The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 13:00 EDT

Okay, listen, fall is my favorite season, and the biggest reason for that is it means TIF is year. My name is Alameen Abdu Mahmood, and I host a show called Commotion. Normally, we get into the biggest pop culture stories, and we do that in about 25 minutes or so. But during TIF, we do it in half the time. Listen to Tiff and 12 in our podcast feed every weekday during the Toronto International Film Festival, so you can keep up to date without having to watch four movies in a day. Find and follow Commotion wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey.

The Israeli military says it's establishing a humanitarian zone in the southern Gaza city of Han Yunus. It says displaced Palestinians who go there will receive food, shelter and medical care, while the IDF continues to expand its attacks in Gaza City to the north. Anna Cunningham reports. Israeli forces have been carrying out an offensive on the suburbs of Gaza City for weeks. the latest strike by the Israeli military Friday. The Israeli military says it targeted a 14-story building because it was being used by Hamas. An Israeli military spokesperson says resident should now leave for a designated coastal area of Karn Unis in southern Gaza. Israel says a humanitarian zone

will include field hospital's water pipelines, desalination facilities and food supplies. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's order for his country's military to intensify its offensive in Gaza City comes ahead of this month's UN General Assembly, where a number of countries, including Canada, are expected to recognise a Palestinian state. Prime Minister Mark Carney says the move depends on democratic reforms, including the Palestinian Authority, holding elections next year without Hamas. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. British police are again arresting supporters of the protest group Palestine Action. The Group was banned by the government in July under UK terrorism legislation.

Dominic Vilitis has more. Just minutes after the protest started, police moved in to make arrests. Organizers say around 1,500 people turned up at London's Parliament Square to show their support for Palestine action. The protest group was banned this summer under British terrorism laws after members broke into a military base and damaged two planes. Last month, more than 500 people were arrested at a similar protest in London, many in their 60s. Other protests in support of Palestine action have been taking place across the UK today, with demos also reported in Belfast and Edinburgh.

Dominic Volitus for CBC News, Bristol, England. Voting wraps up this afternoon on a tentative contract deal between Air Canada and its flight attendants. More than 10,000 flight attendants have until 3 p.m. Eastern to cast their ballots on a deal that raises wages for workers and provides some pay for work done before and after a flight. A northern Manitoba First Nations says they are in urgent need of a generator so residents evacuated months ago can return home. Chief Gordi Bear of the Matthias Colombe First Nation wants the provincial and federal governments to give $8 million that will buy a new generator so power can be restored to the community.

The hockey world lost one of its greats. Former Montreal-Canadian's goaltender, Ken Dryden, has died after a short battle with cancer. Dryden won six Stanley Cups with the Habs in their 1970s heyday and was one of the goalies on Team Canada during the 1972 Summit Series with the Soviet Union. Soviet teams roosting up. Here's a shot.

Block. Another try. The shot goes wide. Dryden retired from hockey early and went on to work as a lawyer and an NHL executive. He then entered politics, becoming an MP and a cabinet minister in the Paul Martin government. Political reporter Steve Paken was a friend. Parliament, cabinet, the fact that we got our first ever national child care policy because he was the social development minister that got it through.

I mean, look at all the different ways in which this guy contributed to our world, and it's a so much better world than it might otherwise have been because of him. Ken Dryden was 78 years old. And despite his best efforts, Montrealer Felix Oje Aliasim went down at the U.S. Open semifinal last night. His opponent, Yannick Sinner, is the world's number one ranked tennis player. Sinner now goes on to play Carlos Alcaraz, the world's number two player in tomorrow's final. And that is Your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilvery. Thank you.