The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/11 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/11 at 09:00 EDT

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Today marks the 24th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks on the United States. In New York City, that's this morning's Memorial. Service getting underway, the service at Ground Zero includes the name of every victim of the attack on the World Trade Center being read aloud. Similar memorials are underway in Washington at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania. The terrorist attacks on the United States claimed just under 3,000 lives. The search continues in northern Utah for the gunman who shot and killed controversial American commentator Charlie Kirk. The 31-year-old was murdered yesterday and what the governor of Utah is calling a political assassination. Steve Futterman has the latest.

Law enforcement officials here in Utah are looking for a killer. And if they have any clues, they are not revealing those clues to us right now. Now, a number of hours ago, there was a person being questioned in custody. That person was called a person of interest. It was felt that authorities seemed fairly confident that that person might be the person they were looking for, but eventually that person was released. Now, right now, detectives, other law enforcement officials are going through every nook and cranny at the school trying to come up with any possible clues.

They're trying to look at cell phone videos. They're trying to look at security videos. They're also using a number of high-tech methods to identify who may have been at the site where the shooting took place. They feel that shot was fired from around 200 meters away, just one single shot. They believe it was done by someone highly proficient, and that one shot killed Charlie Kirk.

Fudderman for CBC News outside the Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The federal government calls them National Building Projects, and today Prime Minister Mark Carney is releasing a list of the ones he wants to greenlight as he moves to take Canada further away from its economic reliance on the United States. Here's Olivia Stavanovitch. It includes a second phase expansion of LNG Canada's plant in Kittamat, BC. That project would double the production of liquefied natural gas, a new nuclear project in southern Ontario. It would make Canada the first G7 country to have an operational small modular reactor,

developing a new copper and zinc mine in east central Saskatchewan, expansions to the port of Montreal, and the existing red-chriss copper mine in northwest BC. In addition to the five projects announced today, Kearney will identify several. several others that are at an earlier stage of development, including projects of critical minerals, wind power in Atlantic Canada, carbon capture storage in Alberta, an upgrade to the Port of Churchill in northern Manitoba, and the proposed high-speed rail line connecting Toronto to Quebec City. Olivia Estebanovich, CBC News, Edmonton. We're still awaiting specifics from NATO on how it plans to respond to Russia and its violation

this week of Polish airspace. Chris Brown reports. This morning, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk visited pilots the squadron that intercepted and shot down the Russian drones. We will ensure that you as Polish pilots are never alone, said Tusk,

and our allies fulfill their commitments. But how exactly will NATO respond? So far, there have only been consultations, but across European capitals, the incident is widely seen. seen as Vladimir Putin testing the military alliance, probing for weaknesses while demonstrating Russian determination to confront the West.

Of Putin may also be testing U.S. President Donald Trump by assessing his willingness to help Europe. And if that's the case, Trump's rather ambivalent-sounding social media posts saying, here we go, amounts to a tepid response. And the concern is, without forceful pushback, Putin's provocations will only go. grow Boulder. Chris Brown, CBC News, London. And that is the world this hour.