The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/01 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/01 at 04:00 EDT

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A powerful earthquake has shaken several cities in the Philippines. At least 69 people are dead after the magnitude 6.9 quake, and search teams are looking for more victims in the rubble. The city of Bogo is among the worst hit. John Sebastian Sitchan 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 from Lapu-Lapu City in the Philippines. In Washington, U.S. Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the American government. On this vote, the azer 47 and Azer 53.

the 60-vote threshold of having not been achieved, the bill upon reconsideration is not passed. And that means a shutdown of the U.S. government is now underway, something that hasn't happened in nearly seven years. Chuck Schumer leads the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate. He blames Republicans. We see now Republicans are plunging America into a shutdown, rejecting bipartisan talks, pushing a partisan bill. They've got to sit down and negotiate. with Democrats to come to a bill that both parties can support. John Barrasso is the Republican whip in the U.S. Senate, he blamed Schumer.

Well, the radical wing of the Democrat Party demanded that Chuck Schumer shut down the government, and he did that today. What that radical wing had told him to do was work with them through his war room. He had a war room going for the last eight weeks to orchestrate the shutdown. The U.S. government will continue to run essential services. Police in Western Quebec have made an arrest in connection with a cold case. Fourteen years ago, the body of a post-secondary student named Valerie Leblanc was found in a wooded area. Now investigators say new techniques helped track down a suspect. Nicole Williams has more, but first a warning.

Some listeners may find the details disturbing. It is with great emotion that we announced this news. today, says Gatineau Police Service Director Simon Fornier, an arrest in connection to the death of 18-year-old Valerie LeBlanc. LeBlanc was a student who had gone missing after her first day of school in whole Quebec back in 2011. Her body found days later in the woods behind the school, badly beaten and burned. A coroner's report found LeBlanc died from blunt force trauma to the head. Police have now arrested. 51-year-old Stefan Rivard of Gatno.

He faces one count of first-degree murder. Police are not sharing any more details about the suspect or any possible connection he may have to LeBlanc. Matthew Guilbeau is Chief Inspector. This is still an ongoing investigation. Revard remains in custody and is scheduled to appear in court today. Nicole Williams, CBC News, Ottawa. The United Nations Security Council has agreed to a U.S. proposal

to more than double the size of a mission in Haiti. The goal is to stop the armed gangs that control large parts of Haiti. Mike Walts is the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. The international community failed to deliver a mission that was fit for purpose. It lacked the scale, scope, and resources needed to take the fight to the gangs and restore a baseline of security in Haiti. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm NeNeum.

Neil Hurland.