The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/07 at 00:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/07 at 00:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. from cbc news the world this hour i'm mike miles air canada flight attendants have overwhelmingly rejected the latest tentative deal with their employer their union saying 99% of members voted against it but there will not be a new strike with both sides agreeing in advance there would be no labor disruptions air canada and the canadian union of public employees had also agreed that if the deal wasn't ratified wage issues would go to mediation and then to arbitration if needed. More than 10,000 flight attendants went in a three-day strike last month, defying a federal order to return to work. South Korean officials are vowing to support hundreds of their citizens detained by U.S. immigration authorities. About 475 workers were arrested at a Hyundai battery facility less than two weeks after the automaker pledged to invest

$26 billion U.S. dollars in American plants. Chris Reyes has more. At Hyundai's car plant in Georgia near Savannah, Korean nationals were loaded into buses by U.S. immigration officers on Thursday. The raid, the largest operation on a single site, according to Stephen Shrank, U.S. homeland investigations. 475 were illegally present in the United States or in violation of their presence in the United States. Seoul responded earlier yesterday. Foreign Minister Cho Hyun urged the U.S. not to unjustly infringe on the rights of South Korean nationals and investors. On the arrests, President Donald Trump said the Immigration Agency was conducting

business. They were illegal aliens. Ice was just doing its job. The carmaker also issued a statement, Hyundai promising to investigate the matter. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. A preliminary statement on this week's funicular crash in Lisbon says a critical cable snapped, rather, immediately before the deadly derailment. The statement adds the cable was only halfway through its expected operational lifespan. 16 people were killed in the crash, including two Canadians. For the first time in a Roman Catholic holy jubilee year, a pilgrimage by two us LGBTQ plus Catholics was listed on the Vatican's official calendar. Megan Williams reports the group walked through the Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica Saturday.

wearing white t-shirts with a big rainbow hard on the front, a long procession of 2S LGBTQ plus Catholics, friends, and family members filed into St. Peter's Basilica as part of the Holy Jubilee year. I hope the church continues to be open like today, for everyone, said this pilgrim. The Vatican's official recognition of the pilgrim group comes the same week Pope Leo met privately with a prominent U.S. priest who ministers to gay, Catholics, after he said Leo showed the same openness as Pope Francis. Francis, who died in April, issued a decree in 2023, allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, though the church

still insists marriage is only between a man and a woman. Arch-conservative Catholics have denounced the decision to list the pilgrimage. Megan Williams, CBC News, Rome. The Federal Court of Appeal has given a flock of ostriches a reprieve. Universal ostrich farms in British Columbia was ordered to call its 400 strong flock in December during an avian flu outbreak. It's been fighting back in the courts ever since, and Saturday it was granted an interim stay. The farm argues the birds are now healthy and wants to take its case to the Supreme Court. Okay, the numbers you're about to hear could make someone a billionaire. We'll start things off with the number 61, 23, 62, followed by 44, and we'll round it out with 11.

Now for your winning powerball number, it is 17. That's Saturday night's powerball drawing in Tallahassee, Florida. Total jackpot was more than $1.7 billion American. That's nearly $2.5 billion Canadian dollars. The winner doesn't get to keep it all, though. Uncle Sam gets a cut of the action. And that is the world this hour. For news anytime, visit our website, cbcnews.ca.

For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.