World Report - October 30: Thursday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

US President Donald Trump says a rare earth minerals deal is reached with China after meeting with President Xi Jinping.Prime Minister Mark Carney tours Hanwha's brand new KSS-3 submarine, one of the models being considered to replace Canada's aging fleet. Hurricane Melissa churns towards Bermuda as Category 1 storm. Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti clean up. 5 more suspects arrested in connection with the Louvre Museum heist.Critics say new made-in-Moscow app censors Russian access to the rest of the world online. Mexico tries new strategy to find the tens of thousands of missing people in the country.

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Arcia Young. U.S. President Donald Trump says he has struck a deal with China. Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea before hopping onto Air Force One to fly home. Trump says the pair reached common grounds on many issues,

including rare earth minerals. Willie Lowry is following along in Washington. Washington. And Willie, what more can you tell us? This meeting really ended in a daint with both sides easing restrictions and making some concessions. President Donald Trump described the nearly two-hour meeting as great, while Chinese President Xi Jinping called it warm. No blockbuster deal was signed, but the pieces appear to be falling into place. The U.S. agreed to lower tariffs on Chinese goods from 57% to 47%. Remember, at one point, they were as high as 145%.

In return, China will delay curbing exports of rare earth minerals, something the U.S. desperately needs. China possesses rare earth minerals that are used in cell phones, fighter jets, and a host of other critical and everyday items. According to Trump, once the deal is finalized, it will be renewed on an annual basis, and the president expressed optimism that it would endure for years to come. What else did they discuss? The meeting covered a lot of territory, two areas of significance, fentanyl and soybeans. Washington has long accused China of providing precursor drugs that are used in the production of fentanyl. Trump says she agreed to work on it.

On fentanyl, we agreed that he was going to work very hard to stop the flow. It's a very complex subject because it's used for lots of different reasons, including. anesthetics. On soybeans, she agreed to start buying American soybeans again. In 2024, China purchased nearly $13 billion worth of soybeans from American farmers. But in response to President Trump's tariffs, halted all purchases. A huge blow to the U.S. agricultural sector. Trump said that China has agreed to buy massive amounts of the bean.

The question now is whether it will return to the same level. of pre-tariff purchases. Thank you, Willie. My pleasure. Willie Lowry, reporting from Washington. New submarines are a crucial part of Canada's strategy to assert its sovereignty and boost defense spending as South Korean company is being considered

as a possible manufacturer of those subs. Today, Prime Minister Mark Carney got a closer look at the operation. He's in South Korea for the APEC summit. The CBC's Murray Brewster has the details. The Prime Minister was given a tour of a brand new KSS3 submarine, built for the Korean Navy, launched a few days ago. The kind Hanwa Ocean wants to sell to Canada. The company has been fairly aggressive. It got to be one of the two preferred bidders by submitting a detailed $20 to $24 billion unsolicited proposal to the federal government just before last spring's election.

South Korea put political weight behind the bid. The country's Prime Minister accompanied Mark Carney on the visit to the sprawling naval facility. There's one submarine in the water, and today it was flying a Canadian flag. Another is up on the skids in a construction shed. It's a not-so-sustle demonstration by the Koreans that their production lines are active, and they can deliver four submarines to Canada by 2035, the Navy's deadline to retire the old Victoria-class boats. Carney's visit is also significant because it's a sign the federal government wants to move swiftly towards a decision.

The Prime Minister visited the other shipyard in the race, Germany's TKMS, in August. He got to see an older version of the submarine that company wants to sell. It is possible the decision on which bid to accept could come next year. Marie Brewster, CBC News, Koje, South Korea. Hurricane Melissa is now churning towards Bermuda. It is a weaker Category 1 storm, but officials are warning the wind and rain will be severe enough to do considerable damage. I'm just clean it out, yeah, clean it out right, and.

Yeah. Are you doing eat anything yet? So I just want to forget things to come back to now, man. And Jamaica people are just starting to dig out of the mess. The storm left behind. Melissa was a category five storm when it slammed into the island on Tuesday. It knocked out power to three quarters of the island. U.S. forecaster, Accuweather, estimates the storm cost $22 billion in Jamaica alone. And in Haiti, the hurricane had a severe human cost. At least 25 people were. killed. Eighteen others are missing. Police in France arrested five more suspects in connection with the Louvre Museum heist, but the stolen treasures are still missing. Police say they found DNA evidence of one of the suspects at the crime scene. Nearly two weeks ago, thieves ran off with over $100 million in jewelry from the museum. The daylight robbery happened minutes after the Louvre opened for the day. Over the past three and a half years,

Russia wages war on Ukraine. It's been rolling out restrictions at home. It's blocking some websites and apps. Last month, it introduced a made-in-Moscow platform called Max. The phone app has to be installed on any new phone sold in Russia. As Breyer-Stewart tells us, critics say it is another step towards controlling access to the rest of the world. In a promotional video, Russian rapper, Igor Kri, boasts that the reception through the new Russian app Max is so clear he can even make calls in

the middle of the sea. He's one of a number of influencers who've been enlisted to pitch the app, which is designed to be both a messaging platform and a portal to government services. It's all part of the Kremlin's growing internet strategy. More and more restrictions. More and more governmental control. Boris Nadejjan is an opposition politician in Russia and told CBC News he now carries two phones. One he uses for work and has Macs installed. The other has a VPN, which allows him to access websites like YouTube, which are restricted. He says it's also become increasingly difficult to even use other messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram.

It's a very big problem. A lot of Russian people has their relatives or friends abroad the Russian Federation. Across Russia, mobile internet is now frequently brought. brought down. Authorities say the measures are necessary to defend against Ukrainian drone attacks, but Anastasia Kruopa, with Human Rights Watch, believes there are other motivations. This is also a very convenient sort of setting to experiment with things like, what if we just provide access to only things that we find good and essential. She believes the government ultimately wants to see how much it can restrict web traffic from outside Russia and still have a functioning network inside the country.

Breyer-Stewart, CBC News, London. For years, Mexico has faced what families call a crisis of the disappeared. Tens of thousands of people have vanished since the country's war on cartels began. Now Mexico City is trying a new strategy to find them. CBC's Jorge Barrera joined families searching in one of the capital's most dangerous areas. Machete in hand. Vanessa Gammes joins dozens of family members, firefighters, forestry workers, and cadaver dogs,

all under armed escort and a massive search for human remains in a remote and mountainous area south of Mexico City, known as a dumping ground for bodies. It's a very dangerous place because it's so alone, and a lot of people is disappearing here. Gammes' daughter, Anna Amalie Garcia Games, is believed to have been kidnapped, in July, while hiking alone in this area, called the Cumbres of the Ahusco National Park.

As a family, we are so broken right now. Anna Amelie is now listed among the over 130,000, on Mexico's National Registry of the Vanished. Many victims of the drug wars, kidnappings, or for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. So we have in the past smallest search in one place or another. Luis Gomez-Negretta is the commissioner in charge. of the Capital Cities Agency tasked with finding the missing. He's starting to deploy

a zone-based search strategy unique in the country using geographical links in missing persons files. We are gathering cases defining an area of interest and bringing all the resources

available. A week-long search of the Ahusco which is linked to 96 cases ended last Friday without finding human remains. I need to find her. The operation with hundreds of searchers resumes here next week.

Jorge Barrera, CBC News, Mexico City. Jorge is part of a CBC News team in Mexico for the next few months. They'll bring you stories as Canada and Mexico work together against the backdrop of rising economic pressure from the U.S. That is the latest national and international news from World Report. If you like the World Report podcast, please follow us and tell a friend. It helps spread the word. I'm Marcia Young.