The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/01 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/01 at 15:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. A huge wildfire threatening Fort Providence, Northwest Territories, is now within a kilometer of the community. The hamlet has a population of about 700 people and was ordered to evacuate Sunday. Crews there are hoping favorable weather conditions today will help them. Mike Westwick is the wildfire. information officer for Northwest Territories. Still a lot of work to do, but today, no homes lost reported. And our team's going to be looking at additional tactics today with some more favorable

wins to be able to hold this fire back and keep that community safe. The fire is so big, it has burned an area larger than the city of Toronto, 89,000 hectares. More than 34,000 public sector workers in B.C., could walk off the job as early as tomorrow. Last week, the BC General Employees Union members voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike to back their contract demands. Wages are one of their key issues.

So far, the union is keeping tight-lipped about what, if any, plans it has for tomorrow. I'm pretty upset about it. I'd prefer that we start as soon as possible. I mean, I'm paying for this. I'm here, and I'm ready to go. Dalhousie University students are facing uncertainty as the school year begins tomorrow.

many classes have been suspended due to a faculty strike. Members of the Dalhousie Faculty Association voted in favor of a strike mandate after being locked out by the university on August 20th. About 1,000 members are on the picket lines demanding better job security and fair wages. Some classes, taught by non-faculty members, will go ahead. A desperate search continues in the mountainous eastern region of Afghanistan for survivors of an earthquake. It struck around midnight, flattening houses and killing at least 800 people, and officials are warning that number is likely to grow.

Anna Cunningham reports. A young boy cries next to the ruins of his destroyed home. Afghanistan's public health ministry says entire villages have been wiped out in Kuna province. Blocked roads, landslides, and the remoteness of the area is complicating rescue efforts. Helicopters are the only way to get the injured to hospital from this mountainous terrain. A lot of the homes are made from just mud and timber. Says to Mindry de Silva, director of the Humanitarian Aid Organization World Fish in Afghanistan. They stood no chance, she says.

They just sort of collapse inwards. The earthquake is the latest blow to the country following four decades of war. Foreign aid to Afghanistan has been cut since the Taliban's return to power and its ability to respond to this earthquake and the needs of those affected in such remote areas will prove difficult. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. China has hosted the largest ever gathering of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The group also includes Russia, India and a number of other countries. The meeting in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin called for a new global order

in the face of what China calls U.S. bullying. Patrick Falk reports. It's seen as a platform to rally nations frustrated by trade disruptions brought on by the U.S. At the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Chinese leader Xi Jinping took repeated swipes at Washington. She says the SCO practices genuine multilateralism and must forge ahead amid global upheaval. The SCO has grown to become the largest regional bloc in the world by population and is presenting itself as a an alternative to the Western-led global order with China at the helm. Wrapping up the two-day event, Xi called for a more balanced global governance system.

His message resonated with many participants as Washington's increasingly taken a unilateral approach to trade and foreign policy. Russian President Vladimir Putin also called for a new system of security to replace what he described as an outdated Euro-Atlantic model. Patrick Fock for CBC News, Hong Kong. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Skanderas.