The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/15 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/15 at 12:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. from cbc news the world this hour i'm claude fagg u.s president donald trump says russia faces severe economic sanctions if it's president vladimir putin shows he's not interested in peace with ukraine trump spoke this morning on air force one while flying to alaska for a meeting with putin today i'm not doing this for my health okay i don't need it i'd like to focus on our country but i'm doing this to save a lot of lives. Yeah, very severe. Ukrainian President Volomir Zelensky says it's time to end the three and a half year long war. This is Russia launched an overnight ballistic attack in the Denepro region injuring

at least one person. Air Canada says it expects to cancel hundreds of flights today as a strike deadline looms. The airline's flight attendants could walk off the job as early as Saturday morning if the two sides can't reach a deal. Ali Shiazon reports from Toronto. We are already hearing that Air Canada flight attendants have been calling in and not coming to work, about 300 of them so far. So that alone will cause additional cancellations on top of the 500 grounded flights we're expecting today. Some of the Air Canada passengers here at Pearson this morning are those who have had their flights rebooked. They were the people who were supposed to go on those long haul flights before they were canceled yesterday. Rebooking flights is proving difficult because of the really busy travel season. Now it's really a big if, if the union agrees to move forward with binding arbitration. QPee leadership has until noon to decide yes or no that they want to enter into that. The tone at the QPie press conference yesterday was that they want the company back at the table. The company Air Canada points the finger back at them saying they have abandoned negotiations.

Ali Cheson, CBC News, Toronto. Crews in Nova Scotia's Annapolis County are battling two fires today. The larger of the two is burning out of control. Firefighters are trying to build brakes and limit the flames spread. Brett Ruskin has more. An evacuation order issued yesterday morning was expanded late last night. That means more residents have been forced to pack up their things and leave home immediately due to the threat posed by an approaching wildfire. This one is being called the Long Lake Fire and it grew from 0.1 hectares to more than 300. hectares in just a day. Initially it was 42 homes evacuated, but many more families have now been told to leave immediately. We heard from a local fire official, Bridgetown Volunteer Fire Department Deputy Chief Justin Oliver, talking about the efforts to fight this fire. We feel for those people,

but our job here is to protect lives from property, and that's what we intend to do. Officials said while water bombers from other regions were available to help fight the fire near Halifax this week, The other Atlantic provinces are now dealing with their own out-of-control fires, and none are available to be shared. Still, there are crews on the ground and helicopters in the air working to get control of this latest fire. Brett Ruskin, CBC News, near Bridgetown, Nova Scotia. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered the D.C. government to recognize Terry Cole as D.C.'s emergency police commissioner. Cole is the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Bondi has also ordered sweeping changes to D.C. police. policies, which has drawn immediate legal pushback from the D.C. Mayor and Attorney General.

D.C.'s Attorney General has announced it is bringing a lawsuit forward, citing the Trump administration is going, quote, far beyond its power under the law. We're going now. The sounds of a historic rocket launch from Northern Quebec early this morning, the Star Sailor is the first Canadian Space rocket to launch in more than 20. 25 years. It was hoped it would reach space about 100 kilometers away, but the rocket separated earlier than expected, missing the mark. The project is a partnership between the Space Concordia Rocket Tree Division and members of the Cree Nation Mistysini. The development of this rocket was

seven years in the making. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fag. Thank you.