The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/02 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/02 at 07:00 EDT

We're in the midst of the dog days of summer. And it's called that because during this period, Sirius, the dog star, rises with the sun in the morning. Not because it feels like several dogs are breathing their humid breath on you all the time. Can you tell he's a cat person? Hello, I'm Neil Kerkstel. And I'm Chris Houghton. We're the co-hosts of As It Happens.

But throughout the summer, some of our wonderful colleagues will be hosting in our place. We will still be bringing you conversations with people at the center of the day's major news stories here in Canada and throughout the world. You can listen to As It Happens wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. The Afghan Red Crescent Society says the confirmed number of dead from yesterday's devastating earthquake has now reached 1,100.

And with more than 8,000 homes destroyed in the disaster, there are fears the number of fatalities will continue to climb. Anna Cunningham reports. The birds of Taliban military helicopters as rescuers work through the night, navigating the rugged mountainous terrain where the mud and stone homes built on steep valleys concertinaed into one another. They stood no match against a shallow six-magnitude quake. In the fields in Kunar medics hook the injured up to ivy trips.

It is feared many people remember. remain trapped under the debris, numbers unknown. Prime Minister Mark Carney says Afghan communities face unimaginable hardship and Canada is ready to provide humanitarian support through partners. But Western nations want to ensure any funds do not get into Taliban hands. Afghanistan was already suffering in a severe economic crisis after the withdrawal of international aid four years ago when the Taliban retook power. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London.

Sudan's Darfur region already in the grips of a civil war is now dealing with a horrific landslide. The rebel group controlling the hardest-hit area says the remote village of Tarasin has been completely wiped out with at least 1,000 people believed to be killed. Anton Gerard is the UN's Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan. We do not have helicopters. So everything is on cars in the very bamboo.

ropes. 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 area of Darfur has been hosting thousands of internally displaced people fleeing the fighting to the north. Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Beijing for talks this week with China's Xi Jinping. It's a summit that is, among other things, designed to be a defiant show of unity. Laura Westbrook has more. While a deal with the Russian leader to end the war in Ukraine continues to allude U.S. President Trump, President Xi's welcome of President Putin to Beijing, demonstrates

their close ties. And with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un also in China, Professor Wu Sinbo of Shanghai's Fudan University says this shows China's international influence is crucial. These are the leaders. President Trump very much wants to meet today. Putin, Xi, and it reminds him that he needs to get along with China. She's display of his diplomatic clout with a group of authoritarian regimes comes at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump's isolationist policies strain Washington's alliances. Laura Westbrook for CBC News, Hong Kong.

Canada's food regulator says it has found examples of grocers across the country mislabeling American products as Canadian. But while this maple washing has been uncovered, no fines have been issued. Sophia Harris reports. Brendan Nichols of Hamilton is a committed member of the bi-Canadian movement, so she gets upset when she sometimes fines at big grocery stores imported food promoted with Canadian branding, like a red maple leaf. This is deceptive and misleading advertising.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has been flooded with similar complaints about country of origin claims, 160 since January. The food regulator has already identified 12 violations between February and May, all but one of the cases, involve national grocery chains. No fines were issued, which also upsets Nichols. The CFIA needs to step up and start levying fines. The CFIA says in all of the cases, the grocer fixed the problem. However, there may be more problems to come.

The CFIA is still sifting through its many complaints about country of origin clean. for food. Sophia Harris, CBC News, Toronto. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.