The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/08 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/08 at 16:00 EDT

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It's like he's trying to date you all of the sudden. Yeah, and I do look like my mother. Love Me, available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. No win, no deal, and no jobs. Conservative leader Pierre Pahliav is accusing the Prime Minister of betraying Canadian auto workers after his meeting with President Donald Trump yesterday failed to produce immediate results.

Speaking in question period, Carney insists his government is taking time to reach the best trade deal possible for Canada. Our agreement yesterday, the president myself, is to focus now on steel, on aluminum, on energy, the building blocks of our broader competitiveness, including our auto sector. Those negotiations on autos continue from a position that is the strongest in the world. Carney left his key minister on the trade file behind in D.C. to work on the sectoral trade deals. Former FBI director James Comey has pleaded not guilty to charges of lying in Congress and obstructing justice, and he's accusing the U.S. President of orchestrating a show trial.

Donald Trump fired Comey months into his first presidential term after the FBI began investigating claims of Russian election interference. Last month, Trump called for the Justice Department to go after his political foes, including Comey. In an interview with Fox News, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted this trial, will be fair. He's being treated exactly like every other individual in his position. We are not worried about the political blowback, if any, of us doing our jobs. If convicted, Comey could face up to five years in prison, his lawyers plan to file several motions to try and have this case dismissed. Authorities in California have made an arrest in connection with one of the worst wildfires in the state's history. The fire destroyed

much of the Los Angeles Pacific Palisades neighborhood and killed 12 people in January. Officials say 29-year-old Jonathan Rinder Nesh intentionally lit the fire just after midnight on January 1st. Acting U.S. attorney Bill Isayle says Rinder Nesh had just completed his shift driving for Uber before lighting the flames. He dropped someone off. He was in this neighborhood and he was, this is New Year's Eve, so it was around midnight,

and he went up to this hilltop. And at some point up there, around 12.12 a.m., he ignited a fire. The salee says firefighters suppress the fire, but it's smoldered in the dense vegetation for days. It re-errupted a week later and consumed thousands of buildings. France's next prime minister is expected to be named later this week. The successful candidate would become the nation's sixth prime minister in less than two years. France is grappling with a growing budget shortfall, anti-austerity protests, and calls for the president to step down.

Ross Cullen reports. The new prime minister, whoever she or he will be, will likely be named in the coming days after a day of drama and anticipation. In the end, the caretaker prime minister, Sebastian Leconu, did not produce any major surprises. No snap elections for now, no suspension of pension reforms.

Leconu also says he doesn't support the idea that President Emmanuel Macron should resign. Opposition leaders, like Marconi, Marine Le Pen want the head of state to call snap elections, accusing Macron of denying the will of French voters. All this came after LeCourneau tried to resign on Monday, but Macron asked him to stay on for a few more days as France flounders in an economic crisis,

with no immediate route out of the political paralysis. Ross Cullen for CBC News, Paris. And the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded today. Susomekita Gava, Kyoto University of Japan. Richard Robson, University of Melbourne, Australia, and Omar Jagie, University of California at Berkeley, USA, for the development of metal-organic frameworks. Nobel Committee honored three scientists for their work

in developing a new form of molecular architecture that can store gas. The discovery could be used to tackle climate change by harvesting water from desert air or by capturing carbon dioxide. and that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.