The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 14:00 EDT

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Defiant Air Canada flight attendants say they will not obey the federal government's back-to-work order. QP says Ottawa's rapid interference is a violation of their charter right to collective bargaining. Jamie Strassion has more. At a rally at Toronto's Pearson Airport, Air Canada's flight attendants said they will defy a back-to-work order. Wesley Lysoski is the president of the Air Canada component of QP. We go back with respect when we go back. Air Canada had said flights would resume this evening after the federal government intervened, ordering an end to the strike and lockout and binding arbitration.

The one-day work stoppage caused about 700 flights to be suspended and stranded more than 100,000 passengers. The flight attendants were ordered to return to work by 2 p.m. Eastern today, angering QB members like Lillian Speedy. I'm sorry, snowstorms have shut down Air Canada for longer than we were allowed to strike. Neither the government or Air Canada has responded to the flight attendance announcement that they plan to defy the back-to-work order. Jamie Strash and CBC News, Toronto. Ukraine's president will head to Washington tomorrow for what could be a pivotal meeting

with the U.S. president. Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, says during Friday's Alaska summit, the Russian president agreed to allow the U.S. and other Ukrainian allies to provide Ukraine with security guarantees. We got to an agreement that the United States and other European nations could effectively offer Article 5-like language to cover a security guarantee. Putin has said that a red flag is NATO admission, assuming that the Ukrainians could agree to that. We were able to win the following concession that the United States could offer Article 5 like protection. NATO's Article 5 states an attack on any NATO member is considered an attack on all NATO members.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with European leaders ahead of that trip to Washington tomorrow. The so-called Coalition of the Willing held a video call to figure out a united approach to their meeting with Donald Trump. Zelensky insists the fighting must stop for peace talks to succeed. It's impossible to do this under the pressure of weapons. So it's necessary to ceasefire and work quickly on a final deal. Putin does not want to stop the killing, but he must do it. The leaders of the UK, Germany, Italy, Finland and the EU will accompany Zelensky to Washington. Thousands of Palestinians are trying to flee parts of Gaza City following the

Israeli government's announcement that it intends to take control of the city. While in Israel, tens of thousands of people took part in a nationwide strike, demanding a deal to release the hostages still held by Hamas. Dominic Volaitis has the story. Palestinians in Gaza City are on the move. Parts of the city have been under days of continuous Israeli bombardment. At least 40 people have been killed across the territory this weekend alone. The Israeli government intends to take control of Gaza City.

and plans to forcibly displace a million people to camps in the south. Among them is Noaman Hamad. It's clear there's no humanitarian solution here, he says. This is a new displacement operation, an attempt to seize the land and areas. Meanwhile, thousands of Israelis took part in a nationwide strike today in support of the families of hostages still held in Gaza. waving flags and carrying photos of those taken, they called on Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu

to reach an agreement with Hamas to end the war and release the remaining captives. Dominic Volaitis for CBC News, London. And that is the world this hour. Remember, you can listen to the podcast any time. We update it every hour, seven days a week. You can also listen to us anytime on voice-activated devices, like Amazon Echo or Google Home.

For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise. Phillips.