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

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/06 at 10:00 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. Indirect talks between Israel and Hamas are getting underway today in Cairo. U.S. officials are also involved with the Trump administration's 20-point peace plan on the table. The key issue for Israel is the release of the remaining hostages. For the others in the region, it's a guarantee that Israel,

will not restart the war in the weeks that follow a peace agreement. Hassam Saki is with the Arab League. It's tricky. It's sensitive, but it can be worked out. And once it is worked out, it has the potential of opening the way for the other stages of the plan. Those other stages involve a specific date for when Israeli troops will leave Gaza and details on the complete disarming of Hamas. A report obtained by CBC News is revealing that Canadian surveillance technology was used in two American military strikes last month on suspected Venezuelan drug boats. The strikes killed at least 14 people. Eric Sito has a detail.

You've probably seen the images. U.S. military surveying Venezuelan boats from the air before they're blown up. A new report says Canadian surveillance technology was part of those strikes on September 2nd and September 15. Kelsey Gallagher of the NGO project plowshares. It was very clear that the footage was coming from a Canadian sensor, right? So this sensor is produced by a company based in Waterdown in Hamilton called L3 Harris West Cam. Gallagher says those strikes were recorded through special cameras and sensors made in Canada. CBC also did its own visual analysis.

Although the videos were obscured, digital markers in those view us videos closely matched previously-released, Harris West Cam footage. The company, L3 Harris, says it doesn't comment on military operations. Global Affairs Canada said it's aware of the U.S. operation and is monitoring the situation. Eric Cito, CBC News, Toronto. As of this morning, Alberta's 51,000 elementary and high school teachers are on strike. The teachers have been without a contract for more than a year and talks between the union and the province are now at a standstill. Jason Schilling is the president of the Teachers Association. Right now, our schools are stretched too thin.

It's beyond the breaking point. Classrooms are overcrowded. Students with complex 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. Rescue workers are in the process of trying to reach hundreds of hikers, on Mount Everest.

Heavy snow has blocked access to a slope of campsites in Tibet. So far, about 350 people have been guided to safety, but as many as 200 are still unaccounted for. One rescued hikers says the snow is more than a meter deep and came down so suddenly that tents were crushed. The winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine have been announced. The Nobel Assembly has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to

Mary Branco, Fred Ramstel, and Simone Sakaguchi for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. The three scientists are being honored for their study of T-cells. The Nobel Committee says it has led to advancements in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. This year's Nobel announcements will continue all this week with tomorrow the prize for chemistry being awarded. Here's a good weekend to be a Blue Jays fan. performance from Trayas Savage and offense everywhere as they beat the Yankees 13 to 7. It was a final call from Toronto's victory yesterday over New York. Toronto took both games over the weekend and now just one win away from sweeping this three-game American League divisional series.

They can finish off the Yankees tomorrow night in New York. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.