:52as well as the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,
02:56and the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metzola.
03:00The funeral liturgy will be presided over by the Cardinal Giovanni Battista Rey,
03:07after which the coffin will be transferred to the Basilica of Santa Maria la Magliore for burial.
03:21During the morning conference, the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, recalled through a video
03:26the connection of the Mexican people with the Virgin of Guadalupe.
03:29I traveled to Mexico twice, once as Pope and once before in a Congress and, when I was there as Pope,
03:43the things I remember the most was when I was sitting there looking at Our Lady of Guadalupe and the time passed,
03:49they had to take me out, I didn't realize it.
03:53You Mexicans are very lucky.
03:56Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Mother of God for whom we live, don't forget it, turn to her.
04:04They tell me that all Mexicans are devotees of Our Lady of Guadalupe, even those who do not believe in God.
04:11Continue being her devotees, may God bless you.
04:16Early on Friday morning, 199 Venezuelan migrants arrived in Caracas as part of the humanitarian plan back to the homeland.
04:28The flight was comprised of 171 men, 19 women and 9 children.
04:35This is the second flight of the week to return Venezuelans home on Thursday.
04:39Another flight carrying in 316 Venezuelans arrived from Mexico.
04:43The Venezuelan government emphasizes this initiative is unique in its kind,
04:48aimed at supporting and protecting the victims of the U.S. economic blockade.
04:52In this regard, the Venezuelan Minister of Interior, Diosado Cabello,
04:56denounced that a Venezuelan woman reported kidnapping of her son,
04:59a two-year-old child who was not allowed to ride a flight.
05:08But among the women, there is a fellow countrywoman,
05:12a compatriot named Eurlice Bernal, who stated and denounced that while getting on the plane,
05:17they kidnapped her two-year-old child,
05:19they did not allow the child to board the plane and put her alone on the plane,
05:23they forced her to get on the plane,
05:25she claimed her child and they did not let her,
05:27they separated her from her two-year-old child.
05:30Children are being kidnapped in the United States,
05:33the government of the United States is stealing Venezuelan children and this has to do with human trafficking.
05:40This has to be denounced to the world, Eurlice Bernal,
05:43the government of the United States is stealing children.
05:50In the United States, a federal judge ordered the return of second migrants
05:54deported by President Donald Trump's administration to make a prison in El Salvador.
05:59Magistrate Estefana Gallagher ruled that the U.S. government made mistakes with the Department of Christians,
06:0620-year-old Venezuelan and ordered the administration to facilitate his return.
06:12In the United States, FBI agents arrested on Friday a Milwaukee judge accused of helping men evade immigration authorities.
06:27According to the accusation, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Duggan
06:32scored the man and he's lawyered out of her courtroom last week after that immigration authorities were seeking his arrest.
06:51Let's take a very short break but don't go away because we'll be right back and stay with us.
06:55Welcome back to From the South.
07:16Ecuador was the scenario of a series of seismic events that set up alarms among the population on Friday.
07:23Precisely, the first telluric movement was recorded at 6.36 a.m. with a magnitude of 4.2 and an epicenter located in the Pacific Ocean
07:34approximately 404 kilometers from Galera in the province of Esmeralda.
07:40In addition, at 6.44 a.m. local time, a new magnitude 6.3 earthquake shocked the coastal region of the nation
07:48with an epicenter located 17 kilometers from Esmeralda.
07:52There are homes whose masonry is affected. The damage is on a third floor, and they have iron and zinc roofs.
08:11We are going to start working non-stop. We will go continuously, seeing how we can help. We also know that schools are affected, the walls of the schools need to be removed. We will do it with the machinery and coordinate with each person.
08:30The rain and emergency in Ecuador was extended this Thursday from 8 to 12 of the country's 24 provinces after G-34 deaths.
08:42In this regard, more than 51,000 has been injured and 172,000 people have been affected since the beginning of the year.
08:50As a result of the emergency, the declaration was extended for 16 more days in the 8 provinces that were already under these measures,
09:00and in the provinces of Bolivar, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, and Pichincha were added.
09:19Russian President Vladimir Putin met in the Kremlin on Friday with US Special Envoy Steve Witkow to discuss a potential ceasefire deal with Ukraine.
09:30The reunion was the second meeting between the Head of State and Witkow in the last two weeks, and their fourth one this year.
09:38The last one took place at St. Petersburg on April 11, lasting more than four hours.
09:44In this regard, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskow explained that the negotiations are the many sides since the subject is very complex.
09:59In this regard, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stayed at Moscow with US mediation.
10:07He is ready for an agreement on Ukraine, but some details needed to be finalized.
10:14For a time in Moscow and Washington are actively cooperating to resolve the Ukrainian crisis,
10:22while Kiev insists on its own conditions and does not want to make consentions.
10:27In Russia, an attack claimed the life of a duty shift of the main operational directorate of the Armed Forces General Staff,
10:40Jaroslav Moskalik, after a vehicle explosion in the city of Belashia, Moscow Province.
10:47The country's investigative committee reported that the incident occurred on Friday in the parking lot of a residential building.
10:54The explosive device used in the attack contained more than 300 grams of TNT.
11:06China supports the International Atomic Energy Agency, playing a constructive role in programming the political and diplomatic resolutions of the U.S.-Iran nuclear issue.
11:17The Chinese permanent representative to the agency, Lisanne, made the remark following a joint meeting in Austria with his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Ulyanov, and Iranian counterpart, Rezan Ahafi.
11:29China, Russia, and Iran emphasized that political and diplomatic engagements remain the only viable and practical path for resolving the nuclear issue.
11:39Let's take a last break, but we invite you to stay because we'll be right back. Don't go away.
11:49Welcome back.
12:13Welcome back.
12:14The United Nations Organization for Palestine Refugees denounced almost 500,000 Palestinians forcefully displaced since the resumption of the Israeli genocide against Gaza.
12:24The international organization warns that refugees report overcrowding in unsustainable labor conditions due to the lack of supplies of basic services.
12:34The agency also indicates that the humanitarian crisis is at its worst since October 2023, describing shelters as insecure and barely habitable.
12:48On Friday, the United Nations World Food Programme delivered the last remaining food stock to hot meals, kitchen and support in the Gaza Strip, as it has deployed all its food stocks for families in Gaza.
13:05Authorities add that soup kitchens will run out of ingredients by the end of the month.
13:11For weeks, the humanitarian situation got worse by the day.
13:15Already back on March 31, all 25 WFP supporter bakeries closed as wet floor and cooking fuel ran out.
13:25The same week, WFP food parcels distributed families were exhausted.
13:39In Sudan, several units linked to the paramilitary group rapid support forces prevented the remaining inhabitants of the samsam displaced camp from living after occupying its last week.
13:52According to a statement issued by the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the fighting has caused nearly 400,000 people sheltering in samsam to be evicted.
14:04On Friday, a small police plane crashed into the sea near a popular beach town in Thailand, killing five people on the road.
14:17The plane was being used for a reconnaissance mission, my partner, prior to a parachute training exercise and a crash in the area between Shaham and Joahim District, approximately 100 meters from the shore.
14:35Protesters continue in the Indian region of Kashmir over the suspension of the water sharing treaty between India and Pakistan.
14:50Protesters share slogans against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding the placards reading,
14:57We will not bow down to terrorism and pictures of Indian leaders.
15:02These aims at growing tensions between New Delhi and Islam but as imminent from the attacks in Kashmir that left 26 people dead.
15:10Meanwhile in New Delhi, multiple Protesters also take place with demonstrators carrying Indian flags and slogans against Pakistan.
15:31Protesters describe the death of the 26 people in Kashmir, most of the Indians, as a terrorist act.
15:39In addition, citizens of both countries started the return to their homeland through the Oaga border near the city of Lahore, East Pakistan.
15:47We want to give a straight message to the whole world that India is united against terrorism.
15:59And we will leave no stone unturned until these terrorists get the punishment which they deserve.
16:06For this, for the unity of the nation and for proper retaliation must be given from the Indian army.
16:13We have come to the end of the news brief for Telesurio English and from the south.
16:20I'm Anna Marrero, thank you for watching.