The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 13:00 EDT

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. Bro.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Mike Miles. Ottawa and Ontario are setting aside $3 billion to build four small nuclear reactors in Bowmanville. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the investment alongside Ontario Premier, Doug Ford. An investment that will extend Canada's world leadership in clean energy. We are an energy superpower and we are only getting stronger.

Carney says each of the four modular reactors will be able to power 300,000 homes, and he says the Dartlington Nuclear Project will create thousands of jobs. The reactors are among the first batch of nation-building projects to be fast-tracked by the federal government. The Carney government is introducing its bill to reform bail and sentencing today. Repeat offenders will now have to prove that it's safe to grant them bail. As well, it will provide for tougher sentences for a number of offenses and allow for consecutive sentences, one after another, for violent repeat offenders. Current and former NBA players are among dozens of people arrested in connection with illegal gambling.

U.S. officials allege the criminal enterprise robbed victims of tens of millions of dollars over several years. Philip Lyshanock reports. A wide-sweeping criminal enterprise that envelops both the NBA and La Casinosstra. FBI director Cash Patel says members of known mafia, families and some professional basketball figures are among the more than 30 people arrested across 11 states. They face charges of money laundering, fraud, and racketeering. Miami Heat Guard Terry Rosier is accused of manipulating prop bets, where people wager on a player's performance. As the NBA season tips off, his career is already benched, not for injury, but for

integrity. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch says while playing for the Charlotte Hornets, Rosier allegedly told co-conspirators he planned to underperform. The proceeds were later delivered to his home where the group counted their cash. Former Toronto Raptor Jonte Porter is also named in the indictment as is Portland Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups, who faces separate allegations of rigging high-stakes poker games. Philip LeShadock, CBC News, Toronto. President Donald Trump has pardoned Shang-Peng Zhao,

the founder of the largest crypto exchange, Binance. Last year, the Canadian citizen was sentenced to four months in prison after pleading guilty to money laundering. Binance also pleaded guilty and paid billions of dollars in fines. Zhao has deep ties to World Liberty Financial. That crypto venture was launched by Trump and his sons last year. Vladimir Putin insists Moscow will not bow to pressure from the West. Both Europe and the United States have hit Russia with a new round of sanctions aimed at its energy sector. Anna Cunningham has more.

We waited for this. God bless it will work. Ukraine's President Flodemez Zelensky, welcoming the fresh sanctions on Russia from both the EU and the US. This is a good signal to other countries in the world to join the sanctions. He says the US sanctions against Russia's two largest oil companies are the first significant pressure on the Kremlin since US 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. There's Kaya Kallas, the EU's top diplomat. If approved, the loan could be $163 billion. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. A women's marathon world record holder has been banned for three years for doping. 31-year-old, Rup Chepengetich from Kenya, is a former World Marathon champion and a three-time winner of the Chicago Marathon. The Athletics Integrity Unit says the ban follows an investigation into the use of a band diuretic.

The anti-doping body says Chepengedich has accepted, rather, the charge and the sanction. that is your world this hour for news anytime visit our website cbcnews.ca.ca. For cbc news, I'm Mike Miles.