The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/26 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/26 at 22:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Hurland. Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada's largest current deployment in Europe will be extended and announced new details about a planned multi-billion dollar procurement to replace the Navy's aging fleet of submarines. The CBC's defense correspondent Murray Brewster is traveling with the Prime Minister in Europe. German Chancellor Friedrich Mers has made roping Canada into this partnership a priority. MERS says bringing Canada into the fold is an important signal of NATO and transatlantic solidarity.

The new boats would be built in Germany since Canada has never constructed submarines or has the shipyard know how to do so. As much as the Prime Minister's tour of Europe has been about finding new trading partners and the economy, Matters of security and defense have often taken center stage. Latvian Prime Minister Ivica Salina, who greeted Carney late in the day in Riga, where Canada announced another three-year extension to Operation Reassurance, the long-standing NATO mission meant to deter further Russian aggression. And Carney says Latvians living on the border with Russia

understand the threat isn't that far away, and Canadians recognize that too. Murray Brewster, CBC News. Riga, Latvia. In the Middle East, it was a day of mourning and mass protest. One day after a deadly strike on a Gaza hospital, people across Israel took to the streets, turning up the pressure on the Netanyahu government to bring hostages home and end the war. Margaret Evans reports from Israel tonight.

In Tel Aviv's Hostage Square, the culmination of a day designed to put pressure on Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to accept a ceasefire for hostages deal. There were marches, blocked roads, and protests outside the homes of government ministers. Twenty hostages are still believed to be alive, including Yehuda Cohen's son, Nimrod. Another day for protest, another day to make sure the issue of the hostages stays in high priority. Hamas accepted a deal put forward by mediators. last week, based on a 60-day ceasefire and an initial release of half the hostages. Netanyahu has yet to formally respond, bringing people to the streets across Israel.

Margaret Evans, CBC News, Jerusalem. Health officials in London, Ontario, warned that a Legionella outbreak they believe to be over is back. They confirmed 25 new cases just weeks after declaring an end to the outbreak in early August. This year's outbreak has been linked to at least 94 cases of serious pneumonia and four deaths. Investigators have traced it to one of Canada's largest meat processors, Sofina Foods. Dr. Joanne Kieran is the region's associate medical officer of health. She says summer heat is likely to blame for the return of the bacteria. For a Legionella outbreak, this is actually quite large and the significant impact that this has had on our community,

we recognize the need to be transparent. now that a likely source has been identified, all efforts are being taken by ourselves and the operator to remediate the system and to prevent ongoing transmission. Official stress, Legionella, is not transmitted through eating or drinking and that food products from Safina are safe to consume.

And she did. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged. A joint social media post shows photos of the football player down on one-name. in a lavish garden and a close-up of the giant diamond-end gold ring. No word on when Swift's marriage era begins. She only recently finished her record-breaking world tour, and she has already started promoting the new album.

And that is your World This Hour for CBC News on Neil Hurland. I really know I talked to your dad. Go pick out a white dress.