The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/16 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/16 at 10:00 EDT

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I'm Claude Fagg. The travel plans of thousands of Air Canada passengers are now in limbo. Air Canada flight attendants have gone on strike. The airline issued a lockout notice in response. The CBC's Linda Ward reports from Toronto's Pearson International Airport. There are a couple hundred flight attendants walking around Terminal 1 chanting for fair pay, holding signs that read no contract. no takeoff. We know Air Canada today saying that in response to QP commencing strike action,

they have locked out the 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge. I spoke with flight attendant and spokesperson Shannon Elliott for her reaction. It's absolutely heartbreaking that our employer would rather ground their aircrafts than come to the table and present its employees a fair contract. the terminal, it's essentially a campsite. Now, there are people who are just waiting to be rebooked on flights. The departure board is a laundry list of cancellations. The passengers I've been speaking with today say that they haven't had much success in trying to get other flights. Linda Ward, CBC News, Toronto.

U.S. President Donald Trump says a peace agreement for Ukraine will be more effective than a ceasefire. In a social media post this morning, he calls his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, quote, very successful. Trump's next move? An oval office meeting with Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, whom he updated after the Putin summit. Julia Chapman has the details. In a long phone call, Donald Trump briefed Volodymyr Zelensky on the Alaska summit. Ukraine's president said he received positive signals on security guarantees, which could involve the U.S. Several European leaders joined that phone call.

They expressed support for Trump in a joint statement. But they added there should be no limitations on Ukraine's army or its future path to membership of NATO and the European Union. On the streets of Kiev, Ukrainians were underwhelmed. Elena says serious action is needed from Donald Trump to put pressure on Russia. The US president hasn't mentioned new sanctions he had threatened as leverage. Donald Trump appears to have ruled out an immediate ceasefire, saying a peace deal is the best way to end the fighting.

He added that a trilateral meeting could be on the cards involving both Zelensky and Putin. Julia Chapman, CBC News, London. Meanwhile, leaders of the Coalition of the Willing Will meet tomorrow. That word from the office of French President Emmanuel Macron. The coalition includes Canada and 30 other countries united to facilitate peace negotiations. in Ukraine. Residents of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula are praying for rain as they watch the province's largest wildfire advance up the north coast. The Kingston fire has already destroyed at least 100 homes, as well as businesses and a school. Karen Paul's reports.

Keep us safe. A couple times a day, Betty Clark goes out to her garage to pray. Please, with your holy hand, almighty God, send some rain. Clark and her husband, Joe, live just minutes from the Kingston fire. Her daughter, also named Betty Clark, is angry. At the north shore, got no support, and no resources. She's referring to a decision by the province last week to divert water bombers and other resources from here to a fire just outside St. John's. Several suburbs were evacuated and about 14,000 people were on alert. Craig Cody is the director of the wildfire program. Decisions have to be made quickly, calmly, and rationally. They must be grounded in science and based on the fire conditions at the time.

There has been some rain in the last day, but not nearly enough to stop the flames heading this way. Karen Paul's CBC News near Burnt Point, Newfoundland. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fag. Thank you.