The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/04 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/04 at 15:00 EDT

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try to figure out if it's a chip flavor or a drag queen. We're serving it all up wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Andrea Belmar. Israeli attacks continue despite renewed efforts to bring peace to Gaza. Amman in Gaza City weeps saying his brother has been killed in one of many airstrikes today. Israel's military says the region remains a dangerous. combat zone, despite Donald Trump telling Israel the bombing must stop. The U.S. president delivered his edict in response to Hamas accepting part of his Gaza peace

plan. We have to get the final word down in concrete. Very importantly, I look forward to having the hostages come home. The release of the hostages, both dead and alive, is one of the things Hamas has agreed to. But they want to negotiate some ask. of Trump's 20-point plan and didn't address the demand that Hamas disarm. Some family members of the hostages are thanking Trump for his efforts. We're very hopeful that leadership all over the world, especially the one in the U.S. and Israel,

will make sure that this is happening. It's time to end this horrific war and bring every single hostage back home. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is preparing to immediately implement the first phase of Trump's plan. At least one person has been killed in a Russian drone strike on a Ukrainian railway station. Ukraine's foreign minister is accusing Russia of deliberately targeting passenger trains. Dom McVilaitis reports. The authorities say two trains were hit at Shulska station in Ukraine's northern Sumi region. One was a local commuter service.

the other was headed to the capital Kyiv. At least one person was killed, 30 others, including children, were injured. Ukraine's rail chief, Olexander Potovsky, believes the attack was an attempt to make areas like Shotska near the Russian border unsafe for passenger traffic. I'm convinced that they're doing everything possible to make the areas near the front line and the border unfit for life, he says. Then people will be afraid to travel there. Russia has stopped.

stepped-up airstrikes on Ukraine's railways, hitting them almost every day now for the last two months. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the latest attack as brutal. Dominic Volaitis for CBC News, Bristol, England. In London, at least 355 protesters were arrested at a rally in support of the banned Palestine Action Group. Organizers were asked to cancel the demonstration after Thursday's attack on a synagogue, but Carolyn Gallantir said it was too important to try to stop. the war in Gaza. So because I'm a Jew and because I'm the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, I feel compelled to come and do whatever I can to support people who are trying to stop

this genocide. The demonstration is the latest in a series defying a government ruling, criminalizing the group Palestine action. Elsewhere in the UK, Storm Union is hitting parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Strong winds. have uprooted trees and brought down branches on cars and roads, and in Ireland, a storm surge sent water flooding into the streets. Populist billionaire Andre Babish won today's national election in the Czech Republic. He has pledged to turn his country away from supporting Ukraine and put it on a pro-Russian path.

His party got 35% of the vote compared to a pro-Western coalition, which got 23%. And in just over an hour, the Troner Blue Jays start. their playoff run. Their first game is against the New York Yankees. The Jays top the American League standings ahead of New York, although they're still considered underdogs. Several players, including Bo Bichet, are nursing injuries and won't play. But they definitely have the weather on their side, sunny with a high of 26 degrees. And that is the world this hour. For news anytime, go to our website, CBCNews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Andrea Bellmare. Thank you.