The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/08 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/08 at 18:00 EDT

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We'd love to talk. Business. 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 sectoral trade deals. Los Angeles police have arrested someone in connection with a destructive fire that killed 12 and burned down thousands of buildings in January.

The suspect in the Palisades Fire lived in the area and worked as an Uber driver at the time. Steve Futterman reports. Nine months after the Palisades Fire began, the acting U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, Bill Ossaly said officials have filed charges against the man they believe is responsible. We are announcing the arrest of 29-year-old Jonathan. Rindernecht. Authorities accused the suspect of starting a different fire in the early hours of January 1st. That fire was contained but never completely extinguished. The fire continued to smolder and burn underground until on January 7th, heavy winds caused this underground fire to surface causing what became known as the Palisades fire. Officials say Rindernecht acted

deliberately. They also accuse him of creating AI images of a city being destroyed by fire and say he repeatedly played a French rap song with a music video that depicts a trash cam being set ablaze. Steve Futterman, CBC News, Los Angeles. The U.S. President says he'll likely be in Egypt this weekend to move along crucial ceasefire talks. Indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel have been going on for days now to discuss Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza. The proposal would secure the release of all Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. Trump says he believes negotiators are close. They're doing very well. We have a great team over there, great negotiators, but it's something

I think that will happen, got a good chance of happening. I may go there sometime toward the end of the week. The 20-point peace plan calls for Hamas to disarm and the setup of a transitional government made of Palestinian technocrats and international officials. There's a new effort to get Canadians on the lookout for the country's top fugitives. Today, the BOLO program released its list of the top 25 Most Wanted. BOLO stands for Be On the Lookout and works in cooperation with police forces across the country. Today's presenters didn't just share the names on this list. They also showed their faces with police officers standing on stage,

wearing spoof masks printed to look like the fugitives. Joe Matthews is with the Toronto Police Service. Our ask is simple. Be on the lookout. And if you know something, if you see something, say something. More than half a million dollars in rewards are being offered for information leading to the arrests of suspects on the top 25 list. Since its inception, the Bolo program has assisted in dozens of arrests. And French President Emmanuel Macron will name a new Prime Minister within 48 hours, according to his office. Current PM, Sebastian Le Corneux, submitted his resignation on money. day, but Macron asked him to stay on for now.

Le Corneux's successor will become the nation's sixth prime minister in less than two years. France was plunged into a political free fall as parties squabble over proposed budget cuts. The naming of the replacement will, at least for now, move the country away from the likelihood of snap legislative elections. And that is your world this hour. Get the latest headlines anytime on our website. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.