World Report - October 22: Wednesday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

A BC-based crypto currency exchange is fined more than 177 million dollars for a raft of crimes, including money laundering.Prime Minister Mark Carney plans a live address to Canadians tonight.International Court of Justice delivers opinion on Israeli obligations on aid for Palestinian territories.Trump calls off a planned meeting with Vladimir Putin as the fighting in Ukraine rages on.The Louvre opens to tourists again, three days after the brazen theft of jewelry.Cheering for the Toronto Blue Jays can be a little complicated for people who fondly remember the Montreal Expos.Norway and Germany lobby Ottawa to choose European-built submarines instead of a rival company in South Korea.

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Marcia Young. Israel is condemning today's international court of justice decision. The UN's top legal body has delivered an advisory opinion stating Israel has an obligation to ensure the basic needs of Palestinian civilians and Gaza are being met. Judge Isawa Yuji is president of the court.

After examining the evidence, the court finds that the local population in Gaza Strip has been inadequately supplied within the meaning of Article 59 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. In such a situation, Israel, as an occupying power, is under an obligation to agree to and facilitate relief schemes under that provision. In December, the UN asked for the opinion of the ICJ on Israel's ban of UNRWA, the Palestinian Relief Agency. It is also rendering its decision on Israel's earlier embargo of humanitarian aid for Gaza. The message will be conveyed in the address. I don't want to scoop myself. Prime Minister Mark Carney heading to the House of Commons earlier this morning. Carney is getting ready to deliver a live address tonight from Ottawa.

Office is calling it a budget preview, and it is expected to prepare Canadians for what could be some difficult choices ahead. It will also be an attempt to convince the other parties to push through the minority government's fiscal roadmap. The CBC's Janice McGregor is in Ottawa. And Janice, how is Carney going to get this through a minority parliament? Marcia, government house leader Stephen McKinnon yesterday was criticizing the opposition for not being realistic and making what he called ludicrous, And when I see opposition parties not ruling out the possibility of voting for the budget, that's starting to worry me. It was no surprise to see the conservative leader call for tax cuts Monday.

And, you know, Mark Carney hasn't ruled out targeted tax measures, although liberals and conservatives aren't really looking at the same things. But Pierre Polyev's demand to hold the budget deficit to $42 billion at a time when the liberals are rolling out ambitious plans for defense spending, energy infrastructure, housing. That's the demand that seems most certain to be ignored. As is the list of demands the Black Quebecois laid out last week, including six non-negotiable priorities, that include more unconditional provincial transfers and a renewal of their demand to increase seniors' pensions.

The NDP, though, has been far less specific so far. Its interim leader, Don Davies, yesterday, denied that he's negotiating to leverage their seven votes. Well, those reports are 100% false, categorically untrue. There's been no discussions whatsoever with the government about exchanging anything with the government for our support for the budget. So it's simply not true. Instead, new Democrats say they're going to wait and analyze a budget when they see it.

Liberals are so close to having a majority, however, that a few strategic absences or abstentions may be all it takes to get this initial budget approved and, of course, avoid an election. Would anyone want an election? right now. Well, look, Polyev's in a much weaker position than he was a year ago. He no longer rides high in the polls. He's facing a leadership review from his party early next year. And our colleagues at Reggio Canada this morning are reporting he may be in for a rough caucus meeting because MPs are increasingly concerned that Polyev looks too much like someone obsessed with

fighting old battles from the Trudeau era. The Bocapecois, as activists that at the moment are much more focused on helping the party quebeco win power in the upcoming Quebec election. And New Democrats are unlikely to want to fight another campaign before picking a new leader. The Canadian Labor Congress hosting a forum tonight for the five candidates

approved to run in that race. Party members, though, don't vote until March. Thanks, Janice. You're welcome. The CBC's Janice McGregor in Ottawa. Germany and Norway are making a high-level pitch for Canada to join their submarine initiative. Their

defense ministers have been in Ottawa lobbying government officials to pick their multi-billion dollar program. They are up against a rival company from South Korea. But the European ministers say the decision is more about partnership than price. Murray Brewster explains. We can provide a very good submarine. Boris Pistorius, Germany's defense minister, doing his very best not to sound like a submarine salesman following two days of meetings with Canadian officials. Prime Minister Mark Carney, he is about to embark this week on a trip to the Indo-Pacific, where he'll be visiting South Korea's Hanwa Ocean Shipyard, the rival to German submarine maker, TKMS. More than two

decades ago, Germany helped South Korea get into the submarine building business. Now they're rivals. When it comes to the submarine cooperation with South Korea, this is a way things happen. I mean, we cooperate. They build excellent submarines. We build better ones. Both Pistorius and Norwegian Defence Minister Torr Sandvik took pains to say the potential partnership with Canada is about more than a submarine sales job. It's about maritime security in the North Atlantic, where Russia, despite its massive losses in Ukraine, is still active. That's another fleet is intact. They're testing new weapons, hypersonic. They're testing you torpedoes, nuclear driven, to threaten our allies, but also Norway. So for us to have strategic partnership with Germany, developing submarines, but also to invite Canada into this cooperation as partners is important.

Canada's Navy says both the German and South Korean submarines meet their requirements. A decision on which shipyard gets the contract could happen next year. Marie Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. A meeting is on hold between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump says he does not want the meeting to, quote, waste time. The two leaders were going to meet in Budapest in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, Ukraine and Russia launched more strikes overnight. Fire crews evacuate an apartment building in Japerisia.

Ukraine's president says the city was one of many targeted in Russian overnight assaults. Volodymyr Zelensky says at least six people were killed in attacks on residential buildings. buildings. Ukraine's military says it attacked a Russian chemical plant as well as an oil refinery and an ammunition plant. A cryptocurrency company is being hit with the largest penalty ever handed down by Canada's Financial Intelligence Unit. The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center will fine Zeltox enterprises nearly $177 million. The BC-based business also operates as Cryptimus. Fintrax

says the company committed several violations. They include transactions connected to trafficking material related to child sex abuse as well as fraud, ransomware, money laundering, and the evasion of sanctions. In Paris.

No one. No one is protected from these brutal criminals, not even Le Louvre. The director of the Louvre is being questioned by France's Senate Culture Committee today. She is being asked about security at the museum after it was robbed on Sunday. Today, people lined up bright and early as the Louvre reopened for the first time since the heist.

Thieves were able to get away with more than $142 million worth of jewels. So far, there have been no arrests. They're being called Canada's team, and baseball fans across the country are getting ready to watch the Toronto Blue Jays play. in the World Series. But in Montreal, Expos fans say it's complicated. Sarah Levitt has more. Gary Carter, the best...

One of Brian Blumer's bedrooms is a shrine to the Montreal Expos, covered in photos, jerseys, and hats. I used to go to 10 games a year, 11 QQ. I really honestly missed them. The Montreal Expos were Canada's first Major League baseball team. 1969 was their inaugural season. But it all ended in 2004, and Bloomer had to find himself a new team, the Toronto Blue Jays.

The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series. They're Canada's team now. You have to cheer for them where you live in Montreal, Vancouver, Alberta, or Saskatchewan. Not everybody agrees, including Noah Seidel. It's our birthright as Montrealers to hate Toronto sports teams. I mean, could you ever imagine a sports fan from Boston cheering for a team from New York? It doesn't make any sense. It goes deeper than that.

The emotions are felt perhaps more acutely with the newly released Netflix documentary Who Killed the Montreal Expos? Why? Why is that team gone? A complicated question with multiple suspects and no clear answer. Some fans, like David Winch, still hold a grudge against the Blue Jays

for voting in favor of eliminating the Expos. Very sadly, the Blue Jays as an organization through its president voted yes. Well, come on. There was the Expos that introduced Major League Baseball to Canada. Something many Expos fans won't soon forgive, even if the Jays are in the World Series. Sarah Levitt, CBC News, Montreal.

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