The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 11:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fagg. Air Canada flight attendants are defying the government's attempt to force them back to work. Hello, we won't go. Hell no, we won't go. That chant from CUPY pickets this morning at Toronto Pearson International Airport. The Canada Industrial Relations Board had ordered Air Canada to resume operations this afternoon and flight attendants to go back to work. But while Air Canada said it would begin flight. this evening. The union now says it's challenging the labor board's ruling. Wesley Lissoski, president of the Air Canada component of QPee, saying this morning his members will go back to work

when they feel the situation is right. You've seen nothing but gaslighting from the company that employs you. We are done with that narrative. We go back with respect when we go back. The response coming after Air Canada announced this morning that it was continuing resuming operations after the federal government's move to order the striking 10,000 flight attendants back to work. Volodymyr Zelensky has been speaking with European leaders ahead of a meeting with Donald Trump tomorrow. The U.S. President will brief them on his summit with Vladimir Putin and what conditions have been put forward to help bring the war to an end. Julia Chapman reports. When Volodymyr Zelensky travels to Washington tomorrow, he goes with backup. Several European allies and the head of NATO will also attend talks with Donald Trump.

They're working to get a more favorable deal for Kiev. After meeting Vladimir Putin, Trump changed his approach, backing a wider peace deal over an immediate ceasefire. Of course, we have to stop the killings. Zelensky is in Brussels for talks with allies about how to approach the White House meeting. Speaking alongside him, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the important thing is that the fighting stops. She called for a trilateral meeting on that basis. And these decisions cannot be taken without Ukraine at the table. Trump appears to be warming to the idea of security guarantees, suggesting the U.S. could join Europe in a pact to

defend Ukraine. Julia Chapman, CBC News, London. A nationwide strike is underwomen. way in Israel demanding that the government negotiate an end to the war in Gaza and the return of all hostages. Police arrested dozens of protesters who took over roads, stopped traffic, and staged demonstrations. The so-called day of disruption is in support of the hostages families. They worry the government's offensive to take over all of Gaza will endanger the lives of the hostages who remain in Hamas captivity. The strike was joined by many business and municipalities, but not the country's largest union. Far-right factions in Benjamin Netanyahu's government insists they won't support any deal that allows Hamas to retain power. 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 flood waters. Officials say it is the deadliest downpour of this year's monsoon season. A long shot was the big winner at the 166 running of the Kings played at Woodbine racetrack in Toronto yesterday. And Mancetti coming down to the wire. What a get to wire winner. Mancetti and Pietroen win. Mancetti, a three-year-old American-owned colt who went off at 10-1 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, on board. 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. For CBC News, I'm Claude Pig.