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

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

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

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. 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. In a live address last night, Carney outlined how the budget will be the first step toward transforming the Canadian economy. That means expanding growth while at the same time cutting operational spending. 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 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, but 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 stricter bail and sentencing standards for offenses involving violent crime and organized crime when it comes to bail there are reports the government wants to in certain circumstances shift the burden of proof from the prosecutor to the accused as part of the ongoing ukrainian war effort both europe and the united states have announced they're hitting russia with a new round of sanctions the american sanctions will target the russian oil industry

And Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says it's part of what's needed to force Moscow to ultimately agree to a ceasefire. Together we have the pressure on Putin stop this war. Pressure, it meant sanctions packages, long range, air defense, and of course financial support. Seasfire is possible. Among those responding in Russia is former President Dmitri Medvedev.

He calls the American sanctions an act of war. Many foreign analysts consider Medvedev to be the unofficial but strategic voice of the Kremlin. 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 has more. 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.

Astorities have been routinely surveilling and censoring news outlets. And then they're even subjecting some journalists to arrest and torture and enforce 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. History is being made today at the Vatican.

Let us pray. God, our Father, you have created the heavens and the earth. That is Pope Leo offering a prayer alongside King Charles. It's the first time a Pope. and the head of the Church of England, have prayed together in almost 500 years. That dates back to Henry VIII, breaking with the Roman Catholic Church in 1534. Buckingham Palace says Charles' visit to the Vatican and the public prayer are part of a wider campaign to symbolically unify the two churches.

And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.