The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/03 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/03 at 12:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fag. Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to meet face-to-face with U.S. President Donald Trump next Tuesday in Washington. Canada and the U.S. are still in negotiations to reach a trade deal. And although Canada has rescinded attacks on big U.S. tech firms and dropped its retaliatory tariffs. This will be the second visit for Carney to the White House since becoming PM. There's still no sign of a deal. Police in England now say one of the victims who died in yesterday's attack on a Manchester synagogue was struck by a police bullet. Two people were killed in the car ramming and knife attack. Police are saying this morning one of the victims was inadvertently hit by gunfire when officers tried to keep the suspect from entering the synagogue.

Julia Chapman has the latest. Police say the two men killed were 53-year-old Adrian Dolby and 66-year-old Melvin Kravitz. One was hit by police gunfire as officers tried to stop the perpetrator. Three other people are still in hospital with serious injuries, one with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound from a police firearm. Britain's chief rabbi, Ephraim Mervis, says community cohesion is vital. This wasn't merely an attack against Jews. It was an attack against the values of our society.

The attacker, named as 35-year-old Jihad al-Shami, was killed at the scene. Police say he wasn't known to them, and they're now working to establish a motive. Three individuals have been arrested in connection with the attack. British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmoud says the terrorism threat in the UK is evolving. The government will respond. If there are lessons to be learned, I will ensure that they are learned. Julia Chapman, CBC News, London. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote today on a bill to fund the government. It's the fourth attempt to end the shutdown, and it's expected to fail.

President Donald Trump's calling the government shutdown an opportunity to clear out what he calls Deadwood, adding that if any workers get fired, it's the Democrats' fault. And in an interview with Trump-friendly Network One America News, He suggested more cuts are coming. We could cut projects that they wanted, favorite projects, and they'd be permanently cut. So you could say, a lot of people are saying Trump wanted this, that I wanted this closing, and I didn't want it. But a lot of people are saying it because I'm allowed to cut things that should have never been approved in the first place. And I will probably do that.

This morning, the White House announced it was withholding a $2.1 billion infrastructure program from the city of Chicago, a democratically controlled state. Another is a clean energy initiative where $7.5 billion in funding was stopped. The Trump administration says the projects don't line up with energy needs. Well, one of the country's intelligence watchdogs is raising serious concerns

with how the Canadian, the Canada Revenue Agency audits charities over terrorism concerns. The investigation follows years of allegations it's biased against Muslim charities. Catherine Tunney reports. They're biased and they're discriminatory. Tim McSorley with the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group has spent years arguing the CRA on fairly targets Muslim charities,

disproportionately selecting them to be audited based on terrorism concerns. Vindication this week in the form of a report from one of the country's intelligence watchdogs. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency spent about two years combing the records of CRA's review and analysis division. known as RAD. Investigators say the CRA could not justify why it opened audits into so many Muslim charities, and then its whole process potentially violates the

charter. CRA says it's already making changes based on the report's findings. Wayne Long, the government secretary of state for CRA, says he'll make sure that happens. We know the charities do great work across our country. The National Council of Canadian Muslims says RAD is so problematic. It's time to

dismantle the unit and start over. Catherine Tunney, CBC News. Ottawa. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fag.