The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/03 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/03 at 13:00 EDT

Art has power to inspire us, to unite us, to give us solace and courage when we need it most. To create important stories, lasting memories, a sense of belonging. Your National Arts Centre serves as a catalyst in communities across Canada, empowering artists, inspiring audiences, and bringing us closer together. Learn more at nac.ca slash create in Canada. From CBC News, the world is our. I'm Wayne Thibodeau. Dominic LeBlanc, the Federal Minister for Canada-U.S. Trade, appeared on American television

this morning, saying he remains optimistic that a win-win deal can be reached and pointing out how the 35% tariff on some Canadian goods will hurt American consumers. By putting a 50% tariff on aluminum from Canada, you've increased the price of a whole series of goods. The automobile sector again, 50% of the cars that we finish in Canada and sell to the United States are made up of American parts. What we've said to our American counterparts is how can we structure the right agreement where we can both continue to supply one another in a reliable, cost-effective way that preserves

jobs essential to the American economy but the same thing is true obviously in Canada as well. LeBlanc says he expects Prime Minister Mark Kearney and President Donald Trump to speak in the next few days. Dozens of wildfires are burning in BC with about a third considered out of control. Evacuation orders have been issued for hundreds of properties on Vancouver Island. 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 they had a couple years ago. That's a big fire. I agree with him 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 Workers and staff were safely withdrawn.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 B.C., 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. Trisha Kindleman, CBC News, Toronto. In Gaza, 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 been, have families ramping up pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a deal for their release. Julia Chapman has more. 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. And it's the final day of competition at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore and Canadian Summer Macintosh came out gold again.

Macintosh having already won the 400 free, the 200 IM, the 200 fly. This is a summer to remember in Singapore. 18-year-old Summer Macintosh cruised to victory in the Women's 400-metre medley race, setting a new championship record of 4 minutes, 25.78 seconds, to capture her fourth gold medal of the competition. Then jumped back into the pool for Team Canada in the women's 4x100-metre medley relay, but the team finished out of the podium race.

And that's your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Wayne Thibodeau in Charlottetown.