The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/09 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/09 at 10:00 EDT

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Once explosions heard in the capital Doha, it's not immediately clear how the attack was carried out. Although an Israeli military official is referring to the Israeli Air Force as carrying. out the strike. Katter's foreign ministry has released a statement calling the attack on Hamas's political headquarters cowardly and a flagrant violation of international law. Meanwhile, the Israeli military is warning the people of Gaza's city to leave their homes and move south. Those people in the city reading leaflets dropped by Israeli planes. The leaflets warn that a major military operation has been launched and ground troops are on their way. 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. In the wake of this week's violent protests in Nepal, the country's prime minister has resigned. K.P. Oli stepped down today after protesters set fire to the homes of several senior political officials. And now the parliament buildings have been set ablaze. The protests in the city, Kathmandu broke out yesterday with 19 people killed in clashes with riot police. The demonstrators are protesting government corruption and a ban on social media platforms. Calling it a brutally savage attack on civilians, Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky

says a Russian bomb strike on a small village has claimed at least 21. lives. Anna Cunningham has more. Footage shared by Ukraine's president appears to show the aftermath of an aerial bomb. CBC News has not been able to verify the footage. President Zelensky says this is a rural village of Yarova in Donetsk. It's some eight kilometers from the front line. In his message, Zelensky urges his allies to act, saying a response is needed from the United States. A response is needed from Europe. A response is needed from the G20. This latest attack comes after Russia's heaviest bombardment of Ukraine since the start of the war. U.S. President Donald Trump said

Sunday he was not happy, repeating his threat to impose more sanctions on Russia, but he is yet to formally confirm he will follow through on his words. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. 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 Sapata 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 misapplications. 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. And that is the world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.