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00:00Welcome to NTD Evening News. Our top story tonight. Protests are happening at immigration
00:07enforcement facilities across the country. Officers resort to deploying tear gas and
00:12arresting protesters. The latest on President Trump's effort to deploy the National Guard.
00:17President Donald Trump saluting the Navy in Norfolk, Virginia this afternoon. That's as
00:22naval troops and Gold Star families honor the Navy's 250th anniversary.
00:26The State Department just released the 2025 Trafficking in Persons report. A trafficking
00:33investigator and a survivor join us to unpack the report and what needs to be done.
00:39A doctor of traditional Chinese medicine shares details about the link between the body's energy
00:44flow and mental and physical health. Won Huyi calls modern depression medication a Band-Aid solution.
00:51And Earth's gentle giants are getting a helping hand from science. Find out how a new vaccine
00:56developed at Chester Zoo can prevent a deadly disease that kills endangered elephants.
01:10This is NTD Evening News live from our global headquarters in New York City.
01:19Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. I'm Tiffany Meyer. Protests at immigration and
01:25customs enforcement facilities across the country continue. Law enforcement arrested multiple
01:30people over the weekend. The Trump administration is facing legal challenges in its bid to deploy the
01:36National Guard. NTD's Arian Posdar has the summary.
01:40Trespassing on federal property is subject to arrest.
01:43Protestors once again gathered outside ICE headquarters in South Portland on Saturday evening.
01:48They hurled insults at various law enforcement personnel who pushed the crowd back.
01:53President Trump recently decided to deploy National Guard troops to Portland to protect ICE facilities.
01:59He commented on the situation on Sunday.
02:02Portland is burning to the ground. It's insurrectionists all over the place. It's Antifa.
02:08And yet the politicians who are petrified. Look, the politicians are afraid for their lives.
02:13That's the only reason that they say like there's nothing happening. And you've seen it.
02:18The place is burning down and they pretend like there's nothing happening.
02:23Saturday, a judge in Oregon temporarily blocked the administration from deploying troops in
02:28Portland. District Judge Karin Immergood, who was appointed by Trump during his first term,
02:33explained her decision, saying this country has a longstanding and foundational tradition
02:38of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs.
02:43The White House chief of staff responded, writing, legal insurrection.
02:48The president is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, not an Oregon judge.
02:53A spokesperson said the administration expects the decision to be vindicated by a higher court.
02:58Tensions were high during the Portland protests on Saturday.
03:01Officers carried paintball guns and deployed tear gas to protect themselves amid the chaos.
03:06They arrested seven protesters. President Trump on Saturday reportedly also authorized the deployment
03:13of 300 National Guard members to Chicago. Governor J.B. Pritzker criticized the idea,
03:19saying it was not a serious effort to protect public safety. The White House responded on Saturday,
03:24saying the troops are needed to counter riots and lawlessness. On Sunday, Trump highlighted
03:29ongoing public safety issues in Chicago. And big tech is also getting involved. Apple says it removed
03:51apps from its app store that alert users to ICE agents in their area. Apple reports having been
03:57contacted by the Trump administration. According to the Justice Department, the apps could increase
04:02the risk of assault on agents. Google also removed such apps for policy violation, but the company said
04:09it was not approached by the DOJ before taking the action. Arian Pasdar, NTD News.
04:16And just in California, Governor Gavin Newsom says he plans to sue the White House. That's to block
04:21the Trump administration from deploying 300 of California's National Guard troops to Portland.
04:27In other news, a shutdown in Washington, a breakthrough on drug prices, and an executive
04:32order on pediatric cancer, this week brought high-stakes decisions and sharp divisions.
04:38NTD's Daniel Monaghan has your White House Week in review.
04:43The federal government shut down after lawmakers failed to agree on a spending deal,
04:48sparking finger-pointing across party lines.
04:51If the Democrats did not vote to shut down the government, we would not be standing up here
04:55talking about layoffs today.
04:56If this shutdown continues, this will be on Republicans.
05:02They prioritized taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens.
05:05The political leadership, not every Democrat nationwide, but the political leadership of
05:10their party has got it into their heads that the only way to be compassionate is to be
05:14compassionate to illegal aliens rather than American citizens.
05:17Not one dollar of Medicare, Medicaid, or ACA is allowed to go to undocumented immigrants.
05:25President Trump signed an executive order to harness American AI innovation to unlock
05:30cures and prevention strategies for pediatric cancer.
05:33No family should have to fight cancer without data tools or without access to the very best
05:39science.
05:4016-year-old Carolyn Hendricks, a pediatric bone cancer survivor, praised the move.
05:45What you're doing today, Mr. President, means that kids like me will get better options
05:50and so much more hope for the future.
05:53Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and President Trump addressed America's top generals and
05:58admirals in Quantico, Virginia, vowing sweeping changes to the military.
06:02No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses.
06:09No more climate change worship.
06:12No more division, distraction, or gender delusions.
06:14These people don't have uniforms, but we are under invasion from within.
06:19We're stopping it very quickly.
06:22President Trump made a deal with Pfizer that could bring down drug prices.
06:26HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. credited Trump for his doggedness and perseverance.
06:32This is something Democrats have wanted for 20 years.
06:36Republicans have wanted for 20 years.
06:38Everybody said they're going to do it.
06:40Nobody has even taken a step towards doing it.
06:43According to an HHS report last year, Americans currently pay nearly three times more for brand-name
06:50medications than places like Canada or Europe.
06:55Transport Secretary Sean Duffy had the historic Christ on the Water painting, moved to the basement
07:00under the Biden administration, put back to its place of prominence at the U.S. Merchant Marines Academy.
07:06Could we bring Jesus up from the basement?
07:08Let him rob him!
07:13Pope Leo XIV suggested this week that those who support what he called the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States may not be pro-life.
07:22The White House said such inhumane treatment is not occurring under the Trump administration.
07:26There was, however, significant inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the previous administration
07:32as they were being trafficked and raped and beaten.
07:36Federal agents launched operations in Memphis this week, making 53 arrests in the first two days
07:42and seizing 20 illegal firearms, including three at a murder suspect's home.
07:47The idea that there is a square inch of block in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable.
07:55If you touch a law enforcement officer, it is a crime and you are going to jail.
08:01More on crime, FBI Director Cash Patel gave an update on the three-month operation Summer Heat,
08:07where the FBI teamed up with local law enforcement.
08:10The action netted over 8,600 arrests and 2,300 guns seized,
08:15and almost 45,000 kilos of cocaine and over 420 kilograms of fentanyl,
08:20enough to kill 50 million Americans, were taken off the streets, speaking with Armstrong Williams.
08:26We have to attack the criminal enterprises where they start and their entire spider web of networks across the country.
08:33And new U.S. tariffs on pharmaceuticals, trucks, and home goods took effect this week.
08:37President Trump says they'll strengthen domestic industry and protect American jobs.
08:41Daniel Monahan, NTD News.
08:45The Treasury Department is considering minting a $1 commemorative coin featuring President Trump's image.
08:51The design is in celebration of the nation's 250th birthday.
08:56U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach reposted a draft image of the coin and wrote that the first drafts were real.
09:02The draft images show Trump's side profile on the front, with liberty at the top and in God we trust on the bottom.
09:09The dates 1776 and 2026 are also featured.
09:13On the reverse is an image of Trump following his assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania,
09:18with the words, fight, fight, fight.
09:20It is against the law to display the image of a sitting president or a living former president.
09:25So it's not clear whether the coin design will be minted.
09:28A spokesperson says a final design has not been selected.
09:34It is day five of the government shutdown and lawmakers have made no progress in negotiations to fund the government.
09:40House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries appeared on NBC's Meet the Press today.
09:46Jeffries spoke about finding bipartisan common ground.
09:49Johnson also urged Democrats to support the GOP-crafted spending bill.
09:53Reductions in the federal workforce are imminent and the House has suspended vote until the Senate breaks the deadlock.
10:00Our Washington correspondent Luis Adorno-Martinez has the latest from Capitol Hill.
10:04All around the country right now, real pain is being endured by real people because the Democrats have decided to play politics.
10:11We have troops and TSA agents and Border Patrol agents who are working without pay, protecting the country.
10:16And you have FEMA services, health insurance policies, for example, that are being stalled in the middle of a hurricane season
10:22because the Democrats want to play political games and try to obscure the real facts at issue.
10:28Senate Democrats have voted for a fourth time against a bill that would extend current levels of government funding and end a shutdown.
10:35Democrats who are in the minority in the House and the Senate have demanded that their health care policy priorities be approved
10:41and parts of the Republican reconciliation bill be repealed for them to support any effort to reopen the government.
10:48The fact of the matter is that the big, ugly bill, as Trump has continued to implement it,
10:56is absolutely gutting health care research all around this nation.
11:01Republicans have agreed to negotiate with Democrats on health care policy, but not while the government is shut down.
11:07Republicans have rejected repealing parts of the reconciliation bill they passed earlier this summer
11:12that closed the loophole that allowed for illegal immigrants to access taxpayer-funded health care.
11:17We challenge them. We challenge them to tell us why they're not trying to give illegal aliens health care again
11:23when they put it in their own bill.
11:25Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is facing criticism for past comments he made regarding government shutdowns.
11:32As early as March, Schumer rejected government shutdowns.
11:35What if I persuaded my caucus to say I'm going to shut the government down,
11:39I'm going to not pay our bills unless I get my way.
11:43It's a politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of paralysis.
11:47Shutting down government over a policy difference is self-defeating.
11:50We can never hold American workers hostage.
11:54The pressure is now on rank-and-file Senate Democrats.
11:57There have been already three Senate Democrats who have broken with leadership to support Republicans
12:02to reopen the government.
12:04Those are Senator John Fetterman, Angus King, and Catherine Cortez-Mastos.
12:08We have a majority of senators, 55 senators, have already voted for this clean, short-term, nonpartisan CR.
12:16As the Speaker said, no policy riders, no gimmicks, nothing in here that benefits Republicans.
12:24This is a straight-up seven-week funding resolution, and we need it to keep the government open.
12:30The Senate will vote again on Monday on a continuing resolution to reopen government.
12:35Reporting from Washington, D.C., Luis Eduardo Martinez, NTD News.
12:39President Donald Trump has decided not to let the government shutdown interfere with a stop in Norfolk, Virginia, this afternoon.
12:46There, he saluted the Navy as it celebrates its 250th anniversary.
12:51Here are the highlights from President Trump.
12:53We're gathered on this storied waterfront to celebrate 250 years of strength, tenacity, and unwavering courage
13:00by the greatest fighting force even, and that's true.
13:05No matter where you go, no matter where you go, no matter what you even think about,
13:10there's nothing like the fighting force that we have.
13:13Docs beside us today are a combined 150,000 tons of pure American naval supremacy
13:20and two colossal reasons why no one should ever want to start a fight with the USA.
13:26Every tyrant and adversary on the planet knows their choice is very simple.
13:31It's leave America in peace or be blown up in fire and fury never seen before.
13:39In recent weeks, the Navy has supported our mission to blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water.
13:46You see that?
13:46Every one of those boats is responsible for the death of 25,000 American people and the destruction of families.
13:55The U.S. Navy always stands for America as your commander-in-chief.
14:00I will always stand for you.
14:01I promise you that.
14:02You know that.
14:03That's why you voted for me in numbers that nobody's ever seen before.
14:07And I want you to know that despite the current Democrat-induced shutdown,
14:14we will get our service members every last penny.
14:16Don't worry about it.
14:17It's a landmark celebration of American sea power over the last two and a half centuries at the world's largest naval base in Norfolk, Virginia.
14:26About 20,000 sailors and Gold Star family members joined the event.
14:30Trump says that the U.S. will expand the Navy with at least 19 new vessels next year,
14:35including submarines, destroyers, assault ships and more.
14:38As the Chinese Communist Party marks 76 years of rule,
14:43Chinese people in the U.S. and worldwide are protesting its brutality and tyranny.
14:48Let's hear their stories and what they are standing up for.
14:51NTD's Flora Hua has the report.
14:53This is the U.S. capital, Washington, D.C.
15:04Chinese pro-democracy activists across America gathered to tell the world
15:09October 1st is not their national day, but a day of mourning for all of China.
15:16During times of peace, tens of millions of Chinese people have died under the CCP's tyranny.
15:22From the violent political campaigns and the Great Famine to the Tiananmen Massacre and the COVID-19 pandemic,
15:30these Chinese protesters marched in front of the Chinese embassy, Capitol Hill and the White House.
15:36Younger generations also took part in the anti-CCP movement, raising awareness of the Chinese regime's tactics.
15:44On one hand, the CCP maintains authoritarian rule through repression.
15:49On the other hand, it uses united front tactics to deceive and divide us.
15:56Moving north to Canada, Taiwanese, Hong Kongers, Tibetans, Uyghurs and people from different backgrounds
16:03also held anti-CCP demonstrations in front of the Chinese consulate.
16:08Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline originated in China, has been persecuted by the CCP for over 25 years.
16:20International rights groups report that the regime even steals organs from imprisoned practitioners for huge profits.
16:27The CCP trades in live organs and continuously imprisons dissidents who oppose it.
16:34This, among other actions, represents the greatest harm that totalitarianism has inflicted on our present generation of human civilization.
16:43Chinese people in Germany and the Netherlands are also calling for an end to the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party.
16:50Flora Hua, NTD News.
16:54Coming up, a trafficking investigator and a survivor join us to unpack the 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report.
17:01Find out who the worst offenders are and what needs to be done to end this nightmare practice.
17:06And a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine shares details about the link between the body's energy flow and mental and physical health.
17:12Juan Hua, he calls modern depression medication a band-aid solution in just a minute here on NTD News.
17:20Welcome back. I'm Tiffany Meyer.
17:31Millions exploited, 13 countries called out, and an estimated $236 billion reaped from this horrific practice.
17:39The U.S. State Department just released new information on modern-day slavery.
17:44The report singled out China as one of the world's worst offenders,
17:47saying state-sponsored forced labor is widespread in China, with nearly 4 million people exploited there.
17:56Joining us to delve into the report and ways to end this atrocity are two guests.
18:01Dan Nash, a former law enforcement officer and trafficking investigator,
18:05and Andy Berger, founder and chair of Voices Against Trafficking.
18:09Thank you both so much for joining us.
18:10Now, Dan, a lot to unpack here.
18:13But first, what do you make of this latest report?
18:18Thank you for having me.
18:19This report has been pretty consistent with previous reports.
18:22China has really been the leader in trafficking in the world for the last 10 to 15 years at least.
18:28And I honestly, unfortunately, don't see that stopping anytime soon.
18:33And, Andy, as a survivor yourself, how are you reacting to this report, especially that this is state-sponsored?
18:42Well, thank you for having me as well.
18:43But I am not surprised.
18:45We've known this has been happening for quite some time.
18:47And as Dan said, we don't see it ending anytime soon unless there's definitive action,
18:52even by American companies that do business with China.
18:55There is no one saying enough, you know, genocide is human trafficking, sex trafficking, labor trafficking.
19:03All of that, China has been the leader for some time now.
19:07And, Dan, the report highlights the amount of profits these countries reap from this atrocious practice.
19:14Now, we did see the U.S. pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act as a direct response to the Chinese regime's systematic use of forced labor.
19:21But when it comes to holding these countries accountable, what needs to be done?
19:28Well, really, we're not doing anything.
19:30I mean, you're talking just here in the United States, there's some 15,000 illicit massage businesses that are all Chinese organized crime.
19:38That's 30,000 to 60,000 victims just here in the United States that are Chinese victims being trafficked by Chinese organized crime.
19:46And we haven't done anything about that in the last 20 years.
19:49So, I mean, I would accept anything at this point as far as standing up and trying to stop, you know, this onslaught of trafficking that's coming out of China.
20:00And expanding on that, Andy, talk to us about the situation inside the U.S.,
20:04because often trafficking is spoken about as if it's happening far away or in other countries.
20:08Now, you do have films like Sound of Freedom that highlight the fact it is also happening here in America.
20:14How do we bring awareness to the fact that it's happening, it's here now, without scaring people away from helping the voiceless?
20:23Absolutely.
20:24That's a great point, Tiffany, because we want to get the truth out with hope and not terrify people.
20:29But at the same time, we also have to understand every 40 seconds in the U.S., a child 18 years or under is abducted.
20:36That means they are taken or lured into something that looks safe and within 48 hours will be in a trafficking ring or some other kind of criminal activity, but basically sex trafficking.
20:48The other part of it is people need to understand that one victim is sold anywhere from 20 to 25 times a day.
20:54Imagine a 10-year-old child or a 12-year-old or a 16-year-old, anyone, being sold that many times and being drugged and forced against their will into shameful activities.
21:08But to your other point, what we can do is, one, say, okay, maybe I don't know enough about this.
21:13Let's get educated.
21:14Organizations like DANs or Voices Against Trafficking, we can help.
21:18We can get training.
21:19We can help educate parents how to have conversations at age-appropriate levels so that their kids, it goes beyond stranger danger.
21:28We need to really have a conversation about what human trafficking may mean in that particular family situation and also enforce the laws that we already have on the books, Tiffany.
21:37We are not doing our job as citizens.
21:40Whether it's local, state, or federal, one act of human trafficking, if you're convicted, should carry 20 years federally.
21:48But we're inconsistent when we do, when we have celebrities, we've seen the stories, and all of their sentences are different.
21:55Why is that?
21:57And on the note of education, Dan, when it comes to emerging technologies like, say, AI, there's pros and cons.
22:04AI can help detect and flag harmful content across social media, analyze online ads and languages to help law enforcement.
22:10But it can also be used as a tool by criminal networks with, say, deep fakes, et cetera.
22:15Talk to us about how law enforcement is navigating this new era of AI.
22:22I honestly think we should just keep it even more simple than that.
22:25So the dirty secret about human trafficking in America is that only about 17% of law enforcement are trained at all in human trafficking.
22:33And if you break that down between skills-based training and awareness-based training, you're talking less than 10%.
22:39People think that the law enforcement has got all this training when it comes to human trafficking.
22:44And as I travel around the country and teach law enforcement every single week, what I see over and over and over is that they are not trained.
22:51And it's not just the small agencies.
22:53It's not just the small police departments, the small sheriff's departments.
22:56It's some of our largest agencies in our country.
22:59And I'll just use this agency as an example, not because I'm trying to throw anybody under the bus, but because everybody knows them.
23:05The FBI, for example, everybody knows the FBI.
23:08They do, you know, they're our federal law enforcement agency.
23:12They have no training in human trafficking.
23:14Zero.
23:14Not in one minute.
23:15So when an FBI agent leaves their academy to go and meet an FBI agent somewhere, they don't have any human trafficking training.
23:22And then we wonder why we're not successful.
23:24But it's across the board with almost all of our federal agents, almost all of our law enforcement.
23:29How do we expect to stop human trafficking when the police don't know what to do?
23:34And, Andy, from that more educational perspective, how are you viewing the pros and cons of AI and what that means for countering trafficking?
23:42Well, we take a look at what intranet is right now with over a million predators a day looking for your niece, your nephew, your child, someone that they can use as a human product and make money off of or, you know, even depravity.
23:57That's part of human trafficking, too.
23:59As a survivor myself in the early 60s, I went through that.
24:03I understood that part.
24:04Dan is absolutely right.
24:06We don't have the training, you know, in law enforcement that we should.
24:09When I was at the FBI Academy and I did some training, it was amazing how many of those agents were completely unaware of what to do.
24:18So that definitely needs to be fixed.
24:20But the pros and cons on AI, Internet, as I said, is a dangerous area.
24:25AI is even more scary because it can actually capture your voice, Tiffany, or my voice or Dan's.
24:31It can definitely create what looks like a false safe zone for kids, for adults, for young women at college.
24:40And so you're not really sure who that person is because AI is just that good.
24:46So we need to treat that as a volatile technological advancement.
24:52We have seen some concerning stories in that area.
24:56Dan, in terms of solutions here, Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying in a statement that this report ensures that those who fail to act face consequences.
25:04Now, that includes passing new laws, prosecuting traffickers, protecting victims, and preventing crimes.
25:10But in your view, what do the consequences need to look like to end this horrific practice?
25:16Well, I think we actually have pretty good laws in the United States.
25:23The problem that I see is that we're just not investigating things properly and thoroughly, and we're missing so many things because law enforcement just doesn't know what to do.
25:32And then sometimes when we get cases, and recently there's been a whole bunch of talk about the P. Diddy case and the fact that he wasn't prosecuted or convicted of trafficking.
25:45Well, there's a whole host of reasons that that could be.
25:47Could be that the prosecutors didn't do what they were supposed to do.
25:50Could be that the police were not trained and didn't know what they were supposed to do.
25:53Could be that he just didn't do it.
25:55I mean, who knows?
25:56None of us were there.
25:58But what I see over and over and over again is people jumping to conclusions when I think we should just keep it much more simple.
26:04How about we just train the police?
26:05We give them the tools that they need.
26:08They will then go and investigate.
26:10And more so than any other country anywhere in the world, we actually have a pretty good justice system and we actually have pretty good laws.
26:16But they're not going to be efficient as much as they should be if we're not doing those proper investigations to get those perpetrators up to the point where they need to be prosecuted and convicted and then go to prison for a really long time.
26:29And on that note, Andy, how can survivors be first protected and then empowered to share their stories and help put a stop to this practice?
26:38Well, first of all, they have to be listened to.
26:41It's very rare when a survivor is taken at their word the first time around.
26:45And what people don't realize is for the person who has been victimized, whether as a child or older, it is a life sentence for that victim.
26:53My last predator just died eight months ago, and that was like 40 years ago that all of that happened.
27:00So it is a life sentence.
27:02So I feel that if you're convicted, you get a life sentence.
27:06I don't care if you're in isolation.
27:07As long as you never get out of jail, you don't get the perks.
27:11You don't get early release.
27:12And for those who say, oh, that's inhumane, well, think about the person whose innocence, whose livelihood, whose ability to function normally in society has been affected.
27:22You can't replace that.
27:24You can't give me the 17 years of my childhood back.
27:27And so we want to protect them.
27:29So for survivors, one, we need to listen, no matter how young they are, and then verify.
27:35As Dan said, investigate.
27:37Let's find out what the truth is and then figure out how to help that child or that victim, male or female.
27:43Doesn't matter what gender, what socioeconomic background.
27:46If you are a human being and you have been exploited, that should be something that's a priority for every community to weigh in on.
27:55And for communities to learn to receive survivors, they need job skills.
28:00They need support emotionally and mentally.
28:03And most importantly, they all have PTSD.
28:06And that needs to be addressed.
28:08Well, Andy Berger, Dan Nash, thank you both so much for joining us.
28:13Thank you, ma'am.
28:17Coming up, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine shares details about the link between the body's energy flow and mental and physical health.
28:25More on why he calls modern depression medication a Band-Aid solution.
28:29And an entrepreneur is bringing new life to a bright yellow symbol of pride for the island of Taiwan.
28:35Banana plants are now being spun into a sustainable fabric for making clothes and shoes.
28:40More details in just a minute after this quick break.
28:44Welcome back.
28:54I'm Tiffany Meyer.
28:54On Friday, D.C.'s Rotary Satellite Club hosted a screening of the award-winning documentary State Organs.
29:22The film delves into the stories of two families in China that spent more than two decades searching for their missing relatives.
29:28They discovered along the way a stay-back organ harvesting scheme that targets a large percentage of the population.
29:34There was a case about this young lady, eyes wide open, and they're actually going to remove it.
29:40That is insane.
29:42It's not some local guy in the back room somewhere in China.
29:47This is the highest level of government.
29:49A main target of this human rights violation is Falun Gong, a spiritual practice based on the tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.
29:58Since 1999, practitioners of Falun Gong or Falun Dafa have been subjected to a nationwide persecution campaign.
30:05Along with mass incarceration and torture, China saw an explosion of organ transplants during the persecution.
30:11That's despite not having a voluntary organ donation system.
30:15In 2019, the U.K.'s China Tribunal found that Falun Gong practitioners are likely the primary victims of forced organ harvesting.
30:22It's estimated that about 60,000 to 90,000 transplants are done a year by the CCP.
30:30We estimate that about every 30 minutes someone is killed for their organs right now at this moment.
30:35So as we speak or as we watch the movie, two to three people were killed.
30:38Audience members said they're shocked by the sheer brutality and scale of this human rights violation.
30:44This whole idea of medical tourism, which has become a billion dollar or trillion dollar industry, because it's scaring me now.
30:54I would like to see the government not allow individuals here in the United States to be able to go to China to receive a transplant.
31:05Earlier this year, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed the Falun Gong Protection Act,
31:12a bipartisan bill aimed at sanctioning anyone involved in China's acts of forced organ harvesting.
31:17The bill now awaits action in the Senate.
31:19If passed, it will become law once signed by the president.
31:22After the Holocaust, during the World War II, people kept saying, never again, never again.
31:27But now, it's had happened again.
31:29The difference is, today, while we still have time to stop this crime against humanity,
31:36we still have an opportunity to change the course of history.
31:41Sam Wang, NTD News, Washington, D.C.
31:44A physical attack is easy to identify, but what about an attack on your body's energy?
31:50Seen from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine,
31:53what we call depression has deeper roots in the body's energy flow.
31:56In this episode of Vital Signs, Dr. Jing Duan Yang, an American psychiatrist and doctor of traditional Chinese medicine,
32:03joined Brendan Fallon to discuss the link between the body's energy flow and mental and physical health.
32:10For millennia, what we call depression and other mental distress
32:14have been seen by traditional Chinese medicine, a.k.a. TCM,
32:19as problems of energy flow interruption,
32:22and hence the use of systems like acupuncture to treat them through stimulating energy flow.
32:29As these methods gain scientific validation,
32:32we see them integrated more and more into Western medicine,
32:35with acupuncture even being used by the U.S. Air Force for battlefield pain management.
32:40But what is the body's energy flow, as understood by TCM?
32:46Does it overlap with the energy our cells produce from food?
32:50What would cause this energy flow to be disrupted to bring depression and mental distress?
32:55And what can be done energetically and even on a deeper emotional level to get things moving again?
33:01Today, I welcome back Dr. Jing Duan Yang to lend his wisdom to these
33:06and other questions of energy and mental health.
33:10Dr. Yang is a psychiatrist and integrative medicine doctor
33:12who combines Western medicine and holistic medicine.
33:16He also represents the fifth generation of his family line to practice TCM.
33:21Welcome to Vital Signs, where we learn how to get healthier from all angles,
33:25from the biochemical and nutritional to the things we do that nourish our minds and our souls.
33:30I'm Brendan Fallon.
33:31Dr. Yang, fantastic to have you join us on Vital Signs again.
33:36Thank you for having me, Brendan.
33:38One of the main reasons I wanted to ask you on Dr. Yang is a comment you made
33:43about how important the energetic aspect is to our mental health.
33:47And I know you look at health from this four-dimensional model of biochemical,
33:53structural, energetic, and spiritual.
33:56But for starters, I'm interested to know a snapshot of where the energetic aspect
34:00fits in to this four-dimensional model that you have.
34:04Thank you for the question.
34:05And if we really think about what depression is or what depression manifests,
34:13we can look at, you know, decreased interests and have lack of the ability to feel the pleasure.
34:20And then the fatigue and the lack of concentration and change of appetite and trouble with sleep
34:30and have some, you know, passive or active suicidal thoughts and feeling shame and guilty and blaming self and so on and so forth.
34:41If you look at all these symptoms, they are a manifestation of problems with either thoughts or feelings or physical activities.
34:52And this is all really a manifestation of energy.
34:57And the thoughts are energies, the feelings, emotions are energies, and the physical behaviors, energy levels.
35:04So there are really a problem to begin with is it manifests as energetic level.
35:11So when we are facing energetic problems, we have to understand that from the energetic level, of course,
35:19the modern medicine started, you know, relatively new.
35:23And it started by understanding human anatomy and the body structure, which is great,
35:30which is important that we understand how the human body is made of materialistically.
35:37And the second is about chemistry.
35:39So we began to understand a lot of nuance of the biochemical ingredients and the biochemical process
35:47and what involved in the biochemical balance.
35:51And that's where we understand that now we have the psychiatry almost like therapy-wise
35:59is downgraded from understanding it from spiritual and energetic level to the biochemical level.
36:07And now we prescribe a medication that disrupts the biochemical process to generate artificial effects
36:14to make people feel different and which works for some people.
36:19And, but in the long run, the chronic use of biochemical intervention that is caused by
36:27energetic problems and even spiritual problems, and will not going to give us long-term benefits.
36:35It's kind of a band-aid solution for many people.
36:38Yes, band-aid solution.
36:39And also you can cause new problems.
36:41To see that full interview and others on how to optimize health, go to ept.ms forward slash vital signs.
36:51Vital signs offers general health information not intended as medical diagnosis or advice.
36:57Please consult your doctor before undertaking a new health regimen.
37:00Coming up, an entrepreneur is bringing new life to a bright yellow symbol, a pride for the island of Taiwan.
37:08More on how banana plants are being spun into a sustainable fabric for making clothes and shoes.
37:14And Earth's gentle giants are getting a helping hand from science.
37:17Find out how a new vaccine developed at Chester Zoo can prevent a deadly disease that kills endangered elephants.
37:23That and more after this quick break.
37:25Welcome back, I'm Tiffany Meyer.
37:36A deep dive into the ocean allowed scientists to snap pics of some never-before-seen marine activity,
37:42plus an incredible discovery off of Florida's Treasure Coast.
37:45Let's dive in.
37:47Take a look at this bonus find.
37:49The team documenting the wreckage of the former USS Baron.
37:53The destroyer, commissioned in 1943, saw heavy action during World War II,
37:58then transferred to Uruguay by the U.S. in 1952 and scuttled in 1995 during a naval exercise,
38:05and it's been at the bottom of the ocean ever since.
38:08Another group of underwater explorers hit the jackpot finding not fish, but hidden treasure.
38:15Queen Jewels, LLC, claims to have recovered more than $1 million worth of silver and gold coins
38:20based off of florida's aptly named treasure coast.
38:22Reportedly, the riches are from the treasure fleet shipwreck history time.
38:27In 1715, the fleet was lost while carrying literal boatloads of booty as much as $400 million
38:33of gold, silver, and jewels, enough to make a pirate go argh.
38:38The company says many of the pieces still have identifiable date and mint markers.
38:43They'll undergo conservation and then be displayed at museums for visitors to enjoy.
38:47The Hollywood Walk of Fame just got a new star.
38:51Actress, producer, and writer Lauren Graham received the honor Friday.
38:55This was not on any bucket list I ever made, even the secret ones.
39:02And I'm just so moved, and my niece just wants to know why I can't take it with me.
39:09She doesn't understand why I would have to leave my reward on the sidewalk.
39:12Graham is an award-winning actress, best known for her role on the television shows Gilmore Girls and Parenthood.
39:20Gilmore Girls got a reboot in a limited Netflix series in 2016.
39:24The 58-year-old is also a New York Times best-selling author.
39:28Graham has appeared on Broadway and will play a part in the upcoming movie Reminders of Him.
39:33Friday's ceremony included guest speaker Amy Sherman-Palladino, Gilmore Girls' creator.
39:38And now to Ireland, where a master blacksmith is offering visitors a hands-on glimpse into the country's Celtic past.
39:46His farm sits on land that was once home to Ireland's high kings.
39:50Here's a closer look.
39:51In the shadows of Ireland's ancient hill of Tara, a master blacksmith is reviving Celtic traditions.
40:01Once a design engineer, after the COVID-19 pandemic, Tom King traded in his 20-year career to guide visitors through the living history in the Boyan Valley.
40:11King, or An Goa, to his guests, dons the traditional attire, teaching iron-working techniques, telling stories by firelight, and walking through woods on the roads to Tara, located 25 miles northwest of Dublin.
40:28We have tangible things you can taste and touch, smell and feel, and that's a big difference versus just standing at a monument and 10 minutes, well, it's time to go.
40:39King believes the myths, tales, and painstakingly learned ironwork craft should be protected and passed on to the next generation.
40:48While its landscapes, heritage, and hospitality remain central to Ireland's tourist offering, King's Forge is a growing trend of people seeking physical experiences as a break from the digital world.
41:00And yet we have all this technology at our disposal, but yet there's so much unhappiness.
41:06So there's a kind of a circle where people are going back to basics.
41:12And Sunday brings an occasion for all of you proud bookworms out there.
41:15It's National Bookshop Day.
41:18The celebration started across the pond in England.
41:20It's a time to kick off the fall bookselling season and the release of new books ahead of the holidays.
41:25It's also a good day for bookshop owners to host parties, book signings, and other events at their stores.
41:31According to NationalToday.com, upwards of a thousand bookshops nationwide participate in Bookshop Day.
41:39Taiwan is now the world's top producer of advanced microchips, but the island once had a different source of patriotic pride, bananas.
41:47Now, a Taiwanese entrepreneur is turning the fruit into fabric, spinning banana plants into a sustainable textile for making clothes and shoes.
41:56Here's that story.
41:58Nelson Yang's Taiwan-based company is called Farm to Material.
42:01It turns banana fibers into textiles.
42:05Back in 2008, European sneaker brands told us that they were hoping to find a way for food and materials to be produced in parallel,
42:12meaning that food and materials are yielded from the same land.
42:15So we've been working based on that concept.
42:18What we're doing now is making sure that all our material sources come from food or leftovers from agriculture or the food industry.
42:25We then transform those leftovers into usable materials.
42:29Taiwan was renowned for its fruit under Japanese colonial rule from 1895 to 1945, especially pineapples and bananas.
42:37And in the 1960s, the island branded itself the Banana Kingdom to boost exports.
42:42What we hope to achieve in the future is a fully natural shoe, where every part of the shoe is made from natural materials,
42:49such as lignocellulose biomass, plant-based proteins, or animal-based proteins.
42:54Because with this kind of shoe, when it's buried, it will completely break down into glucose and become nutrients for plants.
43:01That's our ultimate goal.
43:03Yang's company uses the middle section of the banana plant, known as the pseudo-stem, which is normally abandoned in the field after harvest.
43:13After we collect the materials, we bring them to our facility, where they go through a process of crushing and pressing,
43:20followed by sterilization and fermentation.
43:22Then we proceed with degumming and drying, which gives us the fibers.
43:26Banana fiber actually performs better than regular cotton in terms of water consumption, absorbency, and supply stability,
43:35making it highly promising for future applications.
43:38However, to break into the international market, it still needs third-party certifications.
43:44Some of the fibers are turned into yarn that can be blended with cotton to make socks,
43:48and can also be turned into vegan leather.
43:51Yang's company is still in the early stages, with no current orders from apparel companies.
43:55But he hopes to one day supply global sneaker brands.
43:59Earth's gentle giants are getting a helping hand from science.
44:03Leading scientists at Chester Zoo, the University of Surrey, and the Animal and Plant Health Agency
44:07have developed a new vaccine that can prevent a deadly disease that kills endangered elephants.
44:14The breakthrough was published Friday in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.
44:18The vaccine targets EEHV, a disease that can kill elephants in just 24 hours.
44:24It's the leading cause of death among young Asian elephants,
44:27a species already listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List.
44:32The study spanned six years and involved a small group of elephants.
44:36The next phase could see more elephants involved,
44:38with the priority being young ones who are most at risk of the disease.
44:42Researchers involved in the study called it a critical turning point,
44:46saying, until now, EEHV has been a silent killer.
44:50With this vaccine, we finally have a weapon to fight back.
44:54The vaccine is given via injection with booster doses,
44:57making it ideal for use in zoos and sanctuaries,
45:00with plans underway to develop delivery methods suitable for wild populations.
45:04And that's all for today's news.
45:07For on-the-clock coverage, visit us at ntd.com slash live or download our NTD app.
45:13Thanks for tuning in.
45:14I'm Tiffany Meyer.
45:15Good night.
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