- [Announcer] This is CBN Newswatch.
- And thank you so much for joining us.
I'm Efrem Graham.
President Trump along with the leaders
of Mexico and Canada have signed
a new landmark trade deal.
It's one the President calls
the most significant, modernand balanced trade agreement
in history.
- In short, this is a model agreement
that changes the trade landscape forever,
and this is an agreementthat, first and foremost,
benefits working people,
something of greatimportance to all three of us
here today.
- [Efrem] The new deal is called
the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
It replaces NAFTA, the NorthAmerican Free Trade Agreement.
President Trump, MexicanPresident, Pena Nieto,
and Canadian PrimeMinister, Justin Trudeau,
signed the pact before the start
of the G20 Summit in Argentina.
The signing was most ceremonial
because the agreementstill needs to be ratified
by legislatures in all three countries
before it can formally take effect.
Our Chief InternationalCorrespondent, Gary Lane,
is following this story for us today.
So Gary, what is in the deal?
- Well, it's, what's still in the deal
is probably about 80 to 90% of NAFTA,
but the President got somethings he really wanted.
Things that he felt would benefit
primarily autoworkers and dairy farmers.
Let's first look at Mexico.
75% of the cars
that will be sold in theUnited States and North America
must the parts, I'm sorry,
the parts for those carsmust be manufactured
in North America.
For the autoworkers, in addition to that,
40 to 45% of the cars
actually have to be made by autoworkers
who make $16 an hour or more.
And as you know it, froma lot of those jobs,
when they left North America,
went down to Mexico and elsewhere,
Mexico, for example,
a lot of those jobs, autoworkers,are only making $3 an hour
at the maximum in Mexico.
So this is a benefit to theworkers here in America.
In addition to that, with Canada,
it benefited dairy farmers
with opening up the Canadian market
to more of our dairy products.
The tariffs have been reduced.
The tariff for milk was 240%.
That's been reduced now,
and also for butter, was 290% tariff
on American butter going into Canada,
so this is a benefit toautoworkers primarily
and also to our dairy farmers.
- Refresh our memory.
Why did the Presidentwant to do away with NAFTA
as it was?- Well, he said
that NAFTA, if you remember in 2016,
when he was campaigning,he said it's the worst deal
the United States hasever entered, trade deal,
and the reason for that,he said it benefited
Mexico and Canada at thedetriment of people in America,
primarily our workers here,
so he wanted to do away with that.
It looks like it was moreamended than actually,
even though it's called a new agreement.
It was more amended.
- Okay, we've got about 30 seconds.
What happens next?
- Well, what happens next is
this will go before thelegislatures in Canada,
in the United States and in Mexico.
It's an uphill battle because of LGBQT
legislation and theprovisions that are in it.
Those provisions wouldbetter protect those people
in the workplace
and many conservatives inthe US Congress are saying,
no, we don't need those protections
because these people are already protected
by US Civil Rights law.
So we'll see what happens there.
But it's an uphill battle.
- Yeah, we'll be following--
- And you've got Democratscontrolling the House
when this comes before them.- Starting January.
You got it.- Yes.
- All right, Gary, thank you so much.
Officials have issued a tsunami warning
for coastal areas of southern Alaska
after 7.0 magnitudequake struck the region.
The US Geological Survey reports
at least four aftershocksfollowing the first quake.
The largest registering 5.8
was located in the city of Anchorage.
The National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration
is urging residents tostay away from the beach,
warning tsunamis can travelhundreds of miles per hour
so you can't escape if you're close enough
to see this one.
Marriott's Starwood Hotel's database
has been exposed in what could be
the largest data breech on record.
The company said Friday,credit card numbers
and expiration dates for as many
as 500 million guests have been taken.
Marriott said it discoveredthe unauthorized access
to data within its Starwood network
has been taking place since 2014.
Email notifications tothose who've been affected
are being sent right now.
A CNN commentator is under fire
for appearing to call forthe destruction of Israel.
Marc Lamont Hill spoke Wednesday
at the United Nations International Day
of solidarity with his Palestinian people.
He seemed to endorseviolence against Israel,
while speaking to the UN committee
on Palestinian rights.
He used the same phrase that is used
by the terror group Hamas,
"From the river to the sea."
- But to commit to political action,
grass roots action, local action
and international action
that will give us what justice requires
and that is a free Palestine,from the river to the sea.
- From the river to the sea is understood
to mean the eliminationof the state of Israel
from the Jordan River tothe Mediterranean Sea,
but Hill, under fire for making the remark
tweeted later, he meant, "theremust be spaces of freedom,
safety and peace for Palestinians."
Phil Klein with the Washington Examiner
raised national awareness about the story
when he wrote about it.
He joins us now.
- So Phil, CNN basically fired Hill
a day after he made the comments.
Do we know if it wasbecause of the backlash
or do you think CNN wouldhave fired him anyway?
- I think and the timing suggests
it's clearly a result of the backlash.
Their statement was rather terse,
just sort of saying that hewas no longer under contract,
but clearly they were
under a lot of pressure after his remarks,
which in effect are a genocidal position,
because not only did he callfor the elimination of Israel,
even though he denies it,
that's the clear, obviousimplication of saying that
you're gonna create a Palestinian state
in between the Jordan Riverand the Mediterranean Sea
where Israel is located.
In addition, he endorsedviolent resistance
against the Jews.
And at the same time,
this is not an isolated incident.
For years, he's been involved
in antisemitic controversies.
He's been, he's praised Louis Farrakhan.
He once criticizedPresident Trump for saying
that Palestinians shouldrenounce terrorism.
He called that an offensive position.
So, none of these are really inconsistent
with his longstanding beliefs,
and certainly, on Twitter,he never backed down
from his beliefs.
- Now, when you wrote aboutthis piece about his comments,
where you surprised that much of the other
media outlets hadn'tgiven any attention to it?
- Yeah, it is surprising to me
and frankly disturbing
because this is, again,has been for decades
the rallying cry of Hamas
which seeks in itscharter to destroy Israel,
to wipe it off the map.
I mean, it goes backeven earlier than that
to efforts initially beforeIsrael was even established
to annihilate the Jews from the region
and failed to recognizeand accept any Jewish
presence in the region.
So it was surprising andwhat's been more alarming
has been that we'veseen in the wake of it,
a lot of people on the Left
are starting to come to his defense
and including an incomingDemocratic Congresswoman,
Kaleed Rasheed, who had said,
who had even tweeted out a petition
of blaming the Jewish establishment
for his ouster and calling on
CNN to rehire him.
So I think that after this,
the Democrats have a lotto be held accountable for
in terms of the sweepingrise of antisemitism
within the Democratic Party.
- Marc Lamont Hill has a PhD.
He's a university professorat Temple University.
Do you think he didn't realize
the statement from the river to the sea
is a terrorist rallying cry
calling for the annihilation of Israel?
- I mean, I think it'spretty difficult to,
I mean, you don't pullthat out of thin air.
Not to mention there's a quite literal.
I mean, again, it's from Jordan River
to the Mediterranean Sea
has a quite literal meaning.
This isn't sort of,some vague dog whistle.
It quite literally means
taking a Palestinian state and plopping it
on top of what currently is Israel.
- All right, Philip Kleinof the Washington Examiner.
Thank you so much for your reporting.
- Thank you.
- With tensions in Israel rising,
the Jewish community all over the world
is aiming to bringawareness to their culture
as they celebrate Hanukkah.
In recent decade, Jewsare pushing to celebrate
the holiday more publiclywith thousands of public
menorah lightings andevents around the world.
Hanukkah begins Sunday evening
when the first candleof the menorah is lit
to recognize the rededicationof the Jewish Temple
in Jerusalem in 165 BC.
Rabbi Aaron Margolin is here now
to talk with us aboutthe message of Hanukkah.
So, Rabbi, what is the message of Hanukkah
and how is it still relevant today?
- Okay, that's a great question
because any holiday you can come up with
a bunch of different waysto get relevance out of it
but traditionally, andthis has been this way
for close to 2,300 years,
that we celebrate Hanukkahwith kindling lights,
and that was to remember a miracle
that happened with the oil.
Now, the people who were oppressing
the children of Israel who lived
in Israel at the time,
they were worshiping in the Holy Temple.
They did their worship theway they were suppose to
and the Greek-Syrianscame in and said, no,
you have to change the way you do it.
Having or making the long story short
is they came into the temple,
they occupied it
and they didn't takeaway the gold and silver
that was in the temple,
the vessels, the implements,and all the different things.
What they did was theywent into the kitchen
and looked for sealed bottles of oil.
They went to look for the seal Tylenol
and they opened all the jars.
What's that about?- Real quick.
- Excuse me?
- Real quick, I wanna ask this question
because we're just about of time.
With so much conflict surrounding Israel,
how can Jews and Christians come together
during this holiday season?
- Well, the message of light is universal.
It goes very fast and it goes
from one place to another, illuminating.
When you will light onecandle from another,
the first candle doesn't lose anything,
but you're adding light into the world,
lighting all the differentHanukkah menorahs in the world.
You see this book that was published
in 1987 about all thedifferent Hanukkah menorahs
at the time in the world
and we, in Virginia Beach, got the cover
if you can recognize that.
- I love it.
Indeed.- It's very important
that we remember that light spreads
and it's contagious in a good way
and we can bring peace, happiness
and spiritual wellness.
- Absolutely.
- To anybody who's interested.
- Thank you so much.
Continue to do yourwork to light the world.
Much appreciated.
- Thank you.
- A trouble trend for the church in China.
Senior InternationalCorrespondent, George Thomas,
visited China this week.
He reports growing opposite on the gospel
and anti-Church activity thathasn't been seen in decades.
Even though China isofficially a Communist nation,
it has seen dramatic Churchgrowth in recent decades.
Now the State is beginning to push back.
- What we have seen, Heather,in the last four years
has been an aggressive campaignby the Chinese government
to go after people of all faiths,
not just Christianity.
Muslims, Buddhists, in essence,
they have, just in the last 24 months,
they have released what'scalled a white paper,
in essence, giving Chinese citizens
the sort of blueprint ofhow they can and cannot
practice their faith as it relates
to the rules and regulations of the State.
- George Thomas talking with Heather Sells
and you can get the full interview
if you watch ChristianWorld News tonight at 6:30
on the CBN Newschannel.
One woman's testimony goes viral
and abortion activists don't like it.
Coming up, hear the redemptive story
of what happened after she learned
she was pregnant with her rapist's child.
Stay with us.
In the ongoing debate over abortion,
we often hear talk about exceptions
in the case of rape or incest.
Jennifer Christie facedthat emotional decision
after undergoing a brutal beating and rape
four years ago in a hotel room.
She then made national headlines
when speaking out abouther choice to give birth
and raise the childconceived during the attack.
Unfortunately, Christie isnow being harassed online
for that courageous decision.
Charlene Aaron will bring us this story.
- In 2014, what wassupposed to be a routine
business trip for Jennifer Christie
turned into a nightmare.
- The last day of this assignment
there was a snowstormand work let out early
and I went back to my hotel
and this was not a place
that got a lot of bad weather,
and so it was kind of a ghost town
and I head back up to my room
and I had my hood up and myscarf wrapped around my face
so I wasn't really paying attention
to anything that was around me
and I didn't know thatI was being followed
and so I get to my roomand I open the door
and I kind of throweverything on the floor
and I turn around to shut the door
and there was a man in my doorway.
- [Charlene] The man pushedhis way into Christie's room,
hit her over the headand violently raped her.
She passed out in the struggle,
suffering a brain bleed, broken bones
and serious internal injuries.
When Christie regained consciousness,
she was no longer in her hotel room.
Her rapist has left her for dead.
- I was in the back of the hotel
in a stairwell outsidethat led to the dumpsters.
I was wearing scrap of clothing.
- [Charlene] Six weeks later,
Christie learned she waspregnant with her rapist's child.
- They gave me the little stick test first
and it was an interesting dichotomy
of feeling completely shockedand also not shocked at all.
- [Charlene] Christie whoalready had four children
recounted the touching momentshe told her husband the news.
- And he just said,"Sweetheart, "this is a gift.
"This is something beautiful
"from something terribleand painful for us."
He said, "This is gonna be awesome.
"We love babies."
And I said yeah, we lovebabies, so we can do this.
My son is a reminder
that love is already stronger than hate.
- [Charlene] Since the attack,
Christie, a pro-life advocate,
has been sharing her painfulbut redemptive story.
Earlier this year, afterthis video of her testimony
went viral, she beganreceiving threatening messages
from abortion activists.
Someone even sent a videoto her Facebook account,
depicting a woman being raped.
- The other side just finds it abhorrent
that I am, you know, quote and quote
forcing women to carry a rapist's spawn
and you know, don't I understand
that this is something that'sgonna be a horrible reminder?
- [Charlene] KristinHawkins of Students for Life
says she is not surprised.
- We had a case just a couple years ago
where university staffmember, Purdue University,
started cyber bullying ourStudents for Life group
and then threatened in online comments
to rape pro-life women.
- [Charlene] Meanwhile,Christie says her son
is a beautiful reminder
that good can come from evil.
- He's just a wonderful kid
and he's been such a light.
He's been such a joy in our family.
- [Charlene] Looking back,she says God has been with her
every step of her journey.
- God is in all of this
and it's a story of beauty for ashes
and hope and healing and grace
and I'm so grateful foreverything that has happened.
- [Charlene] Charlene Aaron, CBN News.
- And Charlene joins us nowwith more on this story.
- Charlene, what an amazing testimony.
Why do you think this story
bothers abortion activists so much?
- Absolutely amazing story, Efrem.
The fact that this woman would choose life
in the midst of something so horrific,
I mean, to be brutally raped and beaten,
and yet she chooses life.
It really flies in the face
of everything that thepro-choice movement stands for.
You hear all the time
that what if a woman is raped?
They encourage abortion in such cases.
When in fact, the majorityof women who are raped
absolutely choose life
and they are absolutely hating
that message that a woman can choose
to keep her baby in the midstof something so horrific.
It just goes againsteverything they stand for.
- Nice to see
that a woman does have the right to choose
and she did choose life.
Thank you, Charlene.
- Absolutely.
- Stay with us, coming right back.
A Christian couple wins a major victory
in a battle of a nativity scene
and a woman receives a life saving gift
from a hockey game.
Our Jessica Shako and Dan Andros
bring us this week's look
at Trending Stories from faithwire.com.
- Well, it's the classicsymbol of the Christmas season,
but in recent years, the rightto display a nativity scene
has come under attack.
This was the case for one couple
who have been in a four-year legal battle,
defending their right
to display a live nativityon their own property.
Dan, what can you tellus about this story?
- Yeah well, Jeremy and Christie Morris
of Hayden, Idaho.
They have been very festive
with their lights in theirnativity scene over the years
and when they moved toa new home back in 2015,
they planned to continue their celebration
as they do every year.
They consider it a ministry in their view
and so, this is somethingvery important to them
that they do at Christmas time.
They were very upfront withthe Homeowners Association
and typically what happensin these situations is
it's a violation of homeowners rules,
association rules, and that's why
they end up having to take the lights down
but they went to extra lengths
to make sure that theyweren't violating any rules.
They knew a lot of peoplewould come see the lights
so they arranged for extra parking.
They did all those sorts of things
but they really had a concernwhen they received a letter
from the Homeowners Association.
Really a couple of things in that letter
actually jumped off the screen to them.
I wanted to read it word for word.
It said, "I'm somewhat hesitant
"in bringing up the factthat some of our residents
"are non-Christians, or of another faith,
"or of no faith and Idon't wanna even think
"of the problems that could bring up."
And so that was kind of a head scratcher.
Another neighbor actuallywent to a Homeowners,
the Chair of the Homeowners Association
and asked them why they were doing this
and the person allegedly responded,
"Because we don't want them here."
So it ended up being thislong, protracted battle
and they won $75,000
'cause it was viewed as areligious discrimination case,
not a violation of theHomeowners Association Rules.
- Wow, Dan, that's a powerful story,
and we're glad to hear that they were able
to go ahead and have successin that legal battle.
Well, next up, a hockeygame saves a woman's life.
31-year-old Kelly Sowatsky
was diagnosed with septicemia,
leaving her in desperateneed of a kidney transplant
and a kidney donor.
Dan, we hear she got a little help
or maybe a lot of help fromthe Pittsburgh Penguins.
- Yeah, this is pretty cool
'cause she was getting desperate, really.
She was on this donor listafter she was diagnosed
and the years just kept going by
and she was like, whenis this gonna happen?
So she decided to takematters into her own hands.
As a Pittsburgh Penguins fan, hockey fan,
she went to the game and she had a sign
and the sign read,Calling All Hockey Fans,
I need a kidney, I need a kidney,
and she put her number on there.
Well, that got the attentionof the social media team
for the Penguins,
and they tweeted out a photoof her holding the sign.
Well, it went viral and she just said
the phone calls and thetexts and everything
just started coming in off the hook
and she couldn't stop it
and one fan saw it and he realized
that he was actually a match with her
and his name was Jeff Lind
and so they connected,the match was confirmed,
and they ended up going through with it
just a couple weeks ago andshe has a new kidney now
from Jeff and everything's doing great
and she says that heliterally saved her life
and she credited the Penguins as well
for getting the word out there.
- Thanks, Dan.
Well, for more stories like these,
visit faithwire.com.
Back to you.
- Everyone's favoritefixer-upper Joanna Gaines
is taking her talents from designing homes
to designing clothes.
The HGTV star is about tolaunch her second collection
with Matilda Jane Clothing.
The line will features items
for women, tweens, girls andeven baby boys as you know,
she just added a new son to their family
earlier this month.
Gaines also launched a new book
and announced her family'sreturn to television.
The new clothing line isset to launch December 1st,
tomorrow.
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