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1:03Rescue missions have now turned into recovery operations as the number of deaths continue to climb. Some are laying their dead to rest using photographs and effigies. As that grief hangs heavy, Nepal's leaders are holding the developed world accountable. Parliamentarian Kushbu Oli. Nepal is being a price for a climate crisis it did not create. This is not simply a local disaster. It is a worry from the Himalay to the world. This week, Nepal's Prime Minister Balindra Shah delivered the same message that last week's flash flood is a stark reminder of the risks facing the Himalayan region. Scientists have warned for years about how fast glaciers in the area are melting. Environmentalist Jandrebushan Wons, the region is hitting a breaking point. We are now looking at meteorological surgesality in terms of extreme rainfall event which is happening across the Himalayan range. It is not one crisis that we are talking about.

2:05Relief efforts in Nepal are being hampered by more rain and officials warn rivers could overflow and trigger more flash floods. Downstream in India, many rivers have already breached their banks. Sixty-thousand people have been evacuated but the government there says there is no new tepanic. Neha Pune for CBC News, New Delhi. Israel says if the U.S. agrees it is prepared to forcibly relocate Palestinians from Gaza. Defense Minister Israel Katz says he is ready to remove them in any way possible. Crystal Gaman Singh has more from Jerusalem. For 55-year-old Omi Yusuf Shabbat, leaving Gaza is unthinkable. We are born and raised in Gaza. We will die and be buried in Gaza. She told a freelance video journalist working for CBC in Gaza City. The controversial and likely illegal move under international law was raised again by Israel Katz. Speaking yesterday at a conference, the Defense Minister reportedly said there is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration.

3:13CBC News reached out to Katz's office seeking further clarification and comment that has not heard back. According to local media reports, Katz believes U.S. President Donald Trump would support the plan and it would be set in motion as soon as Trump gives the go-ahead and other countries agree to take the Palestinians. Last year, the U.S. President talked about transferring the local population to countries such as Jordan and Egypt. He retracted the idea following international backlash. Human rights groups say such actions amount to ethnic cleansing. Relocation of any kind was not included in the U.S.-led 20-point peace plan for Gaza and it coming back up now is being met with mixed feelings among Palestinians. We are tired, says Abdul Rahman Al-Turk. We have the first chance to leave the country. We will take it. But Muhammad Abdul Jubei says no. We are going to remain steadfast and we will not leave our land. We completely reject the idea.

4:17Crystal Command Singh, CBC News, Jerusalem. Gloria Steinem has died. She was 92 years old. Steinem was a trailblazer of feminism who reshaped the conversation around equal pay and reproductive freedom. As Steve Futterman tells us her undercover reporting and activism transformed the fight for women's rights. Gloria Steinem, thank you. She was one of the pioneers of the modern women's movement. All of us must stand up together and say no more. Gloria Steinem first gained prominence as a journalist. In 1963 she went undercover posing as a playboy bunny at the New York Playboy Club, exposing the sexist working conditions. From the start she called for an equal playing field. This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. In 1972 she founded Ms. Magazine which reported on efforts for women's equality.

5:17Always one of the biggest issues was the right to have an abortion. We are here to announce our determination to stand together in defense of a woman's right to abortion in New York. Gloria Steinem. In 2013 Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She awakened a vast and often skeptical public to problems like domestic violence, unfair hiring practices. Into her 80s and 90s she continued the fight in 2017 attending the women's march in Washington to oppose the election of Donald Trump. Just this march in Washington today required a thousand more buses than the entire inauguration. As for her place in history she was modest. Maybe I made a difference a little bit of a difference. Steve Fuderman CBC News, Los Angeles. Amid the escalating trade war there are renewed calls for Canadians to boycott travel to the US.

6:17In towns just across the border the dispute is killing tourism. Alexander Silverman reports. In Burlington, Vermont, less than an hour's drive from the Canadian border, the usually bustling downtown is noticeably quieter as Canadians angered by US tariffs. Stay away with renewed conviction. For restaurants and hotels it's devastating. Mark Bouchette is owner of Homeport, a downtown shop. He says Vermont's tourism industry is hurting. In a typical year 750,000 Canadians visit the state but in 2025 and again this year, credit card spending plummeted by more than 40%. Jeff Lawson is vice president of tourism for the Lake Champlain region chamber of commerce. He says officials are accepting there might be no convincing most Canadians to return. We really don't know that we can market our way through somebody's moral decisions. For now the politics simply too much for many Canadians to put aside.

7:20Alexander Silverman CBC News, Burlington, Vermont. The carny government is making another major investment in via rail. Ottawa is spending $4.7 billion to build more than 300 passenger rail cars. For the first time in 40 years the cars will be built here in Canada instead of the US. This is Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Canada needs better, more reliable passenger rail. Our rail cars on our long distance and remote routes are more than 70 years old. They were built when the NHL had 16s. Gollies wouldn't wear a mask. The Leafs would win the cup. It's a long time on your face. This is the second recent major investment in via rail. In July, Ottawa announced it would spend nearly $2 billion for new locomotives. The Conservative Party of BC has lost two more MLAs.

8:23Donnagle Wilson and Scott McKinnes are the latest two abandoned caucus and sit as independence. It marks nine departures from the party since mid-August. As Georgie Smyth reports, all have cited concerns with the direction taken since electing a new leader in May. If you don't have a well-rounded, you know, broader tent party on the rate of center, you simply don't form government. Peter Milibar, now an independence MLA, was the first to leave the BC Conservatives last month. Eight others have followed, including two yesterday. They all say there's been a shift in the party's values under leader Carolyn Finlay. What we have seen since the leadership race is a narrowing of that, a cleaning out, a cleansing of all the staff in the party and the caucus that might hold a slightly different worldview. The BC Conservatives declined an interview and said in a statement the caucus remains focused on the work British Columbians elected us to do. We have this more populous, more social conservative, harder version of conservatism.

9:27Stuart Prest is a political scientist at the University of British Columbia. He says there's an emerging space in BC politics to give another option to voters. And it's just a question of how competitive it is both looking to capture votes on the right, from the Conservatives, but also perhaps capturing some of those voters who are frustrated with the NDB, but not sure where they want to park their votes. That could come from a new center right party that Peter Milibar and another departed conservative MLA says they'll be launching by the time the legislature is back in early October. Georgie Smythe, CBC News, Vancouver. And that is the latest national and international news from World Report. I'm Martina Fitzgerald. This is CBC News. For more CBC podcasts, go to cbc.ca slash podcasts.