The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/25 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/25 at 13:00 EDT

Hugh is a rock climber, a white supremacist, a Jewish neo-Nazi, a spam king, a crypto-billionaire, and then someone killed him. It is truly a mystery. It is truly a case of who done it. Dirtbag Climber, the story of the murder and the many lives of Jesse James. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. The president of the Palestinian Authority is urging more nations to recognize Palestinian statehood. Mahmoud Abbas says solidarity with the Palestinian cause should not be confused with anti-Semitism.

He spoke to the UN General Assembly via video link after he was denied a visa by the U.S. Abbas thanked Canada and a number of other nations for recognizing a Palestinian. Palestinian state in recent days, and he insisted the October 7th attacks do not represent Palestinians. His address comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in New York ahead of his speech tomorrow. Netanyahu has called the recognition of a Palestinian state a reward to terrorism, and he has pledged to respond. Drivers in Ontario will no longer have to watch out for speed cameras. Premier Doug Ford says his government will ban these devices and encourage municipalities to use other traffic calming measures. Colin Butler has more.

At a time when life is getting more expensive, Premier Doug Ford says Ontario will outlaw speed cameras, calling them ineffective and the fines they generate nothing more than a cash grab. When you're issuing 65,000 tickets in three months, that's not slowing people down. A parade of mayor stood shoulder to shoulder with Ford today. Von Mayor Stephen Del Ducca says the tickets create a fine line between paying fines and putting food on the table. This was an individual father who was struggling to pay for the groceries and was nearly in tears. He just didn't understand how he was going to make guns meet. But what happens when the cameras go dark? We need only look to Alberta.

They made a similar move and police there reported a spike in crashes and a rise in deaths. In Ontario, the province says it's giving drivers a break from tickets, a financial win. that could come at a deadly cost. Colin Butler, CBC News, London, Ontario. An escaped fugitive wanted by police in BC for three years has been arrested in Qatar. Police say Robbie Al Khalil was arrested under a fake name with assistance from the Qatari Ministry of Interior. The convicted murderer escaped custody while he was on trial for another murder in Vancouver three years ago.

BC police and the RCMP are now working with Interpol to return Al Khalil to Canada. Earlier this month, police also charged three other men with helping him escape. A Quebec woman who was accused of throwing scalding water on a young child has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault. The boy suffered second-degree burns to his face and his shoulders. Sarah Levitt has more from the courthouse. Speaking softly, Stephanie Borell simply said yes when the judge asked her if she pleaded guilty.

It happened last October. The 10-year-old boy, who we can't identify due to a publication ban, was with friends when he approached Borrell's house to ring her doorbell and run as part of a game the children played. Before he did, though, Borrell opened the door and threw boiling water on his face. She says she was not aware it was a boy or that he was black. And the statement of facts note, there's no evidence her act was racially motivated. Borrel says she was often the victim of the ring and run prank and it stressed her and her cats. The parents didn't speak to media, but a friend of the family says they were released.

to have a guilty plea, which avoided having their son testify about what happened. Borel will know her sentence in the new year. Sarah Levitt's CBC News, Longuey, Quebec. And a discontinued Canadian chocolate has launched a busy resale market. Hershey announced back in January it would no longer be making the cherry blossom. That's the chocolate-covered Maraschino cherry sold in a little yellow box. Everywhere I went, stores or pharmacies, I bought as many as I. could, but in many places, most of them were already gone.

Quebec, Jerome Lavoie, bought as many as he could, and he's now one of many people across the country trying to strike gold by reselling the candy. His ask right now, eight cherry blossoms for $100, though so far no one has met his price. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.