The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/16 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/16 at 02:00 EDT

Defining your freedom starts by redefining your farms management. The Sense Hub Dairy ecosystem offers a variety of features to empower you with more insights into your operation. It's time to farm with more freedom. Learn how with Sense Hub Dairy. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on his way to Qatar, a meeting intended to smooth, over tension after the recent Israeli attack that killed five Hamas officials in the Gulf

State. Rubio says there's a short window of time in which a ceasefire deal can happen in Gaza. Israel has already begun a new operation in Gaza City. Qatar is one of the countries trying to broker an agreement between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The U.S. government says it destroyed a Venezuelan boat that was carrying drugs on Monday as tension between both nations escalate. President Trump said the boat was headed towards the United States, and on his truth's social account, he showed a video of what appears to be a speedboat erupting into a ball of fire. Manuel Rueda reports. This is the second Venezuelan boat that the U.S. Navy destroyed this month as part of a controversial

anti-narcotics mission in the Southern Caribbean. President Trump said three drug traffickers were killed in the strike, which was carried out in international war. waters. He also had a warning for drug traffickers in Mexico. We're telling the cartels right now, we're going to be stopping them too. When they come by land, we'll be stopping them the same way we stop the boats. In August, the U.S. sent several warships to the Southern Caribbean. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has described this as an act of aggression and says the United States is preparing to overthrow his government.

They're making up blights about us and trying to lure us into a fight, Maduro said on Monday. before Trump announced the yesterday's sinking of the Venezuelan boat. But the president also says the U.S. military are not aiming for regime change. Manuel Rueda for CBC News, Bogota. A California man has been sentenced for flying a drone into a water bomber from Quebec. It was fighting wildfires in Los Angeles. The story made headlines here in Canada and in the U.S. Steve Futterman reports.

In the middle of the deadly Los Angeles fires in January, as one of the Quebec super scoopers was making water drops on hotspots, it was struck by a small drone. Pilots were unaware that they hit the drone. The drone belonged to a 57-year-old computer game developer, Peter Ackerman. Ackman agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft. On Monday in court, he was sentenced to 14 days in prison to be followed by an additional 30 days of home confinement. He will also have to pay more than $150,000. in fines and penalties. That includes around $65,000 to the Quebec government for the cost of

the damage. In January, acting U.S. Attorney Joe McNally made clear activity like this wasn't allowed. Flying drones during emergency compromises the ability of police. In a written statement to the court, Ackerman expressed his sincerest remorse and deepest apologies for what he called stupid and reckless conduct. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. We're following a story in Toronto tonight, a small plane has crashed in the middle of a field in the city's east end. It happened near Toronto's Monarch Park. Three people were on board the aircraft. All of them walked away uninjured. David Sidney Carilia witnessed the crash. We saw a plane really low, I'm going to say maybe 250 to 300 feet in the air, very quiet, and it was just kind of

going from the west side of the field to the east side of the field, and then it was out of sight, And then we heard a crash, and then we worked our way over here. We saw three occupants that were near the plane. Investigators will now try to determine what caused the small plane to crash. The famous Coachella Music Festival in California has just announced its lineup for next year, and a Canadian superstar is the big headliner. That's Justin Bieber singing his new song, Yukon. Beber has made guest appearances before at Coachella, but next April he'll perform

us the main Saturday Night Act. And that is your world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland.