The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/13 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/13 at 14:00 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 Kate McGilfrey. Residents in Gaza City are inspecting the damage after another night of Israeli airstrikes. Thousands are trying to get out after the Israeli army ordered them to leave immediately,

but many Palestinians say there is no safe place left to go. Dominic Bolitis has more. Unverified footage circulating online appears to show the aftermath of the strike on a UN school, sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City. This morning, two other similar facilities were also reportedly bombed, not long after a forced evacuation threat was issued by the Israeli army. Local health authorities in the Gaza Strip say at least 40 Palestinians were killed yesterday alone, most of them in Gaza City, where many residents are staying put, defying Israeli orders to leave. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump has met with Qatar's Prime Minister

after an Israeli airstrike targeted Hamas leaders in Doha. Trump reportedly expressed displeasure with the attack. Israel is pushing ahead with its plan to take control of Gaza City, with its army targeting more than 500 sites this week. Dominic Volaitis for CBC News, Bristol, England. The widow of Charlie Kirk is speaking. Erica Kirk gave a live stream statement last night, vowing to continue her husband's work.

It comes as officials in the U.S. encourage calm in the wake of Kirk's fatal shooting this week. Steve Futterman has more. The search is over, but questions still remain. 22-year-old Tyler Robinson is in jail, being held without bail. The Utah Attorney General says it's not yet been determined if prosecutors will seek the death penalty, which is an option in Utah.

There were more vigils held last night, and late yesterday, the widow of Charlie Kirk made her first public statement. The evildoers responsible for my husband's assassination have no idea what they have done. Erica Kirk said the movement started by her husband will continue. The movement my husband built will not die. It won't. I refuse to let that happen. It's still not exactly clear what triggered Tyler Robinson to allegedly kill Charlie Kirk. In recent years, he became more interested in politics. and in the last few weeks made comments about Kirk, calling him hateful.

Robinson will be formally charged next week. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Orem, Utah. The University of California, Berkeley, says it's provided information on 160 faculty members and students to the Trump administration for a federal investigation into, quote, alleged incidents of anti-Semitism. UC Berkeley's president says the university is subject to federal oversight. President Trump has threatened to cut federal funding to universities that it believes have allowed anti-Semitic acts. The Federal Court of Appeal in Canada has refused to grant a stay,

postponing a cull of ostriches on a BC farm. Universal ostrich farms had asked for the stay in order to appeal a ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered the ostriches killed after an outbreak of avian flu last December. And an Ontario man is issuing a warning about a rare but real phenomenon he experienced called AI psychosis. Alan Brooks says a simple question to a chatbot about the number pie spiraled into a 300-hour-long exchange over three weeks.

He says chat GPT tried to convince him that he had created a new way of seeing the world. Terror, paranoia, obsession. I was oscillating between reality and delusion on a regular basis. I wasn't sure to believe it or if I shouldn't believe it. It's messaging and its gaslighting is so powerful when you're engaged with it, especially when you trust it, right? Brooks is calling for tech companies to establish more safeguards for artificial intelligence chatbots to protect people from AI psychosis.

And that is your world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. We update every hour seven days a week for CBC News. I'm Kate McGilfrey.