World Report - October 13: Monday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

Israeli military says the last 20 living hostages have been freed by Hamas. Buses carrying hundreds of freed Palestinians arrive in West Bank. US President Donald Trump tells Israeli lawmakers their country has nothing more to achieve on the battlefield.  US President Donald Trump threatens to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if Russia does not agree to end war soon. World Health Organization says 1/6 laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections are now resistant to antibiotics. Hospitals in the Democratic Republic of Congo are facing severe medical supply shortages, amid clashes between Congolese forces and M23 rebels. Canadian Peter Howitt among 3 researchers awarded the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Seniors in Montreal are learning French thanks to a special program that takes them outside the classroom. 

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Ithel Musa. U.S. President Donald Trump is in Sharma, Elshake, Egypt, to continue his push for a lasting peace plan in Gaza. This is not only the end of a war. This is the end of the age of terror and death,

the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God. This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East. Earlier this morning, Trump told Israeli politicians their country has nothing left to achieve on the battlefield. He received a standing ovation at the Knesset. Just hours after the remaining living Israeli hostages were released by Hamas and hundreds of Palestinians were freed from Israeli jails. The CBC's Breyer Stewart in Jerusalem has more.

Across Israel jubilation, people watched with tears in their eyes as 20 hostages were released and started to be reunited with their family members. Some even received a call moments before. They spoke on video call with their families as Hamas militants stood beside them. The remains of an estimated 28 will start to be returned to Israel this afternoon. Around 2,000 Palestinians are now being released from Israeli jails. The vast majority were detained without charge after the war in Gaza began. About 250 of those being released were serving life sentences for serious offences,

and more than half of them will not be returned to the occupied Palestinian territories. Instead, they will be sent into exile. Before U.S. President Donald Trump arrived to speak to Israel's parliament, red baseball caps referring to him as a peace president were handed out in the Knesset. He proclaimed that it was a beautiful day and that the war is over. In Jerusalem, Kerry Fried says she's no fan of Trump,

but gives him credit. Credit for today and for making it happen. I think he's taking an early victory lap. We're not there yet. No Israelis fooling themselves. We don't believe the war is over. Trump and Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyah, who held a phone.

call with Egyptian President Abdel Fatal Sisi. Netanyahu was invited to join other world leaders at a summit to discuss the specifics of how to make this a durable peace. But Netanyahu's office says he will not be going because it was too close to the start of a Jewish holiday. Breyer Stewart, CBC News, Jerusalem. Trump says peace in the Middle East is not his only objective. He still wants Russia's invasion of Ukraine to end. And to make that, happened, Trump says he may send Ukraine long-range tomahawk missiles. As Julia Chapman reports, the Kremlin is warning that could escalate the war. The Tomahawk is an incredible weapon, very offensive weapon. Ukraine's leaders have been asking the U.S. for more powerful long-range weapons.

Tomahawks would give them the ability to strike Moscow. Donald Trump says he might use the threat of the cruise missiles as leverage over Russia. I might say, look, if this war's not going to get settled, I'm going to send them Tomahawks. I may say that. Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Paskov, says sending Tomahawks to Ukraine would be an escalation. But he insists they would not change the dynamic on the front lines. Some Tomahawks are nuclear capable. Russia's former Prime Minister, Dmitri Medvedev, says it's not possible to know when they are

carrying a nuclear warhead, and the result could be bad for everyone. Ukrainian cities are regularly targeted by Russian strikes. Kiev says in the past week alone, Moscow launched more than 3,100 drones, 92 missiles, and 1,360 glide bombs. It wants to use Tomahawk missiles as a deterrent. Volodymyr Zelensky has promised only to use them on military. He cites. He says pressure on Russia can lead to peace. Julia Chapman, CBC News, London.

The World Health Organization is calling for antibiotics to be used more responsibly. It says one in six laboratory confirmed bacterial infections are now resistant to antibiotics. And that means resistance is outpacing modern medicine. The WHO says a big part of the problem is humans misusing and overusing antibiotics to control infections. Globally, resistance to antibiotics directly accounts for more than one million deaths annually. Clashes between government forces and a rebel group are flaring up in the Democratic Republic of Congo and medical facilities are being flooded with injured people. But the Red Cross says doctors are struggling to provide adequate treatment because of a severe

shortage of supplies. Chris Ocumringa in Kinshasa. has more. Health workers in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo provide care to the sick and war-wounded under difficult circumstances. Renewed fighting between government forces and the M23 rebel group has led to the looting of many facilities

and forced some medical staff to flee. A recent survey by the International Committee of the Red Cross found most of the facilities are facing shortages of medicines. Francois Morayon is the head of the aid agency in the DRC. He says 85% of the health structures that we evaluated have run out of medicines that are very crucial for taking care of the sick and injured people. The ongoing fighting is in violation of a ceasefire mediated by Qatar in July.

Josue Cabanza is a human rights campaigner. He condemns the violence. He says the situation has exposed pregnant women, children and the elderly to suffering and made them pay a heavy price in this crisis. The M23 rebels say they are fighting to protect ethnic tootses from a rival-hutu militia backed by the DRC government. The government denies the claim and accuses Rwanda of backing the rebels to exploit its mineral wealth. The fighting has left thousands of people dead and displayed. based tens of thousands of others since the beginning of this year.

Chris Ochamringa for CBC News in Kinshasa. A Canadian is among this year's winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Peter Howitt and his fellow researchers are credited with explaining how economies grow through cycles of innovation. The Nobel Committee says this year's prize is all about sustained economic growth. Change, not stagnation, has become. the new normal. What conflicts arise in a society when new products and production methods replace the old ones? How should policy be devised so that societies do not fall back into

stagnation? How it works out of Brown University in the United States, but he was born in Canada and studied at Western University and McGill. A group of seniors in Montreal is proving it's never too late to pick up French, and they don't need to be in a classroom to learn. The CBC's Gloria Henriquez brings us that story. One of Witte smiles after she successfully orders her breakfast crepes with blueberries and French, a new milestone at 85 years young. I'm learning slowly, but I just enjoy it so much. Witty is taking part in a novel way of learning French outside of the classroom.

We learn together as a group, which is wonderful, and we laugh at our mistakes, you know, and so we don't feel any pressure. Statistics Canada says about 5.3% of Quebec's population can speak English but no French. The fast-track French language support for seniors program is taught at Montreal's La Salle D&D 50 Plus Center. Diane Dunin is the center's vice president. So we have different scenarios that we play. out. She says they'll first practice at the center. We practice the basics of ordering breakfast or the basics of doing groceries. And then participants go out to experience those very scenarios in real life, just like they're doing at Petler's restaurant.

Sylvie Boudreau waited on the group. At the end of the exercise, she says, pretty much everyone did great. Yeah, I won't give them a tan, but I'll give them a nine. So they come back. They will come back. Just to see me. An overall success. Oh, yes, thank you. Proof in the pudding that it's never too late to learn something new. Florianrique's CBC News, Montreal. And that is the latest national and international news from World Report.

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