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

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

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

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Follow World Report, wherever you get your podcasts. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings the Israeli military is warning the people of gaza city to leave their homes and move south lots people reading leaflets dropped by Israeli planes they warn that a major military operation has been

launched and ground troops are on their way. Volker Turk is the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights. Its commission of war crime upon war crime are shocking the conscience of the world. I'm horrified by the open use of genocidal rhetoric and the disgraceful dehumanization of Palestinians by senior Israeli officials. About a million people live in and around Gaza City. Over the weekend, the IDF destroyed a number of high-rise buildings. saying they house surveillance infrastructure being used by Hamas.

Now to Nepal, we're in the midst of a second day of violent protests in the capital Kathmandu. The country's prime minister has announced his resignation. Salimus Shibji has the latest. The target for many demonstrators today, government offices and the homes of several high-profile politicians, vandalized and set on fire. This is Nepal's condition, student Sahil Tamang says.

The Prime Minister K.P Sharma Oli should leave. Protester, Angela Shrestha, says the rallies began after the government implemented a sweeping ban on social media platforms. But it's more than that. We don't want them to lead our country. And they just killed people. The cries for change worked. After the violent clashes between police and demonstrators Monday and more today,

Oli has resigned. His aide says the Prime Minister is leaving to pave the way for a constitutional solution to the current crisis, a move the protesters were insisting on, but one that plunges Nepal further into political turmoil. Salima Shivji, CBC News, Mumbai. The Alberta government has now amended its policy on school library books. It makes clear that only books with visual depictions of sexual acts will be prohibited. But critics are saying the province from the beginning of this controversy could have taken a more efficient approach.

Karina's Zapata has more. This sweeping policy is something that could have been done with a phone call. The head of the Alberta Teachers Association, Jason Schilling, says the new policy is an improvement, but all of this drama could have been avoided. The province's revised ministerial order takes aim at books with explicit sexual images or illustrations. The main difference?

Written depictions of sexual. acts can stay in Alberta schools. The change comes after the Edmonton Public School Board's long list of banned books under the initial policy included literary classics. Demetrios Nikolides is Alberta's education minister. It was clear that there was some misunderstanding and misapplication. The new rules also no longer mention specific grades, meaning books with sexually explicit images must also be removed from libraries in junior high and high schools. School boards must share the lists of books they plan to remove by October 31st. The new rules are set to take effect on January 5th. Karina Zapata. CBC News, Calgary.

In Washington today, a U.S. Congressional Committee is holding another hearing on UFOs. One of the committee members is Republican Anna Paulina Luna. The whole goal and objective of these hearings were, A, bring forward the witnesses, stop gaslighting them. Let's bring some legitimacy to this because these are people. These have been, in some instances, military members, pilots, you know, former government employees, but they're not lying. They're not making this up. In previous hearings, congressional witnesses have testified that U.S. Air Force pilots have encountered strange objects in the sky that, in their opinion, move faster than any known human technology. And that is the world this hour.

For news any time, go to our website, cbcnews.ca.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.