The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 02:00 EDT

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jamaica hurricane melissa is a category five storm and it will make landfall tuesday nick davis reports from jamaica hurricane melissa is slowly turning inland towards jamaica But as the storm continues west, it's place areas that we're expecting heavy impact to lessen in severity and others to now face the full brunt of this Category 5 hurricane. The drift has allowed it to build an intensity over the sea and take the capital, Kingston, home to nearly a million people out of the impact area and the major wind field. Instead, areas along the south coast, the central rural communities in the interior, and the coastal resort areas like Nagorno-Montigo Bay

are expected to see greater hurricane conditions. With much of the emergency response based around the capital, this could leave some communities isolated for days and without power for weeks. That's freelance journalist Nick Davis in Kingston, Jamaica tonight. Now to Alberta, where the United Conservative government introduced a bill tonight to force 51,000 striking teachers back to work. Alberta Premier Daniel Smith,

wants teachers back in the classroom this Wednesday, and she's invoking the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Constitution to shield the legislation from court challenge. We know and feel like this is the right bargaining decision. So I would just hope that people would look at their own personal circumstances and just give an honest assessment of whether they think it's fair. Most of the parents I talk to, they think it's fair. Many of the teachers who've contacted us, they think it's fair.

And I think most of all, it's fair to this student. who are the ones who are most impacted. Nath-Denchi is the NDP opposition leader in Alberta. They've taken the nuclear option on something that they could have avoided, and Albertans will be forgiven for asking themselves, who's next? What rights does this Premier want to defend, and which ones is she willing to trample over, and for whom? The Alberta teacher strike began on October 6th.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is on the second leg of his Indo-Pacific tour, arriving Tuesday in Singapore to meet with top government investment officials. Later in the week, he's hoping for a broader reset of relations when he meets the Chinese president Xi Jinping. The CBC's Murray Brewster has more from Asia. It's the start of a broader discussion. That is how Prime Minister Mark Carney describes his upcoming meeting with China's Xi Jinping at the Apex Summit.

It's been a long time in coming. The last official meeting between a Canadian Prime Minister and China's top politician was in 2017. Before relations went into a deep freeze over the arrest of a top Chinese tech executive, the detention of two Canadians, and before the latest trade fight, which has seen both Canada and China

impose crippling tariffs on one another over electric vehicles and canola. Carney is hoping for a reset. You know, relationships rebuild over time when they have been, when they have changed, when they've changed for the worst. Trump is also expected to meet Xi at the APEC summit, as the U.S. and China have agreed on a framework to settle their trade dispute,

a deal that could have global implications. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Singapore. U.S. President Donald Trump is gushing with praise for the new prime minister of Japan. Trump met with Sanaai Takaiichi in Tokyo. On behalf of our country, I want to just let you know, any time you have any question, any doubt, anything you want, any favors you need, anything I can do to help Japan we will be there. We are an ally at the strongest level. That's a sharp contrast to the frosty relations right now between Trump and Canada.

In Major League Baseball, it's Game 3 Tonight of the World Series, and what a nail-biter. The Toronto Blue Jays are playing the L.A. Dodgers right now. The game is tied 5-5 in the middle of the 16th inning. The series is tied at one game apiece. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil. Herland.