The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/18 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/18 at 13:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. from cbc news the world this hour i'm mike miles the ukrainian president is meeting u.s president donald trump for critical talks this hour in the white house trump will outline the conditions he believes vladimir zolensky should agree to in order to end the war they're likely to include giving crimea to russia and agreeing to never join nato in trump's meeting last friday with the russian president vladimir putin supposedly agreed to allow security guarantees for ukraine Ukrainian politician Enas Sovsohn says this promise is empty without the backing of the West. Can we get the guarantees that we will not get attacked again?

That's yet unclear, frankly speaking, and the position of the White House has been shifting so many times. We have hope, we want to believe in the miracle, but we have to be realistic and we have to have a plan B as well. Trump's also meeting with several European leaders today. They all travel to Washington with Zelensky to push for an end of the fighting. European officials say Hamas has agreed to the latest proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza. That plan proposed by Egypt and Qatar, with sea fighting suspended for 60 days. It also includes the exchange of Palestinian prisoners for half of the Israeli hostages still in captivity. It is believed Hamas still holds 50 hostages, 20 of them alive.

There's no word from Israel yet. My Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure from right-wing factions in his government. they oppose any ceasefire that leaves Hamas in power. Air Canada flight attendants are refusing to end their strike, defying a back-to-work order from the federal government and filing a court challenge demanding their right to collective bargaining. The Canada Industrial Relations Board says defying Ottawa's order is illegal. It's ordering the Canadian Union public employees to direct its membership to return to work.

KIPE National President Mark Hancock says the right to strike is protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. And real negotiations cannot happen if only one side is banking on the government taking away the rights of another party. And that is what has happened here. Hancock says the union has not heard from the company since Friday. This wildfire season has become Canada's second worst on record, with about 7.8 million hectares burned so far this year. That's roughly the size of New Brunswick. Eleanor O'Shefsky is emergency management minister. Hotter than usual, temperatures are expected to last really through September across most of the country.

And we're going to expect a continued high risk for wildfires basically through the rest of the summer. Right now, more than 700 wildfires are burning across Canada. Ottawa also announced an investment in wildfire training programs worth half a million dollars. That money will pay for training for about 100 new firefighters, in Saskatchewan in Manitoba. Norval Morissau's catacologue has been a popular target for forgeries for decades. His estate and his adult children have long maintained that they are the victims. But court documents are showing they may have paid a role, played a role rather, in the fraud.

Michelle Allen reports. That was Norval saying, you guys, how dare you do that? Richie Sinclair was one of Norval Moro's apprentices. He says the late Anishinaabe artists long fought against fraudulent copies of his work. Court documents linked his children and estate to a dealer who pleaded guilty to forgery. A police inspector who investigated the fraud says some of Morissot's children were paid to authenticate paintings. It was really difficult to fight this fight with them either sitting on the sidelines or protecting fraudsters. Art fraud lawyer Jonathan Summer spent 16 years

representing clients who bought questionable Morissos. For years, the late artist's estate and children presented themselves as victims of foragers and art dealers. The children never faced charges. They denied all claims in their defense. Sinclair says there could be thousands of forgeries still out there. You know, so this is coming out no matter what. He says Moro's legacy has been wounded by the fraud. Michelle Allen, CBC News, Thunder Bay.

And that is your world this hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. We update every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.