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

Episode Date: September 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/07 at 09:00 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 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 ladies. latest attacks that neighboring Poland as a precaution scrambled its own aircraft to defend eastern borders. These strikes, Kelman'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. This morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that about 100,000 Palestinians have already made the move and says it's attacking high-rise buildings that host Hamas infrastructure. Meanwhile, Israel says that a Houthi drone launched from Yemen has hit the Ramon Airport in the south. The drone struck the arrivals hall at the airport near the city of Eilat. Flights have been halted and the surrounding airspace has been closed.

According to Israel, the Houthis launched multiple drones, but some were intercepted. It comes, as the Israeli military says, it's expanding its operation in Gaza. Air Canada flight attendants overwhelmingly rejected the latest tentative deal with the airline. Just over 99% of the union members voted against the deal. Both sides have agreed to mediation to settle the outstanding wage portion of the contract and arbitration if needed, and that means there will be no further labor disruptions. More than 10,000 flight attendants with the Canadian Union of Public Employees went on a three-day strike last month. Data released by the federal government late last week showed student visa permits have dramatically

plummeted. In the first half of last year, Canada handed out more than 125,000 international study permits. This year, that number fell to just over 36,000. The CBC's Janice McGregor reports from Ottawa. The Immigration Minister's Office says that the steep decline in student visa permits in the first half of this year is a signal that the measures they put in place are working. Data on applications shared with CBC News suggests that not only is the Department of, approving fewer permits, but significantly fewer students or even applying to come to Canada. A series of changes that were implemented by former Minister Mark Miller since late in 2023 intended to ease the pressure on the housing market and social services by making sure that students

are coming to Canada for an education, cracking down on the abuse of quick, general, even online diploma programs, as a fast track to a new life working in Canada. that advocates for community colleges in Ontario told me their 50% decline in foreign student enrollment has cost public institutions $2.5 billion in that province alone, resulting in entire programs and jobs being eliminated. The CBC's Janice McGregor reporting from Ottawa. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fagg.

Thank you.