The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/02 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/02 at 11:00 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 first to the northwest territories where structural firefighters are standing by in case and out-of-control wildfire reaches the community of

fort provenance at one point yesterday the blaze was less than one kilometer away we needa taylor has the latest these cats are working here they're We're tight line in the fire. Danny Bolio is working to strengthen the firebreak 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. The Afghan Red Crescent Society says the confirmed number of dead from yesterday's earthquake has now reached 1400. And with more than 8,000 homes destroyed, there are fears that number, the number of fatalities will continue to climb over the coming days. The powerful quake struck several provinces flattening entire villages. Sudan's Darfur region, already in the grips of a civil war, is now dealing with a devastating landslide. A 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. Along with the leaders of North Korea and Iran, Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Beijing this week for talks with China's Xi Jinping. Laura Westbrook has more. While a deal with the Russian leader to end the war in Ukraine continues to allude U.S. President Donald 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 of 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 mislabelling foreign-made products as Canadian. But while this maple washing has been uncovered, no fines have been issued. Sophia Harris has more. 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. 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 fix 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 the World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcast. The World This Hour is updated every hour seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummix. Thank you.