The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/13 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/13 at 20:00 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 Stephanie Scandaris. Donald Trump says the war in Gaza is over. The U.S. President started the day by addressing the Israeli parliament. He called the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas a historic dawn of the New Middle East. Later, he convened a summit in Egypt, aimed at cementing a lasting peace in Gaza, and he brought together heads of state from the region and beyond to take part.

Susan Ormiston reports. This took 3,000 years to get to this point. Can you believe it? And it's going to hold up, too. With that, Donald Trump signed a peace plan in Charmel Sheik with his black Sharpie, flanked by the leaders of Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey who added their signatures. All day, the president has been assuring the world this fragile peace will last, but without adding any more crucial details of how that will happen.

It's peace in the Middle East, and everybody said it's not possible. to do. And it's going to happen. And it is happening. Big questions still remain. Who will make up an international stabilization force to secure Gaza? How will Hamas disarm or will they? To many, Trump is underestimating the gritty work ahead. And now the rebuilding begins. The rebuilding is maybe going to be the easiest part. I think we've done a lot of the hardest part because the rest comes together. Prime Minister Mark Carney's office said he had brief meetings on the sidelines, with the UK, France, Turkey, and others on the need to collaborate on humanitarian aid and reconstruction efforts. The Peace Summit was an historic moment, but with challenging days ahead.

Susan Ormiston, CBC News, London. In Israel, it has been a day of jubilation and sorrow. That's a scene of joy, one of many across the country. Brothers Ariel and David Cunio reunited with their loved ones, after two years of Hamas captivity. All 20 living hostages have returned home today. But for families of those who died, the anguish continues. Hamas has returned four bodies out of the 28 deceased hostages.

The militant group says it'll take time to locate the others. And in Gaza. Thousands of people gathered to welcome buses carrying Palestinian prisoners. Under the deal, Israel released more than, the 1900 detainees and prisoners, the vast majority were seized from Gaza during the war and held without charge. About 250 were serving long sentences for serious offenses, including terrorism. Officials in Mexico say the number of dead from last week's torrential rains now stands at 64. Dozens more remain missing. The heavy rainfall caused rivers to overflow on central and

southeastern Mexico, flooding homes, washing away roads, and cutting off entire communities. President Claudia Shanebaum says some of them will not be accessed for days. Canadian Nobel Prize winner, economist Peter Howitt, says his time at Western University in Ontario helped him win the prestigious award. He also says his mathematical models for innovation can be applied to Canada. Philip Lyshenock reports. Working in Canada was where I really cut my teeth as a economist. A professor emeritus at Brown University in Rhode Island,

79-year-old Peter Howitt gives some credit to where he did his master's for his Nobel win. The atmosphere at Western University was the one that really taught me how to be a productive scholar, and I'm forever grateful for that. Howitt and Philippe Agnion of France won for using mathematics to explain creative destruction, how new innovations replace and destroy older technologies driving innovation. How it says in the face of tariffs imposed by the U.S., Canada must find other partners and keep markets open to innovators. That's, I think, the biggest lesson that our research has for a country like Canada. He says that's because tariffs restrict trade to within just one country, which reduces incentive to innovate.

Veltes-Shanock, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scandaris. Thank you.