The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/15 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/15 at 20:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Our conversation We're in constructive and in a very much-upositellent Russian President Vladimir Putin after a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

The two spoke for about two and a half hours behind closed doors in Alaska today. They emerged with smiles and handshakes, but not much else. I believe we had a very productive meeting. There were many. many points that we agreed on, most of them, I would say, a couple of big ones that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've paid some headway. So there's no deal until there's a deal.

Before the summit, Trump called for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Trump and Putin acknowledged they would meet again and didn't take questions from the press. Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, along with European allies, have expressed fears Trump isn't pressing hard enough for Ukraine. Zelensky says he has not seen Moscow demonstrate a willingness to end the war. The union representing Air Canada's flight attendants has rejected the company's request for binding arbitration. They're urging the airline to continue collective bargaining. Meanwhile, hundreds of flights have been cancelled ahead of a potential strike. Philip Lee Schenock has the latest. Andres Mendez's flight out of Toronto's Pearson Airport has been pushed back three hours.

We're hoping that is just a delay. Air Canada says it's ramping up cancellations after the union representing its flight attendants rejected the company's request for federal arbitration. Spokesperson Peter Fitzpatrick says the airline is winding down operations upending travel for tens of thousands of passengers. We're already experienced the labor disruption even before the strike started, so that's why we're having the cancellations.

Natasha Stey is with the Flight Attendance Union. She believes the company, would rather the government intervene than bargain in good faith. Why are they canceling your flights? We're at the table. We want to talk. The strike deadline is 1 a.m. Saturday morning. Air Canada says check its website before heading to the airport. Philip Lyshanock, CBC News, Toronto. In Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, new evacuation orders were issued for homes in the West Delhousie area. As a wildfire sparked by a lightning strike is burning out of control, it's already about

three square kilometers in size. Wildfires are also burning in New Brunswick, including the largest one, which is an out-of-control blaze near Miramishie. But no communities are in any imminent danger. Firefighters on Vancouver Island say the weather has helped calm an out-of-control wildfire near Port Albany, BC. The BC Wildfire Service says about 17 millimeters of rain overnight has lowered the behavior of the Mount Underwood Blaze. Carly de Rosier is with the service she says there's been minimal growth of this fire since yesterday. The rain combined with cooler overnight temperatures has really helped to moderate fire behavior, and that's allowing our crews to get in and work in areas that were previously just too dangerous to access.

Smoke from the Mount Underwood Fire triggered an air quality statement in the region, along with parts of Vancouver Islands West East Coast, rather, and the Sunshine Coast on the BC mainland. The city of Port Alburni has opened a relief center for those looking to escape the smoke and the heat. Spanish firefighters are battling 14 major wildfires driven by high winds and then aggravated by extreme heat. So far, seven people have been killed by these fires. Southern Europe is having its worst summer for wildfires in 20 years. A teacher at a BC secondary school has been charged with several offenses, including internet luring of a child, making and importing.

child pornography and making sexually explicit material available to a child under 18 years of age. Levesh Ramsaha taught at Pitt Meadows Secondary School. It's not clear if the victim or victims were students at that school. And that is the world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. We update it every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Thanks so much for listening.