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[00:00:02] Yes, in fact, the Spanish government, sources of
[00:00:21] serious consequences, both the director of
[00:00:27] The accident of two high-speed trains in Toledo leaves
[00:00:30] at least 68 dead and some 180 injured, some very
[00:00:34] seriously. The search teams will continue working for the
[00:00:38] next few hours. The Spanish government has declared three
[00:00:41] days of mourning since this morning. The accident happened in the middle of
[00:00:44] the pre-campaign. And we will go to the
[00:00:47] end. And if there have been negligences it will
[00:00:51] be known. And if there have been failures in the safety
[00:00:54] system. It will be responded to with total
[00:00:57] forcefulness.
[00:01:09] The causes of the accident are being investigated, but the
[00:01:12] conversations between the control center and the drivers have already been leaked, a breakdown
[00:01:15] had stopped all the trains on the route, then they were given
[00:01:19] the order to resume the march at
[00:01:21] to rebuild normal speed, but Lirio reported that he could
[00:01:23] not.
[00:01:28] The railway workers' union sema. maintains the strike for this Thursday to
[00:01:31] demand improvements in railway safety. The strike
[00:01:35] had been called days ago. The government asks people to look for
[00:01:39] alternative transport and, if possible, to avoid
[00:01:42] displacements.
[00:01:48] Support concentrations and minutes of silence have been repeated throughout the country in
[00:01:52] mourning for the victims of
[00:01:54] the accident.
[00:01:58] The Mossos admit, however.
[00:02:01] is called. "marcha a la vista", that is, Occupation due to the call for Blockos on Castanyada Night after
[00:02:03] last Saturday's riots in Barcelona, Councillor Perlon
[00:02:07] states that the police are prepared for what she describes
[00:02:11] as a new phenomenon of youth
[00:02:12] violence.
[00:02:16] Flávio Bolsonaro and his family are now in the United States, the far-right
[00:02:20] former candidate avoids the action of justice for several open
[00:02:24] cases in Brazil after his defeat in Sunday's
[00:02:27] elections.
[00:02:50] fog in the interior plains and low clouds on the central coast
[00:02:54] where some drops of tramontana are not ruled out. In the
[00:02:57] afternoon, bands of thin clouds will arrive from the west and
[00:03:01] more extensive low clouds on the coast, the
[00:03:04] maximums will drop a couple of degrees.
[00:03:31] we have outside, they were not breaking the window panes to be able to
[00:03:34] get out, there were people who practically could not
[00:03:38] move.
[00:03:46] Hello, good evening, there has been another accident
[00:03:48] Plaça de l'Afon where the city council on the high-speed line between Madrid and Andalusia nine months
[00:03:52] after Damuz and with a higher death toll
[00:03:55] than then. There are at least 68 people who have lost their
[00:03:59] lives. and more than 180 injured, it happened in Urda, in the province
[00:04:03] of Toledo, 130 km from Madrid, the body
[00:04:06] recovery tasks are progressing while trying
[00:04:10] to answer the big question, what happened, a human
[00:04:13] error, according to the Minister of Transport, inexplicable,
[00:04:17] would be the cause of the accident. From the scene, he makes
[00:04:21] the chronology for us. It all starts at
[00:04:25] 8:30 in the morning. At that time there is a fault in the railway
[00:04:28] safety system. daily the so-called LZB that
[00:04:32] controls the position and
[00:04:34] wide follow-up after the speed of each of the high-speed trains that circulate on this line, the
[00:04:37] Madrid-Seville line. At that moment this system
[00:04:40] blocked a whole section of 63 km, causing the
[00:04:45] coach of Espanyol after the six trains there, three in each direction, to be completely stopped.
[00:04:49] 6 minutes later, however, from the traffic control center located
[00:04:53] at Atocha station in Madrid, these six
[00:04:56] trains were authorized to resume their journey. This was communicated
[00:05:00] to some of these trains, not all, among others, it was
[00:05:03] communicated to the Ave train that was stopped about 25 km from this
[00:05:07] point, according to the Minister of
[00:05:09] accidents on the high-speed Transport Óscar Puente, but with a nuance, he was informed that
[00:05:12] he could circulate again under normal conditions when railway
[00:05:16] regulations state that after a blockage of the safety
[00:05:19] system, circulation must be resumed with more precautions at
[00:05:23] a reduced speed, so that if there is any obstacle, any
[00:05:26] element of the infrastructure that is not in good condition, the driver has
[00:05:30] time to brake and avoid a collision, this has not
[00:05:34] happened, eh, the train has continued to advance at the maximum
[00:05:37] speed that here reaches 200 km/h and when it arrived
[00:05:41] here. in the municipality of Logieves it impacted with the Irio
[00:05:45] train that had not yet resumed its journey, according to what the company
[00:05:49] told us, because the driver had not received this authorization
[00:05:53] to resume circulation, it was 7 minutes before 9 in the morning
[00:05:56] when this impact occurred, a lot of violence, there will be work
[00:06:00] all night to try to see what is the definitive balance
[00:06:04] of a railway accident that leaves still many unknowns to
[00:06:07] answer.
[00:06:09] The LZB control system has failed due to a...
[00:06:12] communication between computers and has left a 63
[00:06:16] km section without a safety system. In this section
[00:06:20] six trains were circulating and stopped. From
[00:06:23] then on, the control center of Dif de Atocha took charge of the
[00:06:27] situation, only six minutes later, it told the
[00:06:31] Ave train to resume its journey. Circumstances
[00:06:33] from our point of view inexplicable, it could
[00:06:37] not resume its journey normally since the track circuit was also
[00:06:40] occupied by the Irio train stopped at
[00:06:44] the entrance to the station, also with a red signal that
[00:06:48] prevented the resumption of the journey. After traveling about
[00:06:51] 25 km, the Ave found the Irio train stopped
[00:06:55] at a speed that could be up to 200 km
[00:06:58] per hour, the driver would not have had room for maneuver and they
[00:07:02] collided. Precisely, another of the interrogations is why
[00:07:06] the control center allowed normal speed, instead of
[00:07:10] doing so, as the protocol marks, what
[00:07:13] with a slow driving, maximum 40
[00:07:16] km/h, to be able to react to any
[00:07:20] mishap. We have been able to hear how the
[00:07:23] instruction is given to the other trains and on one of the occasions it is also
[00:07:27] given incorrectly and it is the driver of one of the trains who
[00:07:31] corrects the control center and tells him: it cannot
[00:07:35] be normal speed, it has to be "marcha a la vista". The operator
[00:07:38] says: oh yes, "marcha a la vista". The Ave circulated for
[00:07:42] almost a quarter of an hour from when it resumed circulation until it collided with
[00:07:45] Irio, this accident today has all the circumstances that have
[00:07:49] accumulated three or four causes that the signaling
[00:07:52] system fails, that two and three human errors
[00:07:55] occur in resuming the trains' journey, that the Irio
[00:07:58] train does not start. The Civil Guard has interrogated the operator of the control center
[00:08:02] who gave the order to the Ave to resume circulation, although for the moment no
[00:08:06] further details have been released, the investigation will clarify all the
[00:08:10] causes and identify the responsible parties.
[00:08:14] "and a judicial investigation has been opened with secret of summary, yes, the audios of the conversations of the
[00:08:18] control center of Dif de
[00:08:21] Atocha with the drivers of the two crashed trains have been made
[00:08:24] public, there is a first audio that confirms that the driver
[00:08:28] of the b is given the order to start at normal
[00:08:30] speed, not the caution
[00:08:37] one."
[00:08:39] yes, at
[00:08:42] 08:36, yes. this says
[00:08:45] train driver,
[00:08:53] 208
[00:08:56] disconnect
[00:08:58] disconnect and reconnect
[00:09:00] and reconnect
[00:09:06] and reconnect the lzb lzb and resume
[00:09:10] marching. march under the protection of
[00:09:13] the BSL, under the protection of the BSL with
[00:09:17] normal march, with normal march, okay, agreed,
[00:09:21] come on, well, then tell me when you take it, okay, thank you very much, that's it, goodbye,
[00:09:24] goodbye, normal march, this is the instruction, the same
[00:09:28] instruction is given to the driver of the Irio, another fragment
[00:09:31] of these recordings shows how a problem prevents this
[00:09:35] Irio convoy from starting and that this fact is communicated to Atocha, there are five
[00:09:39] minutes to stop the train, but no one gives the order.
[00:10:12] The President of the Spanish Government has made an institutional statement from the scene
[00:10:16] of the events, he has said that it is not acceptable that there are two
[00:10:21] Andalusia corridor this year.
[00:10:27] the executive, recognized from the first moment the seriousness of what could have
[00:10:30] happened, sources from the Ministry of Transport already pointed to this negligence
[00:10:34] this very midday Pedro Sánchez wanted to come here, to know
[00:10:38] first-hand what was the point where this accident had occurred
[00:10:42] and to be able to talk to those responsible for the rescue
[00:10:45] operations, regarding this investigation, he has assured that if there is
[00:10:49] any negligence it will be explained that if the safety
[00:10:52] mechanisms have failed, it will act with full
[00:10:56] forcefulness, but at the same time he wanted to dissociate, at least initially, the
[00:11:00] causes of today's accident from what happened on this same line, but already
[00:11:04] in Andalusian territory in Adamuz, at the beginning of this year and where 46
[00:11:07] people also died. In any case, the President of the Spanish Government said
[00:11:11] that Spain cannot afford two accidents of this
[00:11:15] seriousness in less than a year and on the same high-speed
[00:11:18] line, but he said the investigation will come, now
[00:11:21] Pedro Sánchez said, the priority is to attend to the victims.
[00:11:29] and we will go to the end and if there have been negligences it will
[00:11:33] be known and if there have been failures in the safety
[00:11:36] system, it will be responded to with total forcefulness, because
[00:11:40] if we have to reinforce even
[00:11:43] more safety
[00:11:46] trust in our high-speed railway system, it will
[00:11:50] be done because what is not acceptable for a country like
[00:11:53] Spain is
[00:12:02] During the day, the passengers who were able to escape unharmed from the accident have given their
[00:12:06] testimony, some of them shocking for how they experienced
[00:12:09] the accident in the previous and subsequent minutes and for how
[00:12:13] difficult it was for them to understand what had happened on board the two trains, more than
[00:12:16] 500 people were traveling.
[00:12:20] This is the head of the Renfe, damn
[00:12:23] it, it's a...
[00:12:55] truth, what happened, why are you in that
[00:12:57] situation, you take quite a few
[00:13:01] minutes to react, you have your cell phone, the passengers who were able
[00:13:04] to get out on their own had to force open doors
[00:13:07] and windows,
[00:13:11] and then we reacted and broke the window and got out through the window,
[00:13:14] we tried to get out through the windows and the doors by forcing them open and we see the
[00:13:18] Dantesque spectacle on the other side of a destroyed train
[00:13:22] which we imagined was the one it had crashed with. At first, they
[00:13:26] themselves tried to help the dozens of injured and helped
[00:13:29] when the emergency services arrived, this man I
[00:13:33] take people out there who, we don't know what state they are in, right now I am supporting
[00:13:36] the ground of a person who is injured I am here helping the paramedics a little,
[00:13:40] I am here with an olive grove where there were some
[00:13:44] cows, here now the third
[00:13:47] helicopter is landing, there are about four or five ambulances, there are people
[00:13:51] with a lot of blood, with very important blows, they were attended there in the south...
[00:14:25] accident are the residents of Urda, the nearest municipality of 2,000
[00:14:28] inhabitants, completely shocked, there spaces have been set up to provide
[00:14:31] psychological attention to the injured, but also to those people who do not
[00:14:35] know what has happened to their relatives. The psychologists have explained in
[00:14:39] what state they received them, but also the testimony is remarkable, as
[00:14:43] we said, of the neighbors, such as the pharmacist of the town, one of the first
[00:14:46] to go to attend to the victims.
[00:14:50] Every time they kept giving, the tragedy of those affected increased,
[00:14:53] when I arrived at the... cabin to the hypothetical
[00:14:57] cabin of the Ave, because there was no cabin there, it was a mass of iron, I tried
[00:15:01] to calm people, don't worry the ambulance will come immediately, I
[00:15:04] collapsed and came running to the pharmacy for
[00:15:08] medicines, for tranquilizers, that he is totally
[00:15:11] in shock, that he is not yet aware of what is happening, we have people who are
[00:15:15] angry, we have people who are sad, we have people who are worried, we have people in many
[00:15:19] different places, the grief will be complicated and our intention and
[00:15:23] our purpose is to try to accompany
[00:15:30] We continue with the account of what happened, moving to Madrid, from where the two
[00:15:34] trains involved in the accident had departed, when the... was learned, a
[00:15:38] psychological support operation was deployed for families and passengers of the trains
[00:15:42] who have been transferred by
[00:15:43] bus.
[00:15:46] Yes, this assistance center has, throughout the day,
[00:15:49] provided support to about ninety relatives of missing persons and
[00:15:53] victims, most of whom have not been able to contact their
[00:15:57] families, here they are being given the information that is being
[00:16:00] received. Here also 36 passengers from the damaged
[00:16:04] trains, with minor injuries, have arrived, five
[00:16:07] of whom have been transferred to hospitals and the rest have
[00:16:11] been treated here for their injuries, contusions and also for
[00:16:14] anxiety attacks that they presented. This Atocha
[00:16:17] assistance center is expected to remain open in the
[00:16:20] coming hours and days until necessary. There
[00:16:24] is a team made up of several professionals, psychologists,
[00:16:28] doctors from various entities such as the Red Cross emergencies
[00:16:32] and 112. They have spoken with these emergencies and they
[00:16:35] explain that many of those who arrive... present anxiety attacks and
[00:16:39] there are also others who are in a state of
[00:16:41] shock.
[00:16:45] here affected people are being transported by bus from the trains
[00:16:49] and we are also attending to relatives of the affected people
[00:16:52] who have traveled either to get information to see if
[00:16:56] they knew that their relatives were here. The patients
[00:16:59] are arriving nervous but quite
[00:17:03] contained at the moment, eh there is more blockage right now
[00:17:28] there have been protest concentrations against the Spanish executive due to the accident, the Falange and other groups have called the largest in front of the Ministry of
[00:17:32] Transport, there have been police charges that have dispersed
[00:17:35] the demonstrators.
[00:17:44] the Urda accident has completely turned the electoral campaign for October 29
[00:17:48] around. The PP has joined the condolences, but at the same time demands explanations for what is happening
[00:17:52] with high-speed rail and attacks the Spanish government. Most events
[00:17:55] have been suspended, Vox is the one that has broken this
[00:17:58] consensus.
[00:18:00] Spain has the right to know what is happening with its
[00:18:04] infrastructures, in what state they are. the
[00:18:08] tracks and safety systems and what
[00:18:11] warnings were received from Adamuz and what measures were
[00:18:15] adopted, Spaniards have the right to a
[00:18:18] complete, independent review of the entire railway
[00:18:21] network, it is now unavoidable and Spaniards
[00:18:25] have the right to an accountability for every euro, what
[00:18:29] was announced and what was actually executed, what
[00:18:32] was received and how it was spent,
[00:18:35] I guarantee that everything is
[00:18:40] At 8 p.m. there was the first institutional display of mourning with a minute
[00:18:44] of silence in different municipalities in Barcelona it was held in Plaça de Sant
[00:18:47] Jaume with the President of the Generalitat, the President of the Parliament and the Mayor
[00:18:51] of Barcelona, Salvador Illa has declared three days of mourning and the government's
[00:18:54] agenda is reduced to essential activity. In Lleida,
[00:18:58] the concentration was held in Plaça de la Paeria, presided over by Mayor
[00:19:01] Fèlix La Rosa accompanied by other politicians such as the Minister
[00:19:05] of Agriculture Óscar Ordeig. It is in the middle
[00:19:08] of the Sant Narcís fairs, but the city stopped at
[00:19:12] 8 p.m. in respectful silence for the Toledo
[00:19:15] accident. Mayor Llux Salellas and the councillors
[00:19:19] participated along with the councillor and spokesperson Silvia Penec.
[00:19:22] And in Tarragona, the scene was repeated in
[00:19:26] flags are already at half mast. The concentration was headed by
[00:19:30] Mayor Rubén Viñuales with councillors and members of all municipal
[00:19:33] groups. The president of the PP in Catalonia, Alejandro
[00:19:37] Fernández, was also there.
[00:19:42] We also add that the railway workers' union SEMF, which is the majority one, has decided
[00:19:46] to maintain the 24-hour strike called for this Thursday to
[00:19:49] demand more safety in the railway network. The strike will affect
[00:19:53] all services, including high-speed and long-distance services of
[00:19:56] Renfe. The government expects it to be a complicated day for mobility
[00:20:00] and has already called an extraordinary meeting of the operational
[00:20:03] coordination center first thing in the morning, there are established
[00:20:06] minimum services. of 73%, but it is expected that the strike will have
[00:20:11] accident. Sema warns that it is studying more
[00:20:14] actions.
[00:20:22] Let's now address other important issues of this Wednesday, the Mossos admit
[00:20:26] concern about the call for blockos for October 31,
[00:20:30] Castanyada night, after the serious riots last Saturday in
[00:20:33] Barcelona. Councillor Perlón says that they are prepared to
[00:20:37] give... the best response to what she describes as a new
[00:20:40] violence.
[00:20:43] The police and political leadership of the Mossos describe the blockos
[00:20:47] riots in Barcelona as a situation never seen in Catalonia. for the
[00:20:50] level of violence, for the large number of minors involved, the
[00:20:54] way they were virally recruited through networks to
[00:20:57] carry out acts, we are facing a very different
[00:21:01] phenomenon of
[00:21:04] eh juvenile, a totally anomalous behavior that is the
[00:21:07] first time it has occurred, despite the
[00:21:11] the police and the chief commissioner have defended the operation.
[00:21:15] four days before, it was being monitored on networks with the information available
[00:21:19] the call was assessed with a risk level of two out of three and
[00:21:22] 400 agents were deployed, the data dismantles
[00:21:25] this idea that has been tried to build according to which the Mossos
[00:21:29] were a bit on the sidelines,
[00:21:32] we recognize that no, eh, that
[00:21:35] they did not anticipate the degree of violence used
[00:21:38] by the participants, a justification that has not convinced
[00:21:42] Junts, which has demanded the resignation of the councillor, nor Esquerra, nor the
[00:21:46] PP, nor the far-right Vox that has taken advantage to criminalize
[00:21:50] foreign people, if it was so announced and so
[00:21:53] well known, why did it happen? This phenomenon being
[00:21:56] new cannot serve
[00:21:57] as an excuse
[00:22:03] 23. more moderate have been the Commons and the CUP
[00:22:07] who ask to have all the answers pointing out that there has been a political
[00:22:11] instrumentalization of the case. possible or
[00:22:15] possible interests in these moments in Spain there
[00:22:18] is chaos, who do they think is
[00:22:21] behind the organization of these acts. This is a
[00:22:24] mystery still without an answer from the police,
[00:22:28] who admit, however, concern about the next
[00:22:31] call for Blockos Barcelona for this coming Saturday. Although they have said
[00:22:35] that they will put all means to prevent
[00:22:42] surrendering to the police for having murdered his ex-partner in an apartment in the
[00:22:46] Nou Barris district of Barcelona. In the morning, Mossos and firefighters received
[00:22:50] a call. Upon arriving at the building, they found the lifeless body of the woman with obvious
[00:22:53] signs of violence. Hours later, the perpetrator of the acts allegedly
[00:22:57] confessed in a police station of the Madrid municipal police.
[00:23:00] The Mossos have opened an investigation and the TCJ indicates that there was no
[00:23:04] prior complaint, if it is confirmed as a femicide this
[00:23:08] year 44 women will have been murdered by their partner or
[00:23:11] ex-partner.
[00:23:21] And in international news, the protagonist is Flavio Bolsonaro, from the United States
[00:23:25] where he has fled from justice, he has declared himself the true elected president
[00:23:29] of Brazil, he says that from Miami, he will lead
[00:23:32] the opposition and Trump has avoided
[00:23:34] commenting. Until he landed, the details of a journey
[00:23:38] through politically friendly countries and full of rumors
[00:23:41] were not clarified. The plane, a private jet, is
[00:23:45] Argentine, the crew too. Flavio Bolsonaro
[00:23:49] took it after... crossing the land border between Brazil and Argentina
[00:23:52] accompanied by his wife and his two daughters,
[00:23:56] the only stop in Ecuador. He has
[00:23:59] traveled with an Italian passport because he has dual nationality and the Brazilian one was
[00:24:03] canceled for him. They passed customs control with a visa
[00:24:07] that the State Department has guaranteed them, but of which it has not yet given
[00:24:10] details.
[00:24:14] And from these details, the level of involvement and support of the
[00:24:18] White House will depend. Will he stay with a tourist visa as his father did
[00:24:22] under the Biden administration, will he be granted permanent
[00:24:25] residency as Trump did with his brother Eduardo Bolsonaro who already
[00:24:29] lives in the United States, or even more, will he ask for
[00:24:33] and be granted political asylum? Donald Trump has never wanted to burn all bridges
[00:24:37] with Lula de Silva, but he says he has no problem welcoming another
[00:24:40] Bolsonaro, with whom he has always compared himself in terms of alleged
[00:24:44] political-judicial
[00:24:45] persecution.
[00:24:58] Bolsonaro's arrival impacts here in the middle of the electoral campaign and the
[00:25:01] Democrats have already used it to accuse Donald Trump
[00:25:05] of harboring a fugitive from justice while denying political asylum
[00:25:09] to people fleeing conflicts such as
[00:25:20] offers you this space.
[00:27:47] For now, few changes regarding the situation, although this anticyclone
[00:27:51] is moving further and further north, acting as a barrier to
[00:27:54] disturbances, but yes, for the weekend we will have the
[00:27:57] possibility of these winds from the sea to land.
[00:28:01] For now, Thursday with... a little cooler towards inland areas,
[00:28:04] also a bit colder towards the Pyrenees, still maintaining
[00:28:08] mildness along the coast, during the early morning and first
[00:28:11] hour of the morning, some drops may escape, grazing the
[00:28:15] coastal facade between the south of the Costa Brava, central coast, the north wind,
[00:28:19] tramontana and mistral at both ends and fog, again, this high
[00:28:22] humidity, this fog towards points in central Catalonia,
[00:28:26] north of the central plateau, fog that breaks up as the hours pass,
[00:28:29] towards the afternoon we will have these bands. of high and thin clouds that
[00:28:33] make the sky cloudier and the low clouds will be able to spread
[00:28:37] further along the coastal facade, all this with temperatures that will drop
[00:28:41] a little more, a couple of degrees, not everywhere the same, but yes, little by little
[00:28:45] this temperature would be normalizing for the season, still this
[00:28:50] the Ebro, some maximums can reach 24 or
[00:28:53] 25 degrees, sun towards Valencia and instead more clouds towards
[00:28:57] the Balearic Islands still with this north wind between the Gulf of Lyon and the north of Mallorca and
[00:29:01] temperatures here also a... little lower, little by little with this
[00:29:04] normalization of the thermometer, high temperatures towards the
[00:29:08] south of the peninsula, maximum in Seville of 30 degrees, still some showers towards
[00:29:12] the area of Greece, but also the instability is low and
[00:29:15] the anticyclone continues to bring stable weather towards the
[00:29:19] center of the European continent for the coming days, Friday
[00:29:23] we would maintain a bit the same weather dynamics, but yes, towards the weekend
[00:29:26] we will have to be attentive to these precipitations that in principle would affect
[00:29:30] especially Valencia and the Balearic Islands.
[00:29:32] these moist winds from sea to land, but what we will also have
[00:29:36] here at home is this drop in temperature, you see that temperatures
[00:29:40] will even be a little below what would be normal for
[00:29:43] the season this Chestnut Festival weekend.
[00:30:24] The accident of two high- speed trains in Toledo leaves at least
[00:30:28] 68 dead and about 180 injured, some very serious.
[00:30:32] The search teams will continue working in the coming hours. The Spanish
[00:30:36] government has decreed three days of mourning from this morning.
[00:30:40] The accident has occurred in the middle of the pre-campaign.
[00:30:44] And we will get to the bottom of it. And if there have been negligences, it
[00:30:48] will be known. And if there have been failures in the security
[00:30:51] system, they will be responded to with total
[00:30:54] forcefulness. An immediate governmental
[00:30:57] investigation is essential.