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

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

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

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A message from the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. U.S. President Donald Trump says Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas have agreed to the first phase of his peace plan. After more than two years of war, the CBC's Katie Simpson has more from Washington. Peace for the Middle East, that's a beautiful phrase, and we hope it's going to come true. U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Middle East peace talks were close to a breakthrough as he arrived for an unrelated roundtable event at the White House late Wednesday afternoon, an event that would be unexpectedly interrupted by Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.

Anything we should know about the Middle East? Rubio took a seat near Trump and scribbled an urgent message on a piece of paper. I'm just given a note by the Secretary of State saying that we're very very important. close to a deal in the Middle East, and they'll get a need be pretty quickly. Two hours later, Trump would announce a deal on social media saying Israel and Hamas had signed off on the first phase of the peace plan. All of the hostages will be released very soon, he wrote, and Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed-upon line. Israel and Hamas both quickly confirmed the statement, marking a new breakthrough moment, sparking hope this may be a significant step

toward bringing this conflict to an end. in CBC News, Washington. And we're getting reaction tonight to news of this breakthrough deal to end the war in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says this is a diplomatic success and a national and moral victory for the state of Israel and the father of a hostages celebrating. President Trump, thank you very much. Omar Omar lives in Victoria, BC and has family in Gaza. I'm just extremely happy that at least there is a stopping for all the madness.

of killing people in the Gaza Strip. My family has finally got the chance to breathe. I got the chance finally to at least breathe. Turning now to other news, Prime Minister Mark Carney is back from a trip to Washington and he returned to Parliament Hill on Wednesday. Tom Perry reports. If Mark Carney's meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office was friendly,

the Prime Minister's return to the House of Commons and question period was anything but. If it will go soft on him today, because I know he's still recovering from surgery to have his elbows removed. Opposition leader Pierre Pahliav mocking Carney mercilessly. Over a meeting, he says, delivered nothing but which Carney says made progress. The president of the United States and myself had a meeting of mine yesterday with respect to the future of the steel sector, the aluminum sector, the energy sector. But while negotiations continue, U.S. tariffs, remain in place. The Prime Minister has told Canadians he will deliver results. The opposition

keeps hammering him again and again with one question. When? Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. The Toronto Blue Jays are headed to the American League Championship Series. Canada's only Major League Baseball team beat the New York Yankees tonight to advance to the next playoff round. The CBC's Thomas Daigla has more from Yankee Stadium. Jeff Hoffman strikes out Cody Bellinger and the Blue Jays have done it. The Blue Jays came out swinging, racking up a dozen hits and outscoring the Yankees 5 to 2. New York pundits predicted the Bronx bombers would cruise to the World Series. But it took Toronto four games in the best of five American League Division Series to eliminate their rivals,

leaving Yankees fans stunned. Jay's slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. cast in a run after hitting three homers in three games this series. Next up for Toronto, hosting either the Seattle Mariners or Detroit Tigers in game one of the next round on Sunday. It's the Jay's first deep postseason run since 2016, with a trip to the World Series now only four wins away. Thomas Daggle, CBC News, New York. Danny Breen has been re-elected as Mayor of St. John's Newfoundland after winning a municipal election tonight. Breen beat St. John's business owner Ivy Hanley. And that is your world this hour.

News. I'm Neil Hurlant.