The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 15:00 EDT

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from cbc news the world this hour i'm stepney scanderes the strongest recorded storm to ever hit jamaica is flooding bridges and roads across the country with damage expected to be catastrophic i don't believe there is any infrastructure within this region that could withstand the category five storm jamaica's prime minister andrew holness acknowledges the extreme danger of hurricane melissa which had been moving slowly over the last few days. This is the first time Jamaica has ever been struck by that Category 5 storm, and the winds are nearly 300 kilometers per hour. Emergency workers estimate some 1.5 million residents are directly affected. That's about half the population.

Anne Claire Fontaine, with the World Meteorological Organization, warns of unprecedented flash floods and landslides. Within the eye wall, the total structural failure is likely. I have never seen this sentence before. So it's a massive impact that he's expected to be in Jamaica. Melissa comes just over a year after Hurricane Beryl hit the island with around 200 million US dollars in damages. Israeli tanks are pounding targets in Gaza

after Prime Minister Benjamin Njahou ordered new strikes on the territory. The Israeli military accused. accuses Hamas of violating the ceasefire by attacking its forces east of the agreed deployment line. Hamas denies it carried out the attack and says it is committed to the ceasefire. The militant group also warns any escalation in fighting will delay the search and recovery of the bodies of deceased Israeli hostages. 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 Pettel, CBC News, Toronto. Health Canada has approved a drug that targets the underlying cause of Alzheimer's disease. Lacanamap isn't a cure, but it can slow the progression of the disease in its early stages, and some professionals say it could be a game changer. So far, it's not covered by provincial insurance plans, and the Canadian pricing is not yet known.

It costs up to $30,000 a year in other countries. Canadian scientists have discovered and named a new species of rhino. It has no horn. Emily Chung has more 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 it jiluk, 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's the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Skanderas.