The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/13 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/13 at 17:00 EDT

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The debater's 20th anniversary season, comedy, worth arguing about. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Stephanie Scandaris. We begin in Egypt. Can we get the documents, please? You'll sign right here. The U.S. President and regional heads of state

putting ink to 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. In Israel, it's a day of jubilation as 20 surviving hostages return home after spending two years in captivity. Breyer Stewart has more from Jerusalem. There were moments of joy. Israelis watched as the 20 hostages came out. They looked thin and got and had emotional reunions with their families. Late Monday, four bodies were transferred back to Israel. There are still 24 in Gaza, and officials say it may take some time to locate them in the vast ruins. As part of the deal, around 1700 Palestinian detainees,

were released back to Gaza. Thousands crowded around buses while armed men walked through the crowd. U.S. President Donald Trump addressed Israel's parliament speaking for more than an hour. The only break was when he was briefly interrupted by an Israeli lawmaker who stood up with a sign that read, recognized Palestine. The future of Gaza was barely mentioned in Trump's speech in the Knesset. Instead, he talked about the historic dawn of the New Middle East and, praised Israel's prime minister.

I said, BB, you're going to be remembered for this far more than if you kept this thing going, going, going, kill, kill, kill. It would be, uh, it would not be the same. Officials in Gaza say 67,000 have been killed in the past two years. The challenge now was to try and find a way to make this ceasefire a more durable piece. Breyer Stewart, CBC News, Jerusalem. Part of the deal is allowing 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. Canada's 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. Parts of northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba are getting walloped by a snowstorm, while some areas are beginning to

dig out, others are bracing for more bad weather. Helena Mihulik reports. There's going to be a lot of tree removal required in order for the roads to be open. Alyssa Bogdan is the owner of a hunting and fishing lodge in northern Manitoba. A severe snowstorm has left much of the province, along with Saskatchewan, with closed highways and power outages, and a mess of downed trees. We have a renter who asked me this morning, who was shooting guns last night, and I said it wasn't guns shooting, it was trees probably.

David Fulton is a meteorologist with Environment Canada. He says the snowfall in northern Manitoba won't be stopping any time soon. No, it's still snowing in Thompson. So we're expecting another 10 to 15 there today. Power restoration efforts are underway, but many highways remain closed. Helena Mahalik, CBC News, Saskatoon. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Skanderas.

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