The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/03 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/03 at 09:00 EDT

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When debts got you, you've got us. Give Credit Counseling Society a call today. Visit NoMoreDets.org. From CBC News, the World This Hour, I'm Claude Fague. BC's fire season is surging as the number of active wildfires has jumped in the past few days, with about a third considered out of control, and hundreds of properties evacuated on Vancouver Island. The CBC's Tricia Kindleman has more.

The Wesley Ridge wildfire is forcing an evacuation of about 400 properties and a provincial park on the east coast of Vancouver Island. Another 238 properties are under evacuation alert, meaning residents need to be ready to flee at a moment's notice. I think this is bigger than the one that had a couple years ago. That's a big fire. On that one for sure. Officials said they had no reports of homes lost to the blaze on Saturday. BC Wildfire Service though said some firefighting equipment

and railway trestles were lost. Workers and staff were safely withdrawn. In all, five evacuation orders are in place around BC, including around Lytton, which suffered a devastating wildfire in 2021. There are special air quality warnings and statements across Canada. The statements cover the country stretching from eastern British Columbia into western Quebec, varying in severity. Tricia Kindleman, CBC News, Toronto. Gazan officials say six more people have died 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. It's the final day of competition at is a summer to remember in Singapore. McIntosh in the championship record. McIntosh, the 18-year-old Toronto native, cruised to victory in the Women's 400-metre Medley race, setting a new championship record of 4 minutes, 25.78 seconds, and winning by over 7 seconds to capture her fourth gold medal of the event.

Then jumped back into the pool to join her Team Canada teammates to compete in the women's four by 100 meter medley relay race, but the team finished off the podium. Health Canada is recalling several different mobile models of baby nest beds due to safety risks. The infant beds are from B-Chic and Chicor 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's asking consumers to stop using it and

throw them away. Donald Trump promised it on the campaign trail, but the White House has now no current plans to mandate insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization or IVF. That according to reporting by the Washington Post. After taking office, Trump signed an executive order to have a new policy recommendation from his staff within 90 days, but that deadline has since passed and the Washington Post reports

there are no current plans to follow up. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.