The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/07 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/07 at 23:00 EDT

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Please play responsibly. Charitable gaming, community good. from cbc news the world this hour i'm neil hurland an australian woman who murdered three relatives after serving them a meal laced with deadly mushrooms has been sentenced to at least thirty-three years in prison aaron patterson was convicted in july on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder phil mercer has more on the case that riveted australia The total effective sentence is life imprisonment, and I fix a non-parole period of 33 years. Justice Christopher Beale says Aaron Patterson had shown no remorse for killing her estranged husband's parents and an aunt. Ian Wilkinson narrowly survived the fatal lunch at the killer's home. He spoke outside the court in Melbourne.

We're thankful that when things go wrong, there are good people and services and systems available to help us. recover. The court was told there was no clear motive for Patterson's crimes, criminologist Brianna Chessa. Justice Bill quite rightly said that Ms. Patterson is in fact the only person who understands why she acted the way that she did. Australia's mushroom killer will be eligible for parole in 2058. She'd be in her early 80s. Patterson is expected to serve her sentence in solitary confinement in a high security unit for her own protection. Phil Mercer for CBC News, Sydney. 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 declared 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 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. and we're trying to get it ended, get the hostages back, get it ended. We had some very good discussions, good things could happen. On Sunday, Trump said the Israelis have accepted his terms, and he urged Hamas to also accept the deal, adding that he has warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting.

Trump did not say what those consequences might be. Passengers on a west jet flight from Toronto had a hard landing when arriving on the Caribbean island of St. Martin, The right-side landing gear of the Boeing 737 collapsed upon touchdown. In a statement, WestJet says all passengers and crew evacuated the aircraft safely onto the tarmac, and there are no reported injuries. And finally, we've got breaking news from the world of music. Rick Davies, the founder, lead singer and songwriter of Super Tramp, is dead.

The band confirms tonight on its website that Davies died Saturday at the age of 81 after battling multiple myeloma for more than 10 years. Born in England in 1944, Davies and his music partner, Roger Hodgson, built Super Tramp into one of the biggest rock bands, Rick Davies' dead at the age of 81. And that is your world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. She might do my beat.