The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/07 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/07 at 13:00 EDT

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The debater's 20th anniversary season, comedy, worth arguing about. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Russia launched its largest aerial attack on Ukraine since the start of the war overnight, striking more than three dozen sites across the country, including the capital. Officials say four people, including an infant, were killed, and Ukraine's main government building was hit.

Anna Cunningham has more. 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 Vitani Klitschko 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, 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. Underwater communications cables in the Red Sea were cut, causing internet issues across parts of the Middle East and Asia. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and India are dealing with slow speeds and intermittent access. There are fears that Yemen's Houthi rebels might be behind these attacks,

part of ongoing hostilities with Israel. Meanwhile, Israeli forces targeted a high-rise apartment building in Gaza City for the second time in two days. This man says he and his family were sleeping when rubbles started falling on them. His daughter died in this attack. Israel says the high rise was being used by Hamas, something Hamas denies. Israel continues to warn residents to get out of Gaza city and head south. Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says about 100,000 people have left so far,

as the Israeli military prepares to, quote, deepen its operations in and around Gaza City. South Korea says it's reached a deal with the U.S. for the release of workers detained during an immigration raid on a Hyundai plant in Georgia. Senior government officials say the two countries have finalized a deal for the release of about 300 South Koreans, and Seoul is sending a plane to bring them back. Air Canada and the Union representing its flight attendants are headed to mediation after yesterday's overwhelming rejection of the wage package in a new tentative agreement. 1% of members voted against this deal, and turnout for the vote hit 99.4%. Coupie, their union, says the raises offered, still put their pay below federal minimum wage. McGill University labor expert Barry Idlein says Coupie's also upset that Ottawa intervened after only 12 hours.

This isn't just about the wages. This is about having the entire contract essentially imposed on them from outside, that this really isn't a negotiated agreement. So there's deep-seated anger and resentment that is behind this vote. Before the ratification vote, the airline and Kupi agreed there would be no further strikes or lockouts and that the wage issue would go to mediation and, if necessary, to arbitration. An investigation's underway in Latvia into the death of a Canadian soldier. Warrant officer Nicholas Hull was reported missing last week. Officials say his body was found on Friday. Latvian authorities are supporting an

investigation by military police. And a moderate earthquake struck in Queen Charlotte Sound on the northwest coast of BC. The 4.8 magnitude quake struck about 200 kilometers southwest of Bella. So far, no reports of damage and no tsunami warning has been issued. And that is your world this hour. Get headlines anytime on our website. CBCNews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.