The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/03 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/03 at 07:00 EDT

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of starvation in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 175 since the war began. Video of starving hostages has their families ramping up pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a deal for their release. Julia Chapman reports from London. It's been a week since Israel loosened restrictions on supplies entering the enclave but Gaza officials and aid agencies warn there still isn't enough. This mother says she

told her children she might not come back from her quest for food but she managed to get a hand out of flour and beans. Hamas says only 36 aid trucks entered the enclave on Saturday. It claims most were looted. The group blames Israel for what it calls security chaos. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Hamas is deliberately starving Palestinians and hostages alike. More images of dangerously thin Israeli hostages have emerged. In Tel Aviv, protesters blocked a highway on Sunday to call for the war to end and hostages to be released. Julia Chapman, CBC News, London. Health Canada is recalling several different models of baby nest beds due to safety risks.

The infant beds are from Bee Chick and Chikur with the brand name 11. Health Canada warns of the potential for fall, strangulation and entrapment hazards. The department hasn't reported incidents or injuries in Canada so far, but it asks consumers to stop using the product and throw them away. He's been described as a fantastic leader by President Donald Trump, and now he could stay in power since 2019. He is hugely popular thanks to his iron-fisted crackdown on crime. But human rights groups say that thousands of people have been imprisoned

without due process. Juan Papier is the deputy Americas director of Human Rights Watch. He says Bukele is trying to install a dictatorship in El Salvador. Since President Bukele took office, he has quickly dismantled separation of powers, taking control of the Supreme Court, of the judges. Del Salvador continues to enjoy strong support from the Trump administration, and has recently detained hundreds of migrants who were expelled from the U.S. in a notorious super prison. Papier says that Bukele's government has been emboldened by this alliance. They know that the United States government is willing to look to the other side as long

as Bukele cooperates with migration. Bukele denies allegations of human rights abuses. Manuel Rueda for CBC News, Bogota. In Montreal, a teenager from Toronto has scored a stunning upset at the National Bank Open Tennis Tournament. 18-year-old Victoria Mboko, the lone Canadian player left standing in either the women's or men's draw, continued her Cinderella run in her first go-around at the National Championship. Ed Kleiman reports. 18-year-old Victoria Mboko dominated World No. 2 and French Open champion Coco Gough

on Saturday, securing a 6-1, 6-4 win that took just 63 minutes. Three months ago the Toronto native lost to Goff at the Italian Open in a close three-set match. This time with a sold-out crowd in Montreal cheering her on she knew exactly what was needed for a different result. I just wanted to stay solid and I wanted to be right there with her and take as many opportunities as I could. And yeah, at the end of the day, it really went in my favour. And Boko will now play a quarterfinal match on Monday, where she will be heavily favoured to win again. If she does, she will break into the top 50 on the women's tour

and be just two wins away from becoming the first Canadian to win her national championship since Bianca Andrescu in 2019. Ed Kleiman for CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fay.