The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/22 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/22 at 15:00 EDT

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to a hockey game when he says players don't always need to have their elbows up the prime minister was asked about the sports analogy he used so much during the election campaign after announcing he's dropping retaliatory tariffs on many u.s goods it will apply to goods that comply with the kuzma free trade agreement and is a bid to kickstart more negotiations with Washington. Carney says Canada is not letting its guard down. And I have played some hockey over the years. And there is a time in a game, in a big game, and this is a big game. When you go hard in the corners, you elbows up, the time in a game, we drop the gloves in

the first period and you send a message. And we've done that. But there's also a time in a game where you want the puck, you want a stick handle, you want to pass, you want to put the puck in the net. And we're moving later into the game. And we're at that time in the game. The announcement is being applauded by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. The organization calls it a step in the right direction.

It's also being well received by the White House. U.S. President Donald Trump called the move nice and said he hopes to speak with Carney soon. Ashley Burke has more. Donald Trump in the Oval Office describing his reaction to Canada's prime minister dropping some countermeasures aimed at the U.S. He's removing it. his retaliatory tariffs, which I thought was nice, and we're going to have another call soon. Mark Carney says Trump assured him on their call yesterday that if he ditches these tariffs, trade

talks with the U.S. would intensify. This after both countries failed to reach a deal by Trump's August 1st deadline. I'm fighting for the United States, Canada and Mexico, have taken a lot of our business over the years. Trump says the two countries are working on something, but didn't say what. We want to be very good to Canada. I like Kearney a lot. I think he's a good person. Warm words for a prime minister who just gave something up to try and make sure talks advance and Trump doesn't hit Canada again.

Ashley Burke, CBC News, Washington. The FBI carried out raids today at the home and office of former Trump administration National Security Advisor John Bolton. It's being suggested the search is part of an investigation into the handling of classified documents. Bolton served during Donald Trump's first term in office, but has since become a vocal critic of the president. The world's leading hunger monitor says Gaza City is officially suffering from famine.

The integrated food security phase classification says more than 500,000 Palestinians are affected. This marks the first time the IPC has recorded famine outside of Africa. Jeremy Lawrence is a spokesperson. with the UN Human Rights Office. He says the famine is a direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government. The Israeli military has destroyed critical civilian infrastructure, almost all agricultural land banned fishing, and forcibly displaced the population, all drivers of this famine. Israeli officials call the findings false and based off data provided by Hamas. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has a policy of preventing starvation.

Ukraine's president is accusing Russia of trying to avoid a meeting. Vladimir Zelensky is calling for a trilateral summit as soon as possible with both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. At a meeting in Alaska last week, both Putin and Trump suggested top-level talks to end the Ukraine war were progressing. Trump now says he wants to see whether Zelensky and Putin can arrange to meet before making further decisions. And that's whether or not it's massive sanctions or massive tariffs or above, or do we do nothing and say it's your fight, but we'll see what happens. I think in two weeks we'll know which way I'm going, because I'm going to go one way or the other, and they'll learn which way I'm going. Russia accuses Ukraine of not being flexible in talks. And that is the world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.