The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/29 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/29 at 09:00 EDT

This ascent isn't for everyone. You need grit to climb this high this often. You've got to be an underdog that always over-delivers. You've got to be 6,500 hospital staff, 1,000 doctors, all doing so much with so little. You've got to be Scarborough. Defined by our uphill battle and always striving towards new heights. And you can help us keep climbing.

Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from cbicnews it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings after hitting jamaica yesterday hurricane melissa is now roaring across eastern cuba that's video showing a family home being swamped by floodwaters at least 700,000 people across the country have been moved to shelters or at the very least to higher ground. Meanwhile, in Jamaica, emergency officials are in the process of evaluating the damage from Melissa's arrival yesterday afternoon. No details at this point regarding fatalities, but we do know that damage is extensive. Melissa made land as a Category 5 storm, swamping coastal communities and knocking out power.

At least 500,000 people are without electricity, with schools and businesses closed and hospitals' damage. damaged. Palestinian officials say 104 people at least have been killed following a series of Israeli air strikes on Gaza. Israel says the strikes are in response to Hamas violating the ceasefire. Crystal Gamansing has more now from Jerusalem. Gaza City was the first hit Tuesday night. Palestinian Red Crescent workers were filmed searching the rubble. One woman was carried out to the street on a stretcher. At a hospital in Han Yunus, the dead are unloaded, followed by a flood of grief. Two older women fold over a gurney grasping at a body wrapped in a white shroud.

U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking on board Air Force One, said the ceasefire is not at risk. They killed an Israeli soldier, so the Israelis hit back, and they should hit back. Johan Feldbaum, a 37-year-old reservist was killed in Rafa Tuesday, inside Israeli. held territory. It's the second deadly attack on Israelis in the South during the ceasefire. Hamas is accused in both attacks, but denies any involvement. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, Jerusalem. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in South Korea ahead of this week's opening of the APEC summit. The U.S. President Donald Trump has arrived as well, and he's preparing for a meeting tomorrow

with Chinese President Xi Jinping. That meeting will deal primarily with trade, but also the future of Taiwan. Chris Brown reports. Donald Trump landed in South Korea sounding upbeat. The President-Chief China is coming tomorrow here, and we're going to be, I hope, making a deal. I think we're going to have a deal. But the meeting has made many Taiwanese nervous, concerned Trump might trade away the island's security as part of that deal. Taiwan-U-S relations are very stable, said Taiwan's foreign minister, Lin-Chai Lai trying to quell some of the anxiety. By law, the U.S. is bound to give Taiwan weapons to help it defend itself, but Trump has been vague if the United States would actually come to Taiwan's aid

if China attacks. As with a lot of questions about President Trump's outlook, it's somewhat ambiguous. British military analyst Philip Shetler-Jones says while Trump has sent mixed signals, China has been pouring money into its military, especially naval and amphibious forces. Brown, CBC News, London. The Bank of Canada makes its October interest rate setting this morning, and another rate cut is expected. The bank trimmed its influential rate last month by a quarter point, dropping it down to 2.5%. It will also be releasing its first long-range economic forecast since January. Now to the Blue Jays and good news from Los Angeles.

In the air to left field, but Straw is there and the Blue Jays win it. That's a Blue Jays winning game four of the World Series last night, six to the final, and the series is now tied at two wins apiece. Among the highlights, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hitting a two-run homer off Shohei Otani in the third inning. So game five goes tonight again in Los Angeles, the J-start rookie Trey Yisavich. As for the Dodgers, it will be Blake Snell. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe.

Cummings.