The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/07 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/07 at 09:00 EDT

A lot of news podcasts give you information, the basic facts of a story. What's different about your world tonight is we actually take you there. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. Margaret Evans, CBC News, Aleppo. Jerusalem. Ottawa. Prince Albert. Susan Ormiston, CBC News in Admiralty Bay, Antarctica.

Correspondents around the world, on the ground, and at the source where news is happening. So don't just know, go. Your world tonight from CBC News. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fagg. Ontario Premier Doug Ford had some harsh words about U.S. President Donald Trump and his negotiation tactics.

Speaking with reporters yesterday, after a virtual meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney and his fellow premiers, Ford warned that Trump will target Canada's free trade deal with the U.S. and Mexico, known as Kuzma. and he'll try to renegotiate the deal that shields many Canadian goods from the American tariffs earlier than the 2026 review date. He said Canada has to be ready for anything. He's going to go on record. He's coming full bore out of us. He's not, this isn't going to be a church picnic. This is going to be, let's get down to it, and we'll see what happens. I'm praying that everything's going to go fine. But if it doesn't, I got to ask the people, do you trust President Trump? I don't.

Meantime, sweeping new tariffs are now in effect for goods from dozens of countries entering the U.S. Last week, the Trump administration extended a deadline for trading partners to reach a new deal with the states. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with his security cabinet today looking at expanded military action in Gaza. A move his army chief is opposing. Susan Ormiston is following the story in Tel Aviv. The government plan backed by Benjamin Netanyahu is being characterized as a five-month military maneuver that will push into Gaza City and try to move a million people towards the south. These are areas not currently held or controlled by the IDF and it's believed where the remaining 20 surviving hostages are held. Last night the families of hostages scuffled with police during a protest around the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

We need your help that this time all 50 hostages. They've called Netanyahu's plan a disastrous decision. It could still be modified or changed. The move also signals the government has no current expectation for successful ceasefire talks. Hamas has hardened its position in recent days, saying it will not disarm before the guarantee of a Palestinian state. Egypt reports nearly a thousand trucks have been able to cross into Gaza over the last 10 days, but far below the basic needs of civilians. Susan Ormiston, CBC News, Tel Aviv.

Manitoba's government says it is taking steps to eliminate racism from the health care system. But Stephen Rockwell's family says it's got a long way to go. The 33-year-old father died from cancer and his loved ones say his health concerns were ignored because he's indigenous. As Ian Fraze reports, they are still pushing for answers. They were supposed to help him and they didn't give him help. Stephen Rockwell was in remission from leukemia in late 2020. 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. When 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 back. Stephen's cancer had returned. Four months later, in March 2024, he died. His family says his health patient. were ignored because he was indigenous. And in July, officials, at the request of the health

minister, met the family, 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. Canadian tennis player Victoria Mbocco won her semifinal match at the National Bank Open in Montreal last night. The 18-year-old Burlington Ontario native upset ninth-seated Elena Rybuckina of Kazakhstan in three sets, becoming just the fifth Canadian woman to reach the national final. And Boko will face Naomi Osaka in tonight's final, and will vie to become just the third Canadian woman to win it all.

And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague. Thank you.