World Report - September 2: Tuesday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

Members of the Afghan community in Quebec support relief efforts after 6.0 magnitude earthquake.Landslide wipes out village in Sudan's Darfur region, an area gripped by civil war. Fort Providence firefighters work to protect home and properties in the 700-person NWT community. Russian President Vladimir Putin sits down with China's Xi Jinping, ahead of massive military parade in Beijing. Israel mobilizing tens of thousands of reservists as it widens offensive in Gaza City. Mother of New Brunswick child killed at harness racing track is demanding answers after town resumes races. Canadian actor Graham Greene from Six Nations Reserve remembered for his refusal to be typecast. 

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That's betterhelp.com slash Canada World. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Marcia Young. The Taliban says at least 1,400 people have been killed by the earthquake that hit Afghanistan. More than 5,000 houses have been destroyed in the disaster. Some remote regions are still inaccessible. And as Paula Diane Perez reports,

Members of the Afghan community in Quebec say they're taking relief efforts into their own hands. Oh, my God. It's hard to, ah, it's hard, you know. Makai Harif watches devastating images of Afghanistan on her phone. The photos of the rubble and people in hospital. I'm going by myself. Even as a long destination to go, it's hard for my age is over 75. but I want to go to help people. The founder of the Afghan Women's Center of Montreal

says the diaspora has seen this before. Two deadly earthquakes struck the country in 2022 and 2023. Back then, the organization collected donations. Executive Director Victoria Jahesh says one of the challenges is keeping that money out of the hands of the Taliban, listed by the Canadian government as a terrorist group. So the center has been using its contacts, mainly family members and trusted organizations

to distribute donations to those in need. So this time, again, we have, you know, some relatives in that particular part, and also we know some very, like, research organizations in Afghanistan on the ground, and they happen to have, you know, a lot of experience. Jahesh says it's not enough. She wants the Canadian government to help us well. In a statement, Global Affairs Canada says, is providing support to partners on the ground dealing with the existing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

That includes organizations like the World Food Programme, which are now pivoting to support immediate relief efforts. The federal government says it stands ready to help further as required. Paula Diane Perez, CBC News, Montreal. In Sudan's Darfur region, it is disaster on top of displacement and disease. A landslide has completely wiped out the village of Terracine. At least 1,000 people are believed to have been killed. For two years, the region has been engulfed in civil war.

And this is right in the middle of the conflict and the rainy season and the corridor breaks. Antoine Gerard is the UN-Sudan Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator. He told the BBC the war and the terrain make it almost impossible to access this mountainous remote village. We do not have helicopters. So everything is on cars in the very bumpy roads. It takes time and it is the rainy season. So some of the time we have to wait a couple of hours, maybe sometime a day or two. to cross a wadi, a valley with water.

He says this part of Darfur has been hosting internally displaced people who fled the fighting farther north. Structural firefighters are standing by and case an out-of-control wildfire reaches Fort Providence. Northwest Territory's fire says the flames came within 900 meters of the community yesterday. But fuel breaks have been built and crews are trying to keep the area damp. Juanita Taylor has more on the work being. done to try to protect homes.

These cats are working here. They're tight lining the fire. Danny Bolio is working to strengthen the firebreak on the outskirts of Fort Providence. He is also the mayor, protecting his community from the raging wildfire. They have hoses laid all over the town, sprinklers up on the houses, especially the houses, what we call the back street, along the house. a tree line. The wildfire is pushing towards town. Some essential workers were ordered out Monday a day after residents began to flee to Hay River, 180 kilometers away. Evacui

Ruby Minosa is worried. Am I going to go home? Is my house still going to be standing up when I get home? Or my grandkids are going to have a house to go home to? The wildfire is one of dozens burning in the Northwest Territories. Premier R.J. Simpson wants more federal support. Small jurisdiction, and we can only handle so much, we only have so much capacity, but with the world the way it is, with climate change and the frequency and severity of these disasters,

it's tough, it's, we're stretched. Simpson says the territory has reached out to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center for more crews and aircraft to fight this fire. Come midweek, winds are expected to pick up again towards Fort Providence. Winnita Taylor, CBC News, Hay River, Northwest Territories. Chinese President Xi Jinping is meeting with some of his closest allies today.

Leaders from Russia, North Korea, and Iran are in Beijing. China is preparing to display its military might tomorrow. A massive parade marks Japan's surrender at the end of the Second World War. But it is also being viewed as a chance to build on China's alliances in the face of growing Western powers. Laura Westbrook. Reports from Hong Kong. Sitting down to tea together, it looks like Russian President Vladimir Putin

and Chinese President Xi Jinping's so-called No Limits Partnership is going strong. Moscow counts Beijing as a key strategic partner. Russia has been hit by multiple rounds of Western sanctions imposed after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Beijing insists it is a neutral party. While a deal with the Russian leader to end the war in Ukraine continues to elude U.S. Donald Trump, President Xi's welcome of President Putin to Beijing, demonstrates their close ties. And with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un also in China to watch over a military parade to mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War, Professor Wu Sinbo of Shanghai's

Fudan University says this shows China's international influence is crucial. For Donald Trump, they may be envious of this, because these are the leaders that President Trump very much wants to meet today. Putin, Xi, and King, So Trump may view this positively and reminds him that he needs to get along with China. Drew Thompson from the Singapore think tank, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, says the carefully choreographed parade shows China's growing military power. Xi Jinping's prominence also underscores that he's in full control of the party, its army, the government, and the propaganda and ideological apparatus of all three.

She's display of his diplomatic clout with a group of, of authoritarian regimes comes at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump's isolationist policies strain Washington's alliances. Laura Westbrook for CBC News, Hong Kong. Israel is mobilizing tens of thousands of reservists. Part of its plan to widen its offensive in Gaza City. Ground and air forces are striking two western neighborhoods. They also say Gaza City is still home to a vast network of Hamas tunnels. It's also one of the last places of refuge in the northern Gaza Strip. Hundreds of thousands of

civilians are sheltering there. It's been more than two months since a child was fatally injured at a harness racing track in New Brunswick. His mother says she's still waiting for reports from the coroner and police. The CBC's Rachel Cave reports.

Cora Fraser says she has watched the June 14th race on video on repeat. Her kids attended the track that day with other family. The video shows the metal game of the starting truck, sweeping so close to the outside fence, people who are leaning on and over the rails jump back. We need an ambulance, call an ambulance.

When Fraser got word, her three-year-old son, Gunner, had been hit. She raced to the track. My oldest daughter, she was screaming, crying. The town suspended racing on June 17th, then voted to restart August 4th, based on a safety review that no one will release. There is now new fencing up a. the track, but the mayor would not do an interview, nor would anyone from the Woodstock

driving club, horse racing New Brunswick, or the Atlantic Provinces Harness Racing Commission. Simon Watts, the deputy chief of the Woodstock Police, says prosecutors have yet to review the investigation. It's technically still active. It's just coming to a conclusion. Meanwhile, people continue to lean on and over the fences at raceways across Canada, including Charlottetown, one of the maritime tracks that has new warning signs, telling people to get back while the starting gate passes. Fraser says she couldn't bear to see it happen again. I just need details. Fraser says if changes have been made to ensure public safety, the public should know. Rachel Cave, CBC News, Woodstock, New Brunswick.

Tributes are pouring in for a Canadian actor Graham Green. He is being remembered for his Oscar-nominated performance and dances with wolves and his refusal to be typecast in certain roles. Green was from Six Nations Reserve. Some of his film credits include the Green Mile, Die Hard 3, and the Twilight Saga. And this year, he was honored with the Governor General's Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award. That was a major coup, I thought, wow. Why me?

It means a lot to be recognized in my own country. He died yesterday in Stratford, Ontario after a long illness. William Green was 73 years old. That is the latest national and international news from World Report. I'm Marcia Young.