The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/13 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/13 at 07:00 EST

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Join us. Because kids these days, we need you more than ever. Donate at GeoFoundation.com. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings cbc's visual investigations team has learned canadian made weapons are being used by a sudanese paramilitary group responsible for the massacre of civilians images shared by rs rs rsf fighters include rifles bearing the logo of a bc weapons manufacturer. Ethel Moussa has the details. I was shocked. McGill Professor Khalid Medani

says the use of Canadian-made weapons in his home country of Sudan is not only troubling, it's illegal. Not only does it violate the Export Imports Permits at the Canadian legislation, but also the international law. Photos analyzed by CBC's visual investigations team show members of the rapid support forces paramilitary, or RSF, holding rifles with the logo of Sterling Cross Defense Systems, a company based in British Columbia. Sterling Cross says its policies align with that of Global Affairs Canada. It's not clear how their rifles got into Sudan.

But Imadine Badi, with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, says some experts point to the United Arab Emirates. The UAE, according to multiple reports, has been facing allegations of supplying the RSF. It'll lose the CBC News, Toronto. The full story on how we track these weapons is on our website, cbcnews.ca. Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Terrace, BC today, rolling out his government's next list of so-called nation-building projects.

And CBC News has confirmed it will include BC's North Coast transmission line, running from Prince George to Terrace. Among the other projects expected to get the fast-track. today, a nickel mine in Ontario, a critical minerals mine in New Brunswick and a hydroelectric project in Nunavut. Now to Washington. On this vote, the ayes are 222, the nays are 209. The bill is passed. The motion is adopted. That's a House of Representatives passing a bill last night that ends the longest government shutdown in American history. And it's a shutdown President Donald Trump blames on the Democrats.

past 43 days Democrats in Congress shut down the government of the United States and an attempt to extort American taxpayers for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal aliens. For the record, the Democrats made no such demands. Among other things, the shutdown impacted food and health support programs and led to flight delays or cancellations right across the country. And while the bill that ends the stalemate has now passed into law, it only stays in effect until the end of January. Iran finds itself in the midst of one of the longest droughts in the country's recent history. And it means that by the end of the month, 10 million people living in the capital, Tehran, may be forced to leave the city. And a Cunningham has more.

This is Iran's six-year of drought. The capital depends entirely on five dams. They are running dry. Iran's president, Masu Peseskian, has warned of Russia. And if there is no rain by November 22nd, he says they must evacuate Tehran. It's drying up. It's almost dead. Looking at satellite images of Iran from Toronto, Iranian Ave Madani is alarmed. He is the director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and House. The issue of mismanagement is real. A problem like this was not created overnight. The stakes are high.

for Iran's clerical rulers, previous water shortages have sparked violent protests. In a country where the economy is under pressure from international sanctions linked to its disputed nuclear program, rain is desperately needed. Anna Canningham, CBC News, London. And that is the world this hour. For news any time, go to our website, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.