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

Episode Date: August 21, 2025

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

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initial stage of a new military operation in gaza city Israeli troops are already said to be advancing into the outskirts of gaza city with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he is speeding up the timeline for the IDF to target any remaining Hamas strongholds. All of this has led to a statement from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. It is vital to reach immediately a ceasefire in Gaza and the unconditional release of all hostages and to avoid the massive deaths and destruction that a military operation against Gaza City would inevitably cause. Ahead of this new campaign, Israel announced it is calling up 60,000 military reservists

who are being told to prepare to join the war effort by next month. Ukrainian officials are calling Russia's overnight aerial assault, one of the largest bombardments of the year. That's the cleanup underway in Lviv, after a drone strike on a residential building. it was one of more than 500 drones and 40 missiles fired into the country. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says most were intercepted, but at least one fatality is being reported, along with dozens of injuries. Venezuela is in the process of mobilizing its military

as U.S. warships make their way toward the Southern Caribbean. The American vessels have been deployed by the Trump White House, which says it is launching a campaign to bring down the region's drug cartels. But the Venezuelan government says the real goal is to oust President Nicholas Maduro. Manuel Rueira reports. Venezuela and President Nicolas Maduro is pushing back against the deployment of U.S. warships to the Southern Caribbean. Earlier this week, he announced his government will mobilize all of its reservists to prepare Venezuela for a possible U.S. attack. No empire is going to touch the sacred soil of Venezuela, he said.

U.S. officials have said that three destroyed. are on their way to international waters near Venezuela's coast. Another group of three ships carrying a land enforced with 4,000 Marines is expected to arrive in the area next week. The Trump administration has accused the Venezuelan leader of being a major drug trafficker. Earlier this week, press secretary Caroline Levitt said that the U.S. government wants Maduro to face justice. The Maduro regime is not the legitimate government of Venezuela. It is a narco-terror cartel.

He is a fugitive head of this cartel. Lowell Rueda for CBC News, Bogota. Questions are being raised in New Brunswick about whether a proposed natural gas plant has the indigenous involvement that it claims. An American company is behind the project, but it appears any MiGMA investment may only be hypothetical. Jacques Portra has more.

North Shore Migma Tribal Council is a minority equity holder in the project. That claim by Pro Energy Executive Landon Tessner at a July online meeting is a calling card for the proposed natural gas plant. Those discussions were ongoing with the North Shore Migma Tribal Council, which ultimately resulted in their equity participation in the project. New Brunswick's power utility needs the

extra electricity the plant would provide, but there's growing opposition, including to the choice of pro-energy, a U.S. company, to build it. In response, Premier Susan Holt has pointed to the supposed indigenous role. It will be co-owned by a group of different First Nations, a group of different New Brunswick First Nations.

So far, though, is no equity investment by any First Nation. So I think there was a step missed. Pabinot First Nation Chief Terry Richardson says the MiGMA agency working with the U.S. company may have moved too quickly. Another group representing all MiGMA bans will run its own rights impact assessment to determine consent and then maybe investment. Jacques Petra, CBC News, Fredericton. And that is The World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcast. The World This Hour is updated every hour seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.