The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/30 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/30 at 22:00 EDT

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I'm Neil Hurland. Today marks the fifth national day for truth and reconciliation. Across the country, people paused and remembered survivors and children who never made it home from residential schools. David Thurton reports from Ottawa. And if it wasn't watch means to listen, that was our Algonquin name, until the missionary, the priest, They changed it, our government will ever change it?

As children, Jackie Pizzinowatch and her brother Eddie, were taken to a church-run residential school in Kenora, Ontario. Like so many forced into the government-funded institutions, they returned with painful memories. In talk to my sisters, they were just sitting there, you're traumatized, and they're trying to, you know. You don't know what to say, think, you know? Both siblings were in Ottawa.

for ceremonies marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. So was Prime Minister Mark Carney. Canada's new government is moving forward on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's calls for action. Carney says he's committed to advancing the work of the Commission through addressing gaps in health care, housing, and economic opportunity. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. A powerful earthquake has shaken several cities in the Philippines with a magnitude 6.9, At least 27 people are dead, another 140 injured.

The city of Bogo is among the worst hit. John Sebastian Sitchon is a journalist with Rappler, an online news website in the Philippines. It was very strong. I was at the roof deck of a building, and I was accompanied by a few of my friends. Right then and there, we had to act immediately and evacuate from the building, and we started noticing a lot of vehicles beeping away. some of the structures on the building. We started noticing some tattering on the paint,

and a lot of the residents, of course, were in panic. So it was a lot to digest for the people of Cebu. And we're still getting more updates now from the aftershocks and recent collapses of infrastructures in different parts of the region. That's journalist John Sebastian Sitchan reporting tonight from Lapu-Lapu City in the Philippines. U.S. President Donald Trump says the Palestinian militant group Hamas has three or four days to respond to his Gaza peace proposal.

Trump announced the plan yesterday, following a three-hour White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The plan has the backing of Israel, Arab, and European nations, along with Canada. And the American president is making new threats to deploy his own troops on American soil, Together with his defense secretary, Donald Trump, addressed senior military officers, laying out controversial plans to reshape American forces. Katie Simpson has details. U.S. President Donald Trump stood before hundreds of the most senior American military leaders,

admirals and generals flown in from around the world for a rare in-person meeting. It was to this audience, the president repeatedly advocated to use military force against U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, national guard. There was little response from the crowd as Trump railed against large cities run by Democrats. Trump overshadowed his war secretary, Pete Hegseth, who earlier at that meeting unveiled his plan to give members of the military more power and its leaders more autonomy.

No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement. There will be new fitness requirements. No more fat troops or generals, Hegseth said. Gender-based standards are all. also being eliminated. In order to qualify for combat roles, women must now meet the highest male standards. If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. The United Nations is doubling the size of its security mission in Haiti.

More than 3,000 people have died in violence between the country's gangs, police, and vigilante groups in the first half of this year. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil. Erland.