The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/28 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/28 at 08:00 EDT

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call today. Visit no more debts.org. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fag. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy says Russia lobbed about 500 drones and more than 40 missiles at the country overnight. Fire crews hosed down hotspots after hundreds of homes, buildings, and vehicles were damaged or destroyed. At least four people were killed.

The close relationship between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump could be put to the test tomorrow. The Israeli leader is scheduled to visit the White House, where he'll face pressure to accept a deal his coalition back home is strongly opposed to. Sasha Petrissik has more from Jerusalem. With dozens already killed in Gaza City this weekend, and an Israeli salt plowing through residential neighborhoods, even a hint of war ending is welcome. talk of a peace deal is swirling, a 21-point plan presented by U.S. President Donald Trump to Arab leaders last week and on the agenda when he meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. The plan reportedly calls for several elements demanded by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others, an end to the Gaza war and a withdrawal of Israeli forces, and a long-term

role for the Palestinian authority, no role for Hamas. But it also insists on a path to a Palestinian state, something many countries, including Canada, insisted on at the UN this week, but flatly rejected by Netanyahu. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. Authorities in Alberta are expanding their search for a missing six-year-old boy. Darius McDougal was last seen a week ago near Crow's Nest Pass in the south of the province. Police, along with with search and rescue crews have been scouring the rugged terrain all week. Gina Slaney with Alberta RCMP says they brought in a tactical support group. Our TSG officers are now on the ground doing a shoulder to shoulder search.

They're specialists in looking for these small pieces of evidence that may help us. More than 200 personnel are involved in the search. The boy has autism. So crews say they're employing several tactics, including avoiding loud noises and bright lights. at night. Canadian small businesses are scrambling to find alternate ways to ship and receive goods with Canada post workers on strike for the second time in less than the year. As Philip Lees-Shanock reports, they're also bracing for the potential loss of door-to-door delivery. It would be rarely unfortunate to lose that. Christine Quale is a small business owner in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She doesn't

like Canada Post's plan to do away with home delivery. So I get lots of stuff that's delivered to my house. I've got to, you know, go out of my day to go pick up stuff now. On top of that, for the second time in a year, Canada Post workers are off the job. We've called for Canada Post to be temporarily deemed an essential service. Ryan Mitten is with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. He says members are dealing with the U.S. tariffs and now the uncertainty caused by another postal strike.

And although it could lead to the end of door-to-door delivery, he says the CFIB supports Canada Post's modernization efforts. The CFIB says for many businesses, time is running out. The last postal strike just before the critical holiday retail shipping season cost members a billion dollars in lost sales and increased costs. Philip Lichanawks, CBC News, Toronto. It's the final day of the Major League Baseball regular season, and it will be the biggest one for the Toronto Blue Jays.

Down the left field line and it's gone. The Jays beat Tampa Bay 5-1 yesterday to retain a state. share of first place in the American League East with the New York Yankees. But a win today in the 162nd and final game against the race in Toronto would lock up the pennant for the Jays who hold the tiebreaker against the Yankees. The Jays franchise has won the AL East pennant six times, clinching four of them in Toronto. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fagg. Thank you.