The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/14 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/14 at 02:00 EDT

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I'm Neil Hurland. People across Canada are reacting to the ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages on Monday. Georgie Smyth has more on a historic day for the Middle East. Relieved and sad. Nassanajah 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 nightmare reached 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, Erli Khaf 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 is a win for humanity.

We hope and pray that the next five years, 50 years and 500 years are going to be beautiful. Beside optimism, there is cynicism that this ceasefire deal will fail like others have. Georgie Smyth, CBC News, Vancouver. U.S. President Donald Trump says the leader of Turkey could play a pivotal role and ending the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Erdogan can. He's respected by Russia. Ukraine, I can't tell you about, but he is respected by Putin. And he's a friend of mine, you know, you can see.

I get along with the tough ones. I don't get along with the weak ones. Trump made the comment aboard Air Force One as he flew back to the U.S. from the Middle East after brokering the ceasefire deal between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. A parent in Ottawa is warning others about the possible concerning effects of a respiratory illness. RSV can spread quickly among infants and young children, and as Kimberly Molina reports, it can be potentially devastating. Jessica Cohn has a perfectly healthy 10-year-old boy, but when he was less than a month old, he developed respiratory

sensicial virus. The thing with RSV is that it tends to peak around day three to day five. Cohn says he got progressively worse and was almost intubated. They did some more tests and they determined he'd also developed pneumonia. He spent two weeks in hospital. RSV can cause up to 16 times more hospitalizations among infants and young children compared to the flu. Dr. Dharin Al-Charr is a physician at the Ottawa Hospital and she sits on an RSV task force. There could be long-term effects as well and we know that it's associated with asthma and

wheezing. Dr. Al-Char says there are now antibodies and vaccines. But she says some provinces only offer the antibodies and vaccines to high-risk mothers and infants. Kimberly Molina, CBC News, Ottawa. The Toronto Blue Jays have lost their second game tonight against the Seattle Mariners in the American League Championship Series. Seattle beat Toronto 10 to 3.

Greg Ross reports. If you're a Blue Jays fan who paid good money to come to game two of this American League championship series, well, this was a long and big. Difficult night, and the frustration started pretty much right at the beginning of this game. The top of the first inning, it was clear that this was not going to be another great performance by 22-year-old pitching sensation, Trey Yassavage. Your Savage would last only four innings in this game, giving up five earned runs with four strikeouts.

On the other side of the ball, things weren't much better for the Blue Jays. Their offense struggled once again. They did manage to put three runs up on the board through two innings, but that was it. They were not able to muster any more offense in this game. Meanwhile, the Mariners, they scored early and often, going on to beat the Blue Jays, by a final of 10 to 3. They take a commanding 2-0 lead in this Best of 7 series, and this series now shifts to Seattle, where they will play game three at T-Mobile Park on Wednesday night. Greg Ross, CBC News, Toronto.

And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.