The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/30 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/30 at 23:00 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.

U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping met in South Korea to talk trade. Their first face-to-face meeting since 2019 could be a turning point in a tense relationship. Lisa Xing has more. Mr. President, the President of the People's Republic of China. The U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. shook hands and smiled for the cameras. This face-to-face was the first of Trump's second term. It's a great pleasure to see you again. I hope to see you again.

The relationship has been tense, especially as Trump levied tariffs on the world, some of the highest on China. But Beijing hit back hard. It stopped buying U.S. soybeans in the spring and expanded export restrictions on rare earth minerals. John Zin is the former China Director for the U.S. National Security Council. Beijing has demonstrated that it has leverage over us. To that point, she agreed to keep rare earth exports flowing for at least the next year, start buying soybeans from the U.S. again, and crackdown on the export of chemicals used to make fentanyl.

In exchange for Trump shaving off 10% on Chinese exports to the states. Lisa Xing, CBC News, Toronto. Prince Andrew will no longer be addressed as Prince. King Charles issued a statement saying his brother will, from now on, be known as Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor. Andrew had already been stripped of his titles, including Duke of York. The statement goes on to say he'll be moving out of Royal Lodge on the grounds of Wooden Desert Castle and into private accommodation.

Border officials in BC are releasing details of a recent seizure from China. They recovered hundreds of liters of chemicals used to produce fentanyl and other drugs. Michelle Gomez reports. 4,300 liters of chemicals used to make drugs like fentanyl and GHB. also known as date rape drug. That's what border officials found in a shipping container in Delta in May. The federal government says the containers came to B.C. from China and were headed to Calgary. Neil Boyd is a criminology professor at SFU.

He calls the Cs significant. Treatment and prevention and harm reduction are also other variables that we want to look at, but we shouldn't lose sight of the importance of the police action. He says while enforcement is important, it can be very difficult to shut down, these intricate crime networks. To be able to interrupt their activity when they have some of the advantages that exist in the digital world and some of the protections, if you like, in law, that's a very difficult hurdle to overcome.

The Canadian Border Services Agency says the investigation is ongoing. Michelle Gomez, CBC News, Vancouver. Nunavut's leaders are calling on the federal government to include four Inuit-lead projects in its national infrastructure priorities. Paul Aaron Gout is vice president of Nunavut-Tunovic Incorporated. He says the projects are essential to both Nunavut's future and Canada's Arctic sovereignty and security. Together with the government of Nunavut,

we have laid out four shovel-ready projects that will give Canada the Arctic presence it talks about. These are not just abstract projects. They are lifelines. Those four projects include a safe, Harbor, Clean Power and a Caliote, a hydrofiber link that will connect Nunavut to southern Canada, and a year-round road and port. An Ontario man who stole a famed portrait of Sir Winston Churchill from Ottawa's Chateau-Laurier has lost an appeal of a sentence. The portrait of the British

Prime Minister disappeared sometime between Christmas 2021 and January 2022. It was tracked down last summer. In May, Jeffrey Wood pleaded Guilteen was sentenced to two years less a day. He learned Thursday his appeal was unsuccessful. His lawyer, Lawrence Greenspont, said Wood should not be in jail. In the circumstances, it's a property offense. Mr. Wood is a first-time offender. And these are perfect circumstances for which the trial judge should have considered a conditional sentence order or what's commonly referred to as house arrest. Greenspon says they'll now try to appeal to the Supreme Court. That is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.