The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/07 at 05:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/07 at 05:00 EDT

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It also takes the strength and determination of the communities around us, whether it's through disease awareness, fighting stigmas and loneliness, education, or empowering people to become more active. Novo Nordisk is supporting local changemakers because it takes more than medicine to live a healthy life. Leave your armor at the door. Watch this paid content on CBC. Jim. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. The United States is now imposing higher import

taxes on dozens of countries. As of today, goods for more than 60 nations and the European Union will face tariff rates of 10% or higher. Meantime, U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to double tariffs on India for continuing to buy Russia. and oil. You're going to see a lot more. So this is a taste of what? You're going to see a lot more. You're going to see so much secondary sanctions. Trump says Indian imports could be taxed at 50%, one of the highest tariffs of any country trading with the U.S. He says additional duties on China could be coming too.

The secondary tariffs are part of Washington's effort to pressure the Kremlin and to ending its war in Ukraine. Trump says talks in Moscow yesterday were productive, adding that he might meet President Vladimir Putin in person. The road was long and continues to be long, but there's a good chance that there will be a meeting very soon. And this morning, the Kremlin says a Putin-Trump meeting in the coming days has been agreed upon. Health officials in northern Manitoba admit an indigenous man was subject to racism

while seeking care in the final months of his life. The family of Stephen Rockwell says, hearing that from health care leaders, brings them a little peace. Ian Frey's has more. They were supposed to help him, and they didn't give him help. Stephen Rockwell was in remission from leukemia in late 2023 when his sister says he made three trips to the Thompson Hospital in severe pain. Stacey Rockwell says he was sent home without any medical testing and accused of just looking for drugs. And they let him suffer? That's wrong.

His family says the hospital only treated him with urgency after a chiropractor felt something odd in his best. back. Stephen's cancer had returned. Four months later, in March 24, he died. His family says his health issues were ignored because he was indigenous. And in July, officials at the request of the health minister met the family and agreed it was racism. Northern Health runs the hospital. It expressed condolences to the family and says it's committed to eliminating indigenous specific racism. Ian Fraze, CBC News, Winnipeg. In northern India, at least 200 people are missing after devastating flash flooding. A sudden surge of mud and water tore through a small Himalayan village,

sweeping away entire homes in a matter of seconds. Sasha Petrissik reports. Huge rivers of gray mud-filled villages, leaving rooftops as the only signs of once-bustling communities in the Indian Himalayas. Locals describe a deluge of rain and walls of water. crashing through on Tuesday, as much as 10 centimeters falling in an hour in what they call a cloudburst. It was terrifying, says Sumitra Todi. People didn't even have time to run. Rescuers struggle to get around boulders, blocking roads, or to cover ground where access has been

torn away altogether by landslides. The rescue continues unabated, says Pushkar-Sing. Dami, the state chief of Uttarakhan province. But the weather is bad and bridges have been damaged, so it's hard to get there. Sasha Petrissik, CBC News, Toronto. And finally. Canadian tennis player Victoria Mbocco won her semifinal match at the National Bank Open in Montreal last night.

Nothing would have ever prepared me to be in the final if you would have told me last year that I was going to be in the final here, I would have said you're crazy. The 18-year-old beat Elena Rubikina of Kazakhstan, and Boko will compete in the final later today against Japan's Naomi Osaka. And that is your world this hour. For news any time, you can click on our website. We're at cBCNews.ca. I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.