The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/02 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/02 at 21:00 EDT

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Please play responsibly. Charitable gaming, community good. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. There are desperate pleas tonight from Sudan's Darfur region. Tarrantial rains triggered a massive landslide. At least 1,000 people are dead. Ithalmusa reports.

Video posted to social media shows people frantically digging away at mounds of mud, likely looking for survivors. of a deadly landslide in central Darfur's Mara Mountains, located in the epicenter of fighting between the rapid support forces paramilitary or RSF and the country's army. The two factions have been locked in a civil war for more than two years. These families who had taken refuge in the Mara Mountains, they had been displaced by the conflict and now this natural disaster.

Arjaman Hussein is with Plan International. The charity is trying to get aid to those affected by the landslide, but the conditions are making it impossible. Most of the humanitarian transportation activities are on hold. And once it gets moving, it will need the approval of both the RSF and the Army to reach the area. Idlemusa, CBC News, Toronto. U.S. President Donald Trump wants more National Guard troops in some major American cities. He wants them to help drive down. crime. Paul Hunter has more from Washington.

Chicago is a hellhole right now. As U.S. President Donald Trump frames it, Chicago is in desperate need for the U.S. National Guard to go into that city and, in a sense, save it from itself. You can go to Afghanistan, you can go to places that you would think of. They don't even come close to this. Many take issue with that suggestion. Underlining Chicago's crime rate broadly is dropping. But this past weekend, dozens of shootings left multiple people killed and wounded.

And so, says Trump, well, we're going in. I didn't say when, we're going in. And here's Illinois Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker. None of this is about fighting crime or making Chicago safer. The real question for many, how far will Trump go? Suggesting again, after Chicago, he may well send troops into Baltimore. Hinting also, this kind of thing may be in place. for the long haul.

Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. The Premier of Ontario was renewing his call for federal bail reform. Doug Ford was speaking after a man was killed in front of his family during a home invasion. Jamie Strassion has more. According to Premier Doug Ford, 46-year-old Abdul Alim Faruqi died trying to protect his family. His three kids are there, his wife. He had a gun to one of the kids.

He went to go protect them. and these scumbags shot them right in front of his kids. Police say the home invasion is being treated as a targeted incident. They're looking for three suspects who wore face coverings during the attack. Just imagine what the trauma these kids are going to go through for the rest of their lives. It's not known whether the suspects in this case were out on bail or had any previous involvement with the criminal justice system, but Ford used this incident to again call on the federal government for change.

It's the weak criminal code that needs to be changed by the federal government. We're sick and tired of seeing these thugs get out on bail. Vaughn Mayor Stephen Delduca also today called for changes to what he called a broken bail system. Jamie Strashon, CBC News, Toronto. The federal NDP has officially launched the race to find its next leader. Former leader Jhmeet Singh resigned after he lost his seat in April's federal election. NDP members will vote for Singh's successor at an national. Convention in March.

A military parade is underway in the Chinese capital right now. Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, just strolled side by side down a red carpet in Beijing. The images of the three leaders and the display of military might is seen as a signal to the U.S. and the world of a powerful new alliance. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.