The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/10 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/10 at 04:00 EDT

This message is from Wise, the app for international money. With Wise, you can send, spend, and receive in up to 40 currencies with a fair exchange rate and no hidden fees. Download the Wise app or visit wise.com. T's and C's Apply. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. We could learn today if the man charged with 11 counts of second-degree murder, following Vancouver's Lapu-Lapu-Lapu-Day tragedy is fit to stand trial. Eleven people were killed in the car ramming at the end of April.

Georgie Smyth reports. Defense lawyers and Crown Council have been arguing in court for months on whether the man accused of killing 11 people at a Vancouver Street Festival in April is fit to stand trial. Kaiji Adam Lowe faces 11 counts of second-degree murder after he allegedly drove his SUV into a crowd we're expecting a decision on whether he is fit to stand trial and if his broader prosecution will be able to proceed today.

Criminal lawyers like Rebecca McConkey say the public should think about the fitness to stand trial process as a way to make sure defendants can understand the nature and consequences of court proceedings. So fitness to stand trial is about the accused mental capacity now, not their mental capacity or mental state at the time of the offense. The details of these hearings are covered by a publication ban, which limits what media can share about what's happening in court.

Georgie Smyth, CBC News, Vancouver. The Polish military says it has brought down Russian drones that entered its territory last night. Russian and Ukrainian missiles have accidentally crossed into Poland since the war between Russia and Ukraine began. But this is the first time a NATO country has responded and engaged Russian assets. Brendan Kearney is a retired U.S. colonel. and former chief of staff of the U.S. Marines in Europe. The most important thing to remember is that the polls have every right to shoot down anything that flies into their airspace

that is not authorized to come into their airspace. I mean, the Russians may complain about that, but too bad for the Russians. U.S. President Donald Trump is denying he wrote a 50th birthday letter to the late Jeffrey Epstein. The disgraced financier died in 2019, but a newly released note suggests the two were close. The note includes a drawing of a naked female body and what appears to be Donald Trump's signature. It's not my signature, and it's not the way I speak.

And anybody that's covered me for a long time, no, that's not my language. It's nonsense. And frankly, you're wasting your time. An Ottawa man was among the tourists killed when a rail car crashed in Lisbon this month. The 42-year-old man was on vacation in Portugal when the derailment happened.

And as Nathan Fung reports, the loss has been hard on his friends and neighbors. We wake up in the morning and we just wonder if it was a nightmare. Serene Hashash is one of Aziz Ben Harris' neighbors in Ottawa. She's known him for five years and say they consider each other family. We're just really devastated. I mean, no words can really describe. We're heartbroken.

No words can really describe. Ben Harris' friends and family say he and his wife revisiting Portugal from Ottawa. The two were on the finicular. street car that came off the rails, crashed and killed 16 people. At least two Canadians died, according to Global Affairs Canada, which will not release their identities for privacy reasons. Ben Harris' wife, Hind Igerna, was seriously injured. Ayub Saja is a close family friend. He first met Aziz Ben-Hirif while at university in Morocco. Both decided to move to

Canada and made their homes in Ottawa. It was really a very generous person. Igernaz brother says she is still in a Lisbon hospital being treated for her injuries. Nathan Fung, CBC News, Ottawa. The United Nations is kicking off its 80th year, and the organization will pick a new Secretary General in the coming session. Former German Foreign Minister and Elena Baerbach is the new president of the UN General Assembly. In a speech in New York, she urged countries to pick a woman as Secretary General this time. Our choice will send a powerful message about who we are

and whether we truly serve all the peoples of the world. One might wonder how in 80 years not one single woman has ever served as the Secretary General. Antonio Guterres is the current UN boss. His term ends in December 26. And that is your world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland.