The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/27 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/27 at 23:00 EDT

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At least two children are dead and 17 others are injured after a school shooting in Minnesota. Officials are treating it as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime. It happened at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. Students were attending Mass when the suspect opened fire. Ashley Burke reports. Parents seen running. towards a Catholic school in Minneapolis, searching for their children after a shooter opened fire.

We lived nearby, so he just took off on foot. Emily Fess says her husband, a firefighter, race to see if their niece and nephew are okay. Thankfully, we heard that they're safe, but it's so awful and it's so scary. These kids were literally praying. They were in a church. The mayor, Jacob Fry, says the children were at mass to mark the first week back to school.

This was only day three. Two young children, ages 8 and 10, We're killed where they sat in the pews. Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says the shooter was wearing all black and had multiple weapons all legally purchased. The shooter identified in American media as 23-year-old Robin Westman then died of a self-inflicted gunshot. The FBI says it's investigating it as an act of domestic terrorism

and hate crime targeting Catholics. Ashley Burke, CBC News, Washington. Canadian officials were in Washington Wednesday, to discuss border security between the two countries. The high-level talks included Canada's justice and public safety ministers and the U.S. Attorney General. They were reportedly discussing criminal justice reform. It's the latest round of meetings meant to kick-start trade negotiations

between Canada and the U.S. After the Prime Minister said he would drop retaliatory tariffs on most American goods by September 1st. Well, if you're planning to travel to the U.S. anytime soon, be aware, your phone could be subject to a search. New data shows U.S. border agents are looking through more devices than ever before, and as Thomas Dagler reports, they have the right to do it. A growing number of travelers heading stateside are having their electronic devices searched.

Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows phone searches are soaring. From April to June, officers looked through nearly 15,000 devices. That's almost 25% more than during the same period last year. Toronto-based lawyer Heather Siegel points out U.S. border officers have broad powers to search belongings and electronics at their own discretion. What we're seeing is an exercise of discretion that's much stricter than ever before. Officially, U.S. authorities say the searches are meant to look for a wide range of material related to everything from child exploitation to terrorism.

Only a tiny percentage of those entering the country will have their electronics searched. Still, it's just one reason for now many Canadians are staying on this side of the border. Thomas Daggle, CBC News, Toronto. Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Canadian troops stationed in Latvia at the end of his four-day trip to Europe. About 2,200 Canadian troops are in Latvia as part of Operation Reassurance. It's an ongoing NATO mission meant to deter further Russian aggression, in Europe. Carney has announced it's being extended until at least 2029. At the United Nations

Security Council, 14 of the 15 members issued a statement Wednesday, declaring that a famine is underway in Gaza. Ondina Blokar is Slovenia's deputy ambassador to the UN. Time is of the essence. The humanitarian emergency must be addressed without delay and Israel must reverse course. The statement is non-binding and has no power under international law. The United States accuses the rest of the Council of promoting false narratives about the aid situation in Gaza. Dorothy Shea is the acting U.S. ambassador to the U.N. We will also take this occasion to reject the falsehood that there is a policy of starvation in Gaza. Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, Israel has enabled an unprecedented amount of more than 2 million tons of aid.

And that is your world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland.