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

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

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

A lot of news podcasts give you information, the basic facts of a story. What's different about your world tonight is that we actually take you there. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. Margaret Evans, CBC News, Aleppo. Jerusalem. Prince Albert. Susan Ormiston, CBC News in Admiralty Bay, Antarctica. Correspondence around the world where news is happening.

So don't just know, go. I'm Susan Bonner. Host of Your World Tonight from CBC News. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. With Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un in attendance, Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted a major military parade today in Beijing.

It was to mark the surrender of Japan and the end of the Second World War, but as we hear now from Laura Westbrook, it was more a show of solidarity against the West. Unprecedented pictures showed President Xi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un talking comfortably as they walked down a red carpet by Tiananmen Square, along with more than 20 other world leaders. At a lunch reception attended by foreign leaders invited to the parade, President Xi had this message. Human beings live on the same planet, and we should work together and coexist peacefully. The world should never return to the law of jungles, where small and weak countries,

will be bullied by major powers. Taking note of the diplomatic activity was U.S. President Donald Trump. He's accused the trio of conspiring against the United States. Experts say this carefully choreographed event sends a clear signal to the U.S. and the rest of the West that Russia, North Korea and China are now united. Laura Westbrook for CBC News, Hong Kong. Tariffs and budget expectations are high on the agenda today, as Prime Minister Mark Carney opens a two-day retreat.

in Toronto with members of his cabinet. Tom Perry reports. At a nondescript hotel on the northern edge of Toronto, where multi-lane thoroughfares funneled traffic onto the 401, Canada's busiest highway, Mark Carney sits down with his cabinet today to map out the road ahead. I can tell you that the prime minister is focused on the speed of delivery. Families Minister Patty Heidu expects the two-day session

to focus on the government's top priorities, how to offset the impact of U.S. tariffs. Polster David Coletto with Abacus Data says Canadians want results, especially when it comes to Canada-U.S. relations. Well, I think the focus really is on why they were elected, and that was to deal with Donald Trump. So that remains, I think, a priority. It should be a priority for the government.

This meeting comes as the liberal government continues work on a budget expected to include some significant belt tightening. And as Carney prepares to once again go toe to toe with conservative leader, Pauliev. Tom Perry, CBC News, Toronto. Donald Trump says the U.S. military has carried out a targeted strike on a small vessel in the Southern Caribbean. We just literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat. These came out of Venezuela. We took it out. The U.S. President says 11 people were killed in the strike. He says the vessel was being used by the Trenda-Iragua gang operating out of Venezuela. And he says it should serve as a war.

warning to anyone bringing illegal drugs into the United States. Taking advantage of a new health trend, Starbucks is about to start offering added protein to its coffee options. It's something Tim Hortons is already doing. But as Anis Hidari reports, while this trend purports to be about health, for the copy companies, it's all about money. Starbucks won't say what their new protein products will cost at the end of the month, but Tim Hortons is already charging extra for protein lattes. Retail analyst Bruce Winner, Indar says the companies could be brewing profit. They've realized there's a big market there.

Supposedly the market's about a $2 billion market, and it's growing about 7% a year. But protein latte may not make nutritional sense, says Melissa Fernandez, a dietitian and associate professor at the University of Ottawa. We see the food companies creating products in responding to consumer demand for protein, but at the source of the consumer demand is often a lot of misinformation.

She says that misinformation includes the popular assumption that you should be eating one gram of protein per pound of body weight. But whether you're going to drink a latte that has 28 grams of protein or are you going to drink a latte that has 8 grams of protein, that's not going to have a huge overall impact in your health. So more protein in your coffee could just mean less money in your wallet. Any Cidari, CBC News, Calgary. And that is the world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.