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00:00The United Nations Organization reported on Friday that the World Food Program has been

00:14unable to get food into Gaza for 11 days.

00:19The government of Nicaragua announced the breaking of diplomatic relations with Israel

00:24following rejection of genocide perpetrated by the Sionist Army against the people of

00:28Palestine.

00:29The government of Venezuela strongly rejected the renewal of the International Independent

00:37Fact-Finding Mission by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

00:45Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from the Resus Studios in Havana,

00:50Cuba.

00:51We begin with the news.

01:08The United Nations reported on Friday that the World Food Program has been unable to

01:12get food into Gaza for 11 days.

01:15The international organization pointed out that vital aid lines in Palestine have been

01:19cut off in the north of the Strip, preventing access to food and affecting more than one

01:24million people in the region.

01:26The United Nations warned that the distribution of the last food reserves to displaced families

01:30will barely last two weeks.

01:32They also reported that due to the limitation, distribution points and bakeries in northern

01:37Gaza have been forced to close and others are at risk of doing so.

01:46Also in Palestine, more than 20 people were killed after a new Israeli attack on the northern

01:50Gaza Strip.

01:51Dozens of injured and missing were reported as the Sionist regime shelled the town of

01:55Jabalia.

01:56Meanwhile, paramedics and rescue teams recovered the bodies of four members of the Nafham family

02:01from the rubble in the town of Bil-Nahya, west of the Jabalia refugee camp, following

02:06the Israeli airstrike that targeted the town.

02:08The bodies of the victims were transported to Kamal At-Wan Hospital.

02:16The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon denounced new Israeli aggressions against

02:21its facilities.

02:22In a statement, the entity warned about recent explosions against its headquarters in the

02:26Lebanese town of Nakura, which has been hit for the second time in the last 48 hours.

02:32The mission also emphasized that it was a serious incident.

02:35The entity reiterated that any deliberate attack against peacekeepers is a serious violation

02:39of international humanitarian law and of Resolution 1701, adopted by the UNIFIL mandate.

02:47Furthermore, the Israeli Occupation Forces shelled the Iranian Field Hospital of the

02:52Red Crescent on the Syrian-Lebanon border.

02:55In response to this crime, the Iranian government wrongly condemned the new aggressions against

02:59the country's health system.

03:01Since September 2030, Israel has intensified its attacks against Lebanon, killing more

03:05than 2,000 Lebanese, including children and women, and causing the displacement of more

03:10than 200,000 civilians inside the country and over 400,000 towards the Syrian border.

03:28Welcome back.

03:29The government of Venezuela strongly rejected the renewal of the International Independent

03:32Fact-Finding Mission by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

03:35Through a statement, Caracas described the mission as shameful and recalled that it was

03:39created by the government of the failed cartel known as the Lima Group, with exclusively

03:43political objectives at the service of the government of the United States.

03:47Caracas condemned such a renewal of the mission, knowing that it is a clear sign of the misguidance

03:52of the institutions of the United Nations.

03:55Mr. President, in 2019, the United States regime, the greatest violator of human rights

04:17in history, the European Union and the extinct Lima Group, designed this resolution with

04:23the purpose of applying what they called the maximum pressure on Venezuela through

04:28the manipulation of the tools and purposes of this council.

04:32They sought to impose a failed doctrine of regime change, which began by recognizing

04:37an imaginary acting government, sworn in a public square, elected by no one, without

04:49popular support, to which no minutes were requested, but which nevertheless justified

04:55the overthrow of a popular government that the Washington regime did not like.

05:00Mr. President, 94 percent of the co-sponsors of this resolution acknowledge the imaginary

05:06acting government, without minutes and without election.

05:10Is there any doubt about the politicization of this document?

05:14Is there any doubt that its objective is not human rights?

05:25The UN emphasized that voting against the fact-finding missions is a denunciation of

05:31the historical injustice that the peoples of the global south have suffered.

05:36Mr. President, the budget foreseen for the two mandates of this resolution is US$8,995,500.

05:49That is to say, this document of interference supposes a daily expense of US$12,322.

06:01How long will this council allow the waste of money for politicized mandates that have

06:05no tangible or significant achievements in human rights cooperation?

06:10Finally, we do not recognize imposed resolutions.

06:14Voting against this political document is a denunciation of the historical injustice

06:19against the peoples of the global south.

06:22Thank you very much, Mr. President.

06:29Latin America commemorates Indigenous Resistance Day in recognition of the indigenous peoples'

06:33heroism facing the Spanish colonization.

06:36The countries of the region remember the emblematic date according to their culture and idiosyncrasy,

06:41such as in the case of Bolivia, where the day of decolonization exalts the recovery

06:45of its peoples' self-determination.

06:46Meanwhile, Ecuador seeks to make visible the impact of Spanish colonization on the day

06:51of interculturality and plurality.

06:54The date represents for the peoples of the region the rescue and vindication of anti-imperialist

06:58struggles.

07:06And in Venezuela, a heartfelt ceremony was held at the National Pantheon to commemorate

07:11532 years of indigenous resistance.

07:14Vice President for Politics, Citizen Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, led the ceremony

07:18together with representatives of the indigenous peoples.

07:21The hoisting of the three-colored flag in the National Pantheon, they honored the martyrs

07:25of the struggle against the Spanish invasion in 1492.

07:29During the day, rallies and debates on a decolonial and intercultural perspective are expected

07:34to take place.

07:42In Colombia, the Bolivar Square in the capital was the scene of two activities that reflect

07:46the reality of a country marked by violence and political persecution.

07:49Our colleague Hernan Tobar with the details.

07:55Survivors of the leftist political party Patriotic Union, victims of paramilitary political violence

08:00in Colombia and all the regions of the state, leaving at least 521 forced disappearances,

08:063,170 extrajudicial executions, 1,526 displacements, 64 cases of torture.

08:15In the face of local impunity, the victims resorted to international justice and in compliance

08:20with the order of the International Court of Human Rights.

08:23The state must recognize its responsibility for the extermination of the Patriotic Union.

08:31They lasted many years killing us, persecuting us for thinking differently.

08:36More than 6,400 victims also from the Patriotic Union and of course many union leaders murdered,

08:42social leaders, also the students, the housewives.

08:54All our leaders were being military targets, and now there is another context, because

08:59it is a coup against the president, in which some organs of justice are involved, especially

09:03some high courts and well, we also have the National Electoral Council.

09:16In this space also converge precisely some social sectors that chose the progressive

09:20political alternative represented by President Gustavo Petro, today pointed out and persecuted

09:26by the strategy of legal warfare that seeks to remove him from the presidency.

09:31A war against thinking and acting differently from the oligarchies that has claimed victims

09:35and that now through legal means seeks to undermine democracy in Colombia.

09:44Our presence here is to tell the National Electoral Council that what they are committing

09:48is a crime and therefore obeys dark political motives in that they are violating the law

09:52and are giving a coup d'etat to President Gustavo Petro, who was elected by all Colombians

10:06in clear and clean elections, which no country in the world dared to put on trial.

10:18The National Electoral Council will have to retract all those things it is saying and

10:22the notification it sent, because they do not have the capacity nor are they authorized

10:30by the constitution to point the finger at the president.

10:37Unfortunately, these actions, which were expected to be attended by President Gustavo Petro,

10:45were not possible due to the health problems of the president.

10:48The acknowledgement of responsibility by the state to the victims of the patriotic

10:51union will be rescheduled for a new date, and the mobilizations in support of him and

10:56his government will continue to take place in the country.

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11:20In the United States, nearly 2 million homes are still without electricity 48 hours after

11:46Hurricane Milton passed through the state of Florida, while 17 people died after the

11:50cyclone hit.

11:51According to information provided by the portal PowerOutages.us, approximately 1.9 million

11:56families and businesses were without electric service in the countries of the central west

12:01coast of the state the most affected.

12:05The state's Governor Ron DeSantis declared that a death toll could rise as rescue efforts

12:09are still underway to finalize the total number of victims.

12:12The onslaught of Hurricane Milton also left floods and hundreds of homes destroyed.

12:16In a statement to the media, President Joe Biden said the material damage was $50 billion.

12:41In Kenya, people are rallying cliffy against a proposal to build the country's first

12:45nuclear power plant near the coastal town.

12:47Protesters affirmed that the nuclear facility would disrupt economic activities such as

12:51fishing and ecotourism, the main sources of income for residents.

12:56They also denounced that they were not informed or consulted at any stage of the process.

13:01Demonstrators warned of possible displacement caused by the construction.

13:06The proposal is part of Kenya's long-term strategy to reduce its reliance on hydroelectric

13:11and fossil fuel energy sources by 2034.

13:19We say that this project has a lot of negative effects.

13:22There will be malformed children born out of this place, fish will die, and our forest

13:26Araboko Sokok, which is known to harbour birds from abroad, will be lost and the nuclear

13:31plant will cause us more harm than the benefits.

13:34Our main source of income here is ecotourism.

13:37We depend on the environment.

13:38We host only East African coastal forests.

13:42We host the Watamu Marine Park.

13:44We host the largest mangrove plantation in Kenya.

13:49We do not want nuclear to come and mess up our ecosystem.

13:52It will kill fish.

13:53I have been a fisherman for 20 years.

13:55I survive by fishing, and if they erect a nuclear plant here the breeding sites for

13:59fish will all be destroyed and won't exist.

14:08In India, traditional folk theatre offers a stage performance in New Delhi on Ramlila,

14:19which tells the religious epic of Ramayana.

14:22This activity is a dramatic reenactment of the life of Lord Rama, who is celebrated during

14:27the Dussehra festival as the vanquisher of the mythological demon Ravana.

14:32In the scenes, the performers wear crowns and ornate costumes, which keep the audience

14:36captivated with narration, melodramatic dialogue, dances, and songs, usually with a live orchestra

14:42using local instruments.

14:44Ramlila is one of the most symbolic tales of the Hindu religion, which tells the story

14:48of the exile of Lord Rama with his wife and brother, as well as the abduction of the woman

14:53by the demon king Ravana and the great battle to rescue her.

14:59We have come to the end of this news brief.

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