The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 21:00 EDT

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I'm Neil Hurland. Hurricane Melissa could be the most destructive storm to ever hit Jamaica. It made landfall today as a category five storm. Officials are worried it will devastate major infrastructure. Katie Nicholson reports. Palm trees bent to right angles. Their fronds lashed about wildly and roofs ripped away. skyward as Hurricane Melissa and its nearly 300-kilometer-an-hour sustained winds made

landfall in Jamaica. Tropical cyclone researcher Anne Claire Fontaine said, all told, the storm will drop up to twice the amount of rain Jamaica gets during its rainy season. What does it mean? It means that there will be catastrophic flash floodings and numerous long flights. It's also destroying parts of the island's electric grid. Much of it, newly reconstructed, leaving hundreds of thousands in the dark says Winsome Callum with the public energy service. Devastation with posts coming down with transmission towers and distribution lines being affected. Jamaica may take months, even years to recover from the storm, but Melissa isn't stopping here. It's expected next to hit Cuba.

Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Toronto. Students and teachers in Alberta are heading back to the classroom tomorrow. After the province passed its back-to-work legislation, But as Aaron Collins reports, teachers say their battle with the government isn't over. We will pursue everything that we can and leave no stone unturned. Jason Schilling says teachers aren't done fighting. The head of the Alberta Teachers Association pushing back against back-to-work legislation. We will challenge this legislation in the courts, in our communities, and the very conscience of Albertaans.

The law passed early this morning invokes the notwithstanding clause, a move designed to prevent challenges to its constitutionality, leaving some parents with mixed feelings. Why they have to go back tomorrow? I don't really agree with how that was done, but yeah, I guess we'll see how things go. Teachers will be heading back to class two facing familiar challenges. We have a lot of kids, complexities and classrooms, lots of kids with learning disabilities and a lot of needs that aren't being met right now. Nearly 750,000 Alberta kids have been out of school since October 6th. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Calgary. Health Canada has approved a drug that targets what's believed to be

the underlying cause of Alzheimer's disease. Lacanamab isn't a cure, but it can slow the progression of the disease in its early stages. Researchers say the medication could be a game changer for some patients. The shaky ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas is facing more pressure. Israeli soldiers were attacked in Gaza, and they launched air strikes in response. Both sides are accusing each other of violating the truce. Chris Brown reports.

The ceasefire is holding. That doesn't mean that there aren't going to be little skirmishes here and there. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance says Israel's airstrikes on Gaza don't mean a return to full-on-war. Both sides are accusing the other of trying to sabotage the ceasefire. Israel's airstrikes reportedly hit near Gaza's Sabra neighborhood and at least one other close to the Shifa hospital. Hamas has not returned all of the bodies of the hostages it held, and Israel says that was part of the deal. The Netanyahu government is not said if it now considers the ceasefire to be over. In a statement, Hamas said it is still committed to the agreement that came into force on October the 10th.

Israel justified its strikes by blaming Hamas for attacking Israeli forces, near Rafa earlier in the day, and secondly for turning over the wrong remains, instead of those of an Israeli hostage held in Gaza. Chris Brown, CBC News, London. It's game four tonight of the World Series, and the Toronto Blue Jays are playing the L.A. Dodgers. Right now, the Jays are ahead to 1 in the bottom of the third inning. The Dodgers lead the series 2-1 after last night's marathon game that lasted 18 innings. And that is your world this hour. Thank you.