The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/04 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/04 at 10:00 EDT

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

Correspondents around the world, on the ground, and at the source where news is happening. So don't just know, go. 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. Statistics Canada is out today with the latest international trade numbers. And they show that despite the Trump tariffs, exports to the United States were up again last month.

It's a third month in a row that exports have been on the rise. Stat scan says the economy's resilient. is due primarily to the many exemptions that fall under the existing Canada-U.S. Trade agreement, which means at this point 90% of what Canada is selling to the U.S. is still tariff-free. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is taking its tariff fight to the U.S. Supreme Court. The administration's case challenges a lower court ruling made last week. That ruling found Trump's tariff campaign is illegal and not within the powers of the presidency. Aaron Collins reports.

No real surprise here. Donald Trump says striking down his tariffs would be devastating to the U.S. economy. And he says it would actually be bad for his attempts to stop conflicts in Europe and the Middle East. When I say I ended seven wars, at least half of those wars were ended because of the power of tariffs. So Trump arguing his tariffs are essential, not just to the U.S. economy, but to the country's foreign policy as well. Of course, the big question for Canadians is what does this mean for their trade dispute with the U.S. And the answer there, it's not as much as you might hope. Most of Canada's exports to the U.S. are still covered under the Canada-U-S.-Mexico trade agreement. Something north of 80% are still tariff-free.

And the areas of the Canadian economy that are really being hit hard are the steel and aluminum sectors. And we're imposed using a different law. So no matter what happens with this challenge, those tariffs are going to stick around. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Washington. Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet are meeting again today in Toronto preparing for this month's resumption of Parliament. Federal government is expected to table Carney's first budget in October. It will be his first since taking office in the spring. And the leger polling firm is saying tariffs have sled down the list of public concerns to fourth place right now with the cost of living now at the top. Incidentally, the head of a prominent American think tank will be at today's cabinet meeting or was to be at today's cabinet meeting.

meeting. But Kevin Roberts, the mastermind behind Project 2025, is decided now to stay in the United States and not come to Toronto. The controversial conservative blueprint that 2025 proposes a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government. He had been invited by the liberals to discuss trade issues. Officials in Portugal say a Canadian was among those injured in yesterday's finicular crash in Lisbon. 17 people were killed in the incident that today is being marked by a National Day of Morning. Megan Williams reports. A Portuguese emergency spokesperson lists off the nations of those injured Wednesday night when a car belonging to the popular Lisbon Finicular Railway derailed and turned over.

Among them is a Canadian yet to be named. Authorities say the 19th century finicular car jumped the track on a steep hill, slammed into a building and crumpled with what one witness described. as brutal force. The Gloria Line is a national monument and one of Lisbon's most popular tourist attractions, carrying about 3 million passengers each year. Today, flags are flying at half-mast across Portugal,

as the country observes a day of morning, and as police investigate, what caused Lisbon's worst disaster in decades? Megan Williams, CBC News, Rome. Italian fashion designer, George, Armani has died. Armani launched his own fashion line in 1975, and it eventually expanded to include perfume, music, sport, and luxury hotels. He's credited with pioneering red carpet fashion and is considered among the most successful Italian designers of all time. Giorgio Armani was 91 years old. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.