The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/03 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/03 at 17:00 EDT

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Know it now. Find the latest season wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Wayne Thibodeau. We begin on Vancouver Island. The Wesley Ridge wildfire is 389 hectares. It is currently out of control. That's fire information officer Madison Dahl giving an update on a wildfire burning about 50 kilometers northwest of Nanaimo.

Firefighters are prioritizing protecting homes and buildings and critical infrastructure. Doug Holmes is the Emergency Operations Director for the Regional District of Nanaimo. Currently there are 393 residences on evacuation order. The most recent evacuation order was completed by 2100, so 9 p.m. last night. Everyone was extremely cooperative and that evacuation went very smoothly. So we're very grateful for that. Holmes says another 240 homes are on evacuation alert. Highway 4 is open at the moment, but drivers cannot stop and should be prepared for smoky

conditions. Outer Control Wildfires in northern Manitoba are forcing another First Nation into a full evacuation. Residents of Nusitjwoyasik, Cree Nation, began leaving their homes in Nelson House yesterday as a fire threatened to cut off the only road out of the community. Marcel Moody is the road out of the community. Marcel Moody is the deputy chief of the community. It's been a terrible summer. I've never seen anything like this before in my life and our people have been breathing the

smoke pretty much the whole summer. I don't know what the impact is going to be in terms of the long term. Close to 300 priority residents have been evacuated to Winnipeg. Roughly 3,000 more are expected to leave in the coming days. Canada U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc says he expects Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump to speak in the next few days. LeBlanc appeared on a CBS News program this morning saying he thinks the two countries can strike a deal on the newly imposed tariffs. We think the economies of both countries are strengthened when we do things together.

Trading relationship between Canada and the United States is unlike other partners. One description which I thought was very apt, we don't sell things to each other as much as we build things together. And that's why it's difficult in this relationship when so much is integrated. But we remain very optimistic. The 35% levy that took effect Friday is only on Canadian goods not covered by the Kuzma trade agreement, but does apply to significant industries, including steel, aluminum, automotive and softwood lumber.

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. Videos of starving hostages has their families ramping up pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a deal for the 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. Also in Gaza, a rocket hit the headquarters of the Palestinian Red Crescent headquarters in Khan Younis. One aid worker was killed and three others were wounded. The Red Crescent says its headquarters was well known to the Israeli military and clearly

marked the Israeli military says it has no knowledge of the strike. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Wayne Thibodeau in Charlottetown.