The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/16 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/16 at 12:00 EDT

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and that's why they're now on strike hundreds of flights have been grounded and thousands of passengers are stranded the airline issued a lockout notice in response to the strike which began early this morning the cbc's linda ward reports from Toronto's Pearson International Airport. QPee says they'd rather be flying than walking picket lines like these, but every hour deserves to be paid, and that's what they're fighting for, that flight attendants are only paid essentially while in flight. Weske-Lasowski, president of the Air Canada component of QPi, says they deserve more than that. No one should accept being forced to work for free for hours and hours every day.

No one should accept being forced to work for poverty wages for years, in a profession, just to earn a dignifying living. We've seen a number of passengers who have been stranded. There's hundreds of canceled flights and thousands of customers, travelers, who don't know how they're getting to their final destination, lineups of people looking for assistance. The airline not offering hotel vouchers and having a hard time really getting people, the number of people that they need to,

rescheduled on flights with other airlines. Linda Ward, CBC News, Toronto. Russian President Vladimir Putin says his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump was, quote, timely and extremely useful, adding he respects the American position on Ukraine. Putin spoke during a televised meeting today at the Kremlin. And while he won't be meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Trump will be Monday at the White House. Julia Chapman tells us both leaders talked after the Putin summit.

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 Kyiv, Ukrainians were underwhelmed. Elena says serious action is needed from Donald Trump to put pressure on Russia. The U.S. 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. CBC News, London. People forced to leave a community in Newfoundland and Labrador are now back home. A wildfire near Patty's pond is still burning. Firefighters are struggling to contain four out-of-control fires across the province. Craig Cody is the director of wildfire management. These fires present serious control problems as they are virtually impossible to contain

until the burning conditions less and greatly. Direct attack is rarely possible given the fire's probable ferocity, except immediately after ignition and should only be attempted with the utmost caution. While a local evacuation order has been lifted for the community of Paddy's Pond, an evacuation alert is still in effect. Same now for freshwater. Air quality warnings are also in effect in several areas across the province. The largest fire is still the Kingston fire. It has burned nearly 9,500 hectares and has destroyed about 100 homes.

Hurricane Aaron has intensified into a category 5. storm. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, Aaron is about 170 kilometers northeast of Anguilla with maximum sustained winds of 255 kilometers an hour. It's not expected to hit land passing north of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. But heavy rains could trigger flash flooding landslides or mudslides in some areas of the Caribbean. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Figg. Thank you.