The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/13 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/13 at 09:00 EDT

The spirit of innovation is deeply ingrained in Canada, and Google is helping Canadians innovate in ways both big and small, from mapping accessible spaces so the disabled community can explore with confidence, to unlocking billions in domestic tourism revenue. Thousands of Canadian companies are innovating with Google AI. Innovation is Canada's story. Let's tell it together. Find out more at g.co slash Canadian Innovation. from cbc news the world this hour i'm claude fayy u.s president donald trump says the war in gaza

is over trump addressed to israel's parliament this morning after the remaining israeli hostages were released by hamas what we're doing now it could have happened a long time ago but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of barraq obama and then joe Biden. There was a hatred toward Israel. Trump is in Jerusalem as his 20-point peace plan begins to take effect. 20 living hostages were freed. In return, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees have been released. The CBC's Breyer Stewart has the latest from Jerusalem. Across Israel jubilation, people watched with tears in their eyes as 20 hostages were released and started to be reunited with their family members. Some even received a call moments before.

They spoke on video call with their families as Hamas militants stood beside them. The remains of an estimated 28 will start to be returned to Israel this afternoon. Around 2,000 Palestinians are now being released from Israeli jails. The vast majority were detained without charge after the war in Gaza began. About 250 of those being released were serving life sentences for serious offenses. In Jerusalem, Kerry Fried says she's no fair. of Trump, but gives him credit. Credit for today and for making it happen.

I think he's taking an early victory lap. We're not there yet. No Israelis fooling themselves. We don't believe the war is over. Breyer Stewart, CBC News, Jerusalem. And as he leaves Israel today, Donald Trump will travel to Shamel Sheikh in Egypt to meet with world leaders, including Prime Minister Mark Carney. Trump is co-hosting a peace summit with the Egyptian president, one that seeks to build on the ceasefire in Gaza with many challenges ahead. Tom Perry reports. The summit has set a bold agenda

to end the war in Gaza, enhance efforts to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East, and usher in a new era of regional security and stability. For all that, though, the summit itself will be brief. Donald Trump is set to return to the U.S. today after just a few hours on the ground. Nonetheless, leaders from the Middle East and around the world have flown in for the meeting, including UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Prime Minister Mark Carney from Canada. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is also set to attend. Trump invited Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take part, but in the end, Netanyahu declined. What comes out of the summit is yet to be determined, but Trump's peace plan calls for a new

governing structure for Gaza, an international stabilization force to restore order, and eventually for the territory to be rebuilt from the rubble. Tom Perry, CBC News, Cairo. A Canadian is among this year's winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Peter Howitt and his fellow researchers are credited with explaining how economies grow through cycles of innovation. The Nobel Committee says this year's prize is all about sustained economic growth. Change, not stagnation, has become the new normal. What conflicts arise in a society when new products and production methods replace the old ones?

How should policy be devised so that societies do not fall back into stagnation? Answers to these questions are what this year's prize is about. How it works out of Brown University in the U.S., but he was born in Canada and studied at Western University and McGill. The Toronto Blue Jays lost the first game of their American League championship series last night. And that will do it. The Mariners come into the Rogers Center and they defeat the Blue Jays' season. three to one to take game one here in this best of seven. Making for a disappointing night for fans of Canada's only Major League Baseball team,

game two goes back in Toronto this afternoon. The series will then shift to Seattle for the next three games beginning Thursday night. The winner of the series will play in the World Series. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Faye. From CB.