The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 09:00 EDT

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it's planning for the first flights to take off this evening but it says it'll be several days before everything is back to normal the airlines started cutting back operations before its flight attendants went on strike 10,000 have been off to job since early yesterday morning linda ward reports from toronto Out here on the picket line, flight attendants have not lost any resolve, chanting they will not be defeated. Even though Air Canada says in a statement that the Canada Industrial Relations Board has directed Air Canada and Air Canada-Rouche flight attendants like these to resume their duties at 2 p.m. Eastern today. They say the liberals are violating their charter rights and giving Air Canada what they want, hours of unpaid work.

The CIRB has extended the term of their collective agreement. until a new one can be made under binding arbitration. The union also says the arbitrator chosen here once worked for Air Canada. And while these flight attendants will return to work at 2 p.m. Air Canada says in a statement, the first flights will leave this evening, but it'll take days for normal operations to resume. Linda Ward's CBC News at Pearson Airport. Now this afternoon on CBC Radio and CBC News Network, cross-country checkup is asking, should the government have forced Air Canada flight attendants back to work,

or if you've been affected by the labor dispute? Tune in starting at 4 p.m. Eastern Time. One day, General Strike is underway in Israel to protest the government's plans to seize all of Gaza. The action is led by the families of hostages and their supporters. Reporter Blake Sifton is in Tel Aviv. So the family members of the hostages held in Gaza are outraged by this plan by the Israeli government to seize and occupy Gaza City. They have called that a death sentence for their loved ones.

They're demanding that the government prioritized a ceasefire instead of going forward with that operation. They say that protests will be held at some 400 locations across Israel. We've already seen major highways in both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem blocked police on horseback and using water cannons have tried to clear those. There's been arrests. We've seen protests outside of homes of cabinet ministers, and all of the protests are expected to culminate tonight.

with a very large protest outside of the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv. So the government, as late as Saturday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that they will not accept temporary ceasefires. They will only accept a comprehensive ceasefire, which gets all of the hostages back in one go, but is basically the surrender of Hamas. Blake Sifton for CBC News, Tel Aviv. In northwestern Pakistan. Chainsaws are being used to help clear debris from a flooded roadway. More than 300 people have died after days of torrential rains triggered flash flooding and landslides. The rain has left some remote mountain regions devastated after homes and livestock were swept away by floodwaters. Pakistan administered Kashmir is also being hit hard with several people reported missing. Officials say it is the deadliest downpour of this year's monsoon season.

Well, a long shot was the big winner at the 166th running of the King's plate at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto yesterday. After Donald Trump, welcome to Russia. And Mancetti coming down to the wild. What a get to wild winner. Mancetti and Pietroa won't. Mancetti, a three-year-old American-owned colt who went off at 10 to one odds, coasted to victory by two and a half lengths to win the plate. with 20-year-old Canadian apprentice jockey Pietro Moran, whose father David is also a jockey aboard.

Trainer Kevin Atard of Tottenham, Ontario, picked up his third career plate victory. The win was worth $600,000. The King's plate is the first leg in the Canadian Triple Crown. And that is your world this hour. You can listen to us any time on voice-activated devices such as Google Home. For CBC News, I'm Claude Faye. Thank you.