World Report - October 17: Friday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: October 17, 2025

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to ask for more US firepower against Russia during Washington meeting with Donald Trump.John Bolton, Trump's ex-national security adviser, charged in classified information probe.UK prime minister, Keir Starmer slams decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from match.Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to tour a border facility near Niagara Falls as Ottawa plans to announce new border security measures.Former Hockey Canada goaltender Carter Hart as is returning to the NHL after his acquittal of sexual assaultDrama on the mound in Game 4 as Blue Jays pitcher, Max Scherzer, refuses to leave the game, setting the stage for Game 5.

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This is World Report. Good morning. I'm John Northcott. Ukrainian president of Vladimir Zelensky may be forced to duck after he was thrown a curveball ahead of today's meeting with Donald Trump in Washington. The U.S. president says that he made, quote, great progress in a phone call yesterday with Zelensky's foe. Vladimir Putin, Zelenskyy is expected to make a pitch

for American Tomahawk cruise missiles. But after that call with the Russian president, getting Trump to agree may be difficult. Mike Crawley has more. Tomahawk is a vicious weapon. Donald Trump's meeting with the Ukrainian leader comes a day after the U.S. president spoke with Russia's Vladimir Putin.

I did actually say, would you mind if I gave a couple of thousand tomahawks to your opposition? I did say that to him. I said it just that way. He didn't like the idea. This is part of Trump's newest push to try to bring an end to Russia. his war against Ukraine, a conflict he long said he would solve on his first day back in office.

I thought this would be very quick. Who would think I did Middle East before I did this? Trump's role in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza has launched a narrative that he could replicate that success in Ukraine, but experts say the two wars have no real parallels. We are talking about very different types of conflicts. Maria Snegovaya is with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington. Trump's ability to exert pressure on Israel obviously is much, much higher than the one he's able to exert on Russia. Charles Kupchen is a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University. The U.S. is Israel's main backer, provides diplomatic support, economic support,

military support, technological cooperation. None of that exists between the United States and Russia. After today's meeting with Vladimir Zelensky, Trump says he plans to meet Putin in Hungary in a couple of weeks. Mike Crawley. CBC News, Washington. Donald Trump's former, rather, national security advisor surrenders to U.S. Marshals.

Ambassador Bolton, do you have any comments, sir? We wrote your statement last night. Any comment? John Bolton did not speak to reporters as he arrived at a federal courthouse in Maryland. He was indicted yesterday on 18 charges of mishandling

classified information. Bolton served as advisor during Trump's first administration, but later became a vocal critic after a falling out with the president. Bolton is the third Trump adversary to be indicted, critics accuse the present of weaponizing the justice system against those who have opposed him. As funerals continue for the deceased Israeli hostages recently handed over by Hamas, officials say the group isn't doing enough to return the rest of the bodies. Israel has threatened to reduce aid alarming humanitarian agencies, while the U.N. says it's seeing an increase of aid trucks entering Gaza.

It is urging a further increase in an opening of all crossings. Stuart has more. The white sands of Israel's Dekim Beach stand in stark contrast to what's on the other side of a wire barrier, the gray ruins of Gaza. Israel has just reopened this beach where 17 civilians were killed in the October 7th attacks. A resident from Storot, who only gave her first name, Shirel, said she has very mixed feelings about being here. I'm now here. I'm safe. I know that I'm safe.

but it's hard because I know people were killed over here. Just south of the beach is a border crossing into Gaza, which remains closed. The UN says aid is only being permitted to enter at two of the six crossings. We've been begging to get this access, begging to get the trucks moving at scale. Tom Fletcher is the UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief and says trucks are on the move now, but thousands need to enter a week. Palestinians on the other side of the gate to know that we're coming and we're coming in force. The Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza remains closed.

Israel says it will probably open on Sunday but just for the passage of people. Mostly those who've been injured and need medical treatment abroad. People like Mohamed Abu Nasr, who was injured in May, 2024. My condition is getting worse every day. I have severed nerves and severed. attendance. According to the World Health Organization, Nassar is one of more than 15,000 Gazans who are waiting for medical evacuation. Breyer-Stewart, CBC News, Zakeem Israel. The conflict in Gaza is spilling onto the soccer pitches of Britain. Fans of an Israeli team

from Tel Aviv are being banned from attending a November match in Birmingham. Officials say their presence is too risky. That decision facing harsh criticism, including from the UK Prime Minister, Anna Cunningham is more from London. British police say this decision to ban fans of the Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv was taken due to public safety concerns and previous incidents including violent clashes in Amsterdam involving local and Maccabi Tel Aviv fans. Dal Babu is a former metropolitan police superintendent.

Police would base their decisions on the intelligence. He says, adding they should be trusted. This week saw protests that the Israel national teams World Cup qualifiers against Norway and Italy, with police using tear gas on demonstrators and pro-Palestinian crowds in both Oslo and Udine. Birmingham, the home of Aston Villa, is a city with a large Muslim population. There's a sentiment that people have, particularly around Gaza, is very strong, says Babu. And usually, the British Prime Minister Kirstama has stepped in, saying we will not tolerate

anti-Semitism on our streets. The CEO of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Jack Angolidas, says he is concerned about what it signals. Of course, there are elements in all clubs that misbehave, but to paint in a broad brush, the behaviour of hue to all is just, you know, unfair. Local MP Ayub Khan in Birmingham welcomes the decision to ban fans. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to decipher which are the fans that are not going to cause problems vis-à-vis those that will. But with a decision about soccer now entering the world of politics,

there are calls for the move to be reviewed. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. New federal measures to strengthen border security are set to be announced this morning. Prime Minister Mark Carney was in the Niagara region in southern Ontario today, scheduled to tour a border crossing facility. The Liberal government proposed new legislation

aimed at border security last week. The CBC's Janice McGregor has been following all of this force. Janice, what more does? the feds plan to announce. John, as the Prime Minister and other ministers fan out this morning to talk about border security, they're facing tough questions about why the liberals

have been struggling on this file. The first legislation that Mark Carney's government introduced last spring was that major border bill, but it couldn't find enough support to go anywhere in the minority parliament. So, some controversial parts have been stripped out. A do-over

bill was introduced last week. The liberals call this new version streamlined, but it's still trying to execute the stronger border that Canada promised the Trump administration. It would deliver. It would still change the Customs Act to give border services agencies more powers to inspect facilities, intercept, confiscate illegal drugs or weapons or stolen cars. But the changes it makes to the asylum system, new eligibility rules, the powers to cancel, suspend, change immigration documents, or cancel or stop accepting new applications altogether. The legislation gives the government fairly sweeping new powers for how it handles foreign nationals at its border.

And refugee advocates continue to be alarmed. Janice, the Fed's pledged to put a thousand more officers on the border, but the public safety minister recently admitted that the new agents are yet to be hired. What's going on? The government seems to be really struggling to keep this promise. Conservatives in particular have been putting the public safety minister under a lot of pressure in question period in Act Committee, suggesting that, in fact, there's scant evidence of any kind of a surge in human resources at the border. At committee last week, senior officials said their current training

facility only actually has the capacity to train a couple hundred people at a time, but that a new cohort of about 400 is on its way, and we'll see what next month's budget holds to cover the additional cost of these promises, which could run into the billion-dollar range. CBC's Janice McGregor. Thanks, Janice. you're welcome and finally some drama from the Blue Jays

8-2 win last night that tied the ALCS Max sure doesn't think he's coming out there to say you get one more hitter it happened in the fifth inning manager John Snyder jogged to the mound

to pull veteran ace Max Scherzer but Scherzer known as Mad Max simply wasn't having it he just glared down his skipper and refused to leave the game Snyder who let him stay in and was rewarded with the crucial out, later described the confrontation.

I thought he was going to kill me. It was great. You know, he locked eyes with me, you know, both colors as I walked out. Snyder has one blue eye and one brown. The drama setting the stage for Game 5 tonight. Well, I won't back down. No, I won't back down.

And that is the latest national, and international news from World Report. I'm John Northcott. This is CBC News.