The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/01 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/01 at 09:00 EDT

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It's struck shortly before midnight local time, the epicentre in Kunar province. It's remote at the best of times. Children and elders are trapped under the rubble, says one man. We need urgent help, he says. Rescue helicopters have been landing at Jalalabad. Local residents seen helping Taliban soldiers to carry the wounded to ambulances. After shocks and landslides from recent flash floods, hampering efforts to reach those trapped.

The Taliban-run government is appealing for aid from international organizations. The issues with access will also make it difficult to assess the numbers of injured and dead. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. The wildfire threatening Fort Providence, northwest territories, just one kilometer away from the hamlet. The 700-person community had already been ordered to evacuate. Now all emergency personnel are being told to leave immediately. The CBC's Juanita Taylor is in Hay River. Evacqueees looking somewhat traumatized after a two-hour bus ride from Fort Providence bringing them to Hay River. It was quite smoky. I mean that smoke was getting

Some 700 of people who had to flee from an encroaching wildfire, 89,000 hectares in size, bigger than Toronto. It's really red. Frieda Lissage says she's never seen anything like it. It could just hear it. It sounds scary. Those who made it to the evacuation center uncertain of what will come next. Mike Westwick is the territory's fire information officer.

The town of Hay River has sent firefighters to town as well to assist in this afternoon. While residents have been told to get out, there are still people there protecting the hamlet by putting up sprinklers and water cannons trying to win the battle against Mother Nature. Juanita Taylor, CBC News, Hay River, Northwest Territories. The European Commission says a plane carrying its president was the target of a radar jamming. Spokesperson Ariana Podesta says it happened as Ursula von der Leyen's plane was flying over Bulgaria on Sunday. Today, Bulgarian officials are blaming Russia. Of course, this will only reinforce even further our unshakable commitment to ramp up defense capabilities and support for Ukraine.

And, of course, the EU will continue to invest into defense spending and in Europe's readiness even more after this incident. Vonderline's plane landed safely. There are reports that the pilots had to use paper maps to land. Yemen's Houthi rebels have resumed their attacks on ships in the Red Sea. A spokesperson says they launched a ballistic missile at an Israeli oil tanker off the coast of Saudi Arabia. He claims it was a direct hit sinking the ship. This has not been independently verified. The Houthis have said the attacks on shipping routes are a show of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza

and may also be retaliation for last week's Israeli air strikes that killed senior. Houthi leaders in Yemen. Ukrainian President Volomir Zelensky says a suspect has been arrested in the weekend assassination of a prominent politician. Andre Perrube was a former parliamentary speaker. He was shot dead on Saturday on a street

in Leviv by a suspect posing as a courier. In a statement on social media, Zelensky said the suspect is talking to authorities. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude big.