The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/21 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/21 at 07:00 EDT

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Tees and Cs apply. from cbc news the world this hour i'm claude fagg canada is set to recognize an independent palestinian state on monday joining ten other countries including australia belgium and france to make the declaration before the united nations general assembly in new york philip lishanek reports Thousands of Israelis rally in Jerusalem for an end to the military operation in Gaza. Protester Emmanuel Welland says the army's plan to conquer the enclave will get the hostages killed. And the war released the hostages, stop the ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says the dire situation in Gaza is the reason Canada and its international partners are formally recognizing the state of Palestine.

But Auden says recognition is just the first step. For normalized relations between the two sides to begin, the remaining 48 hostages must be released, Hamas must be disarmed, and have no role in the future governance of Palestine. Normalization is completely different from recognition. Normalization involves increases in diplomatic relationships. Israel condemned the move saying recognition is rewarding Hamas for the October 7th attacks. Philip Lyshanock, CBC News, Toronto.

Reaction in the Middle East is mixed. Many are wary about whether the recognition of a Palestinian state will make any difference to what is happening in the region. The CBC, Sasha Petrissik, reports from Ramallah. There's a lot of mixed feelings here. People, many of them, think that this is too little, too late, that the rest of the world, if they were going to make a symbolic statement like this, should have done it long ago,

and that compared to the very concrete support that most of the West is giving to Israel in terms of arms shipments and especially money from the United States, that this is really very, very little. But the feelings are mixed, and some do think that this is at least a good start. Oh, for sure, it does make different, because we need to have two-state solutions. That's it. It's over. And other than saying words, I think there should be an actual action. The Israeli government has put out a lot of threats to the West, basically saying that this is

a reward for terrorism. If you recognize a Palestinian state, they will be encouraged to repeat what happened on October 7th, and it will not bring peace. Sasha Petrosic, CBC News, Ramallah. The new price tag for skilled workers to enter the U.S. comes into effect today. It was only Friday when President Donald Trump announced the cost for an H-1B visa was going to spike dramatic. A move he said that would protect American jobs. Salima Shivji has more. A new annual fee of $100,000 that companies will have to pay to get an H-1B visa for foreign employees. That's some 50 times more than what the visa costs now.

Everyone's going to be happy and we're going to be able to keep people in our country that are going to be very productive people. Trump's surprise announcement left tech companies and Wall Street banks scrambling. With many who hold H-1B visas worried they'd have to be. to rush back to the U.S. before the new rules came into effect today. There was panic in India with the vast majority of H-1B visa recipients coming from the South Asian country. New Delhi rushed to help confused visa holders until the White House clarified the fee would only apply to new applicants. On the streets of Mumbai, Sunil Rao says America will lose out in the end. People can work here and do something better for India.

But it's also the latest hurdle in a tumultuous U.S.-India relations. ship. Selima Shivjee, CBC News, Mumbai. In Newfoundland, the town of St. Lawrence, we'll have to wait a bit longer to go down in the history books this weekend. The rocket launch window assigned to aerospace startup Nordspace. This morning has been canceled due to unfavorable conditions. There is hope the launch may be able to take place this afternoon. An update is expected later this morning. If successful, it would mark the first time a commercial rocket has launched from a Canadian port.

And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Faye.