The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 08:00 EDT

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Prime Minister Mark Carney is laying the ground work for what Canadians can expect to see in the upcoming federal budget. Carney delivered a live address last night from the University of Ottawa that outlines how the budget will be the first step toward transforming the Canadian economy. It will mean expanding business. growth while at the same time making deep cuts to operational spending. Janice McGregor has more.

Because he's still maintaining his campaign pledge to bring government revenues in line with its operating expenses within three years. But without growth, without more taxes from that, he's going to have to raise other taxes, make even bigger spending cuts than are already contemplated, or punt on this budget balancing promise. As Carney put it, we will have to do less of some of the things. things that we want to do so we can do more of what we must do to build a bigger and better Canada. For example, last night's speech talked about maintaining some of the recent additions

to the social safety net, the new dental plan, the national school food program, but it said nothing about expanding federal pharmacare spending. At times, this speech seemed to be preconditioning Canadians to accept that some of what liberals promised in the past is not going to be possible now. Janice McGregor. CBC News, Ottawa. Still in Ottawa, we're expecting the Liberals to table a crime bill today. It calls for a stricter bail and sentencing standards for offenses involving violent crime and organized crime. Among other things, it also 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 largest oil companies. It comes as yet again, President Donald's. Donald Trump is insisting the U.S. will not be providing Ukraine with long-range tomahawk missiles. Katie Nicholson has more. 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.

Roosneft and Luke oil. 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 ruled, journalists are routinely facing arrest and torture. Chris Reyes reports. I'm able to speak with my name, with my own identity.

However, this is not the reality for my 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. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcast. The World This Hour is updated every hour seven days a week.

For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.