The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 14:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica. Thousands of people are in shelters as the island is battered by winds nearly 300 kilometers per hour. It marks the first time Jamaica has ever been struck by a Category 5 storm. Nesifer McGendi is head of the Caribbean delegation of the Red Cross. He says the potential danger goes far beyond the immediate threat of wind damage. and rainfall. Storm side, sustained winds could also cause extensive infrastructure damage, isolating communities,

and cutting off essential services for days, if not weeks. The humanitarian threat is severe and is immediate. The Red Cross estimates more than half of Jamaica's population will be directly affected by the storm. Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is ordering new strikes on Gaza. The Israeli military accuses Hamas of violating. the ceasefire by attacking its forces east of the agreed deployment line. Hamas warns any escalation in fighting will delay the search and recovery of the bodies of deceased Israeli hostages. The Conservative Party is introducing a bill aimed at tackling intimate partner violence.

Bill C-225 would create specific offenses under the criminal code for this kind of violence. Conservative Shadow Minister for Public Safety, Frank Caputo, drafted the bill. When you assault an intimate partner, it's not just assault. It's assaulting somebody oftentimes who is in an emotional relationship, a physical relationship, a relationship of financial dependence. That's what distinguishes it from simple assault. And that's why we should be calling it criminal harassment of an intimate partner. The bill would also treat the murder of a current or former intimate partner as first-degree murder.

Caputo says the bill is nonpartisan and he hopes it can be passed quickly. Amazon is laying off thousands of people. The company says corporate jobs are being cut so it can spend more on artificial intelligence. As Nisha Patel reports, Amazon is investing tens of billions of dollars in AI. Amazon is cutting 14,000 jobs in its corporate division out of about 350,000 roles. Most workers will be given 90 days to look for a new position internally. Ian Lee is a management professor at Carlton, University. They are constantly figuring out which part of the company is growing and needs more resources. And so I think this is a strategic response. The company says it needs a leaner, more nimble organization in order to take advantage of developments in artificial intelligence, calling it the most transformative technology since the internet. And so AI is going to be very disruptive, but it's just not going to be uniform across the board and affect everybody equally. Some will lose

their jobs. Amazon has been racing to invest in AI as it faces increased competition. The company had forecast $100 billion in capital spending this year. Nisha Patel, CBC News, Toronto. Canadian scientists have discovered and named a new species of rhino. It has no horn and it was found in a place you might not expect. Emily Chung has details. When scientists found the fossils of a rhino, a thousand kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, they imagined a shaggy animal. I wanted the artist to make the rhino look like a pony in the winter. Danielle Fraser is with the Canadian Museum of Nature.

She led the study of the fossils from what is now Devon Island in Nunavut and identified them as a new species, named with the help of a local elder. And so we collaborated with Jarlu Kugptak, and he picked out Itjiluk, which means frosty or frost. It's kind of a homage to it being from the Arctic in that cold environment. The rhino lived 23 million years ago in a climate similar to modern-day southern Ontario, but... It would have been dark part of the year.

And I think that that's a really interesting mystery about how some of these animals lived up there. This is the northernmost rhino ever found. Emily Chung, CBC News, Toronto. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Skanderas.