World Report - October 25: Saturday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: October 25, 2025

Celebrations across Canada as Blue Jays dominate L.A. Dodgers in 11-4 victory.Trump: "I don't have any intention" of meeting prime minister Carney at ASEAN summit following termination of trade talks.U.S. escalates war rhetoric by sending anti aircraft career to Latin American waters.Police in UK on a manhunt after jailed asylum seeker was mistakenly released.John Northcott brings you slices of life from St. John's this weekend.

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm John Northcott in St. John's, where Newfoundland and Labrador, in particular, because of their time zone, has some Blue Jays fans waking up tired but happy this morning after staying up to watch the big game and what a game it was. The Toronto Blue Jays opening up the World Series on an ultimate high, an 11 to 4 win, over the defending champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers. The CBC's Jamie Strassion has the story. And the Blue Jays in resounding fashion to game one.

Playing the first World Series game in Canada in more than 30 years, the Blue Jays marked the occasion with an offensive explosion, highlighted by a nine-run sixth inning on their way to an 11-4 victory. A high drive to deep right-setter field. It is gone. The knockout blowaway pinch hit Grand Slam by Addison Barger, the first ever in World Series history, Blue Jay's manager, John Schneider. Crowd was electric tonight. They've been waiting a long time for a World Series to come back here, and I hope that they're just as loud, if not louder, tomorrow. It's not very often you get a feeling like we had in game seven or tonight in the sixth inning.

You can't take it for granted. This is a special place to play. Alejandro Kirk and Dalton Varshow also added home runs. Rookie Sensation Trey Yassavage started the game for the Jays, just his seventh start in the big leagues. The 22-year-old wasn't as sharp as he has been this postseason, only lasting four innings, but he did enjoy his teammates' huge inning after he left the game. I had some other pitchers in there with me, and we were jumping all around, high-fiving every time. It was great to see the offense rolling one through nine. Long-time Blue Jay manager Cito Gaston, who led Toronto to its only two World Series wins in 1992 and

1993 throughout the first pitch. Game two goes Saturday night in Toronto. Jamie Strachan, CBC News, Toronto. I've always been a J's fan, always believed that they could make it. I've always wrote it for them. No matter how far down they went, it doesn't matter. Jay's fan at heart always will be. It doesn't matter if we're in St. John's Newfoundland or you're in Toronto or you're in British Columbia. I think everyone's got something to rally behind and it's really exciting and positive energy. That's what fans in this part of the country have to.

say about the Jays, but as you just heard, baseball fever is gripping us from coast to coast to coast. The CBC's Dan Bird has more from a watch party on the West Coast in Vancouver. Let's go, Blue Jays! Ravi Sharma,

visiting from Toronto, led the victory cheers in Vancouver. While his family ate dinner in a booth, Charma didn't sit down for five innings, pacing nervously between sips of beer. The Dodgers have been dominant. My God, for the last year or so, so Then getting down one is amazing for us.

Michaela Gordon brought her sons to watch the game. Three-year-old Wyatt and five-and-a-half-month-old Hudson. Jay's Blue under his bid. I think I'm a Trey Savage fan because I saw his first game. Plus, he was a draft pick, so he'll be with the league for a while. My kids will grow up with him as well. Nicole and Alan McAndrew live in the Okanagan and are ready for another Jay's World Series title after 32 years.

It's just so positive with their resilience and team. There's no one guy. All the players say we're playing for Canada. Game two goes Saturday night in Toronto. Dan Burritt, CBC News, Vancouver. In non-baseball news, Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Asia this morning. He's expected to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or Assean Summit, which begins tomorrow. Also attending U.S. President Donald Trump.

Will you mean with Prime Minister Carney during this trip? I don't have any attention over now. Trump's speaking. As he left the White House for Asia, saying he has no intention of meeting with Prime Minister Carney. This, after Trump terminated trade talks with Canada, angered by a TV ad paid for by the government of Ontario, featuring an address by former President Ronald Reagan speaking out against tariffs. Canada lied. I mean, what they did was terrible. They made up a fake statement by President Reagan. Reagan was a big supporter of tariffs when needed. And we need tariffs.

for national security, and they totally turned it around because they're getting hurt by tariffs and we're gaining by tariffs. To her, Premier Doug Ford says he will now have the ad pulled on Monday after airing it during this weekend's World Series games. The U.S. is ratcheting up its fight and its rhetoric against so-called narco-terrorists. Its military has launched multiple attacks on boats suspected of trafficking drugs just in the past week, And since September, at least 43 people have been killed in those strikes. Mandy Sham reports.

We're going to kill them, you know, they're going to be like dead. U.S. President Donald Trump says his directive is clear as day. Stop the flow of illegal drugs and kill those who supply it. They're trying to, and they are killing and poisoning the American people. Defense Secretary Pete Higsef accuses drug smugglers of being the, quote, Al-Qaeda of our hemisphere. On Friday, the Pentagon dispatched the world's old. a largest aircraft carrier to the Caribbean region,

saying it will bolster U.S. abilities to dismantle cartels. Jamil Jaffer is the founder of the National Security Institute. He says the Trump administration justifies its position by suggesting Venezuela is not only incapable of stopping the flow of drugs, but that it is actively complicit. This country and others have indicated their authority and their belief they have a self-defense right to not only go in international waters, but to even go into other countries' borders and take action.

Intervention could be imminent with a massive buildup of U.S. forces in the region and the CIA authorized to take action in Venezuela. Independent experts for the United Nations say such actions violate the U.N. Charter. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaking in English had this plea. Peace forever. Both Venezuela and neighboring Colombia have condemned the strikes as extrajudicial executions. The White House has provided few. details about its attacks, including evidence the boats it targeted were carrying drugs. Mandy Sham, CBC News, Toronto.

Police in the UK are searching for a convicted sex offender after he was accidentally released from prison early. The man, an asylum seeker, had been convicted of two sexual assaults and was set to be deported. His criminal history sparked massive anti-immigrant protests across England. The CBC's Julia Chapman has the latest from London. Hadouche-Cabatou arrived on British source. in a small boat in July. An Ethiopian national, he applied for asylum here. While that claim was being processed, he sexually assaulted a woman and a 14-year-old girl.

That led to protests outside the hotel where he was housed. Similar demonstrations followed around the country. This is something that we don't want to see rising up again. Neil Hudson is the MP for Epping outside London, where the incident happened. We've had twice weekly protests in the town for weeks and weeks and weeks. Some of these protests became violent. Kibatu was due to be deported next week. Instead, the prison released him.

It says it was an operational error. He was last seen yesterday boarding a train heading for London. John Podmore is a former prison inspector. This is what happens in a broken system. And this is a symptom of a wider failure in the prison of the problem. Service. The Ministry of Justice says this is a rare error and an officer has been removed from duty while investigations take place. But in March, the number of accidental releases in England and Wales doubled over the previous year. Prime Minister Kier-Starmer says he is appalled by the

incident. Opposition leader Kemi Badenock calls it a level of incompetence that beggars belief. Julia Chapman, CBC News, London. And finally. So they're out there now in the midst of a big racket in the parking lot. What? Blood, new recruits, let's go get him. Well, if we make it through this one. A big night in St. John's tonight.

The iconic comedy troop Codco are holding a reunion. They help spawn so many other Newfoundland comedy legends. This hour is 22 minutes. Rick Mercer, Johnny Harris. News of the Codco reunion saw tickets sell out in minutes. They'll be joined on stage by another legend, Buddy What's His Name, whose real name is Kevin Blackmore. we asked him, why does so much comedy come out of this part of the country?

What odds, Gene? Yeah. Well, how do you define what odds? What odds is there are no real consequences. Life is but a game. We fly our paper plane. There is no end kind of thing. And Newfoundlanders tend to feel that way about everything.

So consequences are not real. All that tonight, and another sold-out matinee tomorrow afternoon, including musical performers like Peter Youngtree and Carol B. And she gave that cash right to Sally Hay. And that is the latest national and international news from World Report. From St. John's, Newfoundland, Labrador. I'm John Northcott. Thanks for spending part of your weekend with us here at C. For more CBC News.