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

Episode Date: November 9, 2025

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

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Clawfay. Super Typhoon Fung Wong has made landfall in the Philippines, leaving at least two people dead. The fierce storm has already forced massive evacuations as the country faces its second major storm in a week.

Nearly one million people have been ordered to leave several vulnerable regions. The capital region is a capital region. is on high alert. Super Typhoon, Fung One has already brought heavy rains to the Philippines's main island Luzon. David Grunbaum is a freelance reporter who's 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 Sabu 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.

Dave Gronabam 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. 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.

We are learning more about what prompted a conservative MP to cross the floor to the Liberal Party. Nova Scotia Member of Parliament, Chris Dun Tramont, made the stunning decision last week to leave the Federal Conservative Party. He was on the CBC's Rosemary Barton Live, says he was not happy with the leadership style and he says he was not alone. You know, people aren't happy with the leadership style, not just of the leader, but of the leadership team that's there. Quite honestly, a lot of times I felt it was part of a frat house rather than a serious political party. What do you mean by that?

Well, I mean, it was about who was friends with who, you know, who could be the most negative, who could be the most cutting. Don Tremont speaking with today's host, Catherine Cullen. His crossing of the floor brings the liberals to 170 seats in the house. That's just two seats shy of a majority. And you can watch his full interview with host Catherine Cullen on Rosemary Barton Live. San Francisco is about to lose a symbolic structure created by a Quebec artist over 50 years ago. Sculptor Armand Vionkors, a fountain will be dismantled after a vote was passed by the city's art commission. Gabriel Gindy has more. The Vionkoufountain are rather known by its official name Quebec Libre was one of the first works of art that ushered in a style that is now known as

brutalism. Twisting columns of concrete going in all different types of directions all lead to the center, where the end of each column serves as a spout for gushing water. The city of San Francisco will dismantle the art piece, citing it as an urgent public safety hazard in the event of an earthquake. Charles Burnbaum is with the Cultural Landscape Foundation based in Washington, D.C. Burnbaum says it's the city's fault that the fountain is in disrepair. We have a situation where this work of art, imagine for at least 10 years, it has not been properly cared for. In a statement, San Francisco's Parks and Rec Department did not address these claims. It says that it'll store the structure for up to three years.

Vian Kuhl says he'd rather bring the fountain back to Canada and have it installed elsewhere. Gabriel Gindy's CBC News, Montreal. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fag. Thank you.