Your World Tonight - Fragile ceasefire in Gaza, more U.S. lumber tariffs, Instagram goes PG-13, and more

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

Just days into a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas there are accusations from each side, and still more death. Hamas has not returned all of the bodies of hostages who have died, and the delivery of aid has yet to ramp up in earnest. Hamas battles Palestinian clans as the security situation remains tense.And: Lumber exporters brace themselves yet again, as the U.S. hikes tariffs another 10 per cent. The increase could be devastating for lumber towns, and regional economies. Some have already curtailed their businesses — and a new tariff won’t help.Also: Instagram says it will use the PG-13 film rating system to help decide what content teenagers can see.Plus: Madagascar’s military takes control of the government, Taiwan’s microchip industry, the U.S. strikes another boat off Venezuela, and more.

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And if they don't disarm, we will disarm them. How do you do that? I don't have to explain that to you. But if they don't disarm, we will disarm them. They know I'm not playing games. It doesn't sound very peaceful. Just days into a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, there are new threats, accusations, denials, and death.

The delay of the return of deceased hostages and the delivery of aid, an early test for a fragile truce. Welcome to Your World Tonight. I'm Susan Bonner. It is Tuesday, October 14th, just before 6 p.m. Eastern, also on the podcast. This threat is a direct threat to the livelihood, to the existence of mills in every corner of British Columbia. Power to us.

New American tariffs on furniture and softwood lumber taking effect and taking a toll as the trade war keeps hacking away at Canadian profits and jobs. The return of hostage bodies is threatening to derail the Israel Hamas ceasefire. Only four were transferred yesterday with another four delivered to the Red Cross this afternoon as families in Israel wait and aid to Gaza hangs in the balance. Senior international correspondent Margaret Evans begins our coverage from Jerusalem. The Egyptian border town of Areech is thick with aid trucks, waiting to head into Gaza via the Rafah crossing as required by the recent ceasefire.

But Israel is now threatening to keep it closed and to reduce aid, accusing Hamas of violating the terms of the truce by failing to return the bodies of all 28 Israeli hostages along with the living released on Monday. In Tel Aviv, there was anger amongst families awaiting the return of their loved ones, wanting action from their own government and appealing to Donald Trump for help.

Rotem Cooper is hoping to be able to lay the remains of his father, Amaram, to rest. And there was a great mood when the life of hostages came out. And then we were dealing with the deceased one, which is tough. But then only to receive four of them was a huge disappointment. Hamas blames the vast devastation in Gaza, bodies lost under the rubble. Israel doesn't believe it, although there was an addendum to the agreement providing for a task force to help locate the missing bodies.

Christian Cardon is with the International Committee of the Red Cross. The research for human remains, it's obviously even bigger challenge than having, I would say, the people alive being released. That's a massive challenge. As you know, there will be human remains being handed over from both sides, the Israeli authorities, but also Hamas. The Red Cross is handling the exchange of the dead. Israel has agreed to return 15 Gazans who died in Israeli custody for each dead Israeli hostage. So far, the remains of 45 Palestinians were returned on Tuesday.

Dr. Mohamed Zakut is the Director General of Hospitals in Gaza. There's a specialized committee to inspect the bodies and help identify them, he says. Israel puts these bodies in morgues. Some of them are easily identified, others are not. He says Israel didn't provide names. Inevitably, news spreads and draws those in search of the missing. Every time they bring bodies to any hospital I come, says Razmia Kadih, looking for a missing son captured by Israel, she says, two years ago.

I will take anything right now, she says, even if they give me a small part of his body. I've already lost six people. Israel says Hamas has turned the remains of four more hostages over to the Red Cross for transfer tonight. But it's not clear whether it will be enough to satisfy Israel. Another example of just how fragile the ceasefire is. Margaret Evans, CBC News, Jerusalem.

In Gaza, the fighting might have ended between Israel and Hamas, but in some areas, the killing continues. Battles and executions have erupted between Hamas and rival groups vying for control of the territory. For displaced Palestinians returning home, it means more fear and insecurity despite the promise of peace. Tom Perry reports from Cairo. On the bombed out streets of Gaza, vehicles, horse-drawn carts, and people can all move

more freely, no longer under constant threat of Israeli fire. The violence here has eased, but it hasn't stopped. I still doesn't have safety because there is so many killing, there is so many people doesn't follow the rules. 31-year-old Amjad says there are still too many shootings in Gaza, the violence now, mostly between Hamas, rival clans, and armed gangs. That doesn't give you feeling of safety. So I still afraid. I still afraid of living here.

But I hope things will get better by time. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire. In one especially grim episode, video shows seven men, their hands bound, shot by Hamas gunmen from behind as they kneel before a crowd of onlookers. Hamas accused the men of being criminals or collaborators with Israel. Their punishment to summon Gaza fully justified. If a person destroyed their country and was a traitor, they deserve to be executed, says Atakulab. On his way to yesterday's summit in Sharmal Sheikh Egypt, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested he had given Hamas permission to police the territory temporarily to bring order.

In Washington today, Trump insisted the group would be required to respect a key element of his peace plan for Gaza that they lay down their weapons. We have told them we want disarm, and they will disarm. And if they don't disarm, we will disarm them. And it will happen quickly and perhaps violently. Palestinian on Palestinian violence is not the only lingering threat. Gaza's health ministry says seven people were killed today by the Israeli military. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire. The Israel defense forces says it fired on people who crossed truce lines and ignored calls to turn back.

though the military did not provide evidence. Along with Hamas disarming, Trump's peace plan calls for a new temporary government to be established in Gaza with Hamas excluded from power. The new structure would be supported by an Arab-led international stability force to provide security. All of that remains a work in progress, the promise of peace not yet fully delivered.

Tom Perry, CBC News, Cairo. Coming right up, how the latest U.S. tariffs will impact Canadian furniture makers and forestry workers. And six people are dead after the United States attacks another boat suspected of smuggling drugs. Later, we'll have this story. Instagram has come under fire for not keeping kids safe on its platform. We've had a couple of scares at our house. You have like a 50-year-old talking to your 12-year-old pretending to be a kid. It's very dangerous.

Now the company wants to make what teens see, PG-3. This is a company with a fairly spotty track record in terms of protecting our kids online. I'm Nisha Patel in Toronto, why some say the new restrictions aren't a perfect solution. That's coming up on Your World Tonight. Canadian lumber is taking another hit from U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war, and it's not just softwood. New tariffs announced last month are now in effect. and they include new levies on some furniture.

Yasmin Renea has more on the impact on both sides of the border. As workers sand down kitchen cabinets at Nichols Cabinets in Richmond, BC, Director of Sales and Marketing Keith Grubaugh is anxious. The main driver of the stress is the uncertainty. About 70% of the company's products are shipped to the U.S. Again, we're trying to refocus our efforts looking at different markets, but that takes years to develop. There's now a 25% tariff on kitchen cabinets and vanities imported into the U.S.

that could rise to 50% in January if a deal is not reached, and an additional 10% global tariff on softwood lumber and timber imports. Canadian producers were already facing duties of just over 35%, meaning Canadian softwood will now see total import taxes exceeding 45%. So this tariff is not benefiting American lumber at. Americans like Michael Howard, who owns a small furniture-making business in Michigan, are also being impacted. Because we literally do not have the capacity to build out the infrastructure to make more lumber mills.

And so it is necessary for us to have, rely on Canada. He says he's being forced to pass increased costs onto his customers, with some already declining to move forward with projects. Well, it's extremely disappointing. Kurt Nekide, President of the BC Lumber Trade Council, expects domestic production to slow down. Earlier this month, a lumber mill in Grand Forks, B.C. was indefinitely shut down because of weak market conditions and economic uncertainty. Across Canada, the fourth sector directly employs 200,000 people. And so if production comes offline in Canada, you'll see layoffs and impacts on workers for sure.

Industry Minister Melanie Jolie was in Montreal today announcing about $26 million in funding to stimulate affordable housing construction. She says Ottawa is negotiating the best trade deal for Canada. We know there's only one person that decides in the U.S. And it's Donald Trump. In the meantime, she's urging Canadians to buy domestic lumber. This threat is a direct threat to the livelihood to the existence of mills in every corner of British Columbia.

BC Premier David E.B. is calling on Ottawa to do more, including enhanced employment insurance for forestry workers. And it's going to hurt our economy tremendously. Meanwhile, in New Brunswick, where one in every 11 jobs depends directly on forest products, Premier Susan Holt says the province is weighing its options, including cutting off electricity to the U.S. Yasmil Ganea, CBC News, Vancouver. After laying off thousands of workers in Ontario earlier this year, auto makers still. Stalantis says it's expanding its U.S. operations. Stalantis said tariffs led to unstable market conditions in Canada.

The automaker has pledged to hire back some of the workers in Windsor, but not until the new year. The company is investing $13 billion in the U.S. and adding 5,000 new jobs. The U.S. military has attacked another boat off the coast of Venezuela. In a social media post, President Donald Trump says six people were killed, after an airstrike on a vessel suspected of carrying drugs. The CBC's Katie Nicholson is following this story. Katie, what is Donald Trump saying about this strike? So in this post on Truth Social,

Trump claims that another U.S. military strike happened on a boat that he says was carrying drug traffickers from Venezuela. And he says they killed what he called six male narco-terrorists. And embedded in the post, Susan, a pixelated video that was taken overhead of a small-looking boat and then a bright, fiery explosion. And this brings the number of these confirmed strikes to five in the last two months and the number of alleged drug traffickers killed to 27, according to U.S. authorities.

The video you reference is quite striking. What evidence is there that these are, in fact, drug smugglers? Well, for this strike specifically, we haven't seen any evidence as of yet. And in the president's post, he just says intelligence confirmed that the vessel was trafficking narcotics was associated with illicit narco-terrorist networks, and it was transiting along a known designated terrorist organization route. And evidence has yet to emerge in the other strikes beyond the assertions of U.S. authorities.

And so there's been a lot of concern in Congress about the justification for these strikes. Just last week, senators voted on a motion to curtail them, but that failed 5148. What about Venezuela reaction? Venezuela's regime leaders have been furious since these strikes started. At a UN Security Council meeting last week,

there were a number of concerns raised about whether these strikes were tantamount to extrajudicial killings. Venezuela has declared a state of emergency and says that the U.S. is violating international law. But internally as well, the country's leaders at the Security Council and its defense minister,

they have said that they see this as an attempt by the Trump administration to force regime change in Venezuela. And what more can we say about the U.S. motivations? here. Well, the U.S. accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of being one of the largest narco-terrorists in the world. The State Department spokesman just recently characterized him again as a fugitive from American justice who undermines regional security and poisons Americans. And it's

also in line with Trump's tough on drugs, tough on defending border stance. But beyond that, these strikes are also being seen by some as a test of the limits of the law and of presidential power. Susan, these videos, they are about showing the might of the U.S. military as well. And on some level, it's about instilling fear. Thank you, Katie. You're welcome. The CBC's Katie Nicholson here in Toronto. Madagascar's military now claims control of the national government

after the country's embattled president went into hiding. It follows weeks of political turmoil on the island nation with a protest movement led by young people. Susan Ormiston has the latest. In Madagascar's capital crowds chanted as a military unit rolled through the streets, having just attempted to seize power. It's good news for us for all Madagascar, says this activist. Protests which began two weeks ago over scarce electricity and water grew into a broad movement

It's motivated by anger over alleged corruption and the economy. It's incredible because two weeks ago we were fighting tooth and nail with the military, and today we've won, he said. Dr. Luke Freeman, a Madagascar expert at University College London, says people are used to extreme poverty here, but living conditions are getting worse. I mean water cuts of sometimes 10 to 12 hours a day, similar for electricity cuts. This meant that people often had to spend the night queuing at stand pumps in the street in order to fill their jerry cans to bring them home.

The protests mirrored others amongst Gen Z youth in Nepal and Morocco, flying black flags with a skull and straw hat called a Jolly Roger, a symbol common to the youth protests. These young people are looking and going, what's my future going to be? All I've ever known is electricity cuts and water cuts and poor. education and poor health. And if I don't do something about it now, the future we inherit is not going to be worth inheriting. In a speech on Facebook last night from a hidden location, President André Radzuelana said the army had been spoiling for a coup.

There have been plans for a coup and assassination attempt against me, he said, which the army disputes. It's widely believed he left on a French plane Sunday. Yesterday, the Peace Summit in Egypt, French president, Immanuel Macron, wouldn't confirm anything, but nodded to the protesters. We view the youth of these countries with admiration and affection, he said. But Macron, in the past, has supported the president. Voting to impeach him today, Assembly members said he had made personal use of public resources to benefit his supporters.

Tonight, a military unit KAPSAT says it has taken control. The president's office claims he has legal power, but with little support from the High Court, the Assembly or the military, he'll need to launch a fight from outside the country to survive politically. Susan Ormiston, CBC News, London. For many fans across the world today, the answer is heartbreak. Grammy award-winning R&B artist DeAngelo has died. He was the voice behind brown sugar and untitled.

How does it feel? His music fused hip-hop, gospel, and emotion to pioneer a genre called Neo-Soul in the 1990s. His raspy yet smooth voice set him apart from his peers. The singer whose real name was Michael Eugene Archer died after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 51. This is Your World Tonight from CBC News. If you want to make sure you stay up to date and never miss one of our episodes, follow us on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcasts. Just find the follow button and lock us in.

The future of computing. is artificial intelligence, and the race is on to become the dominant player in the market. Right now, huge American companies such as Navidia and Apple design and sell most of the world's microchips, but the vast majority are made in Taiwan. It has spent years refining its techniques, and as Chris Brown tells us, the industry is strengthening Taiwan's economy and giving it some international leverage. The foundries or fabs that line the streets of Taiwan's Shinschu Science Park south of Taipei are among the cleanest places on earth.

With etching machines that work with robotic precision down to the atom, not a speck of dust is allowed. TSM or Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturing company dominates the field. It claims a 70% market share on all chips, even more on the most advanced ones. It's an astonishing accomplishment for a small island that most of the world doesn't even recognize as a country. In a neighborhood of Taipei, popular for buying electronics, we talk to people who are proud of that success. We don't have to worry too much that people don't care about us,

said 21-year-old college student Amy Lynn. We have wafers or microchips, so we have something to negotiate with others. and democratically governed Taiwan is starting to flex its new diplomatic muscles, recently threatening South Africa with export controls over a diplomatic dispute. Analyst Jeremy Chan says the technology to make chips for AI is so expensive and has taken decades for Taiwan's engineers to refine that simply giving it to another country, even the United States,

isn't possible. So it become very, very efficient. I think only Taiwan can achieve this kind of standard of efficiency. Chan says precisely how Taiwan should leverage its newfound economic power is still up for debate, but with China sending menacing signals, expanding strategic alliances is essential. I think fundamental goal is very clear, simple. We want to survive. We want national security. China, though, is pushing. hard to catch up to Taiwan, Min Wu of Macronics, a pioneer of chip production in Taiwan, says he believes, with its huge resources, China may not be far behind.

My guess, they are very close now. They are very close. Still, Taiwan holds considerable advantages. Its governments, companies, and higher education system have been working in tandem for decades to create the perfect conditions for success, and it's paying off for now. Chris Brown, CBC News, Shinchu, Taiwan. Phones and tablets don't have anyone checking ID, but Instagram's latest attempt at restricting content borrows from the rating system used at movie theaters.

As social media faces more scrutiny about what young people can access, one of the most popular platforms will try to limit what teens can see to PG-13. Nisha Patel has details. We've revamped all of our... guidelines about what teens can and cannot see on Instagram. Head of Instagram, Adam Messeri, says teens on the platform will now be limited to what the company considers to be PG-13 content, with tighter controls on strong language and suggestive visuals. And if you as a parent want to go even a step further, you can. You can actually

set up parental controls and lock down the content setting. The update comes just weeks after a group of online safety researchers warned teen accounts were ineffective. They found that nearly 60% of teens using Instagram reported seeing unsafe or unwanted content over the last six months, including sexual material and violent memes. Technology analyst Karmie Levy. This is a company with a fairly spotty track record in terms of protecting our kids online. It has not been a perfect experience. We've seen lots of content leaking through.

For teens who try to get around the protections by claiming to be adults, Instagram says it will use age prediction technology to remove them from the platform. Levy welcomes the changes, but warns parents not to let down their guard. We shouldn't lull ourselves into believing that this is some kind of magic solution. Richard Lachman agrees he's a media professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. What I would like to see is sort of independent third-party verification on how effective these tools are. Instagram is not the only social media platform facing scrutiny. Just a few weeks ago, the Canadian Privacy Watchdog said TikTok's efforts to protect kids were inadequate.

Experts like Lachman say legislation is due to be refreshed. So what we need is something comprehensive that's going to last longer than one platform. Catherine Corrachoccus, a parent in Hampstead, Quebec, says she's tried to educate her teenagers about Internet safety. We've had a couple of scares at our house. You have like a 50-year-old talking to your 12-year-old pretending to be a kid. It's very dangerous. She maintains strict control over the social media accounts of her teenagers, but still finds it tough to keep up.

Technology moves at a lightning speed, and right when you're doing something, something else comes out. Some countries are taking restrictions a step further. Australia and Denmark now have plans to ban social media accounts for children entirely. Nisha Patel, CBC News, Toronto. We close tonight with a surprise move at a P-EI-Chess tournament and the chance of a lifetime for a young player. I didn't even expect him to be here.

I saw him at breakfast before the game and I was like, hey, is that he car? I was like, no way he's coming here. That's 12-year-old Michelle Zhang from Halifax. She started playing chess at age six. She's really good and had high hopes at last weekend's Maritime Open Chess Championship in Summerside. Normally, Zhang would be disappointed to lose in the first round, but this loss was different. I just basically found out on Friday that he was going to show up pretty well unannounced.

That's how you roll when you are a grandmaster. Tournament organizer Fred McKin talking about a late addition to the field, the number two ranked chess player in the world, Hikaru Nakamura. Hikaru comes back swinging King's Indian Defense. Nakamura is about as big as it gets in chess, a world champion with a huge, online following who made a last-minute decision to show up in Somerside. Well, I need to play games to qualify for a tournament, which happens early next year, and so it's one of the ways to do it, and it's a chance to give back to the chess community.

No one benefited more from the surprise appearance than Michel Zhang, getting the chance to play one of the game's great players. I wish that, like, I maybe had, like, a better result, but, like, it's obviously a great experience. I, like, also learned a lot from him. Like, he plays move really quick. Like, he does put a lot of pressure. Nakamura went on to win the tournament, and even though Zhang lost, she went home with a moment she will never forget. Thank you for joining us. This has been your world tonight for Tuesday, October 14th. I'm Susan Bonner. Talk to you again.

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