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

Episode Date: September 7, 2025

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

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Please play responsibly. Charitable gaming, community good. from cbc news the world this hour i'm claude fagg russia has launched its largest aerial attack on ukraine since the start of the war striking more than three dozen sites across the country including the capital a mother and her three-month-old child were killed in the attack according to the city's mayor for the first time ukraine's main government building was also hit anna cunningham has the latest. Overnight sounds now familiar to Ukrainians, air raid sirens, the third of explosions, and

Ukraine's air defences. But these overnight attacks appear to have been overwhelming. The city's mayor Vitale Klitsko claims the government building was hit by a drone. Russia is yet to comment. Explosions were also heard in Ukraine's central city of Kremlinchuk and strikes on President Vladimir Zelensky's hometown of Krivi Rhee. In the southern city of Odessa, residential buildings were reportedly hit. Such was the scale of these latest attacks that neighbouring Poland as a precaution scrambled its own aircraft to defend eastern borders.

These strikes, Kilmen's Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected the idea of the use of foreign troops to secure borders in the event of a peace deal. Canada is one of 26 countries willing to provide troops for a so-called reassurance force. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. Israel is warning residents of Gaza City to flee as it targets high-rise buildings. At least eight people died in airstrikes on a school that was turned into a shelter for displaced people. This man says he and his family were sleeping and then found rubble falling on them. He says his daughter died in the attack.

Israel's military is warning residents to move to the south of Gaza and says it's attacking high-rise buildings that host Hamas infrastructure. Hamas has denied those claims. Aid groups warned that a mass evacuation will make a humanitarian crisis there worse. Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has resigned and will step down. NHK, Japan's public broadcaster, is reporting he wants to avoid a split in his liberal Democratic Party. Isheba leads a coalition which lost its majority in elections for both houses of parliament since he was elected in October. Isheba's announcement comes a day before his party was to make a decision on whether to hold a leadership vote. In Chicago, the threat of stepped-up immigration raids has led to cancellations

or postponements of events marking Mexican Immigration Day. That prospect sent thousands into the street Saturday to protest Donald Trump. Steve Futterman has more on Trump's planned troop deployment. Donald Trump is focused on Chicago. Go to Afghanistan. You're safer there than you are Chicago. In the wake of sending troops to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., he is now threatening to send them next to the windy city. Yesterday, on a social media post, Trump's most ominous sounding word so far, the post contained a picture of Trump with military helicopters and the Chicago skyline on fire in the background. The picture was titled, Shepocalypse Now, a takeoff on the dark and violent Vietnam film, Apocalypse Now. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a long

time Trump critic believes Trump is intentionally hoping to incite violence in Chicago. Begin with ICE, cause mayhem on the ground. And by doing that, say that there's a need for military troops on the ground. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. Also in the U.S., two winners will split the Powerball lottery's third largest ever prize. We've got another life-changing jackpot for you in an estimated amount of 1.780. $87 billion. And that works out to almost $2.5 billion Canadian.

That prize is paid out as an annuity. Many winners opt for the cash option, which in this case is $826 million U.S. Now, the winners won't get to keep all of it. A good chunk of change will be diverted to the IRS. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fagg. Thank you.