World Report - October 4: Saturday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: October 4, 2025

Federal minister in charge of Canada's nation- building projects is opting for wait and see approach when it comes to Alberta's new pipeline pitch.Israel continues to pound Gaza this morning....despite Hamas saying it's prepared to release the hostagesTens of thousands of war protestors take to the streets in LondonEuropean interior ministers meet to talk about the wave of drone threats at the continent's airportsJapan's ruling party elects a woman to become it's next leader...and a virtual certainty to become the country's first female prime ministerAnd the Toronto Blue Jays begin their playoff series against the New York Yankees.

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning, I'm John Northcott. We begin with Donald Trump, who has just tweeted on his Gaza peace plan. The U.S. President says he will not accept any delays from Hamas, which suggests his deadline for Hamas to accept all terms of his 20-point plan by 6 p.m. Eastern time tomorrow remains in effect.

including the release of all hostages. Some of their family members are thanking Trump for his efforts. We're very hopeful that leadership all over the world, especially the one in the U.S. and Israel, will make sure that this is happening. It's time to end this horrific war and bring every single hostage back home. Meanwhile, Israeli attacks continue this morning,

despite Trump's call for Israel to stop its bombing campaign. pain. A man in Gaza weeps, saying his brother has been killed in one of many air strikes today. For his part, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is preparing to immediately implement the first phase of Trump's plan, though it's not clear just what he was referring to. State media in Iran, say six men have been executed due in part to their alleged connections to Israel. The men were also accused of carrying out unspecified. attacks with weapons and explosives.

Free, free! Free! Free! A pro-Palestinian protest in London is going ahead today, despite pressure on organizers to cancel it. Police and government officials had said it shouldn't happen in light of this week's deadly attack on a Manchester synagogue.

Julia Chapman has more. Protesters have gathered in London weekly, calling for an end to the war in Gaza, and more recently, for a ban on Palestine action to be lifted. It was prescribed as a terrorist group and it's now a crime to declare support for it. The head of London's police, Mark Rowley, says more than 1,500 officers will be deployed to the event today. Our ability to stretch our resources across London and protect the communities that need it most is, to some degree, compromised by that. On Thursday, an anti-Semitic attack took the lives of two worshippers at a synagogue in Manchester.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmoud says the gathering shouldn't go ahead. Sometimes a little unity, a little solidarity, some love and friendship to other people is required. Organizers say canceling the protest would conflate the actions of Israel with Jewish people. They have called for a non-violent gathering, with protesters sitting and holding signs. This isn't a march, let alone a hate march of some has described it. Jonathan Porritt is a campaigner. I can imagine that every single person, as they sit down at that moment where the visual starts, the first thought in their head will be for those affected by the atrocity that happened at Heaton Park.

Organizers say 1,500 people have signed up to attend today's action. If police take all of them into custody, it will be the highest number of arrests at one event in British history. Julia Chapman, CBC News, London. Japan's ruling party has elected a new leader who is set to become, the country's first female Prime Minister. Senaitakiichi addresses the members of the Liberal Democratic Party after winning the leadership. She replaces Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who stepped down as head of the party last month.

In Germany. Operations are slowly resuming at Munich Airport after yet another drone scare. Both runways were forced to close for the second time in less than 24 hours after a drone was sighted. Dozens of flights had to be diverted or cancelled, affecting many travelers, leaving the country as Octoberfest comes to an end.

German officials say they haven't been able to identify where the drones are coming from or who is operating them. Germany's Interior Minister is meeting with his counterparts from across Europe today to discuss drone defenses. Meanwhile, Germany's Minister of Armaments is in Canada to make the case for his country to help this country build its planned submarine fleet. Not just in Germany, but here as well.

Jens Plotner says all Ottawa has to do is ask. He sat down exclusively with the CBC's Murray Brewster. You're looking to acquire 12 submarines. That is a huge number. Jens Plotner went to great lengths to stress there's more at stake than a submarine sales job. As Germany's armaments minister, he has to look at the bigger picture

and encouraging Canada to get into the submarine construction business with German shipbuilder TKMS make sense for both countries and NATO allies. Having not only a maintenance and training site here in Canada, but actually a production site would be an important contribution to our overall resilience in times of crisis or, God forbid, war. If you have two places where you can maintain, repair and build submarines, it's much better than only having one. Canada has never built submarines, and the country's existence,

existing shipyards don't have the technical know-how to do so at the moment. Germany's TKMS is one of two companies vying for the project. The other is Hanwa Ocean of South Korea. During Prime Minister Mark Carney's visit to the TKMS shipyard last August, Oliver Burkhart, the company's CEO, floated the notion of Canada building some of the boats after the first couple were completed in Germany. Plotner's remarks expand on that. He says TKMS has a history of building production facilities in other countries

and noted, that's how South Korea got into the submarine business. The pitch fits with the Kearney government's push to expand defense production. Plotner, however, says it's not been formally raised, but if Canadian officials want it, all they have to do is ask. Marie Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. The federal minister in charge of Canada's nation-building projects is opting for a wait-and-see approach when it comes to new pipelines. Alberta's premier, though, wants a new line to run to BC's northern coast,

Catherine Cullen, host of CBC Radio's The House, has more. It's an extraordinarily important project for the country. Alex Porbe is cheering on Alberta's proposal for a new oil pipeline to the BC coast. He's chair of Cenovis Energy, and he's helping advise the Alberta government on a path for the pipeline. No private company has come forward to say it wants to build, so Alberta's government is putting up $14 million to get the ball rolling. There isn't a single project that could take place in this country. would remotely create the positive economic and GDP impact of this kind of project would.

BC's government sees it differently. There's no proponent because there's no business case. BC Energy and Environment Minister Adrian Dix says his province wants to stay focused on real projects, not what he says are political projects, like this one. No route, no plan, no money, no investors, no one who's ever built a pipeline taking the project on. These are important questions. Alberta is hoping the federal government will put the pipeline on its list of national interest projects for fast-tracking. Tim Hodgson is the federal minister in charge.

If Alberta wants to be a proponent, they want to put the money forward to work as a proponent for a pipeline, that's their right to do so. Alberta's government says it also needs to see some regulations change, like ending the ban on tanker traffic off BC's coast. Hodgson won't say yes or no yet. It's a hypothetical question right now because there is no project before us. Alberta's government expects to submit the pipeline proposal to the federal government in the spring. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Ottawa. And you can hear more on this with Catherine on the House right after World Report or wherever you get your podcasts. And finally, it's a big day for Canadian baseball fans.

The Toronto Blue Jays are hosting the New York Yankees today for the first matchup of their American League Division series. The Jays haven't made it this far on the post. season in nearly a decade. And as Thomas Daegler reports, Canada's only major league team has fans dreaming about a World Series. For a whole generation of Blue Jays fans, October has never felt quite this exciting. Last time they were good 10 years ago, I was not even 10. With a team that finished at the top of the American League.

We won it all, so we're right behind them. Now entering the playoffs energized, having skipped the wild card round. Go Jays, go. They're ticking it all the way. Manager John Schneider leads the squad that few expected early on would go this far in the fall. It's cool to say, you know, that you're playing for a country. East Coast to West Coast, everyone's pulling for this team. He's sending veteran pitcher Kevin Gosman to the mound to start game one in front of a sellout crowd of more than 41,000.

The guys are fired up to see how crazy these Canadians are going to be. It's the first time ever the Jays faced their rivals from New York in the playoffs. Both teams finished the regular season with the same record, setting up what promises to be a hard-fought best-of-five series and a raucous home crowd. Way back in right-center and goal. Thomas Daggit, CBC News, Toronto. And that is the latest national and international news from World Report.

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