The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/14 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/14 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 a report released today at the cop 30 climate summit in brazil says climate change is responsible for ramping up both the size and the strength of the typhoons that devastated the philippines and vietnam this month susan ormiston reports

Analysis by Imperial College London said economic damages were 42% higher in the Philippines and 9% in Vietnam as a result of emissions from burning oil, gas and coal. With that backdrop, developing countries are looking for signals. Who's going to help pay for poorer countries to adapt, especially with the U.S. on the sidelines? The call is for that funding to be tripled. Jennifer Morgan was a special envoy for Germany, now a fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Very important issue here. How are you going to fund the poorest, most indebted nations? That, as governments tighten the strings on the climate purse,

and in Bel-end, strong response to Prime Minister Carney's announcement of mines and LNG growth, Liz McDowell is with a group called Stand Earth. If we keep expanding oil and gas like this, we have no hope at meeting our emissions targets. COP 30 rolls into intense negotiations next week, trying to strengthen a promise made two years ago in Dubai to transition away from oil and gas. Susan Ormiston, CBC News, Berlin. A call is being made for Ottawa to take action on the soaring cost of baby formula. And there's no doubt the cost is soaring.

Statistics Canada says it's up by 30% over the past two years and 80% since 2017. Jessica Pope reports. Six-month-old Charlotte is still exclusively formula fed. Her mother, Cassandra Shedden, in Thunder Bay in northwestern Ontario, says it costs up to $120 a week to keep her bottle full. And formula prices are straining her already razor-thin budget. Sometimes you're trying to choose between bills and feeding your kids. Leslie Frank has been tracking the issue nationally for nearly two decades.

She is the Canada Research Chair in Food, Health and Social Justice at Acadia University in Nova Scotia. Frank says her national research paints a dire picture. The infant formula is now locked up because it's one of the most stolen food products in Canada. Most of Canada's baby formula comes from a largely consolidated U.S. market. She says increasing the Canada child benefit amount would help struggling families or even nationalizing baby formula production. Jessica Pope, CBC News, Subbury, Ontario. Russia unleashed another major overnight missile and drone attack on Kyiv.

Four deaths are being reported with dozens injured across multiple districts. The Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says more than 400 drones and 18 missiles were launched. And he's accusing the Kremlin of calculating such an assault to cause as much harm as possible to civilians. The House of Representatives is expected to vote next week on a motion to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. Thousands of documents in the convicted six offenders case were made public earlier this week, even as President Donald Trump appears to be stalling the proceedings. Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell says, if this were a trial, it might look suspicious to the jury. When a witness or a subject to an investigation seeks to hide evidence or bury evidence or destroy evidence, you can imply what they call a consciousness of guilt, meaning that an individual would only do that to mask their own responsibility and guilt. Swalwell served as a prosecutor during Trump's second impeachment trial that followed the January 6 attacks on the Capitol.

And Swabell is now confirming that the U.S. Justice Department is investigating him for suspected mortgage fraud. And that is the world this hour. For news any time, go to our website, cBCNews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.