The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/25 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/25 at 12:00 EDT

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prime minister mark carney is in warsaw today rolling out canada's new strategic partnership with poland it focuses primarily on trade defense and energy however the war in ukraine of course remains at the very top of the agenda with canada and poland both in the process of establishing how they plan to go forward once the war comes to an end. Murray Brewster reports. The Prime Minister spoke with his Polish counterpart today about post-war security guarantees in Ukraine. Now, Canada might be in for sending troops into Ukraine

if there is a ceasefire with Russia, but Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk reiterated his country's position this morning that no Polish troops are going to be going into Ukraine if there is a ceasefire or, even a potential peace deal. He said that Poland will continue to provide logistical support to get troops and equipment in and out of Ukraine, and it will be guarding its border with Belarus. Now, Poland is in the midst of a major rearmament drive and recruiting drive,

so it can't spare the manpower to be part of any post-war arrangement within Ukraine. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Warsaw. Mark Carney's overseas tour, which started yesterday in Key, We'll see the Prime Minister fly next to Germany and then to Latvia. Health officials in Gaza say at least 20 people have been killed in an airstrike today on Nassar Hospital in Han Yunus. And included in the dead are five journalists. Julia Chapman has more. Chaos and confusion after a strike hits the roof of the Nassar Hospital in Han Yunis.

Minutes later, local reporters say there was a second explosion. It struck emergency workers and journalists responding to the first one. After a perilous night, there were also more strikes on Gaza City this morning. Tess Ingram is a spokesperson for UNICEF. We've got heavy bombardments happening in Gaza City last night. It was particularly intense. And this morning there were some really visible strikes over to the east, four in a row, which just turned the sky black. Israel has told civilians to leave the city for designation.

safe zones, but even those have come under attack. This Gaza City resident says he won't flee because he expects to die whether he stays or goes. Julia Chapman, CBC News, London. The French Foreign Ministry has summoned U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner. It comes after Kushner published an open letter that accuses the government of Emmanuel Macron of not doing enough to combat anti-Semitism. The Foreign Ministry calls the allegation unacceptable.

Earlier this summer, France announced it will be recognizing Palestinian statehood next month at the United Nations. Kushner says that declaration is fueling anti-Jewish violence and extremism. Kushner's son Jared is married to Ivanka Trump, the daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump. And speaking of Donald Trump, he signed a new round of executive orders today, one of them calling for a one-year prison sentence for anyone found guilty of burning an American flag. But when you burn the American flag, it incites riots. at levels that we've never seen before. People go crazy. In a way, both ways. There are some that are going crazy for doing it. There are others that are angry, angry about them doing it.

The order contradicts a Supreme Court ruling from 1989 that determined flag burning to be a freedom of speech issue. That ruling struck down laws in 48 states that had criminalized the destruction of the American flag. Air Canada passengers, affected by the flight attendant's strike, can expect a long wait if they plan to fly. file a formal complaint. The Canadian Transportation Agency says its backlog of air travel complaints stood at more than 80,000 as of August 14th, and that was two days before the strike began. This even though the agency put in a new system two years ago to ramp up its capacity to deal with customer concerns. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.

Thank you.