The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/19 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/19 at 06:00 EDT

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the union representing 10,000 air Canada flight attendants says it has reached a tentative contract agreement with the airline it means the strike is over and air Canada can begin the process of getting its flights back on schedule marianne demain reports This breaking news came in just before 5.30 a.m. Eastern time. Cupy confirming that a tentative deal had been now reached with Air Canada. We know both sides met with the mediator at 7 p.m. Eastern last night. Kupi said in a statement posted on social media this morning that they continued talking until just before 4.30 a.m. Eastern. So what does that mean? They say the strike is effectively now over. Of course, this deal still has to be ratified by the members. They're advising them to go back to work in the meantime, resume those operations, follow all.

protocol, as they're being told by Air Canada. As it stood just this morning, even before this news broke, Air Canada was saying that the plan was to resume limited operations by 4 p.m. Eastern time. What this now means, it's unclear, because it will still take some time to ramp up operations. So it's not clear what this will mean time-wise. We have not yet heard from Air Canada since this was announced by CUPY, but big news this morning, they are going back to work. Mary Ann Domaine, CBC News, Toronto. conservative leader Pierre Pahliav will have a seat in the House of Commons when Parliament resumes next month. Thank you very much to the great people of Battle River Crowfoot.

That's Pollyev's victory speech following yesterday's by-election in the Alberta riding of Battle River Crowfoot. CBC News is projecting he'll finish with more than 80% of the vote. And Pollyev returns to the House after losing his home riding in the general election in April. And it's clear he's prepared to pick up where he left off. comes to criticizing the liberal government. Now, they promised recently that things would be different. But under Mr. Carney and his 157 days in office, they've only gotten worse. There have been many announcements and meetings, many photo ops, and a lot of jazz, but not a lot of results.

With Pollyah back at Storn Away, Parliament resumes September 15th. U.S. President Donald Trump says he is setting up a face-to-face meeting between Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Russian president Vladimir Putin. This follows yesterday's talks at the White House involving Trump, Zelensky, and a number of European leaders. Ashley Burke has more. Ukraine's president spoke outside the gates of the White House Monday night, describing talks with Donald Trump as warm and meaningful. Vladimir Zelensky says he also had a long discussion with the U.S. president about a map in

the Oval Office and pushed back over how. much territory it showed Russia had captured in Ukraine. Trump has repeatedly brought up the idea of Ukraine and Russia swapping land and the war, but Zelensky says there shouldn't be any conditions tied to meeting with Russia. Ukraine will never stop on the way to peace, and we are ready for any kind of formats, but on the level of leaders. Trump posted on truth social that he spoke to Russia's president on Monday and is already working on setting up a meeting between Zelensky and Vladimir Putin. Then he wants a trilateral meeting with them both.

The Chancellor of Germany says the leaders of Ukraine and Russia are expected to meet in the next two weeks. Ashley Burke, CBC News, Washington. Now to Israel. That's Israeli protesters blocking a main highway today in Tel Aviv. They are demanding a deal to end the war in Gaza and see the return of the remaining hostages. Hamas says it's agreed to a 60-day ceasefire proposal with Israel.

It's believed to include the return of half of the hostages being held in Gaza and Israel's release of some Palestinian prisoners. At this point, however, there's been no response from the Israeli government. And that is the World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcast. The World This Hour is updated every hour seven days a week. For CBC News? I'm Joe Cummings.