The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/20 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/20 at 04:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Kumar. Canada is expected to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week. The man who will soon be Canada's UN ambassadors spoke to CBC Radio's The House about why that move is coming now and where the Canadian government stands on accusations that Israel is committing genocide. Host of the House, Catherine Cullen, reports. We've seen horrific things happen. in terms of what Hamas has done and what has been done in Gaza. David Lamedi says that is what's spurring Canada to recognize a Palestinian state.

A former Justice Minister, now advisor to Mark Carney, in November, he'll become Canada's ambassador to the United Nations. The goal is that we have a Jewish state, Israel. We have a Palestinian state that live side by side, insecurity and peaceful coexistence in which Hamas does not have a role. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev has called this a plan for a Hamas state. Earlier this month, he said his party would never support it. We were obviously not going to recognize Hamas as a state.

Well, the NDP wants the Canadian government to do more, including calling Israel's actions a genocide. This week, a United Nations commissioned panel of inquiry said Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Israel has repeatedly vehemently denied the accusation. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Ottawa. Canada is among the growing number of countries grappling with how to regulate the use of artificial intelligence. In the meantime, the company behind ChatGPT is introducing changes to protect kids who use it.

Nicole Williams has more. What began as a homework helper gradually turned itself into a confidant and then a suicide coach. Matt Rain, testifying this week before a U.S. Senate subcommittee looking into the harms of AI chatbots, Rain's 16-year-old son Adam died by suicide in April after having conversations with ChatGBT from his bedroom in California. It gave him one last encouraging talk. You don't want to die because you're weak. You want to die because you're tired of being strong. Parent company OpenAI is now introducing a system. It says would identify users younger than 18 and limit what it shows them.

OpenAI says it would also contact a child's parents, even the authority. authorities if it feels the risk of self-harm is imminent. On its website, OpenAI says it knows some of these changes compromised privacy for adults but believe it's a worthy trade-off for child safety. Nicole Williams, CBC News, Toronto. Canada health officials watch from afar a key meeting in Atlanta where a U.S. Advisory Council revisited vaccine recommendations. While they didn't make any drastic changes,

concerns about some of its members had experts here on Edge. Jennifer LaGrasa reports. I mean, a lot of the stuff that they're saying, it's BS. Angela Razmussen watched online meetings of a U.S. Vaccine Advisory Committee unfold with concern. The Saskatchewan virologist is one of several Canadian experts shaking their heads. I think it was obvious to everybody who was listening that this committee has enormous depth and knowledge. Martin Koldorf chairs the U.S. Committee, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He, along with the other panel members, were hand-picked by Federal Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Many of them are vaccine skeptics. These panel discussions are actually chiseling away at vaccine trust. Donald Vinn is a medical microbiologist in Montreal. He worries about drug supply. If the demand for a certain vaccine drops, that could lower production from U.S.-based manufacturers, which Canadians rely on. Jennifer Lagrasa, CBC News, Windsor, Ontario. The IOC says it will allow some Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete in the next Olympic Games under the same model as last year's summer games in Paris.

There, athletes had to compete as independent neutral athletes under no national team or flag after being screened by a panel for any ties to military or security services or for active support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar. Thank you.