- Welcome folks, to thisedition of The 700 Club.
An explosive weekend in the Middle East:
Hamas missiles blasted out of the sky;
Iran's killer dronesdemolished on the ground;
and Benjamin Netanyahu warns, quote,
"If you come to kill us,we'll kill you first."
Chris Mitchell has more.
(people yelling)(shots popping)
- [Chris] This is the moment Israelis
enjoying a summer concertnear the Gaza border
came under attack.
You can see them running for cover.
The Iron Dome missile defense system
shot down two of the three missiles.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Chris] Meanwhile, inSyria, surveillance video
of an Iranian squad north of Damascus
with a Killer Drone, preparingto attack Northern Israel.
The IDF says it eliminated the threat
before the Iranians evergot a chance to strike.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Translator] If someoneis coming to kill you,
hurry and kill him.
In a complex effort bythe defense establishment,
we have uncovered that Iran's Quds Force
sent a special unit ofShiite activists to Syria
to kill Israelis in theGolan via explosives.
I want to emphasize: Thisis Iran's initiative.
It is Iran's command andit is an Iranian mission.
- Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu said
Israel would not tolerate Iranian targets
from any country in the region.
Last week, US officials confirmed
that Israel has now attackedIranian targets inside Iraq.
- That's upping the anteby taking this issue over
to Iraqi soil itself;it's very significant.
But it's not part of a new war,
it's part of a war that'sbeen underway for a while,
and is now widening in its dimension.
- [Chris] Middle East expertJonathan Spyer explains
why Israel is taking thisfight against Iran into Iraq.
- There's been a very deeply felt concern
in the Israeli securityestablishment in recent months
at the prospect of the Iranians
placing short-range ballistic missiles
in the hands of theirIraqi Shia militia clients
who would then deploy thosemissiles in western Iraq
and thus have Israel withinrange of those missiles
for the first time.
- [Chris] Adding to the region's tension,
Hassan Nasrallah, the leaderof Hezbollah in Lebanon,
vowed to retaliate againstIsrael's airstrikes in Syria
and an Israeli drone attack
against Hezbollah'sstronghold inside Beirut.
Another signal of the threats Israel faces
from all of its borders and beyond.
Chris Mitchell, CBN News, Jerusalem.
- Thanks, Chris.
In other news, President Trump says
China is ready to make a deal,
but that's not what the Chinese say.
John Jessup has more on that.
- Thanks, Pat.
Fears of a global economic downturn
were the backdrop for the G7Summit this weekend in France,
but the conversation turned
when an Iranian leaderappeared on the scene.
President Trump says he approved
of France's invitation of Iran,
and he ended the summitwith encouraging news
on the ongoing trade war with China,
but the Chinese, though, aretelling a different story.
Amber Strong reports.
- The immediate future of global economies
hangs in the balance,
but President Trump sayshe's feeling optimistic,
telling reporters that theChinese have reached out to him
hoping to resume negotiations.
- China called last nightour top trade people
and said, "Let's get back to the table."
So we'll be getting back to the table.
- [Amber] A Chinese ForeignMinistry spokesperson
says they have no knowledge of the talks.
This after the presidentseemed to express regret
over reinstating tariffson Chinese goods Friday.
- [Reporter] Mr. President,any second thoughts
on escalating the trade war with China?
- Yeah, sure, why not?
- [Reporter] Second thoughts, yes?
- Might as well, might as well.
- [Amber] Administration officials
quickly correcting the record,
saying the president didn'tquite hear the question.
- Again, he doesn't have second thoughts
about what he's done.
If anything, he wanted to clarifyif he had second thoughts,
it would be to raise the tariff.
- [Amber] Friday, theDow dropped 600 points;
Asian markets took atumble Monday morning,
a reaction to tit-for-tattariffs from the US and China.
In a tweet last week, thepresident hereby ordering
American countries to lookfor an alternative to China.
- He would have the authorityto do that under IEEPA
if he declared an emergency.
He has not done that.
I think what he was saying
is he's ordering companiesto start looking.
- [Amber] His Democratic challengers say
the president's tactics andtweets create global chaos.
- You keep your promisesand you keep your threats
and what he does is he makesthese blustering threats
like kicking all of ourcompanies out of China
that people don't think, really,
he's gonna follow through on.
- [Amber] But trade wasn't the only thing
on the minds of world leaders.
The summit was met with a surprise visit
from Iranian official, Mohammad Zarif.
Zarif was a guest of FrenchPresident Emmanuel Macron.
Macron taking up themantle of piecing together
the now-shattered Iraniannuclear agreement.
President Trump was not in that meeting,
but told reporters Monday hesigned off on the discussions.
- He asked me.
I said if you want todo that, that's okay.
I don't consider thatdisrespectful at all.
- When it comes to trade,the Trump administration says
it will go forward withthose $300 billion of tariffs
set to kick in September 1st,
but will continue theirtalks with the Chinese
throughout the week.
Amber Strong, CBN News, Washington.
- Thank you, Amber.
Police fired water cannons and tear gas
into the massive crowds in Hong Kong,
and also, for the firsttime, used their guns.
(gunshots popping)(crowd yelling)
Police fired a warningshot as the confrontation
started to get out of control.
It's the first time they'veused live ammunition
in the 10-weeks of protests.
This weekend, the violence ramped up.
Police were out in force,using water cannons
and launching tear gas tokeep protestors at bay.
Nearby, just across the border,
Chinese troops, some dressedas civilians in handcuffs,
apparently were getting ready to move in
if Hong Kong police lost control.
Today, leaders on bothsides are calling for calm.
Well, the human suffering inVenezuela is growing worse
as new pressure is put on thepresident, Nicolas Maduro,
to cede power.
Meanwhile, the dictator'ssocialist policies
are affecting people inways no one imagined,
and the country that's bearing the burden
is neighboring Colombia.
Chuck Holton has the storyfrom the border town of Cucuta.
- [Chuck] When Karelys Herrerafound out she was pregnant,
she thought her life was over.
Village life here makes it hard enough
to provide for herself withthe constant shortages,
much less a baby.
To make matters worse, she was only 14.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Translator] When I foundout that I was pregnant,
I wanted to kill myself.
I said I was too young to havea baby and I couldn't do it.
- Many of Karelys' friendsfaced the same plight
and with no health care options here,
they've crossed the border tohave their babies in Colombia.
So I'm in the public hospital in Cucuta
and this place is very busy because,
since there are nohospitals that have any way
to care for people in Venezuela,
the hospitals here are just overwhelmed
with people coming in witheverything from pregnancy
to terrible gunshot woundsand all sorts of things.
And the hospital here hasspent millions of dollars
caring for these people.
We're gonna go meet some of the mothers
that are having their babies here.
More than 25,000 Venezuelans
who have settled in Colombiasince 2015 have had babies.
This presented a problem as those children
were essentially stateless persons.
Earlier this month, theColombian government
decided to grant citizenshipto these children,
so that they'll be able to go to school
and access civil services.
- They were caught in a limbo,
and with this measure, thegovernment of Colombia is saying
that children's rightsare above other interests
and that children will beafforded citizenship rights,
a right to education, to health care,
and the protection thestate can give them.
- So I am here at thepublic hospital in Cucuta.
All of the women that are waiting here,
and they're all very closeto delivering their babies.
So this is Alexandra.
She's telling me she's 29years old; she's not pregnant.
She's here because herdaughter is pregnant
and her daughter is only 13 years old.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Translator] By the end ofthe year of the registrations
already done since 2015,we could be easily talking
about 30,000 nationalizedas Colombians this year.
- [Chuck] Since the USis increasing sanctions
against Nicolas Maduro and his supporters
in an effort to finally bring
some lasting improvement to this country,
that only means thatconditions inside Venezuela
will likely continue todeteriorate in the short-term.
But for these little ones,Colombia's compassion
means their future justgot a little bit brighter.
From Cucuta, Colombia, I'mChuck Holton for CBN News.
- Thanks, Chuck; Pat, back to you.
- We congratulate the people of Colombia.
Colombia's a wonderful country.
We've done a great deal ofthings in Colombia over the years
and have a warm feelingin our heart toward 'em.
Maduro has got to go.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's again,
the OAS should act andget rid of that man.
He is just destroying the fabric
of that once-prosperous nation,
and it's like a cancer, you know?
And it's a spreading type of thing.
It gets worse and worse and worse,
and now these littlechildren have got to suffer
and thank goodness the Colombian people
are moving to do something about it.
But that's just one phaseof the awful, awful torment
that Maduro has directed upon his nation
and I don't know, well, anyhow,
I would want to takeforce and get rid of him
because the Cubans, theChinese, the Russians
are all propping him up.
But he is an incompetentthug who needs to go.
Well, have you heard someof the terrible weather
that's been going on the last few weeks,
but there was a bad thing down in Atlanta,
and John has more about that.
- That is right, Pat.
Back here at home, a terrifyingmoment at a PGA event
in Atlanta this weekend.
As spectators soughtcover during a rain delay,
lightning struck the course.
Take a look.
(thunder cracking)
The strike hit a 60-foottree during the third round
of the tour championship Saturday.
Flying debris injured six people.
Some were taken to thehospital for treatment,
but all are expected to be okay.
A tropical storm movinginto the Caribbean Sea
is on target for parts of Puerto Rico,
the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
Dorian is expected toreach hurricane strength
in the coming days,
passing over the westernhalf of Puerto Rico
and dropping back down to tropical storm
before slamming into theisland of Hispaniola.
Forecasters say it's too early to tell
if the storm will staytogether long enough
to affect the Bahamasor, Pat, the US Coast.
- Well this is the beginningof the hurricane season
and areas have been spared,but it's one of those things
that's just, they build up.
You know, the heatbuilds up in the tropics
and this is the way the planet has
of releasing that tremendous heat,
and, well, anybody whobuilds along the coast
just has to recognizehurricanes are a fact of life,
and through the grace of the Lord
we have been spared in this area.
- When you live on an islandand that's coming towards you,
it's merciless.
- It's just devastating what happened,
and Puerto Rico justcan't afford another one.
It's just, the last time,there was such tragedy
and, well, we'll see what happens,
but we'll certainly pray for them.
