The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/05 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/05 at 20:00 EDT

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A message from the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. As talks on a ceasefire for hostages deal ramp up, Israeli planes and tanks continued to pound parts of the Gaza Strip today. Mediators and negotiators will continue talks in Cairo tomorrow. Paul Hunter has more. From Gaza, yet more plumes of dark smoke on the horizon after another Israeli strike.

From its streets, frustration. We still have people being killed every day. They are dead every day. In Israel, with demonstrators at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv last night, again demanding an end to the war, and the release of the remaining hostages still held by Hamas, word of the proposed peace plan had energized the huge crowd. To that end, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending his team,

of negotiators to Cairo for those talks on the plan's details with intermediators who will then meet with Hamas. Trump posting on social media a map of the Gaza Strip with a yellow line marking a large stretch of land in which Israeli forces could remain during the deal's early stages. That brought more pessimism back in Gaza. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Jerusalem. Prime Minister Mark Carney heads back to Washington tomorrow for a meeting with the U.S. president. And this time, there is some optimism about improvements on steel and aluminum tariffs. But even if there is a breakthrough, there's a new concern as well. Canadian lumber. J.P. Tasker has more. We're going to be friends with Canada. Prime Minister Mark Carney is headed back to Washington

for a second high-stakes Oval Office meeting. And while the last one in May was cordial, Canada is a very special place. U.S. President Donald Trump has only ramped up the pressure on Canada since then. adding new tariffs and hiking others. Canada has been fighting behind the scenes ahead of the visit, and senior government officials tell CBC News they are feeling optimistic, saying there is the possibility of a breakthrough on the punishing steel and aluminum tariffs. But the forestry sector is also reeling from Trump's new duties and tariffs, which run as high as 45% on softwood lumber.

The last time these two leaders came face-to-face, Carney described the meeting as constructive, But with pressure building at home for a deal, the Prime Minister may have to deliver more than that this time around. J.P. Tasker, CBC News, Ottawa. Officials in Nova Scotia say a wildfire in Annapolis Valley is still burning out of control. The province's Department of Natural Resources says the Lake George fire grew slightly over the weekend, up to 285 hectares, as of this morning. Firefighters have been dealing with dry and windy conditions, but continue working to build firebreaks around the perimeter. About 350 homes and cottages have been evacuated. Officials say so far no structures have been damaged. British Columbia continues to make its objections known to the Alberta government's

proposal for a bitumen pipeline that would run through both provinces. Currently, no route has been proposed and no private company has agreed to build or operated. BC Energy Minister Adrian Dix says that's a big sticking point for his province. The project itself is divisive, but it's not a real project yet. And so when people say, oh, well, you're putting things at stake, what exactly are we putting at stake? When we propose the dozens of projects we're putting forward, they have proponents and business plan. The hypothetical pipeline has also raised questions about whether Ottawa would repeal its tanker ban in northern BC waters to accommodate it, something that some BC First Nations have said they firmly oppose. And the Toronto

Blue Jays are off to a strong start in their division series against the New York Yankees. Offense everywhere as they beat the Yankees 13 to 7, and they're going to take a 2-0 lead into the Bronx. That's the Sportsnet call as the Jays walk away from their second win against the Yankees. They'll head to New York for game three in their best of five series. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.

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