Trump announces NAFTA agreement with Mexico, UN Declares Burma Committed Genocide on Rohingya, China Forcing Muslim Uighur Minority into Re-education Camps
By Worldview Staff
President Donald Trump listens during a phone call with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto about a trade agreement between the United States and Mexico, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, in Washington. Evan Vucci / AP Photo
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President Donald Trump listens during a phone call with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto about a trade agreement between the United States and Mexico, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, in Washington. Evan Vucci / AP Photo
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Trump announces NAFTA agreement with Mexico, UN Declares Burma Committed Genocide on Rohingya, China Forcing Muslim Uighur Minority into Re-education Camps
By Worldview Staff
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On Today’s Show:
- Yesterday, the U.S. and Mexico made a tentative deal. Trump coins it the “U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement”
- One year since Burmese security kicked out almost all of the country’s Rohingya ethnic group, United Nations investigators are now calling to prosecute the Burmese military for the genocide of nearly one million people.
- The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination accused China of placing over a million of its Uighur Muslim citizens in re-education camps in China’s Xinjiang province.