The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/13 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/13 at 04:00 EDT

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and over the coming hours the rest of the living hostages are supposed to be returned to israel the cbc's margaret evans reports from jerusalem the red cross is described describing this as a multifaceted operation, and as we speak, in terms of the hostages being released, Hamas has confirmed the list of names of the Israeli hostages. They are all men. Some of them are soldiers. Some of them are men who were at the Nova Music Festival. When they were taken prisoner, there are two sets of brothers on this list. Families are heading for the reception center to be there when this operation gets underway. The Israelis were very adamant. They had insisted that Hamas should not subject the hostages

to the kinds of scene we've seen on the previous hostage releases where they were just swamped and enveloped by crowds of people. There are buses waiting and Hamas fighters standing in a row. The CBC's Margaret Evans in Jerusalem. Now, as part of the ceasefire deal, Israel is releasing 250, Palestinian prisoners who were serving life sentences, some for murder and terror offenses. They'll be released to the Palestinian territories and abroad. Plus, more than 1,700 Palestinians who were detained without trial during the Gaza war will also be released. U.S. President

Donald Trump has just arrived in Israel. He'll speak at the Israeli Parliament and then travel to Egypt for a peace summit. Prime Minister Mark Carney will attend that event in Charmel Sheik. The ceasefire also means the people of Gaza can start rebuilding their lives. Yusra Abu Sharek is with the International Network for Aid Relief and Assistance. We reached her in Central Gaza. People have mixed feelings from happiness. They have this level of being happy for this war to end, but also they are uncertain about their future and about their plans,

especially after some of them, returned to Gaza City after the withdrawal, and they found that nothing is remaining in Gaza City and the infrastructure is damaged. That's Yusra Abusharek in central Gaza. Well, love them or hate them, cranberries are a must on the Thanksgiving table for many Canadians. Lyle Slater has been growing the tart red berries for almost three decades on his farm in rural Ottawa, but he says it may be time to hand over the reins.

Giacomo Panico reports. At Upper Canada Cranberries, owner Lyle Slater takes up his post in front of a conveyor belt. Well, we're just sorting the berries here by hand. We're taking out the miscolored ones, any ones that are soft. Slater planted his first cranberries here in the late 90s. The idea came to him after picking up a magazine. I read an article on cranberries and realized the peat bog here was the right pH to grow cranberries. and I sent my wife to get a bag of cranberries

and there was a phone number on it and I phoned ocean spray and they said, yeah, they'd buy all the cranberries I could grow. Since then, his berries have gone into juices, wines, jams, and of course, sauces. Slater maintains and operates all the farm's equipment pretty much by himself, but at 77, he says it's become too much for him to handle

so he's selling his farm. It's time. But anyway, it is what it is. Chalkham O'Nico, CBC News, Ottawa. Another big box of Crenberries. The Toronto Blue Jays lost their first game of the American League Championship series last night. And that will do it. The Mariners come into the Rogers Center and they defeat the Blue Jays three to one to take game one here in this best of seven. Game two is tonight in Toronto.

And that is your world this hour for CBC News. I'm Neil Hurland.