The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/16 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/16 at 11:00 EDT

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I'm Claude Fagg. We begin in Toronto. Airways now. Picket lines are up at Canada's largest airport. Air Canada flight attendants are now on strike, and the airline responded by locking those workers out. Now, at the peak of the summer travel season, plans of thousands of passengers are up in the air.

The striking flight attendant tells CBC News, They'd like to see Air Canada get back to negotiations. 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 strike and lockout is expected to impact about 130,000 customers a day. Now, the union representing Air Canada flight attendants say their members are living in poverty. QPie says the 10,000 flight attendants who are now on strike, deserve more from the airline. Wages and unpaid work continue to divide the two sides at the

bargaining table, and now thousands of flights have been grounded. Wesley Lissoski is the president of the Air Canada component of QPee, saying the airline left the union little choice. For nine months, we have tried to bargain in good faith with Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge. And for nine months, Air Canada has stonewall dusts. They refused and unpaid work. They refused to give our always paid flood attendants a raise to lift them out of poverty. And now Air Canada has left us no choice but to walk a picket line to end their corporate greed and exploitive practices. And when we said we wouldn't accept their unfair treatment anymore, they followed through with the lockout. Lasoski's adds that no new talks between the two sides are scheduled, Air Canada released a statement

this morning, apologizing for inconveniencing passengers and say that they remain committed to negotiating a new deal. U.S. President Donald Trump is back in Washington this morning after a brief summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Posting on his social media platform, Trump says he doesn't want a ceasefire in Ukraine. He wants a full peace accord. He'll meet Monday in Washington with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. And as Lindsay Duncombe reports, some say Putin came out ahead at the summit. It's tough to know what U.S. President Donald Trump got out of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Both leaders said progress was made towards peace in Ukraine, but didn't share any details.

We didn't get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there. Speaking through an interpreter, Putin seemed pleased. I expect that today's agreements will be the starting point, not only for the solution of the Ukrainian issue, but also will help us bring back business-like and pragmatic relations between Russia and the U.S. I'm just surprised and shocked. Olga Koshelenko is a journalist covering the meeting for Ukrainian TV. She thinks Putin came out a winner and worries that's bad for Ukraine.

It's just another one disappointment. Like, you know, one more disappointment. Lindsay Dancombe, CBC News, Anchorage. Several European leaders say it's important to keep the pressure on Russia. Many of them spoke over the phone with Trump after the summit, among them French president Emmanuel Macron. He says Paris will work with Washington and other European partners to achieve lasting peace in Ukraine. Italian Prime Minister Georgia Maloney says Trump brought up a proposal for the U.S. and European countries to give Ukraine security support if it's attacked again. Vladimir Zelensky says long-term security needs to be guaranteed.

A wildfire continues to burn out of control in the small city of Port Albany on Vancouver Island. More than 3,400 hectares are burning despite some relief from much-needed rain. Carly de Rosier is with the B.C. wildfire. service. So 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. The remote community of Bamfield has been without power since Monday due to the Mount Underwood fire. Access to the main road leading into the community has also been cut off. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fag.

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