The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/03 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/03 at 14:00 EDT

How do you know Dwayne the Rock Johnson? Is it as a mega movie star in Jumanji or The Fast and the Furious? Is it as Maui in Disney's Moana? Or are you a wrestling fan and you still smell what the rock is cooking? In the new film The Smashing Machine, Dwayne goes back to his fighting roots. And there's only one guy he wanted to direct the film, Benny Safdi. Benny will tell you about directing the movie. Dwayne Johnson is calling the most challenging of his career.

You can hear that now on cue with me, Tom Power, wherever you get your podcasts, including YouTube. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Prime Minister Mark Carney will have face-to-face talks with U.S. President Donald Trump early next week. Carney will visit the White House next Tuesday for a high-stakes meeting. David Thurton has more.

Industry Minister Melanie Jolie was asked about Mark Carney's upcoming meeting with Donald Trump. And if she thinks the meeting might yield a positive outcome, With Canada facing tariffs on auto steel, aluminum and lumber, it's the question many want answered. Jolie says that she will let the Prime Minister do his job negotiating. It's been more than two months since Canada and the U.S. blew past the deadline they jointly agreed on to reach a deal. Along the way, Canada rescinded the tax on American tech firms

and has dropped retaliatory tariffs, while Trump is still floating the notion of Canada becoming the 55. First State. I continue to be optimistic. Dominic Leblanc, the minister responsible for the Canada-U.S. Trade File, says he believes conversations he's had are encouraging. David Thornton, CBC News, Ottawa. In Manitoba, the Chief of the Pegwist First Nation is calling for the immediate termination of an agreement between his community, the province, and Ottawa on child welfare. The agreement signed just three years ago was meant to provide culturally based services for the community,

but Chief Stan Byrd says instead it has created a system that puts the safety and well-being of children at risk. Unlike the rest of Manitoba, there's no proper oversight, there's no proper checks, and there's no independent review. That means our children are uniquely vulnerable, and that's something I cannot accept. Bird wants the agency rebuilt with proper safeguards in place. The deal was signed by his predecessor, Glenn Hudson, who said it was important that his community, was in charge of their children's welfare. Jean Diddy Combs is pleading for a more lenient punishment at his sentencing hearing in New York today.

The hip-hop mogul was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. His defense team argues Combs is remorseful. It's also highlighting his previous involvement in youth programs and get-out-the-vote campaigns. Prosecutors, meanwhile, insist that a lighter sentence would condone domestic violence and abuse. UK police say the man responsible for killing two people at a Manchester synagogue was out on bail at the time of the attack. They also say one of the victims who died was struck by a police bullet, police calling it a tragic consequence of bringing a, quote, vicious attack to an end. Julia Chapman has the latest.

Police say the two men killed were 53-year-old Adrian Dolby and 66-year-old Melvin Kravitz. One was hit by police gunfire as officers tried to stop the perpetrator. Three other people are still in hospital with serious injuries, one with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound from a police firearm. Britain's chief rabbi, Ephraim Mervis, says community cohesion is vital. This wasn't merely an attack against Jews. It was an attack against the values of our society. The attacker, named as 35-year-old Jihad al-Shami, was killed at the scene.

Police say he wasn't known to them, and they're now working to establish a motive. Three individuals have been arrested in connection with the attack. British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmoud says the terrorism threat in the UK is evolving. The government will respond. If there are lessons to be learnt, I will ensure that they are learned. Julia Chapman, CBC News, London. And Defence Secretary Pete Hegeseth says he ordered another strike on a small boat off the coast of Venezuela. In a social media post, he says that U.S. intelligence confirmed that the four people on board the boat were narco-terrorists trafficking drugs.

This is the fourth strike on boats in the Caribbean that the U.S. administration accused of ferrying drugs. It comes a day after President Donald Trump declared that the U.S. was in a, quote, armed conflict with drug cartels. That is your world this hour. For news anytime, visit our website, cbcnews.ca.ca. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.