The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/13 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/13 at 21:00 EDT

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We begin in Egypt. Can we get the documents, please? The U.S. president and regional heads of states signed the Gaza peace deal. Donald Trump assembled more than 20 world leaders, including Prime Minister Mark Carney, for a summit on the future of Gaza. He's 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. There are still disagreements to be worked out on further phases of the deal, including disarming the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Part of that deal is allowing a surge of food and aid supplies into Gaza. Tess Ingram is a spokesperson for UNICEF 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. People across Canada are reacting to the ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages. Georgie Smyth has more. Relieved and... and sad. Nassah Nadja is a Palestinian Canadian who lives in Richmond. He says the last two years have been a nightmare,

with his family and friends being killed or starved in Gaza. This genocide, this nightmare, reach an end. Hopefully no more killing, but also sad for everything that happened. As part of this ceasefire deal, almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees were released in exchange for 20 living, Israeli hostages. So according to Donald Trump, it's done, but we know that there's a lot of work ahead of us. In Toronto, Elikhaf uncle rabbi of Forest Hill Jewish Center says watching Israeli

hostages return home felt like he was watching members of his own family reuniting and that today is a win for humanity. We hope and pray that the next five years, 50 years and 500 years is going to be beautiful. Beside optimism, there is cynicism that this ceasefire deal will fail like others have. Georgie Smyth, CBC News, Vancouver. And we've got breaking news from Vancouver. A 35-year-old female suspect has been arrested after seven people were stabbed last Friday in the city's Yale town. Vancouver Police took the suspect into custody this afternoon. Investigators released an image of the suspect over the weekend. The victims are recovering from their injuries. They include five men and two women, ranging an age from 23 to 59.

Parts of northern Saskatchewan in Manitoba are getting walloped by a snowstorm, and while some areas are beginning to dig out, others are bracing for more bad weather. Helena Mahalik 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 falling. 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 Maholic, CBC News, Saskatoon. And finally, we've got Breaking Baseball News,

from Toronto. Routed to third to second one to first to end the ballgame. The Toronto Blue Jays have just lost their second game against the Seattle Mariners. In the American League Championship Series, Seattle beat Toronto 10 to 3. The Mariners now lead the series with two wins. Game three is Wednesday in Seattle. And that is your world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland.

Thank you.