The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/13 at 21:00 EST

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/13 at 21:00 EST

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Join us. Because kids these days, we need you more than ever. Donate at GeoFoundation.com. from cbc news the world this hour i'm mike miles sudan's in desperate need with aid agencies warning millions of people in the african country are facing starvation and a worsening civil war is making it more difficult to deliver supplies margaret evans reports nearly three weeks after the paramilitary rapid support forces captured the city it had besieged for more than a year a news blackout remains in

place in El Fasher. The UN estimates 90,000 people have fled. Many more are believed still trapped. We are all like trying to negotiate this access. Miriam LaRouci of Medcins Sans Frontier is in Tawila, a town about 60 kilometres west of El Fasher, now overwhelmed with the weary and the wounded. People who indeed have her torture guns, a lot of my nutrition cases. The RSF now controls much of the Darfur region in western Sudan. It's battle against the Sudanese armed forces already moving east. Both sides in the war have been accused of atrocities and an estimated 21 million people are now living in acute food insecurity. Margaret Evans, CBC News, London. Canada's spy agency says espionage teams from China and Russia are targeting Canada's Arctic. Dan Rogers is director of the Canadian

security intelligence service, he says both governments and the private sector in the region are being watched. Non-Arctic states, including the People's Republic of China, seek to gain a strategic and economic foothold in the region. Russia, an Arctic state with a significant military presence in the region, remains unpredictable and aggressive. CESIS is responding by communicating with indigenous Arctic and northern partners across Canada about what it's seeing. A new study out of the U.S. suggests ultra-processed food is tied to an increased risk of early-onset colorectal cancer. That means shelf-stable and preserved goods like mass-produced bread, breakfast cereals, and instant soups. Nearly 30,000 women took part in the study, which found those who ate the most

ultra-processed food had a higher risk of developing a polypup linked to colorectal cancer. Scientists say the findings link food to rising rates of the cancer in young adults in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. Bob Ray has ended his run as Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, delivering his final speech to the General Assembly today. Courage can be difficult. It means stepping out. It means standing up.

It means trying to persuade people who don't agree with you. But the thing we know about courage is that it is infectious. If some stand up, then others will stand up. Bob Ray has ended as, excuse me, the former Ontario Premier and Interim Leader of the Federal Liberal Party served at the U.N. for more than five years. The 77-year-old is known for being a voice of conviction there by Minister Carney once calling him Canada's conscience. Ray admits he also had a habit of going off script, often putting him at odds with the federal government. Ray is succeeded

by former Justice Minister David Lamedy. His first day, Monday. An update now to a story we brought you earlier this week about pension benefits for military veterans. Tuesday, the Veterans Affairs Minister told CBC News, the federal budget included revisions to how disability pensions would be calculated. Advocates criticized the measure, arguing vets would lose thousands of dollars. Now the finance minister's office is clarifying the proposed changes, saying they will only apply to RCMP and not to veterans. In Paris, mourning and remembrance, with hundreds gathering to mark 10 years since the Bataclan nightclub attacks. Jean-Jacques Amio, Maxim Bufar. Canton Boulanger.

Names of the 90 victims were red, and dignitaries laid wreaths at a memorial plaque outside the venue. The rampage was carried out by ISIS, one of a number of assaults across Paris that day. 130 people were killed, hundreds more hurt. The attacks were France's deadliest since the Second World War and led to new security measures and changes to French law. That is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.