The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/02 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/02 at 09:00 EDT

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His response to comments by the deputy chair of Russia's Security Council, who's calling Trump's demands to stop bombing Ukraine by next Friday an ultimatum. Julia Chapman explains. Dmitri Medvedev is known for making inflammatory statements, but he wields little power in Russia. Nevertheless, Donald Trump said words can often lead to unintended consequences. A threat was made and we didn't think it was appropriate. Medvedev's comments followed an ultimatum issued by the US president. He demanded that Russia end the war in Ukraine by August 8th. Last month he also threatened tariffs on the country's energy exports.

Leslie Vingimori is president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. You know, it's the sort of thing that when you send nuclear submarines, you normally do it under a veil of secrecy. The Kremlin hasn't commented on America's submarine deployment. But Friday, President Vladimir Putin suggested Trump's deadline wouldn't make him change course. The Russian leader said the army is continuing to advance. Donald Trump described Russia's actions as disgusting.

Julia Chapman, CBC News, London. Canadian swimmer Summer Macintosh was vying for a fourth consecutive gold medal at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore this morning. What an effort, responding to the challenge, and Ledecky wins the gold again. But American Katie Ledecky, the current world record holder, held on to win the women's 800 meter freestyle. McIntosh, the 18-year-old Toronto native, swimming the bronze behind Ledecky and Australian Lanny Palaster. It's still a good haul for McIntosh at the championship so far. She has three gold medals and a bronze. She had been aiming for five gold medals, something only American Michael Phelps has ever done.

She'll try to make it four gold medals when she competes in the 400 meter individual medley tomorrow. Construction is starting soon on the virtual health hub in the White Cap Dakota First Nation. The hub will use technology like virtual reality and AI to treat patients in remote and rural communities. Construction is starting this month with an eye on becoming fully operational in early 2027. White Cap Chief Darcy Baer says the hub will offer services like remote ultrasounds to reduce travel

for pregnant patients. It's a three day process process. They got to fly them out of the north. They go to Prince Albert or Saskatoon. It's a three-day process. They can't bring their spouse with them. They have to travel alone and it's a simple procedure. The Virtual Health Hub has also announced a partnership with the CanHealth network and has acquired software to run the advanced technology the hub plans to use. It's been a summer of wildfires in Portugal, one in particular the Ponte da Barca has officials on edge watching the sea of winds whip up flames after days of crews working to bring it under control.

Alison Roberts reports from Lisbon. A week after it was reported, a fire in the hills near Pont da Barca in Portugal's far north is still burning, with hundreds of firefighters on the ground. Residents of four villages have already had to flee their homes. In this and other cases, arson is suspected and at least one individual has been detained. But conditions are also ripe for fires to spread. The vast majority of land holdings in the north and centre of Portugal are small and few are professionally managed to reduce fire risk.

And in the last couple of weeks there's been a sharp rise in daytime temperatures and, just as importantly importantly in overnight lows. Temperatures are seen climbing further today and Sunday to as high as 40 degrees in the capital Lisbon and 42 in the interior. Alison Roberts for CBC News, Lisbon. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.