The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/16 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/16 at 21:00 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. A UN Commission panel says Israel is committing genocide against Palestinian's in Gaza. Chris Brown has more on the report's findings and Israel's emphatic rejection as its military pushes deeper into Gaza's largest city. On the same day, Israel announced its ground invasion of Gaza City is underway. A UN-commissioned inquiry says Israel is committing genocide. Navi

Palais is the inquiry chair. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a moral outrage and a legal emergency. The panel of experts say the scale of civilian deaths, including more than 18,000 children killed, the deliberate blocking of aid, repeated forced displacements, and the destruction of a fertility clinic for Palestinians all adds up to genocide. The panel says it looked at open source information, interviewed witnesses, victims, and doctors, and concluded Israel's most senior leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are directly responsible. Israel categorically rejects... Israeli officials dispute Gaza's death toll and the figures from Hamas.

They condemn the inquiry's findings as lies. Chris Brown, CBC News, London. Chris Jeffreeland is stepping down as Canada's Minister of Transport and Internal Trade, and she says she won't run in the next federal election. Prime Minister Mark Carney released a statement thanking Freeland. Carney says she will remain a member of Parliament and become Canada's special envoy.

for the reconstruction of Ukraine. As for her ministerial role, it's being split up. Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc will absorb Freeland's internal trade duties, and government house leader Stephen McKinnon will take on transport. Fresh off a trade mission to China, Saskatchewan's premier met with Prime Minister Mark Carney. As Helena Mahalik reports, Scott Moe was trying to get China to ease tariffs on Canadian canola. And following his trip there, he says he's optimistic. A good meeting and an informative meeting.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says there's progress towards lifting Chinese tariffs on canola. The trade dispute, affecting a crop vital to the province's economy. We need the market access. I don't know that we can afford to backstop all the industries that might be impacted in what is such an uncertain trade environment. China imposed a nearly 76% tariff on Canadian canola seed last month, In addition to existing duties on canola oil and meal, Mo hopes his visit to China lay the diplomatic groundwork for a resolution. Stressing prairie farmers are feeling the pressure.

Carney thanking Mo for his efforts. His commitment to our country, contribution at the tables have been essential to getting us together and moving forward. Moving forward, both leaders say, not so simple in a world of trade disruptions. Helena Mollick, CBC News, Regina. State of Utah versus Tyler James Robinson. The man accused of killing Charlie Kirk made his first court appearance today on a video link without a lawyer. Tyler Robinson said only his name. Katie Simpson has more.

The murder of Charlie Kirk is an American tragedy. The Utah County attorney, Jeff Gray, stood in front of reporters outlining the case against the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, confirming that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson is facing seven charges. including aggravated murder, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering. Following the press conference, I am filing a notice of intent to seek the death penalty. Gray read from a series of text messages he says were between Robinson and his roommate, who had become his romantic partner and is undergoing a male-to-female gender transition. Kirk was advocating for conservative viewpoints opposed to transgender rights.

Robinson's mother told police her son had become more political over the past year, adopting more pro-2S-LGBQ-plus positions as he started dating his partner. Authorities also say Robinson's DNA was found on the trigger of the murder weapon. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.