The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/24 at 02:00 EDT
Episode Date: September 24, 2025The World This Hour for 2025/09/24 at 02:00 EDT...
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from cbc news the world is sour i'm neil kumar jimmy kimmel's late-night talk show is now back on the air
if you're just joining us we are preempting your regularly scheduled encore episode of celebrity family feud
to bring you this special report i'm happy to be here tonight with you
next star and sinclair say they will continue to preempt the program sending what they call insensitive
comments relating to the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
Kimmel's show was suspended from airing on television network ABC last week.
Parent company Disney has reinstated the show amid widespread public pressure.
An investigation has found that TikTok collected sensitive data from Canadian children using the app.
The report was led by federal and provincial privacy commissioners.
Jennifer Lagrasa has the details.
Popular social media platform TikTok is promising to crack down on underage users
and vows to more clearly explain how it's using people's data.
That's after an investigation by Canadian privacy watchdogs
determined it wasn't doing enough to protect users.
We found that TikTok must do more.
At a news conference in Ottawa this afternoon,
Philippe Dufran, Canada's privacy commissioner,
said the company has collected sensitive information on young users.
He didn't say whether TikTok will delete this data,
but added that the platform committed to improvements.
It's always going to be some amount of compromise.
Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa.
Though TikTok says it will better verify the age of users, Geist thinks this will be a challenge.
We all know that many kids are going to be determined to get on some of these platforms.
Canadian privacy authorities say they will continue to closely monitor TikTok.
Jennifer Lagrasa, CBC News, Toronto.
A group of U.S. lawmakers has held meetings with Chinese government officials.
It's the first trip by delegation from the House of Representatives to
China in six years. They're hoping the meetings could lead to a thawing of tensions between
the two countries. Lisa Jing has more. China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, telling members
of the U.S. House of Representatives, China's doors are always open to them. A rare visit from
the bipartisan delegation, the first since 2019, U.S. Congressman Adam Smith. The real hope is
that we get to the point where China and the U.S. work together on global challenges.
have mounted between Washington and Beijing in the last few years over tariffs, U.S. restrictions
on semiconductor chips, the ownership of TikTok, but signs of rapprochement.
Strengthening our cooperation is not only good for our two countries, but of great significance
to the world, said Chinese Premier Li Chang.
The trip comes on the heels of a call between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping and
sets up a meeting between the leaders in South Korea next month and potentially a visit to China
by Trump next year. Lisa Sheng, CBC News, Toronto.
In B.C., tensions are high at an ostrich farm in East Cootney, as police arrested two farmers
for resisting a coal order by government officials that will kill off 400 birds.
Brady Strachan has more.
Emotions run high as ostrich farmers negotiate with the RCMP.
The birds are going to be okay.
They're not.
Just the other option is, my compatriots here have to come in and arrest you.
Then you will be taken to our detachment.
Two people were arrested.
The RCMP didn't confirm who, but the arrest was in an ostrich enclosure where two owners had been staying overnight.
Police are on the farm to allow the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to carry out a call of nearly 400 birds.
As stamping out policy, the agency says, is the only way to deal.
with the case of avian flu.
In a live stream video,
farm spokesperson Katie Pasitney says
they are expecting the worst.
They're going to make corrals of hay bales
to dart and kill our animals.
The farm is asking for time
as they take their case to the Supreme Court
of Canada. Brady Strachan,
CBC News, Colonna.
And that is your world this hour.
For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.
Thank you.