The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/11 at 06:00 EST

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/11 at 06:00 EST

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We'd love to talk, business. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Pepp Philpott. U.S. senators have voted to end the longest government shutdown in Washington's history. On this vote, the eyes are 60, the nays are 40. The bill, as amended, is passed. Last night, eight Democrats sided with Republicans to end the 41-day stalemate. The bill extends funding for the federal government until January. January 30th. But it fails to meet the key Democrat demand, which is the extension of health care subsidies. Voting on that has been pushed to December. Republican Senator Susan Collins

describes the bill as a victory for the American people. We are going to reopen government. We're going to ensure that federal employees, whether they were furloughed or laid off or forced to work without pay, will now receive compensation. that they've earned and deserve. The bill now heads to the House, which needs to pass it before President Donald Trump signs it into law. India's Prime Minister says those who carried out Monday's deadly blast in Delhi

will not be spared. In his first public remarks since the explosion, Naranram Modi is describing the incident as a conspiracy. Officials have not confirmed who or what caused the explosion, but they are investigating under an anti-terrorism law. At least eight people were killed and 20 others injured when a car blew up near the landmark Red Fort. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is hosting her G7 counterports

in Ontario's Niagara region over the next two days. Topping the agenda is the Russia-Ukraine war. But as Rafi Buziqanian reports, Canada may find it challenging to ensure. It turned itself into discussions. Look at the damage that Russia-Ukraine has done to us as a country. U.S. President Donald Trump once again saying he would end the nearly four-year-old conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will be part of the G7 Foreign Affairs Ministers' meeting in Niagara on the lake on Tuesday and Wednesday,

where discussing a peaceful resolution to the war is on the agenda. Dane Rowland says that could be a challenge. The Canadian position and the European position has been pretty clear all along. Rollins teaches international affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. They're there to try to support Ukraine as much as they can, and they are in favor of an arrangement that Ukraine approves. Whereas the U.S., he says, has been more fickle. Sometimes they seem to favor Russia. Sometimes they seem to be more sympathetic to Ukraine.

Other items on the agenda over the next two days, maritime in Arctic security, as well as the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza. Rafi Wiggen, Yon CBC News, Arwa. Today is Remembrance Day and some high school students in Nova Scotia have found a powerful way to honour the soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Selina Alders reports. 3,806 poppy petals form the Canadian flag.

On each pedal is the name of a Nova Scotian soldier who died serving in the Second World War. But for the students at Islandview High School in the Eastern Passage who worked on the art project, the meaning behind it hits close to home. The students gathered for a Remembrance Day ceremony and to display the poppies. Many of them come from military families, their school just minutes away from 12-winged Shearwater, one of Canada's oldest air bases. Student Elizabeth Brown says writing out each soldier's name by hand made her appreciate their sacrifice even more.

They sacrificed their lives. They left their families for us. us. In the small military community, this school project was a lesson in history, but also a symbol of gratitude crafted by Canada's next generation. Selina Alders, CBC News, Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia. CBC Radio will broadcast special coverage today of the National Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa. It starts at 10.55 a.m. local time in much of the country, 1155, Atlantic, 1225 in Newfoundland. That's your world this hour. I'm Pep Philpott.