The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 23:00 EDT

We are gathered here today to celebrate life's big milestones. Do you promise to stand together through home purchases, auto-upgrades, and surprise dents and dings? We do. To embrace life's big moments for any adorable co-drivers down the road. We do. Then with the caring support of Desjardin insurance, I pronounce you covered for home, auto, and flexible life insurance. For life's big milestones, get insurance that's really big on care at Dejardin.com slash care. From CBC News, the world this hour.

I'm Neil Hurland. A rail car crash in Portugal has killed 15 people and left another 18 injured. It's called a finicular and it goes up and down a steep hill in Lisbon. Global Affairs Canada says it's not aware of any Canadians being on board. Freelance journalist Enrique Coelho is at the scene of the tragedy tonight. I'm at the wreckage area, basically 50 meters away behind me, the crash area. There are several dozen police cars here from different units, local police, national police, judicial police is actually investigating what happened here because the causes of the accident are still unknown.

We know that one of the cable systems was broken, the steel cable that holds the steel cable that holds the the funicular was broken, and the electric traction system that is a security system didn't work either. So that's what caused the fall of the funicular that was coming from the top, and at some point it derailed causing the death of 15 people and injuries to 18 others. Freelance reporter Enrique Coelho in Lisbon tonight. Officials in Gaza say at least 24 people were killed in Israeli airstra. strikes as Israel moves towards Gaza City, the last stronghold of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The Gaza Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas, says five children and one adult

have also died from malnutrition in the past 24 hours. Chris Brown reports. United Nations and many aid groups accuse Israel of creating a famine in Gaza City and northern Gaza by systematically obstructing food deliveries, which Israel denies. Israel's government has repeatedly challenged the global food security experts who issued the famine report, and it said people with pre-existing medical conditions were dying because of those problems and not a lack of food. But Francesco Chechi, an epidemiologist with London's School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, disagrees. There is a whole group of individuals who have pre-existing conditions, who are going to be the very first to feel the effects of a famine.

Israel's government says more of food convoys are now entering Gaza, and its foreign ministry has circulated video showing restaurants and people eating pizza to further discredit the famine accusations. Chris Brown, CBC News, London. The Mounties in Saskatchewan have arrested 17 people, including the woman who calls herself the Queen of Canada. You can tell your team no one is going to resist. I gave instruction, no one's going to resist.

All of them will cooperate. That's Romana Diedelow, rendering to officers while in the middle of a live stream early Wednesday morning. Diedelow is a cult leader who tells her followers, Canada's laws don't apply to them. So far, no charges have been laid. Conservative leader Pierre Palliev says the federal government has broken its promises to curb the number of temporary foreign workers allowed into Canada. As David Thurton reports, the conservative leader is now calling for the program to be scrapped entirely.

Young people today form what I call it. generation screwed. Seizing on that generational angst, conservative leader Pierre Polyev is asking the liberal government to end a popular program, big and small businesses, rely on. Conservatives are calling on the Carney government to permanently scrap the temporary foreign worker program and to stop issuing visas for any new temporary foreign workers. Polyev says the program has flooded the Canadian job market with cheap foreign labor. He's offering alternative for conservatives to instead create a standalone program for difficult to fill agricultural labor, Prime Minister Mark Carney.

When I talk to businesses around the country, especially, particularly in Quebec, their number one issue is tariffs and their number two issue is access to temporary foreign workers. Carney said it's clear Canada needs to improve its immigration policies and set clearer goals. David Thornton, CBC News, Ottawa. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.