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

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/13 at 13:00 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 Stephanie Scandaris. We begin in Egypt. Can we get the documents, please? You'll sign them right here. The U.S. President and regional heads of state signing the Gaza peace deal. Donald Trump has assembled more than 20 world leaders, including Prime Minister Mark Carney,

for a summit on the future of Gaza. He is urging them to seize the momentum of this deal to secure long-term peace in the region. It's the place that could lead to tremendous problems, like World War III. They always talk about World War III would start in the Middle East, and that's not going to happen. Regional leaders expect talks on the sidelines of today's summit could be critical to shaping a final agreement to ending the war. But for now, much of the world's focus is on the successful release of 20 surviving Israeli hostages and the end of fighting in Gaza. Earlier today, Trump addressed Israel's parliament,

hailing what he called a dawn of a new Middle East. Willie Lowry reports. President Donald Trump is really trying to project this peace deal into the future. He spent a great deal talking in front of the Knesset about the work that his team did. He praised his special envoy for the Middle East and a longtime friend. Steve Witkoff, he also praised his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, two people who played an instrumental role in helping establish this piece between Hamas and Israel. He also gave credit to Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli

military. It's all about keeping the momentum going, keeping the pressure on both Israel and Hamas to honor it and to help ensure that they can get it beyond the hostage release and ceasefire deal to something more durable and permanent. We know that the U.S. has sent 200 troops to Israel to help monitor and support the ceasefire, but still questions around the governance of Gaza and, of course, its reconstruction continue to swirl. Willie Lowry, CBC News, Washington. Now, Israel is already accusing Hamas

of not living up to the terms of the ceasefire. The militant group has handed over four bodies of deceased hostages out of 28 who are believed to have died in captivity. Hamas has warned not all burial sites are known and recovering the bodies could take time. In Gaza, crowds of people gathered to welcome buses carrying Palestinian prisoners. Under the deal, Israel released over 1,900 prisoners, some serving lengthy sentences for terrorism and promises to allow a surge of food and aid supplies into Gaza.

Agencies are preparing for that influx. Tess Ingram is a spokesperson for UNICEF and is in Gaza City. We really need to see aid scale up to. hundreds of trucks coming into the Gaza Strip every day, like we saw during the last ceasefire in February when we got five, six hundred trucks in every single day. That's what we want. We're not there yet. We need all of the crossings into the Gaza Strip to open. We need those crossings to operate efficiently so that the trucks move through quickly. According to the UN, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza face famine. Foreign Affairs Minister, Anita Anand, has met India's

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on her visit to the country. The trip is meant to strengthen ties after two years of diplomatic strain, and it builds on Modi's visit to the G7 Summit in Canada earlier this summer. 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

price is about. How it works at Brown University in the US, but he was born in Canada and he studied at Western and McGill Universities. And that's your World this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scandaris.