The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 06:00 EDT

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and a digital business library full of on-demand resources. Benefit together with Chambers Plan. Learn more at hellochambers.ca. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings the carne government is still two weeks away from tabling its first budget but prime minister is already preparing canadians for what to expect he began laying that groundwork last night with a live address from the university of ottawa marina vans stockleberg reports Prime Minister Mark Carney pitched his first budget. He says will be generational. This is what the upcoming budget will be about, building, taking control and winning.

Carney signaled where his government will spend, billions of dollars on the military infrastructure projects, and support for industries hit hard by Trump's tariffs. Now he set a new goal for Canada to double its exports outside of the U.S. in the next decade. there will be a new plan for immigration and climate change. All this while Carney promises to streamline the government. And to be clear, we won't transform our economy easily or in a few months. It will take some sacrifices and it will take some time. Mahmoud Nanji is a professor at Western University's Ivy Business School.

What he was trying to tell Canadians is, look, we are in for a rough ride over the next little while. Marina von Stackleberg, CBC News, Ottawa. Still in Ottawa, we're expecting the liberals to table a crime bill today. It calls for stricter bail and sentencing standards for offenses involving violent crime and organized crime. And among other things, it looks to allow for consecutive sentences for repeat offenders, so multiple sentences can't be served at the same time. The United States is imposing a new round of sanctions on two of Russia's biggest oil companies. It comes as, yet again, President Donald Trump is saying the United States won't be providing Ukraine with long-range tomahawk missiles.

Katie Nicholson explains. The U.S. President made it clear once again no Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine. The only way of Tomahawk is going to be shot is if we shot it, and we're not going to do that. Instead, the U.S. has launched another powerful weapon into the heart of the Russian economy, damaging sanctions on its largest two oil companies. Rostneft and Lukoyle. NATO head, Mark Ruta. It's all about changing the calculus. Trump's shifting stance on the Russian leader with whom he had become annoyed over the last few months, shifted again after a lengthy phone call last Thursday night.

At the time, Trump agreed to meet Putin in Hungary. But that meeting is off, at least for now. It didn't feel right to me. It didn't feel like we were going to get to the place we have to get, so I canceled it. And for the moment, appears to be taking a dimmer view. of his interactions with Putin. Every time I speak with Vladimir, I have good conversations, and then they don't go anywhere. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Toronto.

Human Rights Watch is issuing a stark warning about freedom of the press in Afghanistan. It says under Taliban rule, journalists are routinely facing arrest and torture. Chris Reyes has more. I'm able to speak with my name, with my own identity. However, this is not the reality for my car. colleagues in Afghanistan. Zara Nader is an Afghani journalist in exile from Edmonton. She covers human rights in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan for the outlet Zan Times. The Taliban is actively looking for any journalist that is collaborating and working for

exile media. A new report from Human Rights Watch is sounding the alarm over that very issue. The group interviewed dozens of journalists in Afghanistan and those in exile. John Sifton contributed to the report. They're facing Taliban abuses. The authorities have been routinely surveilling and censoring news outlets. And then they're even subjecting some journalists to arrest and torture and enforced disappearance. More than 1,000 journalists left Afghanistan in 2021. Many of them continue to do their work in secret.

Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. And that is the world this hour. For news any time, go to our website. We're at cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.