The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/20 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/20 at 02:00 EDT

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Canadian actor Tatiana Maslani is the latest name on a growing list of celebrities who are outraged by the network's decision. As Paul Hunter explains, the anger's also crossing the political aisle. Hey Jimmy back! The chanting is to return to the air late-night comedy talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. The demonstration outside the offices of ABC in New York, the network that took Kimmel off the air this week. The move has brought widespread outrage in this country, and now even staunch conservative Ted Cruz is speaking out against what's happened.

Jimmy Kimmel has mocked me so many times I cannot count. The Republican Senator from Texas on his podcast said he personally can't stand Kimmel's show, but... I think it is unbelievably dangerous. for government to put itself in the position of saying, we're going to decide what speech we like and what we don't, and we're going to threaten to take you off air if we don't like what you're saying. But when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it. With protests continuing, says the FCC, it will continue to, quote,

hold broadcasters accountable to the public interest. Paul Hunter's CBC News, Washington. Russia is defying its fighter jets violated Estonian airspace on Friday. The Baltic country summoned a Russian diplomat to protest after it says three Russian fighter aircraft entered its airspace without permission and stayed there for 12 minutes. The European Union and NATO are condemning the incursion. EU's foreign policy chief, Kaya Callas, says Russia is testing how far it can go.

We must show no weakness because weakness is something that invites Russia to do more and they are increasingly more dangerous not only to Ukraine but also to all the countries around Russia. This all comes just over a week after NATO planes down several Russian drones over Poland. The federal government is topping up $1.5 billion to the Affordable Housing Fund. This comes after the launch of Build Canada Homes, the federal government's news agency that will oversee housing programs. Here's the housing minister, Gregor Robertson. Projects that are currently in the pipeline with CMHC that can be funded in the near term.

We want to make sure that we're not skipping a beat here as Build Canada Homes gets established. We want to make sure there is adequate funding to fund projects that are already well along in the process. He says an additional $385 million will be added to the rapid housing stream. To the United Nations now. The draft resolution has not been adopted, having failed, to obtain the required number of votes. The UN Security Council has voted down a proposal to permanently lift sanctions on Iran. Measures against Iran will be reimposed at the end of the month. It is the consequence of Tehran, not adhering to the nuclear deal it made with the world's powers in 2015.

Iran's former minister calls the sanctions a blunt instrument of pressure and intimidation by the West. Intimidating people at places of worship and displaying hate symbols in public could soon be criminal fences in Canada. The federal government is tabling a bill designed to crack down on the rising number of hate-related incidents in this country. David Thurton has details. We are moving forward with a piece of legislation that will create four new criminal offenses. The first two are aimed at protecting religious institutions. Justice Minister Sean Fraser says his bill would make it a crime to target not just places of worship, but schools and community centers associated with them.

The proposed legislation also makes it an offense to willfully promote hate through symbols, particularly the swastika or images tied to organizations listed as a terrorist group. All this, while respecting charter rights of freedom of expression, according to the minister. This bill goes to great lengths to specifically protect the ability of Canadians to take part in peaceful protests and to freely express themselves in a nonviolent way. For the first time, the government is also adding a definition for hatred to the criminal code. David Thornton, CBC News, Ottawa. And that is your rule this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.

Thank you.