The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/08 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/08 at 16:00 EDT

Hugh is a rock climber, a white supremacist, a Jewish neo-Nazi, a spam king, a crypto-billionaire, and then someone killed him. It is truly a mystery. It is truly a case of who done it. Dirtbag Climber, the story of the murder and the many lives of Jesse James. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. The federal government is allocating $80 million to businesses in Atlantic Canada as part of its regional tariff response initiative.

That initiative, now worth a billion dollars, was first announced in March. Its aim is to support small and medium-sized businesses affected by U.S. tariffs. Prime Minister Mark Carney says this funding will maintain the strength of Canada's ocean economy. This region is a giant in fishing, manufacturing forestry, IT, energy, shipbuilding, and its oversee trade corridor sitting in St. John's Harbor, connect Canada with the rest of the world. Ottawa announced a series of measures last week to protect, build, and transform Canada's strategic industries. The woman who calls herself the Queen of Canada has been released on bail. 50-year-old Romana Dietolo was arrested last week after RCMP raided her place

of residence. Dietolo's release is subject to a long list of conditions. They have include staying at a residence in Regina until her trial and staying away from the small village of Richmond in Saskatchewan. That's where she'd been living with members of her cult in a decommissioned school for the past two years. Dietolo is scheduled to appear in court on September 17th. Israel says a deadly attack at a Jerusalem bus stop was carried out by two Palestinians from the West Bank. Attackers opened fire during rush hour, killing six people. Israeli forces are now raiding West Bank villages in search for more suspects. Sasha Petrissik has more.

The shooting happened at this busy transportation hub at the north end of Jerusalem. As people were waiting at bus stops toward the end of morning rush hour, two men pulled up in a car. They were carrying automatic weapons and attacked a crowded bus at the curb. More than a dozen were shot. Many were injured severely. Several died on the scene. A soldier and a private citizen.

the attackers. Their bullets and casings are littered on the ground even now. The road here leads from Israel into the occupied West Bank, where Jewish settlers and Palestinian villagers have clashed over the past two years, even as the war in Gaza has raged. Those tensions are likely to rise either further now. Sasha Katrissik, CBC News, Drew Salom. France's Prime Minister has just lost a vote of confidence. The Prime Minister to remit to the President of the Republic, the demission of the government.

Francois Beiru is the third French prime minister to be ousted in the past year. The vote is a blow to President Emmanuel Macron's fragile minority government. He's now tasked with appointing a new prime minister. Members of a left-wing alliance, which emerged as the largest winning bloc in last year's legislative elections,

are urging Macron to pick a member from their coalition. Right-wing politicians want Macron to call snap elections, but the president has ruled out that possibility. Clashes at protests in Nepal have killed at least 19 people and injured dozens more. Violence broke out after thousands of young demonstrators rallied against the government's recent social media ban and alleged political corruption. Rebecca Bundin reports. Chaotic scenes broke out in the capital of Kathmandu. Protesters set cars on fire.

and some managed to scale the walls of the parliament building. Security forces used rubber bullets and water cannons against the demonstrators who are calling themselves Generation Z. There are people dying in the streets being shot. There is not enough ambulances. A ban on several social media platforms seems to be the main trigger for the protests, but there also seem to be wider concerns. Every corruption in the country, from the local level to federal level,

all the Nepalist citizens are fed up of corruption. Nepal's government insists. it is trying to regulate social media to tackle fraud and hate speech. Social media networks that complied with the government's registration requirements continue to operate in the country. Rebecca Bunsen for CBC News, Mumbai. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scandaris.