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00:00The government of Venezuela reported gradual re-establishment of the national electricity

00:17system after that being subject to a sabotage.

00:24The World Health Organization confirmed a humanitarian polio vaccination for the population

00:29in the Gaza Strip.

00:34On Friday, the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders' Meeting held its closing by endorsing

00:40a major joint policy initiative and reaching other regional achievements.

00:46Hello, welcome to From the South, I'm Ana Marrera from the Telesur headquarters in Caracas,

00:55Venezuela.

00:56For the News, stay with us.

01:10From Caracas, our correspondent and colleague Gladys Quezada updated us on how the Venezuelan

01:16people are facing Friday's attack on the national power grid.

01:20Hello, Gladys, tell us about it and give us an update, please.

01:24Yeah, Ana, hello, thanks for this time, thanks for the contact, and as I always say, thank

01:30for the opportunity to communicate and to inform our audience regarding what is going

01:34on in Venezuela.

01:35I have to stress and summarize some information from morning time, and I recall these dates

01:43and this time.

01:44At 4.50 a.m. on an early morning, there was announced an electricity cut, a sabotage against

01:51the power national grid here in Venezuela, which resulted in this lack of electricity,

01:58this lack of power here in Caracas, the capital of the country, as well as in other states.

02:05On day one, you know, people have been going out to work because they have to still moving

02:11on with their lives.

02:13So the commerces, the finances, and the banks and other centers have been operating with

02:18only cash transactions.

02:21I was reporting this before, and I have to stress this now, because the digital systems

02:27to access to these accounts, to maybe the cash, or maybe to the flow of money, in digital

02:33ways, digital means, those systems are down, so people cannot operate using their accounts,

02:40so they have to use only cash transactions.

02:42Moreover, the electrical power, the grid, the power grid, the electrical power has been

02:49coming back in some areas of the city, and it's been coming in and out, because it's

02:56still unstable, but I have to say that the data and internet services are recovered,

03:03are coming back, because we were experiencing a lack of these services just two hours ago,

03:09and now the service is restored partially, but is functioning at some level.

03:14Also I have to say that the government issued a plan, and I was informing that, but I have

03:19to stress it, that the government was issuing a plan to provide services of transportation

03:25with 250 buses of the Metro Bus Line, which is the line of buses that substitutes the

03:32metro or the subway here in Caracas when this kind of accidents or any urgency happens.

03:38In this case, the government was saying that the subway lines are unable and they cannot

03:44operate because of the power cut, but the decision was to use these 250 buses.

03:52I have to explain something, because maybe for someone who is from outside Venezuela

03:58or doesn't have the information on Venezuela, they don't know this, okay?

04:02So here in Caracas, there are two main lines, one that goes north to south, and other that

04:07goes east to west.

04:09In that case, those two main lines, they move a big part or a large part of the 7 million

04:15people that live in Caracas, okay?

04:18The residents of Caracas that have to go out to work or maybe to do their daily activities.

04:23So in this case, those 250 buses are trying to supply this service to those 7 million

04:31people who are users of the subway lines.

04:34And also, as I wanted to explain, the traffic is going on normally.

04:39The National Armed Guard forces, they are serving as facilitators for the traffic.

04:45They are standing in the corners, they are standing in the streets, allowing some cars

04:50to go by and others they have to stop, and allowing the pedestrians to go and walk and

04:55cross the streets and do their activities.

04:58Moreover, the government also has announced the support for 79 healthcare facilities,

05:04because this power grid attack, this sabotage against the electric system is also going

05:10to affect, is trying to affect, to impact the livelihood and the well-being of the people

05:15and also trying to impact these installations, these facilities of healthcare.

05:20But now the government has issued not only the resources, it has allocated power plants,

05:25it has allocated power backups, so they can guarantee the service for the pregnant women,

05:32for the children, for the sick one, the elderly, and moreover, the emergency units that cannot

05:37stop the service.

05:38So moreover, that was the information during the day, but now there are other declarations.

05:45The Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, has been saying that he is starting

05:50la centella operation, centella, which is like spark, which is like a light, a bolt

05:56light operation, because it is intended to find the responsible and those accountable

06:02for this attack and bring them on to justice.

06:05Also, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello

06:11Rondón, he was also saying that it is paramount and necessary to stay calm.

06:15He called the population to stay in tranquility, to move on with their daily lives despite

06:21these difficulties and these circumstances.

06:24And the president of the nation, Nicolás Maduro Moros, he was also saying that people

06:27have to have still nerve.

06:30Still nerve is an expression to say calm over everything, you know, calm to overcome

06:36the difficulties.

06:37Also, I want to say, Ana, that Jorge Arreaza, the first secretary of ALBA-TZP, one of the

06:44movements that joins and comes together and gathers many Latin American countries, one

06:49of the many blocks of integration, is calling for respect for Venezuela and is condemning

06:54this attack, this sabotage, against the power grid here in Venezuela and in Caracas.

07:01Also, I want to stress something.

07:03This is happening just one month after the electoral victory of Nicolás Maduro Moros,

07:08one month after the elections, the presidential elections here in Venezuela, and this sabotage

07:14is also falling in line with one that happened on Tuesday night and also affected northern

07:20parts of the city of Caracas.

07:22So this is not new for Venezuelan people.

07:25This is not a new event for them.

07:28So they have the strategies, they have the reliance on themselves in the government.

07:34And I have to say, this kind of attacks are only echoing, they are only, you know, doing

07:39a resonance with what happened in Venezuela in 2019, when also for five days Venezuelans

07:46were under this kind of power cuts and they experienced also the lack of transportation

07:52and the lack of other resources.

07:53But moreover, they overcame that attack and they are also being resilient to this one

08:00and they are saying that they are going to move on from this, pass from this, because

08:05this is just one more of the many attacks they are receiving in these days in the aftermath

08:11of the July 28th elections.

08:13And let's recall that on July 29th and 30th, there was terrorist attacks on the subway

08:19lines, on the transportation means and also 27 Venezuelans lost their lives.

08:24So moreover, Ana, this information, international governments, organizations are supporting

08:31Venezuela, are condemning this sabotage, this attack on the power national grid.

08:37And the Venezuelan people is just, they are just trying to overcome this and do their

08:41normal lives, because that's the premise here in Venezuela, to be in peace, to be resilient

08:48and to find resources and alternatives for themselves and by themselves to face this

08:54kind of attacks.

08:55Back to you, Ana.

08:56Thank you, Gladys, very much for all your remarks and information during this power

09:01grid that happened in the country.

09:05And now we continue with the news.

09:08The government of Venezuela reported a gradual re-establishment on the national electricity

09:13system after being affected to a sabotage, as our colleague and correspondent Gladys

09:18said.

09:19The Minister of Interior, Diosdado Cabello, informed that the attack on the electric service

09:24was a plan in advance by ultra right-wing groups, for which reasons the government applied

09:30a contingency plan for the restoration of the service.

09:34Let's take a very short break, but we'll be right back, stay with us.

09:52Welcome back to From the South.

09:54In Ecuador, on Thursday, five members of the Coordination of Organizations for the Unity

09:58of the Left managed to reach an agreement aimed at the construction of solutions to

10:03solve the crisis in the South American nation.

10:12For the defense of dignified life, peace, sovereignty, social organizations, political

10:19parties and movements of the center-left and progressive tendency, in the framework of

10:25the meeting of social organizations of the country, we have formed a technical table.

10:31And after several working meetings, we present to the country the following agreement with

10:36a view to programmatic unity and the construction of immediate solutions to the current crisis

10:42that Ecuador is experiencing.

10:45Bolivian judicial authorities confirmed on Thursday that the trial of Furen Sincata massacred

10:51against former de facto President Niñoñez, former ministers, former militaries and police

10:56commanders in 2019 will begin on September 2nd.

11:01The State Prosecutor's Office said that the Fourth Criminal Sentencing Court of the City

11:06of El Alto has set the hearing for the beginning of the oral, public and contradictory trial

11:15for Monday, September 2nd, 2024.

11:27We move on.

11:28The World Health Organization confirmed a humanitarian pause on combats for polio vaccination

11:33for the population in the Gaza Strip.

11:36During a virtual press conference, the agency's representative in Palestine, Riek Pepperkorn,

11:43assured that more than 1 million thousands are already in the Palestinian territory,

11:50while another 400,000 will be shipped soon.

11:53Pepperkorn also noted that the campaign will begin in central Gaza with a three-day lull

11:58in the fighting.

12:00Then move to the south and then to the north with similar periods of cessation of facilities

12:05to support the vaccination.

12:10A two-round polio vaccination campaign will start on the 1st of September in the Gaza

12:18Strip.

12:19During each round of the campaign, the Palestinian Ministry of Health, in collaboration with

12:24WHO, UNICEF, UNRWA and partners, will provide two drops of the novel oral polio vaccine

12:35type 2, the so-called NOPV2, to more than 640,000 children under 10 years of age.

12:42Let's take our last break, but before we invite you to visit our YouTube channel, Atalasur

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12:55world's most recent events.

12:56One final short break, don't go away.

13:10Welcome back.

13:11On Friday, the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum's leaders meeting, PEACE, held its closing by

13:16endorsing a major joint policy initiative and reaching other regional achievements.

13:22The initiative stems from an Australian fund planned to improve training and create a multinational

13:29crisis reacting force.

13:31Thus, four training centres will be set across the Pacific, in addition to a hub in Brisbane,

13:38Australia.

13:39Another significant breakthrough of the summit, which was attended by the European leaders

13:45about crip bodies, and by China, the U.S. and the EU, was the talk held by Nomea and

13:53Colonialist France concerning the future of New Caledonia, in which member leaders will

13:59have a fine-finding mission next month.

14:08We have had a fruitful dialogue with a number of stakeholders, including the United Nations

14:14Secretary-General, representatives from civil society and private sector, heads of our crop

14:20agencies, associate members, and forum observers, as well as our forum dialogue partners.

14:27This week, I wanted to touch on the Pacific Policing Initiative.

14:33As you would know, Tonga, like many other countries, are facing a number of transnational

14:38security challenges, including seeing an increase in drug trafficking, cybercrime within

14:44the Pacific in recent years.

14:49On our changing topics, in Ecuador, in the outskirts of Quito, a Florida fauna sanctuary

14:54with an epidemic and threatened species confronts environmentalists and mining companies over

15:01illegal loopholes.

15:02In 2023, the refinery banned all new mineral extraction in 124,000 hectares of the Añanchuco,

15:12a rainforest rich in gold and part of the World Biosphere Reserve.

15:16However, the environmentalists and the majority of the inhabitants maintain that nothing has

15:23changed since then in the area covered by the decision taken by the majority of the

15:28capital's electorate as mining continues, and they demand that the national government

15:33and local authorities order the suspension of these activities.

15:44The people were loud and clear.

15:46Seventy percent of the district's population told the authorities that, in the Andes Chaco,

15:51in the Biosphere Reserve, in these territories, we do not want mining and this has to be respected.

15:57They are very fragile ecosystems, taking hummingbirds into account, for example.

16:02Imagine in these species, these very small animals, the implications of an explosion

16:07to break the rock, the opening of a road to be able to bring in large trucks, tractors.

16:12It would be terrible.

16:13It would wipe out all this biodiversity.

16:17We have come to the end of this news brief, but you can find this and many other stories

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16:30For TELESUR English, I'm from the south, I'm Ana Marrero, thank you for watching.

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