The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/08 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/08 at 18:00 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 Scandaris. 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 overseas trade corridor is 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 Alberta government is making changes to its controversial book ban,

now only removing books that contain explicit images of sexual acts from school libraries. The band no longer includes books with written descriptions of these acts. This rewrite comes after the original order faced widespread criticism for resulting in the removal of well-known and classic titles like The Handmaid's Tale, The Color Purple, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Books containing graphic images of bodies for a non-sexual purpose and religious texts are exempt from the ban. Israel says a deadly attack at a Jerusalem bus stop was carried out by two people,

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 Petrusik 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 killed 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,

You do further now. Sasha Kachrasek, CBC News, Drew Salaum. France's prime minister has just lost a vote of confidence. The premier minister must 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 protest. tests, but there also seem to be wider concerns. Every corruption in the country, from the local level to federal level, all the Nepal's 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 Bundin for CBC News, Mumbai. And that's your world this hour. I'm Stephanie Skendaris. Thank you.