The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/02 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/02 at 06:00 EDT

My group chat thinks I'm the smart one, but I have a cheat code. I take 10 minutes each morning and listen to World Report. Knowing what's happening in the world helps me feel connected and make better informed decisions. But endless doom scrolling is not my idea of fun. So I just listen to World Report on my commute, get informed, and get on with my day. World Report, the day's top stories in 10 minutes, wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings.

The Afghan Red Crescent Society says at least 1,100 people are dead following this weekend's devastating earthquake. But the number of fatalities is expected to grow as rescue teams start to make their way into destroyed communities that up until now have been inaccessible. Meanwhile, the Afghan community here in Canada has launched an emergency campaign, to get aid into the country but keep it out of the hands of the Taliban. Paula Diane Perez has more. Oh, my God. It's hard to, it's hard, you know. Makai Harif watches devastating images of Afghanistan on her phone.

Their photos of the rubble and people in hospital. The founder of the Afghan Women's Center of Montreal has seen this before. Two deadly earthquakes struck the country in 2022 and 2023. Executive Director Victoria Jahesh says one of the challenges is keeping that money out of the hands of the Taliban, listed by the Canadian government as a terrorist group. So the center has been using its contacts, mainly family members and trusted organizations, to distribute donations to those in need. So this time, again, we have some relatives in that particular part,

and also we know some very, like, research organizations in Afghanistan on the ground. Jahesh says it's not enough. She wants the Canadian government to help us well. In a statement, Global Affairs Canada says it's providing support to partners on the ground. Paula Diane Perez, CBC News, Montreal. Sudan's Darfur region already in the grips of a civil war is now dealing with a devastating landslide. The rebel group controlling the hardest hit area says the village of Terrison has been completely wiped out with at least 1,000 people believed to have been killed.

For two years now, the region has been engulfed in civil war, making it almost impossible to access. access this remote village. Antoine Gerard is the UN's deputy humanitarian coordinator for Sudan. We do not have helicopters. So everything is on cars and the very bumpy roads. It takes time and it is the rainy season. So some of the time we have to wait a couple of hours, maybe sometime a day or two, to cross a wadi, a valley with water. He says this particular part of Door Four has been hosting thousands of internally displaced people, fleeing the fighting farther north. Now to the Northwest Territories where structural firefighters are standing by in case an out-of-control wildfire reaches the community of Fort Providence. At one point yesterday, the blaze was as close as 900 meters.

Winita Taylor has the latest. These cats are working here. They're tight lining the fire. Danny Bolio is working to strengthen the fire break. on the outskirts of Fort Providence. He is also the mayor, protecting his community from the raging wildfire. They have hoses laid all over.

The wildfire is pushing towards town. Some essential workers were ordered out Monday a day after residents began to flee to Hay River, 180 kilometers away. Evacui Ruby Minosa is worried. Am I going to go home? Is my house still going to be standing up when I get home? The wildfire is one of dozens burning

in the Northwest Territories. Premier R.J. Simpson wants more federal support. And we can only handle so much. We only have so much capacity. Simpson says the territory has reached out to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center for more crews and aircraft to fight this fire. Juanita Taylor, CBC News, Hay River, Northwest Territories.

Actor Graham Green has died. Tadonka. Buffalo. Oh. Buffalo. For Tunker. That's Green in the 1990 Kevin Koster film Dances with Wolves. It was a performance that earned Green an Oscar nomination. Born on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Green's career as both a stage and screen actor dates back to the mid-1970s.

His manager confirms Green died yesterday in Stratford, Ontario at the age of 73. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.