The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/07 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/07 at 21:00 EDT

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Please play responsibly. Charitable gaming, community good. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Protests erupted across the United States this weekend, denouncing plans to send more U.S. National Guard troops into American cities after President Donald Trump again declare Chicago is his next target. Aaron Collins has more.

In Chicago, a rising resistance. Protesters filling the streets to oppose the deployment of the National Guard there. We know that they're not going after criminals. They're going after our communities. Protesters worry the U.S. is looking like a nation bracing for war with itself. This is illegal. This is unlawful. This is racist. Simmering fears stoked by an antagonistic president online. The day after renaming the Pentagon, the Department of War, Donald Trump, posting, that Chicago is about to find out why it's called the Department of War.

The president softening his tone as he left Washington. We're not going to war. We're going to clean up our cities. We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend. That's not war. That's common sense. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump is also expressing new optimism for a deal to end the war in Gaza. In recent months, the U.S., Egypt, and Qatar have all tried to help. help broker a deal between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. We're working on a solution that maybe could be very good.

You'll be hearing about it pretty soon. We're trying to get it ended, get the hostages back, get it ended. We had some very good discussions. Good things could happen. Earlier today, Trump said the Israelis have accepted his terms, and he urged Hamas to accept the deal as well, adding that he has warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting. Trump did not say what those consequences.

consequences might be. We've got breaking news from Australia, a woman who killed three of her relatives with death cap mushrooms will spend the next three decades in prison. Judge Christopher Beale just delivered his sentence last hour. The total effective sentence is life imprisonment, and I fix a non-parole period of 33 years. The convicted killer Aaron Patterson will be 82 years old by the time she's eligible for parole. Patterson served a lunch of Beef Wellington pastries laced with the deadly mushrooms. The case riveted Australia for the last two years. Passengers on a WestJet flight from Toronto had a hard landing when arriving on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. The right-side main landing gear of the Boeing 737 collapsed upon touchdown.

In a statement, WestJet said all passengers and crew evacuated the aircraft safely onto the tarmac and there are no reported injuries. Hundreds of people, across the car. Cross British Columbia continue to face evacuation orders due to wildfires. Nearly 150 fires are still burning in the province. Michelle Morton reports. Nancy loosely says she and her husband were forced from their home in Nimbo Lake on Friday morning. We left early because of the smoke was worse than I've ever seen it through all the fires. Hundreds of people have been told to leave their homes in Central BC

because of the Beef Trail Creek and Dusty Lake wildfires which are on either side of Anahim Lake. The BC Wildfire Service says on Saturday, a thick layer of smoke over both blazes helped reduce fire activity. But warn, there could be thunderstorms and higher winds in the days ahead. Officials in the North Okinawans say,

progress has been made on the Noble Canyon wildfire which sparked Friday night. That fire prompted an evacuation order for 15 properties and an alert for dozens more. which remain in place. Michelle Morton, CBC News, Vancouver. Now to India. Rescue efforts continue as volunteers use boats

to look for those still trapped by severe flooding in Punjab province. At least 40 people have been killed. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.