The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/02 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/02 at 06:00 EDT

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boat by boat the israeli military is intercepting the activists sailing with the global samud flotilla the flotilla is attempting to deliver aid to gaza but the boats are being stopped with those aboard taken to israel for deportation sasha Petrusik reports. 160 kilometers from Gaza's coast, a boatload of heavily armed Israeli troops board the sailboat all in. Its crew and passengers, activists, are detained at gunpoint. The scene has been repeated all night. I am concerned with my safety. Canadian Zahirah Sumar watches from a nearby ship,

which keeps sailing. The global Samud flotilla still turns. trying to deliver aid to Gaza and to pierce Israel's blockade. We have 40 plus votes and we're hoping that maybe some make it to the shores of Gaza. We don't know. From Rome to Buenos Aires, Tunis to Istanbul, pro-Palestinian protesters support the flotilla and denounce the war. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. Senior European leaders are meeting in Copenhagen this week with Russia dominating the agenda.

Medda Fredrickson is the president or rather prime minister of Denmark. I think everybody underestimated how big a threat Russia actually is. Not saying that we haven't done anything because we are doing a lot. And my hope is that everybody will recognize that we have to look at Ukraine as the first line of defense. So everything we do in Ukraine is defending ourselves in the rest of the Europe. Denmark and Poland have both seen drone activity in recent weeks that they say appears to be Russian. Fredrickson says Europe needs to arm itself for a hybrid war, one that combines drone and

cyber technology. Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky is scheduled to address this leader's summit later today. Supporters and opponents both are coming forward to voice their opinion on the Alberta government's proposal to develop a new pipeline to the B.C. coast. It's a plan that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is saying she's willing to spend up to $14 million on to get started. Paul it to Hatchuk has more. And so we've got to do something to break the logjam.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith blames federal environmental policy for the fact that no private company has stepped up to build a new oil pipeline. We'll work with the federal government to clear away some of those barriers. Alex Porbe, executive chair of Cinovus Energy, says the province is making a smart move. This is truly a nation-building kind of a project. Others disagree. One of the policies Smith wants repealed is the so-called tanker ban, BC Premier David Eby says getting rid of the policy could erode support for other types of major projects.

The challenge that I have is that this proposal from the Alberta Premier for taxpayers to do this work comes at the expense of real private sector projects. Premier Danielle Smith pledged taxpayers won't be on the hook for the project itself and plans to submit a proposal to the major projects office next spring. Paula Dujah, CBC News, Calgary. incidentally, the president of the coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative, which represents the communities along the B.C. Coast, is saying that First Nations fought for decades to get the federal moratorium that keeps oil tankers out of their waters. With the U.S. federal government shut down now into its second day, the Trump administration is warning that it could start firing federal workers as soon as today. Military members and many transportation border and other workers deemed essential continue to work, but some Some close to 750,000 others have been furloughed. However, White House officials have warned that the government could move to make those cuts permanent.

The White House is also targeting 16 Democratic states with a wave of cuts to federal projects, including an $18 billion infrastructure project deemed to get underway in New York. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.