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- Hello everyone.

Thank you so much for joiningus for "CBN Newswatch."

I'm George Thomas.

We begin overseas where thegovernment of Iran is facing

widespread protests from its own people,

and it is cracking down in return.

So far the U.S. has clearlystood with the protesters,

but they have stopped shortof calling for regime change.

My colleague Heather Sells is covering

the latest developments there, Heather.

- George, over the weekend,Iranians took to the streets

in more than 100 cities.

You may remember over a year ago,

the U.S. renewed U.S.sanctions against Iran

after pulling out of the nuclear deal,

and the country has been struggling

economically since that time.

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Iranians have heldeconomic protests before

in 2017 and 2018, but this time,

they're in at least 116 cities.

In some cases, the protestshave turned violent

with demonstrators setting fires.

There have also been reports of gunfire.

At least three people have died.

What sparked the outrage this time?

The government's hikingof gas prices, up by 50%.

In response to the protests,

the government shut downInternet access over the weekend

to the country's 80 million people.

Iran's supreme leader is backingthe government's gas hike

and signaled a potentialcrackdown on the protesters,

calling them thugs.

Meanwhile, the U.S. isbacking the protesters.

- These developmentsthat you see right now

are their own peopletelling them we need change

and to sit down withthe American government

and let's negotiate this soit's to the benefit of all.

- [Heather] But AmbassadorRakolta made clear

the U.S. is not calling on the protesters

to overturn the government.

- We're not advocating regime-change.

We're gonna let the Iranianpeople decide for themselves

their future, but theirfuture is to be part

of the world community.

- George, that official deathtoll number of three people

comes from Iranian authorities.

The semi-official Fars NewsAgency says there have been

at least 87,000 protesters so far,

and that authorities havearrested some 1,000 people.

- Yeah, those numberscan always be dubious

when it's coming from the Iranian regime.

Heather, thank you so much

for the latest developments there.

Mike Ansari, he runs oneof the largest Christian

satellite channels that'sbeaming gospel programs

into Iran 24 hours a day.

Mike, great to have you back on the show.

Listen, it's been more than two days now.

The government has shutthe Internet service.

Are you worried thatthis could be a threat

to the safety and well-being of Iranians?

- Absolutely, much like theWest, the Iranian infrastructure

is based on telecommunications.

Internet is a major part of that,

so Iranians arecommunicating with each other

through governmentalagencies and also through

companies that otherwiseare using Internet,

so it is a major blow to the

communication mechanism in Iran.

- [George] In fact, thehigh-ranking U.S. ambassador said

that the U.S. has the abilityto turn the Internet back on.

I'm curious, what are youhearing from your sources

inside the country right now?

What's the mood?

- We had several people callus within the last few days.

They are telling us that effectively,

Iran has shut down allthe Internet and access

for people to communicate with each other

and with people outside.

They want to keep it hushed,

and they want it closed and contained.

We had a call from a ladynamed Parisa who lives in Iran,

and she mentioned, shesaid that they're feeling

the solution that hopeless,

and we also had a call from a gentleman

who's a Muslim backgroundconvert to Christianity,

and he's asking, he'ssaying what is our role?

Do we go and join the peopleoutside in demonstrations

as new Christians, or do westay inside and pray for Iran?

It seems that there isdiscontent, there is anger,

there is frustrationwith the Iranian leaders

and the economic elites.

- I'm curious, as you know Mike,

protests have broken out inmore than 100 cities and towns.

How do you compare thislatest demonstrations

to previous ones, for example?

- It's very, very similar.

Back in 2017, we realized that there was

a huge uprising across Iran.

Protests to Mr. Rouhani, the president,

and they were economically-based.

People were not happy withthe economic decisions

that the leadership ofIran was making for Iran.

They were chanting thesame slogans back then

that they're chanting this time,

and that is basically whocares about Lebanon, Syria,

Yemen when our own peoplein Iran are going hungry?

So the slogans are thesame as two years ago.

It is basically a domino effect.

It is a reiteration ofthe same line of anger

and frustration todayas we saw back in 2017.

- And Mike, to that very point,

they're supposed to bedemonstrating and protesting

against petrol, gasoline prices going up,

but in many instances as you mentioned,

they are actually chantingagainst the regime,

specifically the supreme leader, right,

and in fast burning picturesof him and so forth.

- Absolutely, thesupreme leader came on TV

just a couple days ago andcalled his own Iranian citizens

that are dissatisfied withthis situation hooligans.

That is a huge insult tothe Iranian population

that are trying to survive.

They're realizing thattheir wealth, their money

is going into exportation ofShiite Islam and its ideology

to the region while they go hungry.

Iran is a petroleum-producing country,

therefore it should notdeprive its own population

of the basic petroleum resources.

- Mike, real quickly,we got 30 seconds left.

There's a huge report detailing Iran's

extensive influence in Iraq.

Real quickly, tell us about it.

- Intercept published a unprecedented leak

from secret agents thatare working in Iran

indicating that Iran hashad a systematic approach

into Iraq, its neighbor,trying to infiltrate

and trying to monopolizesome of the institutions

across Iraq to be advantagedof Iranian ideology,

Shiite Islam, by kicking outthe Christians from the region,

replacing them by Shiitesand by also electing leaders

that would be sympathetic towards Iran

and its cause overseas.

It's a major undertakingthat needs much attention.

- Okay, terrific as always Mike.

Thank you so much forjoining us on the broadcast.

We move now to our nation's capital where

Democratic House SpeakerNancy Pelosi invited

President Trump to testify in front of the

Congressional impeachmentpanel as the Democrat's

public hearings move to their second week.

On CBS' "Face the Nation,"Pelosi pushed back

against the president'scomplaints that their process

has been stacked against him.

Take a listen.

- The president could comeright before the committee

and talk, speak all the truththat he wants is he wants to,

if he wants to take the oath of office,

or he could do it in writing.

He has every opportunityto present his case.

- And Republican CongressmanJohn Ratcliffe of Texas

told Fox News the upcoming report from

Inspector General MichaelHorowitz on how the

Russia collusion investigation got started

could actually be bad newsfor many in Washington.

- The Democrats are racing toget through this impeachment

as quickly as possible.

That's why we have eight witnesses

and five hearings this week,

and we're not doing anyof the work is because

they know that that inspectorgeneral report is likely

to be damning about the originsof the 2016 investigation

into the Trump campaign,

the role that theObama-Biden administration

officials played in that.

- By the way, thatreport is expected soon.

We will have more on this story and others

this evening on "Faith Nation."

As always, you can watch it right here

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Thousands of peoplegathered over the weekend

to remember two students shotand killed by a classmate

at a Southern California high school.

Friends and family gathered last night

at a candlelight vigil, thisas investigators are still

trying to figure out themotive behind what led

16-year-old NathanielTennosuke Berhow to go

on a shooting rampageat Saugus High School.

The teen pulled a .45-caliberhandgun from his backpack

and shot five students atrandom before shooting himself

in the head on Thursday.

It was his birthday.

The school's principaltold the crowd at the vigil

that the event was a moment to grieve.

- Through our courage togrieve and grow stronger

and through honoring Gracie and Dominick,

we will remember the SaugusHigh School community,

not for what happened to us,but for how we recovered,

how we grieved together,

and how we became strong, Saugus strong.

- Saugus High School will remainclosed until December 2nd.

David Daleiden and otherundercover investigators

with the Center for MedicalProgress were found guilty

in a civil suit by Planned Parenthood

for their undercover videos.

A San Francisco jury handeddown the verdict in the case,

finding them guilty fortheir part in getting

the undercover video whichshowed Planned Parenthood

employees discussingthe buying and selling

of aborted baby bodyparts to third parties

who invested, harvestedrather, them to resale

LifeSite News reportsthey were found guilty

of various crimes.

Attorneys with the ThomasMoore Society defended them

and say this case wassimply Planned Parenthood

trying to get them back

for exposing their quote dirty business.

They will plan to appeal the ruling.

You can find the fullstory at cbnnews.com.

Chick-fil-A has announcedit is making a major change

to its charitable giving.

The company now saysthat its new initiative

will no longer includedonations to organizations

like the Salvation Army,

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes,

and the Paul Anderson Youth Home.

Critics have called thoseorganizations anti-LGBTQ groups.

Chick-fil-A's presidenttold Biz Now that quote,

"There's no question we know that,

"as we go into new markets,

"we need to be clear about who we are.

"There are lots of articles andnewscasts about Chick-fil-A,

"and we thought we needed tobe clear about our message."

The company said it iscommitting $9 million

toward three specific initiatives:

education, hunger, and homelessness.

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Hong Kong's pro-democracyprotests have turned

the most violent theyhave been in six months.

The protests startedpeacefully in early June

sparked by a proposed lawthat would have allowed

criminal suspects to beextradited to mainland China,

but video from today showssome of the worst fighting

since the protests began.

For days, protesters hadbarricaded themselves

on the campus at the city'spolytechnic university

and are now using catapultsagainst riot police

in armored vehicles trying to get out.

The clashes setting at leastone armored car on fire,

and one police official washit in the leg with an arrow.

Hong Kong police are callingon protesters to surrender

and face justice.

My colleague, CBN's GaryLane spoke with someone

who knows the pro-democracymovement very well.

Andrew Duncan helped hundredsof pro-democracy activists

protest the NBA's China policy

at the Nets-Raptors game last month

and is also the co-producerof the Netflix documentary

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- Andrew, thanks for joining us.

So it seems like sixmonths of protests now

are entering a dangerous stage,

and Beijing has movedtroops into Hong Kong.

China's Global Times newspapersays the Chinese government

should use snipers to shutdown violent protesters.

Your thoughts on this please.

- I think it's very alarming,

especially that we're in themidst of the administration's

trying to close a trade deal that,

after the WTO and Beijing's inability

to stick to the terms of that,

and now that the jointresolution between Hong Kong

and London is being fundamentally broken.

I find it very troublesome and awful,

and I think Americans needto know that these are not

anti-government protesters as I've seen on

some news websites asrecently as this morning.

These are pro-democracy protesters.

They're trying to fight back against

the Chinese Communist Party,

and churches and mosqueshave been victimized

by the fighting as theyhave on the mainland,

so it's a terribly sad day frankly.

- [Gary] A Hong Kong policespokesman said on Sunday

he called the rioterspeople who are intent

to murder police officers at all costs.

- [Andrew] I do think thatpeople should look at the history

by watching the filmthat I made with my team.

I think they can see thatthis started peacefully

a long time ago, andI think that there is,

people are feeling desperate in Hong Kong

and that they have nothing to lose,

and I am not an advocate of the violence,

and I know that Joshua Wong who I know

and Nathan Law who I know and others

are not advocates of violence,

but things have been brought to a,

desperate times sometimesrequire desperate measures

in democratic battles throughout history,

including our own inBoston and other places.

It's terrible to see,and it's most disturbing

because Beijing is not holdingup to the joint resolution.

How can we do a trade deal with people

that won't live up tothe joint resolution,

the Chinese Communist Party,

and also in the meantime have Uyghurs,

almost 3 million peopleaccording to the Pentagon,

in concentration camps in mainland China.

- Well you mentioned the violence.

Most Americans probably support the goals

of the pro-democracy activists,

but not the violent actions of some.

We're seeing Molotov cocktails being made

and used against police vehicles,

and one protester shotan arrow into the leg

of a police officer, butdo you think these tactics

will cause the pro-democracy activists

to lose Western support?

- I think there's a risk of that,

and I spoke to a familymember who lives in Asia

earlier today who relayed just that.

I do think that theviolence is problematic,

but I think it should be alsonoted that the police officer,

there's been a lot of policebrutality and police violence.

Emergency medical workerswere actually handcuffed

after quietly protesting,

and they're not beingallowed to demonstrate,

which is their right underthe joint resolution,

and there was obviously a police officer

at point-blank range shot a unarmed man

in the stomach last week,

so it's violence is never good,

and it's indefensible on both sides.

- What do you think will happen next?

We could be heading to abloody Tiananmen Square

type crackdown here as things escalate.

- Correct, it's veryalarming and concerning,

and that's why I think the United States

should put the trade talks on hold.

There shouldn't be a tradedeal under the circumstances

that are going on right now.

I've said before the NBAshould not be in business

with people that werein concentration camps.

The United States governmentshould not be negotiating

trade deals with people who arerunning concentration camps,

but with that said, I thinkthat there needs to be

a cooling-off period, and Ithink we need to hear from

the President of the United States.

We've heard very vociferouslyfrom Secretary Pompeo

and Vice President Pence who have been

consistent in their positions,but we've yet to hear from

the President of theUnited States who needs to

firmly speak out in defenseof democracy, in my opinion,

and firmly speak out insupport of Hong Kong's rights

under the joint resolution.

- Producer Andrew Duncan,thank you for joining us

to provide those insights.

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- Conservative podcasterAllie Stuckey appeared

before the U.S. House Committeeon Oversight in Government

Reform recently giving testimonyabout her pro-life views

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abortion is the greatesthorror of our time.

Faithwire's Dan Androsspoke with our Efrem Graham

about this trending story.

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- So Dan, what did Stuckeytell members of Congress?

- Yeah, well she cameright out of the gate,

all cylinders firing.

She said that she believesabortion is the greatest horror

of our time, and she said she'shorrified by the violence,

the oppression, themarginalization of a defenseless

people group based solelyon where they reside

in the womb, and so from there,

she attacked a lot of thecommon pro-choice talking points

including one that seemsto have gone by the wayside

which is the safe,legal, and rare argument

that used to be used andat least kinda gave us

some common ground that we could agree

that perhaps maybe we shouldn't be

having that many abortions,

but that argument seemsto have been abandoned,

and we've seen the recentextreme abortion bills

proposed in New York andVirginia which allow abortions

all the way up till theend of the pregnancy,

and so she kind of wentafter those one by one.

- And in doing that, how was the response?

She was sort of dismissed, if you will.

- Yeah, it really was interesting to watch

because she was, you couldsee people in the background

including I believe a representative from

Planned Parenthood who was there,

and they were almost chucklingand smirking and laughing

in the background as shewent through these points,

but yet, none of these pointswere addressed directly

after she brought them up,

and including one of theCongresswomen Rep. Robin Kelly

who accused Stuckeyand other conservatives

of not caring about life beyond the womb,

and so when Stuckey triedto respond and said,

"Hey, I don't think these twothings are mutually exclusive.

"I can care about life in the womb,

"and we do care aboutpeople once they're born.

"We just have different policy ideas,"

and when she startedlaunching into that response,

the Congresswoman just said,"I'm gonna reclaim my time,"

and just turned off the microphone

and sorta shut down the conversation.

- Stuckey also challengedmodern feminist views, correct?

- She did, she said that,this was a great quote,

one of the ones that'sresonating with people a lot,

and she said, "I'm hereas a woman who believes

"that female empowerment,equality, and freedom

"are not defined by theability to terminate

"the life of her child."

- What's ahead for us on the next edition

of Faith Vs. Culture?

- Yeah, we've got aseries of kinda shocking

sex education videos thatwe found that were targeted

at nine to 12-year-old children,

and so it's really kindastunning to see the sorts of

explicit material thatthey're kinda pushing

on these young kids, and itranges from issues of gender

to homosexuality to dragqueens, the whole gamut,

and so on the show, we coverthese things and talk about

how we as Christians and Christian parents

should be handling the educationof our child on that front.

- All right, thank you Dan so much.

We wanna remind you thatyou can catch "Faithwire"

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Wow, it was a full-blown worship service

at Lakewood Church Sunday night.

West was in the backgroundfor much of the service,

but he did rap and singat different times.

Earlier Sunday, Westjoined megachurch pastor

Joel Osteen for LakewoodChurch's Sunday morning

11:00 a.m. service.

He told Osteen how Jesus changed his life.

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