The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/07 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/07 at 16:00 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 Gina Louise Phillips. New evacuation orders have been issued in Newfoundland as wildfires continue to burn. Residents in Conception Bay North, Ochre Pit Cove, and Salmon Cove are told to immediately leave their communities. Another wildfire near Kingston has grown to more than 2,100 hectares.

Public Safety Minister John Hagee addressed rumors that some of these fires were deliberately set. We're hearing a lot on social media about people who alleged they know who is setting fires, and yet these people will not talk to the RCMP. If you know, you should tell, because if you don't, you're helping them. The RCMP are now looking into the fire threatening Small Point Adams Cove Blackhead Broadcove, as well as several smaller bushfires reported earlier this summer. Prime Minister Mark Carney and conservative leader Pierre Pollyev both talk about building national projects. But their differences were on display today.

While Carney was consulting with Métis leaders, Polyev told reporters you have to push past opposition to get anything done. Stephen Hoff has more. Bill C-5, the Building Canada Act, has the potential, as I say, to unleash enormous possibilities. The Prime Minister is meeting with Métis leaders in Ottawa today, trying to build support to get big projects underway. In his opening remarks, he stressed the importance of getting things built while respecting indigenous rights. He's already met with First Nations and Inuit leaders. Meanwhile, in Calgary, conservative leader Pierre Polyev unveiled his own plan for speeding up the development of things like energy and mining projects,

and he's willing to force things through. We can't wait until everybody's on side. You're going to need national leadership. And yeah, that means that some people are going to protest, but we have to push through that if we're ever going to get anything done. Pahlia is running in a by-election in the Alberta riding of Battle River Crowfoot after losing his Ottawa seat in the last election. Stephen Hoff, CBC News, Ottawa. Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says Israel intends to take control of all of Gaza.

Netanyahu's security cabinet is discussing the proposal today, but the Prime Minister, insists Israel does not want to keep the enclave forever. We want to have a security perimeter. We don't want to govern it. We don't want to be there as a governing body. We want to hand it over to Arab forces that will govern it properly without threatening us and giving Gazans a good life. The country's army chief is warning against the move, concerned about endangering the lives of remaining hostages as well as IDF soldiers.

The Kremlin confirms U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have agreed to meet in the coming days. The goal is to discuss the ending of the war in Ukraine. Putin says United Arab Emirates could host the summit. Hamilton, Ontario is celebrating a homegrown basketball superstar. Shea Jilges Alexander led the Oklahoma City Thunder to this year's NBA championship. And now he's received a hero's welcome in his hometown. Philip Lee Shanock was there. Crowds packed Hamilton Stadium to see NBA superstar Shea Gilgis Alexander or SGA get the city's highest honor. Hamilton Mayor Andrew Horvath presented him with the key to the city and officially declared August 7th Shea Gilgis Alexander Day. The 26-year-old NBA All-Star was the first Canadian to be named Finals MVP, leading the Oklahoma City Thunder to the league championships.

Gilgis Alexander also claimed the league's scoring title and was the regular season MVP. The only other players who've done that in a single seasoner, Shaquille O'Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Jordan. He's only the second Canadian to be named League MVP, and he was the key to Team Canada's bronze medal finish in the Fiba World Cup, Canada's first medal ever. Gilgis Alexander says the coaching and encouragement he got in Hamilton shaped who he is. Philip Lishanok, CBC News, Hamilton, Ontario.

And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.