The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/31 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/31 at 19:00 EDT

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The good news, no more damage has been reported, and favorable weather is helping fire crews make progress on containing the fire. But as Julia Wong tells us, evacuees are worried and want to go back home. Anxiety is absolutely increasing. Jonathan Gillis is trying to keep a. evacuees calm. It's been more than two weeks since the Long Lake Wildfire forced hundreds of people from their homes in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. It's destroyed 20 houses and damaged many others. Gillis, the president of the West Dalhousie Community Hall, says residents were not prepared

to be out of their homes for this long, and some, like Robert Howie, are losing patience. It would be nice to know when we're going back in, not as a date, but what we're working towards. Officials say they're working to keep the fire from spreading to other communities and say they're aiming to get evacuees home as soon as possible. Julia Wong, CBC News, Bridgetown, Nova Scotia. For the second time in a week, an evacuation order has been issued in the Northwest Territories. This time, it was for Fort Providence. Fierce winds are pushing a wildfire toward the hamlet and could reach the outskirts tonight.

Juanita Taylor has the latest. Fort Providence is the latest community that's been issued in evacuation. order. That came through just before 9 a.m. local time. Fire officials are calling the situation critical. Those northerly winds, they are expected again into the evening, pushing the fire closer to Fort Providence. And fire officials are saying that there's a very good chance that the fire will reach Fort Providence tonight. But the community has been building a firebreak, and they're hoping that that will prove successful. And crews have set up sprinklers and water cannons. Unfortunately, aircraft haven't been able to be used because of poor visibility,

but fire officials now say that the focus is on structure protection on the ground because the head of the fire is just too wide to directly attack with crews. Juanita Taylor reporting from Yellowknife. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy says a suspect's under arrest in the murder of the country's former parliamentary speaker. Andre Perubi was gunned down in broad daylight yesterday in Levif. Selingsky says the accused is spoken with police and that investigators are cracking down, tracking down critical details. Earlier firefighters battled flames at multiple power stations in Ukraine's Odessa region.

They were attacked by Russian drones overnight. Almost 30,000 people were left without power. Israeli officials say they have killed Hamas spokesman Abu Ubi Dai. Prime Minister Benjamin Njahou announced that a joint operation by the Israeli defense forces in Shinbet, its intelligence agency, targeted Abu Obidah over the weekend. There has been no comment from Hamas. At the Vatican, Pope Leo offered a prayer in English for those involved in the mass shooting in Minneapolis last week. Our prayers for the victims of the tragic shooting during the. a school mass in the American state of Minnesota. We include in our prayers the countless children

killed and injured every day around the world. Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world. Two children were killed, 15 others wounded, along with three senior citizens. The Pontiff's Sunday message is usually in Italian. The Pope also repeated his desire for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine. Former Donald Trump lawyer Rudolf Giuliani is recovering from injuries suffered in a crash. He was being driven in New Hampshire Saturday night when he was rear-ended. Michael Ragusa, Giuliani's head of security, says he suffered a fractured vertebrae along with cuts and bruises. Regusa adds, the incident was not a targeted attack, pointing out no one knew was Giuliani because he was in a rented Ford Bronco.

That is your world this hour. news anytime, visit our website, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.