The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/08 at 03:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/08 at 03:00 EDT

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has been sentenced to at least 33 years in prison. Aaron Peterson 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. 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. U.S. President Donald Trump is 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 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.

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 if they don't. Trump did not say what those consequences might be. The French Parliament will hold a confidence vote today that could oust the prime minister. Francois Beirou has only held the job for nine months. President Emmanuel Macron would likely name a new prime minister if Beirou is given the boot. Residents in northern India and Pakistan are dealing with the devastation from some of the worst flooding in decades. More than 2 million people have been displaced and thousands of villages in the state of Punjab are completely destroyed.

As Isha Bargava reports, Canadian groups are sending aid. This kind of destruction we never see. Narendra Singh Walia says he's shocked by the calamity that has struck Punjab. The head of the Gurunanak Food Bank in B.C. has helped with flood relief in several parts of India over the years. But this time, he says the damage is beyond imagination. They have no house, they have no farm, they have no food, you know, nothing. There was at least eight feet, nine feet water in the village.

Intense monsoon rains and heavy flooding in recent weeks have submerged villages, killing hundreds and leaving millions stranded. Berlad Kohli is founder of Nishcam Canada, based in Brampton, Ontario. He says the loss of livestock and crops has shaken the region, which heavily relies on farming. Those type of losses are difficult to, you know, here. And they will have really a problem once everything goes down. Even managing their home, managing their expenses, it's going to be a lot. Isha Bargava, CBC News, Toronto.

And finally, Rick Davies, the founder, lead singer and songwriter of Super Tramp is dead. The band confirmed last night 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. See my through my beat

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