The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/27 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/27 at 15:00 EDT

If you're absolutely loving your summer read and don't want the book to be over, your experience doesn't actually have to end when you finish reading. I'm Matea Roach, and on my podcast bookends, I sit down with authors to get the inside scoop behind the books you love. Like, why Emma Donoghue is so fascinated by trains, or how Taylor Jenkins Read feels about being a celebrity author. You can check out bookends with Matea Roach wherever you get your podcasts. from cbc news the world this hour i'm gina louise phillips at least two children are dead and many more injured in a shooting at a minneapolis catholic school this morning lisa shing reports on a community in shock just yelling at my daughter's name clara so where are you where are you susan garcia describing the frantic moments searching for her daughter after a shooter with a rifle opened fire through the

windows of Catholic Church in Minneapolis, killing children at a mass that was meant to mark the start of school. Children are dead. They're families that have a deceased child. The city's mayor, Jacob Frey, devastated. Now, these kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church. Two of them, ages 8 and 10, died in the pews where they sat. 17 others were wounded. 14 of them, children. Police, Chief Brian O'Hara says the shooter was armed with a rifle, shotgun, and pistol. This was a deliberate act of violence. The shooter, in his early 20s, took his own life behind the church.

Police are still looking for a motive. Lisa Sheng, CBC News, Washington. All United Nations Security Council members except the United States say the famine in Gaza is a man-made crisis, and they stress starvation as a weapon of war is banned under international humanitarian law. In a joint statement, the 14 council members are calling for an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire. They demand the release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups and for Israel to lift all restrictions on aid delivery. Denmark has summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest an alleged covert operation by the Trump administration.

The Danish public broadcaster reports it involved U.S. nationals with ties to the White House. They allegedly carried out influence operations aimed at promoting Greenland's secession from Denmark. But Greenland MP, Pele Broberg, says Denmark has been using similar tactics in its campaign against the territory's independence. We've experienced thousands and thousands of Danes going to Greenland doing the exact same thing. So I don't know why it's all of a sudden intelligence operations or covert infiltrations as you like it. Broberg says Greenland will decide its own fate and is not worried about U.S. interference. A long-awaited rocket launch from a small Newfoundland town is facing another delay. The rocket is built by Canadian company Nordspace.

It's small and is not expected to fly all the way to space, but as Peter Cowan reports, the launch would still be a big milestone. It's our first launch, so we wanted to be perfect. Rahul Goil and his team have been waiting on the weather. The first day of Nord Space's launch window was Monday, but winds and rain at their launch site in the Newfoundland town of St. Lawrence have scrubbed the launch every day since. You know, these are very sensitive, very expensive, and safety's involved.

So everyone wants to make sure that they go really well. So this is something that we're totally used to. The company is trying to be the first to design, build, and launch a rocket from Canada, eventually giving the country the capability of launching its own satellites into space. After a year of planning, the mayor of St. Lawrence, Kevin Pittman, can't wait to see the launch. But to actually see it go out in the space, it'll make it real. Company is hopeful the weather Thursday or Friday

will let them finally see their rocket fly. Peter Cowan's CBC News, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. Conservative leader Pierre Pollyev is demanding the Carney liberals scrap the clean fuel standards, calling them a carbon tax 2.0. Mark Carney is bringing back the carbon tax. He calls it the clean fuel standard. Clean Fuel Regulations. According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, it will add 17 cents a liter to your gas. We want to ax all carbon taxes for good, for real, for everyone, forever.

The Clean Fuel Standard was implemented in the summer of 2023 as part of Ottawa's plan to reduce Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. Environmentalists criticize the analysis of the Parliamentary Budget Officer. They say it doesn't take into account the cost of climate change. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Thanks for listening.