The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/13 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/13 at 21:00 EDT

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labrador threatening communities forcing more than 3,500 people to leave their homes and leaving tens of thousands of people on evacuation alert and the situation isn't much better in nova scotia and new Brunswick. Nicola Segan reports. In Nova Scotia, even going into the woods can get you find. I get that people want to go for a hike or want to go for a walk in the woods with their dog. But how would you like to be stuck in the woods while there's a fire burning around you? Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says firefighters responded to 17 wildfires Tuesday, including a fire believed to be human-caused just 10 kilometers.

meters from downtown Halifax that forced businesses and a health center to evacuate. In New Brunswick, two uncontrolled wildfires continue to burn near Moncton and Mermachie as firefighters try to push them back. Most of the Atlantic region is under moderate to severe drought, and the good, hard rain that's needed might not come for days. Nicholas Sagan, CBC News, Halifax. On Vancouver Island, crews are trying to contain a wildfire burning about 12 kilometers from Port Al-Burney. Carly DeRosier is a fire information officer. She says a combination of drought, heat, wind, and steep terrain help the fire grow.

The Mount Underwood Wildfire is currently estimated at 2,156 hectares. So it has grown since the update last night when it was around just over 1,400 hectares. So we are seeing most active flank if the fire is the east flank. which is the furthest from the community of Port Al-Burney. DeRosier says the priority is containing the northwest tip of the fire, which is closest to Port Al-Burney. Air Canada will start canceling flights tomorrow, ahead of a potential strike by its flight attendants.

The union, representing 10,000 workers, issued a strike notice overnight. They could walk off the job this weekend. The airline says the two sides have reached an impasse in negotiation. Air Canada says it's offering. refunds and will do its best to rebook travelers affected. Anyone traveling between Friday and Monday can change their flight for free. The company says the disruption could affect 130,000 customers per day. The president of Ukraine and European leaders made their case

to the U.S. president today ahead of his meeting with Vladimir Putin. Their message, there should be no ceasefire deal without their input. As Ashley Burke reports, the U.S. and Russian presidents will meet in Alaska on Friday to talk about the war in Ukraine without Ukraine. President Zelensky was on the call. I would rate it at 10. Ukraine's president traveled to Berlin to join that virtual call with Trump. A last ditch effort to urge the president to make sure his meeting with Vladimir Putin goes the way they want. There's a very good chance that we're going to have a second meeting, which will be more productive than the first, because the first is I'm going to find out where we are and what we're doing. Trump has called his upcoming meeting in a

Alaska with Putin on Friday, a listening exercise, where he'll know in the first two minutes if Putin is even open to making a deal. Now Trump says he's just trying to set the stage for the next round of talks. I would like to do it almost immediately. And we'll have a quick second meeting between President Putin and President Zelensky and myself if they'd like to have me there. Trump did make one promise. If Putin doesn't agree to end the war, Trump says he will take action. but wouldn't say if that means stiffer sanctions like Zelensky's long-ass-for. Ashley Burke, CBC News, Washington. Manitoba Premier Wob Canoe is calling on Ottawa to support canola growers

after China slapped a 75% preliminary anti-dumping duty on Canadian canola. And let's see the federal government step up with the same sort of supports that you've seen for the steel industry, for the auto industry, and for the lumber industry. Canoe says what sparked the Chinese move, with tariffs that Canada put on Chinese electric vehicles. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.