The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/08 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/08 at 06:00 EDT

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The debater's 20th anniversary season, comedy, worth arguing about. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We go first to Jerusalem. Five people are dead after armed attackers open fire today on a bus stop in the city. More than a dozen people are injured with police saying six are in Syria. condition. Police say the attackers who have yet to be identified were shot and killed on the

scene. The shooting took place at a major intersection on a road that leads to Jewish settlements located in East Jerusalem. Hamas is not claiming responsibility, but calls the shooting, quote, a natural response to the occupation's crimes against our people. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu is currently holding what is being called a situation assessment with the heads of his government's security establishment. An editorial on the Canadian Medical Association Journal today is calling for restrictions to be established on sports betting ads. It says the brains of children and teenagers are still developing, and the constant exposure to gambling messages normalizes harmful behavior that can be carried into adulthood. The lead author says gambling ads now dominate sports broadcasts, and the legalization of online gambling has made every smartphone a potential betting platform.

The investigation continues in. to yesterday's hard landing by a West Jet plane in the Caribbean. No one was injured in the incident that happened on the main airport on St. Martin. Sarah Reid has more. Sounds on board the West Jet flight after one of the plane's landing gear collapsed at Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Martin. The hard landing saw the right wing of the plane hit the runway, leading emergency crews to immediately evacuate all 164 passengers, none of who were injured.

then they're going to get the cockpit voice recorder tape. It could be pilot error and it could be totally mechanical error. Keith Mackie is an aviation safety consultant and says it's hard to say what caused the incident. Well, we don't know whether it was a hard landing or it could have been a mechanical issue with a gear, but at any rate, the right landing year collapsed and dropped a wingtip to the ground. So consequently, they had to use the emergency slides to evacuate the airplane. With the damaged plane now sitting on the runway, the airport says it will remain closed until Monday, afternoon. The incident will now be investigated by the Dutch Safety Board, and experts say Canada's

Transportation Safety Board will also be involved. Sarah Reed, CBC News, Edmonton. We're expecting the Alberta government to release its revised school library book ban today. Earlier this month, Edmonton's Public School Board issued a list of some 200 books that they would have had to remove to comply with the government's initial order. Those books included, among others, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Premier Danielle Smith says the order would be immediately changed to target only books with images of explicit sexual content. Sepsis is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, including here in Canada. It's the body's extreme response to infection and in the early stages it can be difficult to detect.

And as Sarah McMillan reports, new research is highlighting significant gaps in policies and training. Their inaction caused us, our whole family, everything. Rinder Sidu's life was turned upside down when his wife died in June from septic shock days after giving birth at a Mississauga, Ontario hospital. Sidu believes his wife's death could have been prevented if hospital staff had recognized early signs of sepsis. Now I learned that nothing was normal about those symptoms. The hospital hasn't commented on this case citing patient privacy but says it has a thorough

review process. Since his wife's death, Sidu has been advocating for new sepsis policy. in hospitals across Ontario. The province doesn't have specific sepsis guidelines. And new research highlights that it's not alone. We found that there were pretty serious gaps. Dr. Callie Barrett is one of the researchers who looked at policies and training across the country. Some provinces like BC and Saskatchewan do have sepsis policies, but most do not.

Sarah McMillan, CBC News, Toronto. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.