The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/30 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/30 at 21:00 EDT

The spirit of innovation is deeply ingrained in Canada, and Google is helping Canadians innovate in ways both big and small, from mapping accessible spaces so the disabled community can explore with confidence, to unlocking billions in domestic tourism revenue. Thousands of Canadian companies are innovating with Google AI. Innovation is Canada's story. Let's tell it together. Find out more at g.co slash Canadian Innovation. from cbc news the world this hour i'm mike miles king charles has stripped prince andrew of his royal title

he'll now be known as andrew mountbatten windsor the decision comes and made a increased scrutiny of andrews's ties to convicted sex offender geoffrey upstein and a cunningham has more the king will have considered all advice but this is radical action by the monarch without historical press incident. Prince Andrew's links to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and repeated allegations published in a posthumous biography by Virginia Dufre have caused mounting reputational damage to the royal family. It is peak humiliation for the king's brother, born a prince, who will now be known simply as Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. The palace says this has been deemed necessary, adding that Andrew continues to deny the allegations against him.

He has agreed to move out of his Royal Lodge home in Windsor. His daughters will remain princesses and any future accommodation for Andrew will be privately funded by the King. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. The Canadian Armed Forces officially apologised today for the service's history of racism and discrimination. Chief of the Defence Staff General Jenny Karinan

teared up as she delivered an emotional speech, apologising to every Armed Forces member past and present, who experienced discrimination. On behalf of the Canadian Armed Forces, I offer my most sincere and deepest apologies. And I acknowledge we failed you. Corinan renewed the force's commitment to address biases at every level of the military service,

and that will include ensuring an awareness of systemic racism in recruitment and training. Ottawa is giving Caribbean countries $7 million. in humanitarian aid following Hurricane Melissa. Foreign Affairs Minister, Anita Anand. We, of course, are standing ready 24-7 to assist in ways that are requested. The Category 5 storm ravaged much of Jamaica. Cruiser clearing roads for emergency vehicles and evacuating residents still in danger.

Jamaican information minister Dana Moore says at least five people are dead, and there could well be more. We get a lot of reports. about potential bodies. We're not sure. They have to verify this. And so we have a helicopter that's been dedicated that is going to be doing that really, really very difficult work. Melissa is currently a category one storm heading for Bermuda. The United Nations Security Council is condemning a bloody assault by paramilitary forces in Sudan. Medics say 1,500 people have been killed since the rapid support forces besieged the city of Al Fasher last weekend.

That includes the massacre of hundreds of people at a hospital, also used as a shelter. Martha Pobie, with the UN Department, rather, of peace-building affairs, says no one in Elfeshire is safe. The situation is simply horrifying. The human cost is profound. The risk of mass atrocities, ethnically targeted violence, and further violations of international humanitarian law, remains alarmingly high. Since April 2023, the RSF has fought against the Sudanese armed forces. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and some 14 million have been displaced due to the conflict.

The man convicted of stealing a Yusuf Karsh portrait of Winston Churchill from the Chateau-Laurier in Ottawa has lost his appeal of his sentence. Jeff Wood pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years less a day. His lawyer appealed calling the sentence unnecessarily harsh. but the Ontario Court of Appeal rejected that bid. Wood's lawyer says they'll take it to the Supreme Court next. The Toronto Blue Jays flew back to Toronto overnight with the wind in their sales. The team, one win away from winning the World Series,

after defeating the L.A. Dodgers last night and taking a three games to two lead. Game six goes tomorrow night, and if needed, game seven will be Saturday night. The last time the Jays won a World Series was back in 1993. That is your world this hour for CBC News. I'm Mike Miles.