The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/28 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/28 at 10:00 EDT

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Please play responsibly. Charitable gaming, community good. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings as prolonged wildfire seasons become the norm here in canada we're being offered a disturbing look at what it means to our health researchers at the university of chicago have examined canada's twenty twenty three wildfire season and have determined it may have touched off a trend that is reversing any progress ever made at improving air quality. Nicole Mortillero reports. It's hard not to remember the 2023 wildfire season

when more than 16 million hectares of forest were lost and thousands were displaced from their homes. Today's report found that during the 2023 wildfire season, more than half of Canadians breathed air that surpassed our national standard. And if those levels continued for a person's life, time, the average Canadian would lose roughly two years of their life expectancy. The worsening air quality is a frustrating reversal of progress made by Canada to reduce

air pollution. Michael Greenstone is one of the report's authors. The air pollution is like the zombie that we thought we had killed, but it's coming back to life. But with climate change worsening droughts, the risk of wildfires increases. This year has been the second worst wildfire season on record, and experts warn that the risk to Canadians from exposure to smoke will likely increase each year. Nicole Mortillero, CBC News, Toronto.

In Ukraine overnight, drone and missile strikes on Central Kyve have killed at least 17 people. Three children are among the dead and as many as 100 buildings have been damaged. One of them is the EU headquarters in the capital. Two Russian missiles landed within 50 meters of the office. Ursula von der Leyen is the president of the European Commission. And this is another grim,

reminder of what is at stake. It shows that the Kremlin will stop at nothing to terrorize Ukraine, blindly killing civilians, men, women, and children, and even targeting the European Union. Wanderline says the EU is preparing a new round of sanctions against Moscow. Now to Minneapolis. That's one of a number of memorial services held overnight in the wake of yesterday's school shooting. Two children aged 8 and 10 were killed with another 17 wounded. Peggy Flanagan is the state's lieutenant governor. God weeps. Jesus weeps in this moment.

Because we have free will and we have been given all of the tools necessary. to stop this violence against our children. 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 Menaris comes after a clash over vaccine 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 Menaris 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. Ashikhajah was the co-exha. COVID-19 response coordinator during the Biden administration. Along 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 Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.