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*Hamas confirms proximity to temporary ceasefire
*BRICS leaders hold extraordinary joint meeting on Gaza
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*Hamas confirms proximity to temporary ceasefire
*BRICS leaders hold extraordinary joint meeting on Gaza
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00:00 In Panama, an ongoing strike against a mining contract with First Quantum puts the Canadian
00:16 company against the wall.
00:21 In Qatar, Hamas leadership confirmed to be close to reaching a temporary truce with Irul.
00:30 BRIC leaders and leaders of invited BRICS members held a extraordinary joint meeting
00:34 on the situation in the Middle East, with particular reference to Gaza.
00:47 In Panama, hello, welcome to From the South.
00:49 I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Atresu Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:53 We begin with the news.
00:54 And we do begin now in Panama.
00:56 Popular and collective struggle affects operability of the Canadian First Quantum company.
01:01 Owners of the mining Panama company informed the siege of boats forced the supply centers,
01:05 crucial for the company's operations.
01:08 The mining company stated that the blockades of the international Punta Rincon port would
01:12 be influencing the operational needs and even labor safety.
01:16 Meanwhile, electricity workers warned of the alleged intention of the government to provide
01:21 the full electricity supply that the Canadian company needs.
01:30 We are aware that in the middle of this week, due to the lack of coal for operation, the
01:35 plant will have to close operations and the most that they could take from the Panamanian
01:39 electrical grid to the mining plant is 45 megawatts.
01:43 According to the current stipulation and the regulation that stipulate this condition.
01:48 However, we are aware that the mining plant is requesting the public services authority
01:53 and possibly the national energy secretary to leave the operational restriction that
01:57 the provisions are violated and the institutional framework is disregarded in order to obtain
02:02 300 megawatts needed for its operation.
02:05 We cannot allow this to happen because it is the foundation of the struggle of the Panamanian
02:10 people in the streets, in the wars and in every possible way to demonstrate that the
02:15 unity of the people is a right to reject and activist activities such as mining that kills,
02:21 destroy and pollutes.
02:24 In Ecuador, the team of President-elect Daniel Novoa is still incomplete on Tuesday, two
02:29 days before his inauguration for a short term in which he will face challenges in various
02:34 sectors, mainly security and economy.
02:37 Among the pending appointments are the ministers of labor, telecommunications and economic
02:41 and social inclusion, as well as the presidency of the board of directors of the coordinator
02:45 of public companies and the directors of the internal revenue service and customs.
02:50 Ecuador faces a financial crisis that worries economies, with millionaire debts to multilateral
02:54 organizations and an ever increasing public expenditure.
02:58 Novoa will assume the presidency until May 24, 2025, barely a year and a half to complete
03:05 the mandate of Guillermo Lasso, who anticipated his departure from office with his decree
03:09 of cross-death applied on May 17, 2023.
03:17 On Tuesday morning, President of Argentina Alberto Fernandez received President-elect
03:21 Javier Millet at the presidential residence within the framework of the government transition
03:26 after the victory of the Libertarian Party in last Sunday's ballot.
03:29 Millet did not speak to the press on his way to the meeting.
03:32 On Monday, Argentina's president-elect confirmed a wave of privatizations, as well as the elimination
03:37 of the central bank, as part of the upcoming measures.
03:41 At different radio interviews, the leader of the New Argentine Far-Right confirmed that
03:45 as from December 10th, date in which he will take on the presidency of the country, he
03:50 will begin working towards the privatization of the state oil company YPF, the energy company
03:55 Enarsa and the public media conglomerate, in addition to the elimination of the central
04:00 bank.
04:01 Millet also said that he held a virtual meeting with the International Monetary Fund.
04:10 The National Institute of Statistics of Uruguay reported that the unemployment rate increased
04:15 by 8.6% in the country.
04:17 According to the institute, more than 161,000 people are looking for work without finding
04:23 it.
04:24 The highest unemployment rate is located in the interior of the country, where it rose
04:27 from 8.5% to 8.9%.
04:30 In Montevideo, it increased by one-tenth of a percentage point to 8.2%, although previous
04:35 institute reports indicated that in September, the national unemployment rate was 8.3%.
04:40 On November 20th, Brazil celebrates National Black Consciousness Day.
04:49 Activists took to the streets in cities across the country to celebrate black roots and the
04:52 manhunt into racism in the country.
04:55 Our correspondent, Bramir, shares with us the following material.
04:58 In Brazil, the social movements and unions took to the streets in dozens of cities for
05:03 National Black Consciousness Day, which is celebrated every November 20th to remember
05:09 Zumbi dos Palmares, who was king of a nation created by former enslaved people in Pernambuco
05:15 in the 1600s that maintained diplomatic relations with Dutch and Portuguese colonists for over
05:22 100 years.
05:23 The holiday was first created in the 1970s as a positive alternative to Abolition Day.
05:30 We are on the streets to say that there is no Brazil without black people.
05:34 We are the majority of the population and we celebrate our existence, but above all,
05:39 we say that racism exists in Brazil and it's important that we overcome this by fighting
05:46 poverty, generating jobs and income for the black population, and work to end the police
05:51 extermination of black youth.
06:08 Brazil recorded the hottest day in its history on Sunday, having reached 44.8 degrees Celsius
06:13 in Minas Gerais' southeastern state.
06:16 The National Institute of Meteorology unfolded the record temperature register on Sunday
06:21 in the Araguaia municipality, who was the highest ever measured in the history of Brazil.
06:26 In other cities such as Corumba, Sao Romao and Porto Mourinho, temperatures reached a
06:31 year record 43.4 degrees Celsius.
06:34 According to Inmet, the high heat waves are due to both El Niño phenomenon, which has
06:39 depleted rainfalls in the Amazon and the warming of the Atlantic Ocean, and undoubtedly to
06:43 the global climate crisis.
06:50 Four people have died and two others are missing due to the torrential rains that are hitting
06:54 several regions of Haiti since Saturday.
06:57 Three of the deaths were registered in the southern region of the country and the fourth
07:01 in the southeast.
07:02 The missing individuals were reported in the apartment of Grand Danse, also in the south
07:07 of Haiti.
07:08 Four days reported that most of the victims were trying to cross the swallowing rivers.
07:11 The Civil Protection Department also reported that 420 houses were flooded, as well as several
07:17 communes and some agricultural areas.
07:20 Let's take a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok @TelesurEnglish, where
07:26 you will find news in different formats, news updates, and much more.
07:31 Other stories coming up, stay with us.
07:35 Welcome back to From the South.
07:58 The head of the Palestinian Hamas organization, Ismail Haniyeh, confirmed on Tuesday that
08:02 they are close to reaching a temporary truce with Israel.
08:05 Although the details were not disclosed, Haniyeh assured that they have given an answer to
08:09 the Qatari mediators.
08:11 In this sense, Margarita Askovhari, the president of the International Red Cross, reported that
08:17 she had held a meeting in Qatar with the head of Hamas to advance humanitarian issues.
08:22 On the other hand, on Monday, the White House referred to an agreement aimed at guaranteeing
08:26 the entry of humanitarian aid and the release of some hostages, affirming that they were
08:30 closer than ever to achieving it.
08:38 The Zionist army again attacked a school in the Havalia refugee camp.
08:42 The attack left dozens dead and injured.
08:45 Aircraft of the occupying army attacked the Habsa school in the Al-Faluyah area west of
08:49 the Havalia refugee camp.
08:51 There being a facility protected by international humanitarian law, hundreds of civilians, mostly
08:56 women and children, were sheltering from the genocidal Israeli violence.
09:00 The explosions hit nine houses in Beit Lahaya.
09:04 Communication towers in Gaza City and in the north were again targets of the occupier,
09:09 resulting in a total disruption of communications in those areas.
09:14 An Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon has killed two journalists, according to Lebanese
09:21 media, as hostilities grow along Israel's northern border.
09:25 Lebanese channel Al Mayadeen TV said an Israeli attack deliberately targeted its correspondent
09:31 Farah Omar and cameraman Ravich Mahmari, who were killed, along with a civilian contributor
09:36 in the southern Lebanese town of Tair Alfa.
09:40 Israel's Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi said on October 13 he had begun work
09:45 to block Al Mayadeen's websites and programming and shut down its local offices.
09:50 The Lebanese information minister has asked the army to open an investigation into the
09:54 attack on Tuesday, Qador said, adding that this was the third attack against journalists
09:59 in southern Lebanon since October 13.
10:01 The latest killings add to at least 50 reporters and media workers who have been killed amid
10:06 Israel's war in Gaza, according to Press Freedom's group, the Committee to Protect Journalists.
10:18 Antaresul President Patrice Abiegas took to social media to condemn the murder of Al Mayadeen
10:23 journalists after Israeli warplanes attacked the team in southern Lebanon.
10:27 Abiegas stressed that the Tel Assur community stands in solidarity with our colleagues at
10:32 Al Mayadeen.
10:33 She also added that more than 50 journalists and some of their families have been murdered
10:37 by the Israeli army amid the genocide in Gaza.
10:40 The news was shared by Tel Assur special envoy Alejandro Kirk, who stressed the journalists
10:44 killed were young, kind and very professional.
10:52 Foreign Ministers of Arab League nations and organizations of Islamic cooperation arrived
10:57 in Russia to debate on the Middle East peace options.
11:00 Delegations are already in Moscow for their meeting with Foreign Minister Zayda Labaroff,
11:04 who made statements on the silence of the encounter.
11:07 According to the agenda commented by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, among
11:12 the issues to be discussed are the urgent ceasefire and pressing Western nations to
11:16 reject the self-defense qualification with which Israel justifies the massacre of thousands
11:20 of Palestinians, mostly women and children.
11:27 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accused Israel of war crimes and genocide in Gaza
11:32 at his share and extraordinary summit of the BRICS group of nations on Tuesday.
11:37 Pretoria is hosting a virtual meeting of the BRICS, a group of major emerging economies
11:40 that include Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, to develop a common response
11:45 to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
11:47 "The punishment of Palestinian civilians through the unlawful use of force by Israel
11:55 is a war crime.
11:58 The deliberate denial of medicine, fuel, food and water to the residents of Gaza is tantamount
12:08 to genocide.
12:09 As South Africa, we call for first an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire.
12:18 Second the opening of humanitarian corridors so that aid and other basic services such
12:27 as food and medicines can…."
12:33 For his part, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on Tuesday called on all
12:38 countries during an extraordinary summit of the BRICS group to stop exporting arms to
12:42 Israel.
12:43 The Saudi leader reiterated the Kingdom's rejection of the Israeli offensive in the
12:46 Gaza Strip and the forced displacement of Palestinians from the enclave.
12:50 He also called for the launch of a serious and comprehensive peace process to resolve
12:54 the Palestinian issue.
12:56 The Prince also called for an immediate end to Israeli military operations in Gaza, citing
13:00 the need to create humanitarian corridors in the area.
13:03 Meanwhile, he asserted that his country has been working tirelessly since the beginning
13:08 of the crisis to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip and recalled that one measure to
13:12 resolve the conflict should be the establishment of a Palestinian state with 1967 borders.
13:21 On Tuesday, medical authorities alongside politicians held a web seminar on the urgent medical crisis
13:26 in Gaza.
13:27 Dr. Mats Gilbert from Norway, who used to work at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, denounced
13:32 the ongoing deliberate Israeli attacks against Palestine's health sector.
13:37 "So we went from the beginning, there were 34 operative hospitals on the 8th of October
13:44 and two non-functioning.
13:45 Bear in mind, they used the term 'partially functioning hospitals' because the 16 years
13:52 of siege have made most of the hospitals in Gaza not being at 100% on many functions.
13:59 But over these five weeks, from 34 partially functioning down to eight partially functioning
14:05 hospitals for 2.2 million people.
14:09 And then if you look at the attacks on health care in general, this is the second graph
14:15 and this shows the red bars are attacks on health care in the West Bank, the blue bar
14:20 are attacks on health care in Gaza during these weeks.
14:25 And Israeli occupation forces have attacked, have perpetrated 152 attacks on health care
14:31 in Gaza and 158 attacks in West Bank."
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15:14 On Monday, the United States, the United Auto Workers Union confirmed that 64% of its members
15:19 voted in favor of the important agreement reached with the three largest automakers
15:22 in the country.
15:23 After six weeks of strike action, the workers reached what many consider to be a historic
15:28 agreement with Ford, Stellantis and General Motors.
15:31 Although details of the temporary settlement have not been released, it is known that they
15:35 will receive commutative hourly wage increases of about 27%, retirement benefits could be
15:40 increased by as much as 10% and all union members will receive annual cost of living
15:46 adjustments based on the rate of inflation.
15:53 On Monday evening, a small boat cramped with migrants capsized off the southern Italian
15:58 island of Lampedusa, killing a two-year-old girl and leaving at least eight people missing.
16:03 The Italian Coast Guard and fishermen who were in the area when the boat hit some rocks
16:07 before capsizing saved 43 other people.
16:09 Most of those rescued were from Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau and Mali and had
16:14 departed from Sfax in Tunisia.
16:17 Survivors told rescuers that at least eight people who were aboard were missing, including
16:21 two children.
16:22 Meanwhile, a fishing boat with 400 migrants on board disembarked at the commercial port
16:27 of Lampedusa after being escorted by the local Coast Guard.
16:34 Russian President Vladimir Putin hosts his Tajik counterpart, Emomali Rahmon, for talks
16:39 at the Moscow Kremlin, with Putin awarding Rahmon the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
16:44 During the visit, Rahmon is expected to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin,
16:48 according to the Kremlin press service.
16:50 The two leaders will discuss strategic cooperation between Russia and Tajikistan, as well as
16:54 regional and global issues.
16:56 They are expected to sign a number of documents and make statements for the media after completing
17:01 his visit to Moscow.
17:02 The Tajik president plans to participate in a collective security treaty organization
17:07 summit which is set to be held in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on November 23.
17:12 Putin said earlier that he would take part in the event.
17:15 Tajikistan, formerly part of the USSR, has retained close ties with Russia following
17:20 the breakup of the Soviet Union.
17:26 For the first time since the accident in northern India, rescuers on Tuesday were able to see
17:31 pictures of the 41 workers trapped for 10 days by the collapse of a tunnel under construction.
17:36 The images were taken with an endoscopic camera placed through a thin pipe that supplies oxygen
17:42 food and water to the workers.
17:44 Rescue teams vowed to get them out safely.
17:47 Excavators have been removing earth and debris from the collapsed tunnels since November
17:50 12, but rescue efforts have been slowed due to falling debris and repeated drill failures.
17:56 Before setting up the camera, rescue teams communicated with trapped men by radio.
18:04 In Liberia, a car plowed into a crowd of supporters of politician Joseph Buakai in Monrovia on
18:10 Monday night, killing at least two people and injuring many others, hospital, police
18:14 and political sources said.
18:17 Police did not explain the motive for the incident, but spokesmen for Buakai's unity
18:21 party said they believed it was a deliberate act.
18:24 According to local police, the driver fled the scene.
18:26 Buakai's supporters were celebrating outside his party headquarters after Buakai was officially
18:31 declared the winner of the presidential election.
18:34 Party spokesman Mohammed Ali said it was hard to believe that the vehicle had suffered mechanical
18:38 failure or that the brakes had failed.
18:41 Police officer Melvin Sacco confirmed to DEF and added that 12 men and four women had been
18:46 taken to the John F. Kennedy Hospital.
18:52 We have come to the end of this news brief, but before saying goodbye we want to thank
18:55 our Caribbean audience, especially the audience of Trinidad and Tobago, who are pleased to
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19:03 events.
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