The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/06 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/06 at 06:00 EDT

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indirect talks are getting underway in cairo today between israel and hamas u.s officials are also included with the trump administration's 20-point peace plan on the table crystal gamansing has more now from Jerusalem. Trump is looking on a Nobel Prize. Netanyahu is looking on his legacy. There's a lot on the line politically, says Napda Strachler. The former strategic advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the success of these peace talks hinge on the immediate release of the 48 hostages, 20 of whom are believed to still be alive. Because the day after that they will be released, again, his maneuver, the political, the coalition one will be easier to go further to the next steps.

Netanyahu needs his far-right coalition members if he wants to remain in power. Can they be more easily controlled if the hostages are released? If Hamas lets the hostages go, can the U.S. and Arab countries backing this peace plan ensure Israel doesn't restart the war? Critical points remain on the table today, including the disarming of Hamas, and when Israeli troops will.

leave Gaza. Crystal Gamanssing, CBC News, Jerusalem. Alberta's 51,000 elementary and high school teachers are set to walk off the job today. The teachers have been without a contract now for more than a year with talks between the union and the province now pretty much out of standstill. Jason Schilling is the president of the Teachers Association. Right now our schools are stretched too thin. It's beyond the breaking points. Classrooms are overcrowded. Students with confidence. needs don't have the supports they need. Teachers are being asked to do more with less. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the government has asked the union to call off the strike,

saying the job action is a, quote, lose, lose, lose situation for teachers, parents, and students. Pierre Pahliav is wishing Mark Carney well on his trip this week to Washington. But the conservative leader wants the prime minister to return from his meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump, with proof of real progress on dismantling the Trump tariffs. Carney's heading to the U.S. Capitol tomorrow for planned talks at the White House. In a letter, the Conservatives plan to send to the Prime Minister this morning, Pollyev is pointing out that tariffs are still very much in place on Canadian steel, aluminum, copper, automobile parts and automobiles, and softwood lumber.

Twice over a span of just two days, a federal court judge has ruled against Donald Trump, as the U.S. President looks to continue his deployment of National Guard troops to American cities. Steve Futterman reports. The battle to send federal troops into Chicago and Portland is escalating. This is yet another unnecessary and inflammatory attempt by the President to deploy outside troops in Portland where no intervention is warranted. That's Portland Mayor Keith Wilson. On Saturday, a federal judge appointed by Trump blocked deployment of Oregon National Guard troops into Portland. Yesterday, Trump attempted to circumvent the order, deploying members of the California National Guard.

The same judge rejected that, too, angrily calling Trump's move improper. Trump, who often gets upset when judges he appoints rule against him, wasn't happy. I appointed the judge, and he goes like that. Portland is burning to the ground. In Chicago, Trump is now deploying National Guard troops from Texas. Trump says the windy city is unsafe. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker says, Trump is creating chaos.

Steve Fetterman, CBC News, Los Angeles. The winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine have been announced. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinsk Institute has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary Branco, Fred Ramstel and Shimon Sakaguchi, for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. This year's Nobel announcements will continue all this week. Tomorrow's prize is for chemistry. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.