The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/28 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/28 at 09:00 EDT

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bombardments of the summer and it comes as u.s and EU leaders have been ramping up their efforts to finalize a ceasefire. Breyer Stewart reports. There was not a lot of optimism for the political talks that are going on. I think people that I've been speaking with didn't have a lot of hope that they were going to lead anywhere because they said Russia will not negotiate. We cannot trust Vladimir Putin. The fact that you're seeing attacks like this still being carried out on this scale with this number of people being killed, it is really devastating for people. I mean, this has been more than the three and a half years of war. And really what we have seen throughout the summer is attacks being carried on the Capitol

like they haven't been since the early days of this. And people now are spending much more time in shelters, much more time in metro stations and railway stations. The site that I'm at, I talked to a young man who's living in the building. He said that they all went to the shelter originally. And then after the first strike, they ran out because it filled with smoke. And when they were on the street, there was a second missile strike nearby. And some of the people who left the shelter were actually injured by the shrapnel. Breyer Stewart, CBC News, Kyuk. In what is a rare foreign trip, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is in Beijing.

He is scheduled to make a public appearance alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. It's being called a three-country show of solidarity and defiance against the West. A number of vigils were held overnight across Minneapolis in honor of the victims of yesterday's school shooting. Two children aged 8 and 10 were killed with another 17 wounded. And while there was grief and despair last night, there were also calls for stricter gun control measures. Keith Ellison is the state's Attorney General.

My thoughts, and what I'm thinking about is a national ban on assault rifles. My prayer, my prayer is a national ban on these assault rifles. And you should know that when we used to ban them assault rifles, we used to keep a lot more people alive than we do now. Police say the shooting suspect, a 23-year-old male, died near the scene of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police say he was armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol. The White House says it has fired the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

It comes on the same day as the CDC announced new restrictive measures governing COVID-19 vaccines. Steve Futterman has more. The sudden move to dismiss Susan Menas comes after a clash over vaccination. policy with controversial health and human services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy has been seen by many as a vaccine denier. The White House says Maneris isn't aligned with the Trump agenda. Her lawyers counter saying she is being targeted for standing up to science. What you sought at the CDC was a wholesale destruction of the leadership of the organization.

Dr. Ashish Jha was the COVID-19 response coordinator during the Biden administration. A lot With the attempt to remove Maneras, four other high-ranking CDC officials resigned late Wednesday, one of them accusing the Trump administration of weaponizing public health. All this comes as the Kennedy-influenced Food and Drug Administration announced on Wednesday restrictive guidelines on who is eligible to get the latest COVID-19 vaccines this fall. Steve Fetterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. There's plenty of Canadian content to look for today at the U.S. Open in New Year. York. On the women's side, Lela Fernandez has a third-round singles match, and she's also

teaming up with legend Venus Williams in doubles play. As for the men, Felix Oje, Aliasim, Dennis Schiappevaloff, and Gabriel Diallo all have second round matches. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Friends