The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 01:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 01:00 EDT

Book club on Monday. Gym on Tuesday. Date night on Wednesday. Out on the town on Thursday. Quiet night in on Friday. It's good to have a routine. And it's good for your eyes too. Because with regular comprehensive eye exams at Specsavers,

you'll know just how healthy they are. Visit Spexsavers.cavers.cai to book your next eye exam. Eye exams provided by independent optometrists. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. We begin in Beijing, where the Chinese government held a massive military parade with 26 world leaders, including some of the biggest enemies of the West. Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un,

and Chinese President Xi Jinping, side by side down a red carpet. The image 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. The president of Iran was also there, and in a major speech, she alluded to the long-standing Chinese grievance

that it's treated unfairly by the West. History cautions us that humanity rises and falls, Together, only when all countries and nations treat each other as equals. In a post on his truth's social platform, U.S. President Donald Trump accused the Chinese leader of conspiring against the United States. President Trump wants more National Guard troops in some major American cities. He wants them to help drive down crime.

Paul Hunter explains. 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 federal NDP has officially launched the race to find its next leader. Former leader Jagmeet Singh resigned after he lost his seat in April's federal election. The party says there is strong interest in the contest. NDP members will vote for Singh's successor at a national convention in March. The Alberta government is pausing its order to remove books with explicit sexual content from school libraries. The order comes after a draft list of books to be removed from Edmonton schools was leaked online last week.

It contained more than 200 titles, including Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Premier Danielle Smith says the Edmonton School Division was too heavy-handed in crafting its list, and that the government is rewriting the directive to make sure classic books stay on the shelf. There are desperate pleas tonight from Sudan's Darfur region. Torrential rains triggered a massive landslide. At least 1,000 people are dead. Ethel Musa reports. Video posted to social media show.

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. It'll Moosa, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.