The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/27 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/27 at 17:00 EDT

We're in the midst of the dog days of summer. And it's called that because during this period, Sirius, the dog star, rises with the sun in the morning. Not because it feels like several dogs are breathing their humid breath on you all the time. Can you tell he's a cat person? Hello, I'm Neil Kerkstel. And I'm Chris Houghton. We're the co-hosts of As It Happens.

But throughout the summer, some of our wonderful colleagues will be hosting in our place. We will still be bringing you conversations with people at the center of the day's major news stories here in Canada and throughout the world. You can listen to As It Happens wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Police in Minnesota say the shooter who opened fire on a Catholic school this morning bought his weapons legally. At least two children are dead and many more injured in a shooting in Minneapolis.

The FBI is now investigating it as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics. Lisa Sching reports. Just yelling at my daughter's name Clarissa. Where are you? Where are you? Suzanne Garcia, describing the frantic moments searching for her daughter after a shooter with a rifle opened fire through the windows of Annunciation 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 Fry, 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 suspected shooter, 23-year-old Robin Westman, took his own life behind the church. Police say they're looking for a motive. Lisa Scheng, 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.

The 14 council members are also calling on Israel to reverse its decision to expand its military operation to take over all of Gaza. Slovenia's deputy UN ambassador, Ondina Blokar, speaks for the group. Time is of the essence. The humanitarian emergency must be addressed without delay and Israel must reverse course. The joint statement is calling for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire, the release of all hostages held by Hamas and the lifting of 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, Pile 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 exact same thing. So I don't know why it's all of a sudden intelligence operations or covert infiltrations as you're like. Broberg says Greenland will decide its own fate and is not worried about U.S. interference. A man found unconscious near a ride at the Prince Rupert's summer carnival has died. The RCMP say they responded late last night to a report of an injured man, and they are now investigating. A long-awaited rocket launch from a small Newfoundland town is facing another delay. The rocket is built by Canadian company Nord Space.

It's small, and it's 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 Goyle 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 is 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 into space, it'll make it real. The company is hopeful the weather Thursday or Friday will let them finally see their rocket fly. Eir Cowan, CBC News, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.