China Media Group (CMG), the nation's flagship broadcaster, will broadcast the grand gathering marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War in 85 languages.
The grand gathering, which will include a military parade, is scheduled for Sept. 3 in Tian'anmen Square in Beijing.
The CMG has added three new languages, namely Irish, Pidgin and Kinyarwanda, to better showcase the event globally and demonstrate its position as a world-class new mainstream media organization.
Irish covers Ireland, Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom and some countries or regions in North America, with about 7.2 million people speaking this language. Pidgin covers Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and other countries, with a total of more than 10 million Pidgin speakers worldwide. Kinyarwanda users mainly live in countries including Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with more than 13 million speakers worldwide.
The more comprehensive broadcast language will further enhance the coverage of CMG in western Europe, the South Pacific, and central and eastern Africa.
Meanwhile, China Global Television Network (CGTN), the international division of CMG, has launched a series of in-depth documentaries, feature programs, reports and commentaries highlighting the great spirit of resistance under the leadership of the Communist Party of China in the run-up to the commemorative events.
Productions include the feature film "The Unsung Ally," the report series "The Main Eastern Battlefield," the video series "Songs of Resilience" and "Side by Side," as well as long-form essays and commentary videos. These works have resonated strongly with audiences overseas.
At present, CGTN has more than 700 million television users and 600 million new media followers globally, and has established cooperative partnerships with over 4,700 mainstream media outlets worldwide.
CMG to broadcast China's V-Day parade in 85 languages
CMG to broadcast China's V-Day parade in 85 languages
Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday strongly condemned recent U.S. military actions targeting civilian infrastructure across several Iranian provinces, labeling the attacks a flagrant violation of international law and a "war crime."
According to a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday, the U.S. attacked several civilian areas and service infrastructure on Tuesday night, including telecommunications towers and sites in the provinces of Khuzestan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Hormozgan, and Kerman.
The statement highlighted that an attack on a wedding celebration in Kuhestak, located in Sirik County, Hormozgan Province, left more than 70 people killed or wounded, the majority being women and children.
The ministry described these actions as a "flagrant violation of the fundamental principles of international law" and international humanitarian law.
In response to the aggression, the statement said that the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, pursuant to their inherent right of self-defense under the UN Charter, launched "defensive and devastating strikes against U.S. military bases that had served as the launching points for and provided support to the U.S. military aggression against Iran."
Iran urged countries in the region to deny American aggressors the use of their facilities, territory, and airspace to carry out acts of aggression, and urged the UN Security Council and the UN Secretary-General to fulfill their duties to prevent further escalation of the situation.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei explicitly labeled the strike on the wedding a "war crime."
"The truth of this unlawful war of choice - and the true face of the war crime - is in Sirik, where a wedding ceremony was brutally bombed as part of America's desperate struggle to conceal its failure, not in AI-generated videos portraying American officials as triumphant heroes," Baghaei wrote on social media X.
Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Wednesday that Iran would only take action to reopen the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. fulfills its relevant commitments.
During a meeting with officials from the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Ghalibaf noted that Iran does not rule out negotiations but views them as a tool of struggle.
He revealed that during discussions on the first article of a proposed Iran-U.S. memorandum of understanding, Iran demanded an end to the war against Iran and its "axis of resistance" allies. In contrast, the initial 15-point text proposed by the U.S. demanded that Iran completely halt its missile, nuclear, and "resistance" activities.
Ghalibaf emphasized that Iran and the "axis of resistance" will continue to oppose the United States and Israel.
Iran condemns US strikes on civilian Infrastructure as "war crime", vows defensive response
