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

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

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

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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 earthquake has now reached 1,400. And with more than 8,000 homes destroyed, there are fears the number of fatalities will continue to climb. Anna Cunningham has the latest. 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 drips. It is feared many people 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. Dan'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 at least one remote village has been completely wiped out with an estimated 1,000 people believed to have been killed.

Antoine Girard is the UN's Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan. We do not have helicopters. So everything is on cars in 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. Gerard says this area of Darfur has been hosting thousands of displaced people who have been forced to flee the ongoing fighting to the north. Along with the leaders of North Korea and Iran, Russian President Vladimir Putin, is in Beijing for talks this week with China's Xi Jinping. It's a summit that, among other things, is designed to be a defiant show of unity.

Laura Bresbrook 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 King Jiu-in, and 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 foreign-made products as Canadian. But while this maple washing has been uncovered, no fines have been issued. Sophia Harris reports. Brenda Nichols of Hamilton is a committed member of the Buy Canadian Movement. So she gets upset when she sometimes finds 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 claims for food. Sophia Harris, CBC News, Toronto. And that is a world this hour.

I'm Joe Cummings. From CBC.