The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 12:00 EDT

This ascent isn't for everyone. You need grit to climb this high this often. You've got to be an underdog that always over-delivers. You've got to be 6,500 hospital staff, 1,000 doctors, all doing so much with so little. You've got to be Scarborough. Defined by our uphill battle and always striving towards new heights. And you can help us keep climbing.

Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from cbic news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings prime minister mark carney is making a clean energy announcement today outside toronto this project will make us the first in the g7 to have an entirely new kind of nuclear reactor alongside ontario premier doug ford that's the prime minister announcing that ottawa's teaming up with the province to build four small modular reactors. Carney says each state-of-the-art reactor will be able to power 300,000 homes. And he says building and operating the reactors will create thousands of jobs.

Ottawa is contributing $2 billion to the initiative, Ontario $1 billion. Today's announcement is among the first batch of nation building projects being fast-tracked by the federal government. Big news today from the NBA, Portland Trailblazer head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat Guard Terry Rozier have both been arrested. It's in connection to a federal investigation into sports betting and illegal gamding. Billups is a former Toronto Raptor and a member of the Hall of Fame. He's accused of being involved in a rigged poker game circuit linked to organized crime. The charges against Rozier are connected to illegal betting on NBA games.

In total, more than 30 arrests that were made today as part of the FBI investigation. As part of the ongoing Ukrainian war effort, both Europe and the United States, are announcing that they're hitting Russia with a new round of sanctions. Anna Cunningham has more. We waited for this. God bless, it will work. Ukraine's President Flotemiz Zelensky, welcoming the fresh sanctions on Russia from both the EU and the U.S. This is a good signal to other countries in the world to join the sanctions. He says the U.S. sanctions against Russia's two largest oil companies

are the first significant pressure on the Kremlin since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House. It's a move that has angered Russia. Its former president, Dmitri Medvedev, says that peacekeeper Trump is on the warpath with Russia. In Brussels, the European Council is deciding if it approves a multi-billion dollar loan for Ukraine, funded by frozen Russian assets.

It should be Russia who pays for the damages that they are causing, in Ukraine. Fenskaya Kallas, the EU's top diplomat. If approved, the loan could be $163 billion. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. 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 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. History was made today at the Vatican. Let us pray. God, our Father, you have created the heaven. heavens and the earth. That's Pope Leo, offering a prayer alongside King Charles. It's the first time of 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's visit to the Vatican is part of a campaign to symbolically unify the two churches. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings