The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/06 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/06 at 09:00 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, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. First to the Middle East, where indirect talks are getting underway in Cairo today between Israel and Hamas. U.S. officials are 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 on... There's a lot on the line politically, says Navda 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 would leave Gaza. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, Jerusalem. Prime Minister Mark Carney flies to Washington. Washington today for his latest round of face-to-face talks with U.S. President Donald Trump. They'll be meeting tomorrow at the White House with tariffs, trade, and security issues all in the agenda. In a letter sent today to the prime minister's office, conservative leader Pierre Polyev says Carney has to return from Washington with proof that he is making progress in getting the Trump tariffs lifted.

Alberta's 51,000 elementary and high school teachers have all walked off the job. The strike action, which started today, comes as the teachers have been out a contract now for more than a year. Samson reports. Fair deal now! More than 15,000 people packed onto the Alberta Legislature Ground Sunday, all to show support for striking teachers. The province's latest contract offer included a 12% wage increase over four years and hiring 3,000 more teachers. The majority of the Alberta Teachers Association's 51,000 members voted, against the offer, leading to Alberta's first province-wide teacher strike.

Jason Schilling is union president. Teachers are resolved. They've had enough of watching kids fall through the cracks. Alberta's finance minister has said his government offered what was asked and questioned whether the union actually knew what its members were seeking. The union says teachers want more money, a cap on classroom sizes, and more resources for kids with complex needs. A provincial official told CBC News, the government asked the union to go back to the bargaining table over the weekend,

but they were not available for formal talks. Sam Sampson, CBC News, Edmonton. Giselle Pelico is back in a French courtroom today for an appeal proceeding. Pelico's appearance comes a year after 51 men were convicted of raping her after she'd been drugged unconscious by her former husband. Juliet Chapman has more. The dignity and composure of Giselle Pelico at last year's trial, made her a household name.

Over a decade, her husband, Dominique, drugged her and invited men he met online to rape her while he filmed the acts. He and 50 others were convicted of sexual offences. 17 of them launched appeals, but most dropped their cases, fearing even harsher sentences. 44-year-old Hussein Doanne is the only one to have continued.

His lawyer, Jean-Marcdard, says his client respects Giselle Pellicoe, Doyan argues he didn't know Pellico was unconscious and non-consenting. Her lawyer, Antoine Camus, says she doesn't accept that explanation. At the original trial, Dominique Pellicoe said all of his co-defendants were aware of his wife's condition. Julia Chapman, CBC News, London. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. From