The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/25 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/25 at 22:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital, a tragic mishap. Israel hit Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunus and then struck it again as rescuers and journalists rushed to the scene. At least 20 people died in the attack, including five journalists. Canada, along with Britain, France,

and Germany condemned the attack. Netanyahu says Israel values the work of journalists, medical staff, and all civilians, and that its military is investigating. A fast-growing wildfire in Nova Scotia's Annapolis County is more than double the size it was yesterday. The long lake fire has forced more than 1,000 people to evacuate and has damaged multiple structures. Nikola Segan reports. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says hot and dry conditions have fanned the The wildfire more than doubling in size Monday to close to 78 square kilometers. It's an awful feeling and out of control fire. It's just an awful feeling. Houston's saying more evacuations are possible, speaking directly to homeowners.

You're going through something that is completely unimaginable. Most people's worst nightmare. Across the region in New Brunswick and Newfoundland, fires are still burning out of control, but things are looking up. New Brunswick is fighting 18 wildfires down from 39 in weeks past. Three are out of control, but no structures have been lost. Though conditions are turning in some parts of Atlantic Canada, bringing hope after weeks of anguish, Nova Scotia is still battling the worst of it. And though some rain is falling, officials warn it won't bring much relief.

Nicholas Sagan, CBC News, Halifax. At any moment, federal officials could come and euthanize 100,000, of ostriches at a B.C. farm. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered a call after an avian flu outbreak. Yasmin Rania has more. I think we have an opportunity to do something helpful. Mehmet Oz, the U.S. Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, think saving hundreds of ostriches could lead to medical breakthroughs. They were ordered killed after an avian flu outbreak. Oz, along with the owners of the farm located in the BC Interior, claimed that the birds have survived for months since the outbreak and now have

antibodies. That has huge scientific value to the global community. The CFIA ordered the call after dozens of ostriches died in late 2024 and early 2025. Two birds tested positive for avian flu. The agency says the call is necessary to protect animal and human health. Oz says if the CFIA doesn't want to test the birds, that he would try to bring them to the U.S. Canada's health ministry, responsible for the CFIA, has declined to comment on Oz's proposal. Yasminya, CBC News, Vancouver. Canadians looking to quit smoking have new guidelines listing which methods are proven and which are hot air. Advice meant to prevent the 48,000 smoking-related deaths every year in this country.

Jennifer Yoon has more. I've tried to quit many times. Mark Rich first picked up a cigarette at the age of 15. But over 50 years and countless attempts to quit, he's still not able to stop. There are a dizzying array of options. Dr. Eddie Lang is an emergency room doctor in Calgary and one of the co-authors of the guidelines published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Why would you choose something that doesn't have good evidence supporting it when there are other approaches supported by multiple well-done studies that show that they work? Some methods not supported by a lot of evidence according to the guidelines,

and hypnotherapy. And Lang says, smokers should not use vapes and e-cigarettes to quit smoking unless they've tried everything else and failed. That's because we lack long-term data on the safety of that intervention. So what has been proven to work? Well, nicotine replacement in general is something we make a strong recommendation in favor of. Jennifer Yun, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.