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

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

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

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I'm Neil Kumar. Israel's security cabinet has approved a plan from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to occupy Gaza City. Susan Ormiston has more on the plan, the pushback, and what could happen next? In order to assure our security, remove Hamas there, enable the population to be free of Gaza and to pass it to civilian governance. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling Fox News his plans to take over all of Gaza. We want to have a security perimeter. We don't want to govern it.

The goal is to route Hamas. Out of the 25% of territory, it still holds, mostly in and around Gaza City, a mission that could take four months. Phase one would reportedly begin with the evacuation of Gaza City and areas around nearly one million Palestinians would be forced to move. move further south. Yulia Novak with Betelam an Israeli human rights organization says extending the war inside Gaza ensures further suffering.

We'll see more people dying, more people starving. Netanyahu does have enough support from the hard right to push through his plan. Susan Ormiston, CBC News, Jerusalem. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev says, Prime Minister Mark Carney, has not accomplished enough

in the five months he's been in office. He promises that conservatives will introduce their own bill in the fall to speed up economic development. Pauliev says Canada can't wait till everyone is on side. He's demanding to boost the development of energy and mining projects. Conservatives are calling on Prime Minister Carty to have pipeline construction underway for at least two projects and to have at least one new natural gas liquefaction project and a road to the ring of fire in Ontario under construction by the first anniversary of him

taking office. Poliav spoke in Alberta, where he is running in a by-election. Police in Edmonton have charged the chief of Soutena First Nation with two counts of sexual assault. Roy Albert Whitney is accused of assaulting one male in 1994 and a second male in 2005. Karina Zapata has the details. Edmonton Police Service says the offenses date back to 1994 and 2005, involving a 33-year-old male and a 38-year-old male.

Both are from Soutina Nation and are known to the suspect, but do not know each other. Police in Edmonton learned about the first incident last year, and this spring they began to investigate the second incident. 71-year-old Roy Albert Whitney, Soutina Nation Chief, was arrested by Edmonton Police in Calgary yesterday. He is charged with two counts of sexual assault. Police say investigators believe more people may have been affected, given Whitney's role as chief. They're asking anyone who may have been victimized to contact the Edmonton Police. service. Police say they can provide additional support. Whitney has been chief of Soutena Nation since 1984. He was a banned counselor for

eight years before that. CBC News has reached out to Soutena Nation for comment. Corina Zapatah. CBC News, Calgary. New Canadian tennis sensation, Victoria Mboko, has won the National Bank Open Final. Sarah Levin reports for Montreal. A truly a phenomenal run for this teenager. And this is just what she does. She takes a little bit of time to warm up. She likes to get the crowd a little

bit scared, worried about whether she's going to win or not, and then she just gives it. And the crowd, the crowd absolutely electric with the crowd cheering every single thing she did. And there we have it, 18 year old Victoria

Mboko from the Toronto area, came to Toronto lives in Burlington. last year in the bottom below 300 and now you know what she's going to make it up

into the top 30 and Bucco going home with three quarters of a million dollars but no doubt tennis will still remain on her mind because in a couple of weeks the U.S. Open.

That's the CBC's Sare Levitt reporting from Montreal. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar. Thank you.