The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/09 at 09:00 EST

Episode Date: November 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/09 at 09:00 EST

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and a digital business library full of on-demand resources. Benefit together with Chambers Plan. Learn more at hellochambers.ca. from cbc news the world this hour i'm claude faye super typhoon fung wong is bearing down on the philippines forcing massive evacuations as the country faces its second major storm in a week the capital region is on high alert super typhoon fung wang has already brought heavy rains to the philippines main island louzonne david grunbaum is a flea a freelance reporter who is based in the Philippines.

The dangers are so high. They've already evacuated almost one million people. The highest alert level, Signal 5, already up in parts of the country. Many community centers and basketball courts and high ground areas have been turned into evacuation centers. This is the 21st tropical cyclone in the Philippine area this season, although not all of them have made landfall. The government has redirected about 2,000 soldiers from field training to humanitarian aid.

This includes search and rescue teams. Some coastal areas, southeast of Manila, are already getting torrential rain and heavy winds. This typhoon has a diameter of about 1,800 kilometers. Of course, the Philippines got hit by a typhoon last week. The one that hit last week hit the island of Cebu, the hardest. That's over 200 people killed more than 100 still missing. But the Philippines just reeling from that now has to deal with another one, but the Filipino people known for their resilience.

David Renebaum for CBC News in Kuala Lumpur. Japan has issued a tsunami advisory after a powerful magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocked the nation's northeastern coast. The quake struck off the coast of Iwate Prefecture at around 5 p.m. local time the same region devastated by the 2011 tsunami. Japan's meteorological agency says small tsunami waves have already been detected and aftershocks are continuing. Bullet train services have been temporarily delayed and there are scattered power outages. throughout the region. Demonstrators in Tel Aviv gathered for their weekly rally yesterday to demand Israel ensure the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas. The Prime Minister's office

confirmed this morning that it had received the body of a deceased soldier from the Red Cross in Gaza. Hamas claims a soldier was killed in 2014 and had been held in Gaza for 11 years. There were also protests against changes to the country's governing structure. Many protesters say under Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel is shifting away from liberal democracy and closer to right-wing theocracy. In Israel, right now, the democracy is a kind of a shaky situation. We have a government that try to change our democracy to dictatorship, and we're here to protest. We're here to demonstrate against it. In 2023, Netanyahu's government attempted to water down the power of the courts. That plan got overshadowed by the October 7th attack.

by Hamas. Members of the Royal Family and the UK government are leading Remembrance Sunday services today. We have seen moments of somber reflection. King Charles led those honoring British service members on the national side in central London. The CBC's Anna Cunningham reports. We have seen moments of somber reflection from King Charles. He was leading the National Memorial Service at the Cenotaph in central London, laying a wreath, as were other politicians and members of the armed forces. It really is a reflection, I think, this year in particular, being the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. People have been thinking about what happened.

I am actually in Coventry, a city which was heavily bombed during the Second World War. Coventry is now known as a city of peace and reconciliation. It's actually twinned with Windsor in Ontario. But I think we've also got to take into account that there is a war ongoing in Europe. Russia's war on Ukraine. And that still feels to many people very close by as well. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, Coventry. And for CBC News, I'm Claude Faye.

Thank you.