The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/20 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/20 at 12:00 EDT

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Find commotion wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fagg. As concerns grow about Russian violations of Eastern European airspace, another deadly attack hit Ukraine overnight. A woman in Kiev describes being trapped in a building that has just been hit by a missile. Ukraine says Russia launched a large-scale attack overnight,

killing at least three people. It comes as some European leaders are raising security concerns and accusing Moscow of violating their airspace. Among them, Estonia's foreign minister, Margus Sackna. Let's discuss what can we do for the Baltic states and the eastern flag, because it is clear that Putin has started on a new level testing NATO and a new level provocation. Estonia says Russian fighter jets violated its airspace. Romania has also accused, Moscow of an incursion. Several European airports, including the biggest on the continent, have been hit by a cyber attack. The attack has disrupted electronic check-in and boarding systems for passengers through London Heathrow, as well as Brussels and Berlin, causing delays and cancellations.

The system provider says departing passengers can still check in manually and that it's working on getting the issue fixed as soon as possible. The effects of those cyber attacks also briefly interrupted service in Ireland. Airport officials there say there were minor disruptions at both Dublin and Cork airports. Dublin Airport also dealt with an unspecified security threat earlier today. And that forced the evacuation of passengers and staff from Terminal 2 after a suspicious item was found inside a passenger's luggage. The all clear was eventually given and flights were able to resume. Kenny Jacobs is the CEO of the Dublin Airport Authority. We are now satisfied that everything is safe and secure. We obviously take the safety and security of the traveling

public as our first priority. So flight operations were temporarily disrupted. Happy to stay now, everybody will get back to flying passengers and staff are back in the terminal. Situations being dealt with and travel with reserves. Canada health officials watched 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. 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 LaGrasse.

at CBC News, Windsor, Ontario. There's continued fallout to the suspension of American talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. U.S. President Donald Trump is defending the head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. FCC chair, Brendan Carr, threatened to revoke the broadcast license of Kimmel's network, ABC. A move that Texas Senator Ted Cruz called Dangerous. Trump disagrees. I think Brendan Carr is a courageous person. I think Brendan Carr doesn't like to see the,

Airwaves be used illegally and incorrectly and purposely horribly. I think Brendan Carr is a great American patriot, so I disagree with Ted Cruz on that. During his podcast yesterday, Cruz accused Carr of using what he called, quote, mafioso tactics. Cruz's criticism is the sharpest yet to come from a Republican. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fag. Thank you.