The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/05 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/05 at 02:00 EDT

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A message from the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Mike Miles. Donald Trump says more progress has been made towards making his midi ceasefire deal a reality. On social media, the U.S. President said Israel had agreed to a withdrawal line, and that when Hamas agrees to that line, the ceasefire will begin immediately. On Israeli television, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country was on the verge of a very significant achievement, he said IDF forces would be redeployed in a way where it still controls, quote, the depth of the Gaza Strip. It's unclear if Hamas will agree to those terms.

Meanwhile, Palestinians in Gaza are praying the fighting will end. And in Tel Aviv, thousands gathered for their weekly protest in support of the hostages, urging Netanyahu not to sabotage the deal when they are so close to getting the hostages. released. The Toronto Blue Jays have their first post-season victory in nine years. A stunning 10-to-one win over the New York Yankees in the first game of the American League Division series. Jamie Strachan was there.

Coming into this series, it was the New York Yankees who hit the most home runs in baseball, but it was the hometown Blue Jays and flexed their offensive muscles. Toronto flipped the script slamming three home runs, including two by catcher Alej and or Kirk, as the Blue Jays rolled this. Yankees 10-1 to take game one of the American League Division Series. Playing without all-starred for their Bo Bichette, the Jays like they have all season got contributions from every part of the lineup. Six different Blue Jays drove in runs, all of it giving the raucous sellout crowd at Rogers Center

lost to cheer about. They also got what they needed on the mound. Ace Kevin Gosman won a strong five innings and four different relievers combined to hold a potent Yankee lineup to one-one. Game two of this best of five series is Sunday in Toronto. James Josh and CBC News, Toronto. U.S.S. President Donald Trump's attempt to send the National Guard in the Portland Oregon has been delayed by a federal judge. Oregon's attorney general Dan Rayfield called Saturdays ruling a wake-up call for Trump.

No president is allowed to make up facts or rely on social media trolling or posts when deploying the United States military in our cities. mobilizing the United States military in our cities is not normal. It should not be normal, and we will fight to make sure that it is never normal. Trump's called the city war ravaged, but residents say that's not the case. In the meantime, he's ordered a review of federal aid to Portland with an eye to cutting that cash flow. Search teams have now recovered 20 more bodies from the wreckage of last week's school collapse in Indonesia. Officials say that's rise from the 16 announced Saturday.

27 students are still missing nearly a week after the cave-in, which happened while hundreds of teenage students were at afternoon prayers. Marine Land says the fate of 30 captive beluga whales could be decided by Tuesday. The Ontario Park says without federal funds to help care for the whales,

it will have no choice but to euthanize them. Philip Lee Schenock reports. Marine Land's failure to plan for these scenarios isn't Canada's emergency. Amusement Park Marine Land says it doesn't have the money, to take care of 30 beluga whales on its Niagara Falls, Ontario property. Marine land claims it costs $2 million a month to care for the animals.

Aaron Ryan of World Animal Protection Canada calls it extortion. I think it's morally reprehensible for marine land to be holding the government of Canada hostage for making what is essentially the right decision. This week, Federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson denied Marine Land's request to export them to China. Thompson said the decision is in line with a 2019 law that bans keeping whales and dolphins in captivity or using them for entertainment shows. Now the park could soon file for bankruptcy following the decision.

Philip Lyshenock, CBC News, Toronto. And that is the world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcast. We update every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.