The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/28 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/28 at 12:00 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 it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings canadian prime minister mark carney is among the world leaders condemning russia's latest deadly attack on ukraine at least eighteen people are dead following the overnight bombardment of keve with carney accusing vladimir putin of killing when he should be talking peace julia chapman has more

After one of Russia's biggest attacks, a wave of condemnation, as well as residential buildings, offices of the European Union and the British Council were damaged. Ambassadors have been summoned in Brussels and London. It shows that the Kremlin will stop at nothing to terrorise Ukraine. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen vows further sanctions against Moscow. We cannot be naive about Vladimir Putin.

And last night is evidence of that. NATO Secretary-General Mark Russia says he hopes dialogue will lead to lasting peace. So far, Donald Trump, hasn't managed to achieve that. His envoy, Keith Kellogg, called the strikes egregious, adding that they threaten the peace effort. Ukrainian officials will meet Trump's team tomorrow to discuss security guarantees. Julia Chapman, CBC News, London. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand has appointed Canada's new High Commissioner to India. This nearly a year after both countries expelled their top envoys.

Veteran diplomat Chris Cooter has been named to the post. Relations between Canada and India have been strained since Canadian police accused New Delhi of being involved in the 2023 murder of a sick activist near Vancouver. But the relationship is showing signs of improving in the wake of Prime Minister Carney inviting Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi to the G7 summit in Alberta. 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.

Police say the suspect, a 23-year-old male, died near the scene of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The FBI is calling the shooting an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime. A prolonged wildfire seasons as they, 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 2023 wildfire season and have determined it may have touched off a trend that is reversing any progress ever made at improving air quality. Nicole Moldadero reports. It's hard not to remember the.

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 lifetime, 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. 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. So far this year, 20 health professionals,

from the United States have accepted job offers in PEI. The province says the hirings include physicians, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, and laboratory technologists. It comes two years after the province streamlined its licensing process for internationally trained health professionals. And it comes as all the provinces and territories are taking steps to deal with staffing shortages at all levels of the health care system. And that is the world this hour for CBC News. I'm Joe Cummings.