The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/07 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/07 at 11:00 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, 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 Ree. 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, 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. Cuts to underwater cables in the Red Sea are causing internet as you. across parts of the Middle East and Asia. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and India are among the countries dealing with slow speeds and intermittent access. There are concerns that Yemen's Houthi rebels may be behind the attacks in an effort to pressure Israel to end the war in Gaza. Yemen's government

and exile accused the Houthis of a similar attack last year, which the group denied. Meanwhile, Israel for the second time in two days has targeted a high-rise building in Gaza City. This man says he and his family were sleeping when rubble started falling on them. He says his daughter died in the attack. Israel says the high-rises hosts Hamas infrastructure, but Hamas has denied the claims. Israel's military is warning residents to get out and head to the south of the Gaza Strip. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says about 100,000 people have left so far, as Israel is deepening the operation in and around Gaza City.

Data released by the federal government late last week show 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 approving fewer permits,

but significantly fewer students are 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. The head of the organization 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. France is on the cusp of renewed political uncertainty. Tomorrow, MPs are expected to defeat the government in a non-confidence vote. The motion was triggered after Prime Minister Francois Beirut tabled an austerity budget. A defeat will put pressure on President Emmanuel Macron, who will need to appoint a new prime minister. He's already ruled out calling a snap election. And that is your world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Claude Fag. Thank you.