The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/31 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/31 at 18:00 EDT

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As Yasmin Renaya reports, officials say the flames could reach the community as early as this evening. This is our troublesome wind. Wildlife Information Officer Mike Westwick says severe northerly winds made the wildfire grow significantly overnight. He says the blaze is now two kilometers north of the hamlet of Fort Providence. There is the chance that this fire does reach the edge of the community by the end of the day. Aircraft have been unable to attack the fire so far because of poor visibility. Officials say the head of the fire is too wide for crews to directly attack the flames. Westwick says the focus right now is on protecting homes. Cruise have soaked structures along the edge of the community

and have installed sprinklers and a water cannon. Just doing everything we can to keep the things that people care about within Fort Providence safe, keep that community intact and make sure people have a good safe home to come back to. Evacuees are being asked to head immediately to Hay River. Yasmin Ganea, CBC News, Vancouver. The number of new wildfires in BC has shut up over the past few days, caused by hot and dry conditions and lightning strikes. The coastal fire center in southwest BC saw just over a...

a thousand lightning strikes just on Friday, and a number of fires were sparked near Pemberton. Sam Bellion is a fire information officer. Fire danger rating across the coastal fire center right now is a mix of moderate to high. So in these conditions, any spark can cause a wildfire. We did see some precipitation along with this lightning event, but it won't be enough to soak those finer fuels on our forest floors that are primed for ignition or to extinguish any fires. Bellion says that many of the fires were located in high alpine areas. Nova Scotia, officials say the Long Lake Fire in the Annapolis Valley is still burning out of control,

but no more damage has been reported, and favorable weather is helping crews make progress containing the fire. Just minutes ago, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky announced a suspect has been arrested in the murder of former parliamentary speaker Andre Parubi. He was gunned down and brought daylight yesterday in Lviviv. Zelensky says the circumstances of Perubi's death need to be revealed. Israel has been pounding the suburbs of Gaza City since last night. With air and ground strikes destroying homes and driving more families out of the area. Local health authorities say at least 30 people were killed today, including 13 trying to get food from an aid site.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya who met with the security cabinet today to discuss plans to seize all of Gaza City. In Barcelona. A crowd ringing bells in cheering as Greta Toonberg and a group of prominent pro-Palestinian activists at sailford Gaza today, hoping to break Israel's blockade of the occupied territory. The Israeli government says the aid ship is a propaganda stunt to support Hamas, something Toonberg denies. This story is not at all about the mission that we are about to embark. The story here is about Palestine. The story here is how people are being. deliberately deprived of the very basic means to survive. This isn't the group's first attempt. Thunthunberg was arrested by the Israeli Navy in June for attempting the same voyage.

US President Donald Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro doesn't like that a federal appeals court ruled most of Trump's tariffs unconstitutional. But speaking to Fox News, Navarro says they're not too worried. It was a bad decision, but the good news is the dissent was very, very strong. I think it provides a very clear roadmap to how the Supreme Court can certainly rule in our favor. We feel very optimistic. The court delayed the imposition of the ruling until October 14th, pending an appeal to the Supreme Court, meaning for now the 35% tariff on Canadian goods not covered by the Kuzman Trade Agreement stays in place.

That is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.