27/03/2025
FTS 12.30
*Ukraine Summit in Paris opposes lifting anti-Russian sanctions
*Palestinian political coalition rejects Israel's displacement plan
FTS 12.30
*Ukraine Summit in Paris opposes lifting anti-Russian sanctions
*Palestinian political coalition rejects Israel's displacement plan
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00:00In Argentina, President Javier Millet announced that the government will receive at least
00:1520 billion US dollars from the International Monetary Fund.
00:24In France, the leaders of 30 countries gathered for a summit on Ukraine's security where
00:28they opposed to the lifting of anti-Russian sanctions.
00:37And the Palestine Liberation Organization rejected Israel's intention to create a body
00:40to push for the forced displacement of the population in the Gaza Strip.
00:50Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from the Resus Studios in Caracas,
00:54Venezuela.
00:55We'll begin with the news, stay with us.
01:12In Argentina, President Javier Millet announced that the government will receive at least
01:1620 billion US dollars from the International Monetary Fund.
01:20Economy Minister Luis Caputo said that the loan will be provided through a new agreement
01:24with the IMF to be signed in the next few weeks.
01:26Caputo also assured that with the agreement, it is expected that the Argentine central
01:30bank's gross reserves will increase to approximately 50 billion US dollars.
01:35Media reports indicate that the minister did not specify how much of these funds will be
01:39destined to cancel the first installments of the program closed in 2022 and how much
01:44will be destined to cancel non-transferable central bank bills held by the Treasury.
01:57In Paraguay, representatives of the Farmers' Federation rallied to demand agrarian reform
02:01under the slogan for land production and against all injustice.
02:06Farmers and indigenous unions participated in the 31st National March to demand more
02:09measures from the national government in the areas of agrarian reform, land distribution
02:14and increased support to farmers.
02:16The rural working families denounced the government for promoting policies detrimental to agricultural
02:21production.
02:22Demonstrators called for the enactment of an agrarian reform law as established in the
02:26country's constitution.
02:56In Ecuador, at least 200,000 people were left without drinking water and lost their fishing
03:07source after the March 13 incident in the province of Esmeraldas, considered the worst
03:12oil spill in the history of the country.
03:14The environmental situation has been aggravated by the collapse due to the rains of a contention
03:19dam on Tuesday, which the state-owned company Petro Ecuador reported helped contain the
03:24more than 25,000 barrels of oil spilled after the disaster.
03:28In this regard, Petro Ecuador informed that seven containment barriers were installed
03:31in the Vichia River to tackle the dam collapse, where machinery was removing oil-contaminated
03:37debris.
03:38In addition, the company reported extra absorbent material was being placed in Vichia as well
03:42as in the Caple and Esmeraldas rivers.
03:53In Ecuador, health authorities warned that heavy rains have increased the risk of diseases,
03:57among them acute gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments.
04:00In addition, the meteorological conditions have elevated the rates of infections in diseases
04:05caused by insect bites.
04:06In this regard, it was reported that the provinces of Napo, Guayas, Manabe and Orellana faced
04:12more than 10,000 reported cases of dengue, as Manabe and Guayas have the most incidence
04:17of infection of pulmonary mycosis, affecting older adults, according to official statistics.
04:30Meanwhile in Bolivia, more than 368,000 families have been affected and 99 municipalities are
04:36in a state of disaster due to the emergency the country is going through with heavy rains.
04:41According to official reports, 818 affected families have lost their homes due to rains,
04:45floods, landslides and overflowing rivers.
04:48The forecast of the Meteorological and Hydrological Service activated the red alert for almost
04:52the entire country until April 5th, 2025, due to the risk of floods and overflowing
04:57rivers.
04:58The declaration of a national state of emergency by the government makes it possible to speed
05:02up the response to disasters, to manage external financial resources, to draw up the post-flood
05:07plan and to mobilize more technical, logistical and economic resources in the affected areas.
05:15And work continues to contain wildfires raging in South Korea that have left at least 28
05:24dead, 32 injured and thousands evacuated in a week.
05:28The fires have been catalogued as the worst in the country's history and as a measure
05:31the government declared a state of national disaster.
05:34The flames have devastated more than 36,000 hectares and several helicopters are still
05:38dropping water on the areas due to the strong winds and dry weather that spread the fire.
05:43In addition, authorities have evacuated 37,185 people some 190 km southeast of Seoul, while
05:50another 16,700 are in temporary shelters.
05:53In this context, scientists alert that global warming is making this weather phenomenon
05:57more extreme every year.
05:59And on Thursday, the president of Mexico, Clara Sheinbaum, mentioned that her administration
06:14will give a comprehensive response to U.S. tariffs and assured she will always protect
06:18Mexico, the jobs generated in the country and its companies.
06:28The first thing the people of Mexico need to know is that we are always going to protect
06:33Mexico.
06:37That is our responsibility.
06:43We have to defend the jobs that are generated in Mexico, the jobs that exist, and the Mexican
06:48companies as well.
06:49This is part of our fundamental work in the development of the country and in the relationship
06:54with the government of the United States and always with the principle of sovereignty
06:58of our country, of defending the sovereignty of our country.
07:04Now, of course, within the trade agreement, Mexico-United States-Canada, there should
07:11be no barriers.
07:13That is the essence of the trade agreement."
07:19U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio landed on Thursday in Georgetown, Guyana, as part
07:24of his two-day Caribbean tour aim at further restricting the Cuban humanitarian mission,
07:28attacking Venezuela's energy sovereignty and reducing China's commercial presence
07:32in the region.
07:33According to the State Department, during the visit, Rubio is expected to sign a memorandum
07:36of understanding that outlines security cooperation offering to put the nation under the U.S.
07:41security umbrella.
07:42In this regard, Guyanese President Irfan Ali has embraced closer defense cooperation with
07:47the Western country, including through joint maritime patrols.
07:51Rubio is flying to Guyana after visiting Jamaica on Wednesday.
07:54He will also stop later Thursday in neighbor Suriname.
08:05We now have our first break coming up.
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08:09Don't go away.
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08:17Welcome back.
08:32In France, the leaders of 30 of Ukraine's allied countries met in Paris for a summit
08:37aimed at boosting the regime's security.
08:39French President Emmanuel Macron said that the time has not yet come to lift anti-abortion
08:43sanctions.
08:44At the same time, the French President pointed out that the European Union has no legal basis
08:47for ceasing frozen Russian assets.
08:50For his part, British Prime Minister Kate Starmer urged to strengthen sanctions against
08:54Russia, adding that the session focused on the determination to support Kyiv, including
08:59plans for military operations on land, in the air or at sea.
09:03Following consultations between Russia and the U.S. in Riyadh, the Kremlin announced
09:06an agreement on the implementation of the Black Sea Initiative, including measures to
09:10ensure the safety of navigation.
09:12The agreements on the Black Sea will take effect once sanctions on Russian banks, facilitating
09:17trade in agricultural products and mineral fertilizers, are lifted.
09:24And Russia's foreign ministry denounced the escalation of persecution by the Kyiv regime
09:33against Russian journalists.
09:35Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zaharova denounced that world correspondents are being
09:38persecuted by Ukrainian paramilitaries and attacked with Western weapons, and invited
09:43organizations such as UNESCO, the UN Office for Human Rights and others to take measures
09:48against such crimes.
09:49In this context, the foreign ministry declared that the murder of Russian journalists in
09:53the Russian region of Lugansk is part of the systematic and consistent actions of Kyiv to
09:57silence the press media.
10:07Meanwhile in Egypt, on Thursday, six people were killed when a tourist submarine sank
10:11off the coast of Burkhada, along the Red Sea.
10:14The Russian embassy in Cairo confirmed the news as some nationals are among the victims.
10:18While the causes for the incident are still under investigation, it was reported that
10:21the leisure bathescape crashed at about 10 a.m. local time, killing 45 people, among
10:27them minors, in addition to crew members, most of which were rescued and taken to the
10:31hospital in the touristic city.
10:34The scene that the submarine was on a trip to explore the Red Sea's coral reefs and
10:38marine life, a crucial activity for Egypt's tourism industry, in which Russian foreigners
10:43play an increasingly large part.
10:52The Polish government has suspended the right of migrants to apply for asylum in order to
10:56protect the country's borders.
10:58Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed the asylum law that will come into force to strengthen
11:04the security of the country's borders.
11:05In this sense, he encouraged Prime Minister Donald Tusk to activate the necessary measures
11:09so that undocumented migrants who managed to enter the country through the border cannot
11:13apply for asylum.
11:14These measures are being taken in view of the pressure of migrants from Poland's eastern
11:19borders, which he shares with Ukraine and Belarus.
11:30When Indonesian security forces repressed protests against parliament's approval of
11:34military reform, hundreds of citizens took to the streets as the new military law come
11:38into effect, considering it a threat to the country's democratic system.
11:43The royal police used water cannons against demonstrators who gathered in the streets
11:46of the city of Jakarta.
11:47Previously, the Indonesian parliament unanimously approved the amendment to the military legal
11:53regulations and expanded the participation of active and retired officers to have a greater
11:57non-combat activity in the nation's public institutions.
12:08The head of Sudan's armed forces, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, declared that Khartoum is free
12:13hours after his forces recaptured the city's airport from the paramilitary-backed forces.
12:19After touring the airport, the army chief spoke on Wednesday from the presidential palace,
12:23which government forces recaptured on Friday after almost two years of war in which it
12:29was in the hands of their paramilitary rapid support forces.
12:33According to local media, they are still in control of most of the Darfur region and other
12:37areas of the country.
12:39The war that began in April 2023 has left more than 60,000 people dead, around 12 million
12:44displaced, while more than half of its population faces high levels of acute hunger, and basic
12:50services have collapsed.
13:01On Wednesday evening, a crowd celebrated the liberation of Khartoum in the city of Port
13:04Sudan.
13:05Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese have fled to this locality since the beginning of the
13:09war.
13:10The liberation of the capital, besides being a symbolic triumph, means the possible return
13:14of government institutions that were moved to Port Sudan after the first month of the
13:18conflict.
13:19In this context, many of the demonstrators expressed their intention to return to Khartoum
13:23as soon as possible.
13:33It is a moment of joy, an indescribable moment, after two years of suffering and displacement
13:38due to this brutal war imposed on the Sudanese people by a group that caused the loss of
13:43the rights of the people and the nation.
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14:18Welcome back.
14:19The Palestinian Liberation Organization rejected Israel's intentions to create a body to
14:23push for the forced displacement of the population in the Gaza Strip.
14:27The resistance organization qualified this project as a war crime in clear violation
14:31of international humanitarian law.
14:33The organization reiterated its denunciation of the constant threat of bombing, which exacerbates
14:38the famine and destruction of the Palestinian territory by the action of the troops of the
14:42Tel Aviv regime.
14:43Furthermore, the organization affirmed that statements on voluntary migration are a smokescreen
14:48to deceive the international community and avoid the accountability of the Israeli authorities.
15:01In Palestine, at least 22 people were killed on Thursday by Israeli attacks against different
15:05areas of the Gaza Strip.
15:07The occupation army bombings took place overnight and on Thursday morning, hitting residential
15:11buildings and tents, sheltering displaced persons.
15:14According to the Wafaa News Agency, seven people were killed after an airstrike on their
15:18home in Ben Lahaya City, and another attack claimed the lives of seven others in northwestern
15:22Gaza City.
15:24Continued artillery attacks were also reported in western Rafah and north of the New Zerat
15:29Camp.
15:42And in Palestine, local sources confirmed that the Israeli bombing that took place early
15:46Thursday morning killed the spokesman of the Hamas resistance movement, Abdel Latif al-Qanum.
15:52According to information provided by Hamas, the spokesman was in his tent in the Jabalia
15:56al-Balad refugee camp at the time of his attack.
16:00This attack comes days after the targeted killing of two prominent members of the Hamas
16:04political bureau, Ismail Barhum and Salah al-Bardawil.
16:09With this latest assault, the Zionist regime of Israel has caused the death of at least
16:1311 members of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance, in addition to raising
16:17the number of Palestinian martyrs in Gaza to more than 50,000.
16:29And this Thursday, more than 3,000 ships of the Iranian Navy held a parade in support
16:34of the Palestinian people and the resistance in the Gaza Strip.
16:38All parades were held in the waters of the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Sea
16:42of Oman, in support of the Palestinian people and the Gaza Strip on the eve of World Al-Quds
16:48Day.
16:49In this exercise, in addition to the Palestinian flag, the flags of the Israeli regime was
16:52also set on fire in the heart of the Persian Gulf.
16:55According to the Iranian authorities, the parade was carried out jointly with Lebanon,
16:58Iraq and Yemen and included 3,000 boats.
17:09And in Uruguay, the Coordinator for Palestine gathered near the Foreign Ministry to deliver
17:16a letter demanding that the Uruguayan state condemn the genocide perpetrated by Israel
17:20against the Palestinian people.
17:22The document, which was delivered to the Uruguayan Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin, demands that
17:28the government of Yamandu Orsi publicly denounce the Israeli genocide that has claimed the
17:32lives of more than 50,000 Palestinian civilians since the beginning of the latest Zionist
17:36offensive on October 7, 2023.
17:39Demonstrators asked for a firm stance of the Uruguayan state against Israel's aggressions
17:44and for actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
17:58And Yemeni forces confirmed an attack on U.S. aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman in response
18:03to Western aggressions against the country.
18:05In this way, the Yemeni defense launched a joint military operation targeting U.S. ships
18:09in the Red Sea with a series of ballistic missiles and drones.
18:12They added that the results of the engagement and counter-attack operations include thwarting
18:16Washington's attempts to advance his warships in the region.
18:19Furthermore, they assured that they will continue to support the Palestinians until the aggression
18:23stops and the siege is lifted.
18:34Meanwhile in Syria, humanitarian organizations revealed the killing of over 2,246 Syrians
18:40in 25 registered massacres along the country's coast.
18:44Organizations point out that most of the victims killed by military forces, aligned with al-Ghulani,
18:49are young people.
18:50In this regard, they point out that there are at least 811 videos as evidence of the
18:55facts.
18:56On the other hand, the coastal regions report growing tensions and clashes between security
19:00forces and the de facto government, causing the death of dozens of civilians.
19:27In Mexico, Puebla celebrates World Theatre Day with a marathon that will include 27 performances
19:32by 15 national and international companies.
19:34The director of the Municipal Institute of Art and Culture of Puebla, Anel Nochebuena,
19:39announced that from March 26 to 30, people can enjoy free plays in Puebla de Zaragoza,
19:45where acting workshops will also be offered at an additional cost.
19:49The city theatre, the Construarte Cultural Center El Zocalo and the Popular Autonomous
19:54University of the State of Puebla are among the venues that will host the presentations.
19:58In this opportunity, the billboard will include plays such as Blind Love Love, Little Red
20:03Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf, The Little Lost Lion and Scala di Setta.
20:08Like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
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