The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/07 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/07 at 10:00 EDT

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

So don't just know, go. I'm Susan Bonner. Host of Your World Tonight from CBC News. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. from cbc news the world this hour i'm claude fagg the cost of more goods entering the u.s from more countries is jumping today with new tariffs of between 10 and 50 percent and president donald trump is celebrating the prospect of millions of dollars rolling into the treasury coffers tom perry reports donald trump was back on social media last night he posted a message in all caps

Reciprocal tariffs take effect billions of dollars, largely from countries that have taken advantage of the United States for many years, laughing all the way, will start flowing into the USA. So that was Trump declaring victory as his tariffs kicked in on more than 90 countries. Trump says he's not done. He's talking about a new tariff on semiconductors. 100% tariff on all chips and semiconductors coming into the United States. But if you've made a commitment to build or if you're in the process of building, as many are, there is no. tariff. So that was Trump talking about a tariff on semiconductors. Now, America's neighbors, Canada and Mexico, still haven't reached any agreement with Trump, and they're really still seeking clarity on what their largest trading partner expects from them. Tom Perry, CBC News, Washington.

Brazil's president says he's treating his country's strategic minerals as a matter of national sovereignty. Luis Inacio Lula da Silva says he does not want Brazil to export its vast. natural resources just to have to buy them back later as expensive processed products. Brazil is facing a punishing 50% tariff on its goods in the United States, and Trump has been working to secure U.S. mineral supplies. Russia's Vladimir Putin and Trump say they're planning the meet soon. Russian officials saying today that a meeting between the two leaders has been agreed upon for next week. Crystal Gomancing reports from London. Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, William B. Taylor, says he wants to see the war end, but says demands from the two sides are

incompatible. And the Ukrainians, on the other hand, are demanding, such as they can, sovereignty and territorial integrity. Russia continues to chew away at that territorial integrity. It seized roughly 600 square kilometers in July, the biggest land grab of the year. And earlier this month, Russian forces claim to have taken Chassev Yar, a town in the Bakhmut region, where fighting has been grinding on for 18 months. A gallop poll of roughly 1,000 Ukrainians over the age of 15 conducted in July, found respondents are eager for the war to end. One quarter expect the guns to fall silent within the year.

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff met with the Russian president Wednesday, his fifth visit to Moscow. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. Victoria Moko has done it. The 18-year-old Canadian tennis star from Burlington, Ontario, has advanced to the finals of the National Bank Open in Montreal after a three-set semi-final win last night and becoming just the fifth Canadian woman to make the finals of the event first played in 1892. Sarah Levitt reports. She has done it again, the new Canadian Queen of the Court. Victoria Mboko now onto her first ever major final in the big leagues.

18-year-old came into Montreal's National Bank open relatively unknown, but her smashing success has won over the crowd. She says she's grateful for it. Playing in front of the home crowd obviously has its advantages. You know, you always have everyone pumping you up as much as much as they can. Tournament director Valéry Tetrault has watched it all with excitement. Just a couple months ago, she was probably the one still talking about who her role models were. Mboko has gained quite the fan base. And her success at this tournament means she's insured a spot at the U.S. Open's main draw at the end of the month, a first for her at a grand slam.

But right now, the finals here in Montreal. Sarah Levitt's CBC News, Montreal. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fagg. Thank you.