The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: February 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 11:00 EST

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Israel later released 183 Palestinian detainees and prisoners as part of the ceasefire deal. Justin Trudeau was in Portugal earlier today for the funeral of a family friend, the Aga Khan. The Prime Minister is now in Paris. As Olivia Stefanovic tells us, Trudeau is hoping to strengthen ties with European allies, who are also facing tariff threats from US President Donald Trump.

Well we have massive deficits with the European Union. With tariffs paused on Mexico and Canada, US President Donald Trump is warning the 27 member states that make up the EU could be hit with levies next. We certainly are having conversations. Jonathan Wilkinson is the Natural Resources and Energy Minister. He says the Prime Minister's trip to Paris and Brussels is a chance to get face time with European leaders. I think many are of the view that if the President would do something like this to Canada,

which historically has been the closest ally of the United States, what may be in store for Europe. J.D. O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT TRUDEAU is set to meet EU leaders and the Secretary General of NATO in the coming days. But first, the Prime Minister is heading to Paris to attend a global artificial intelligence summit where he may get an award with US Vice President JD Vance. Olivier Stifanovic, CBC News, Ottawa.

Leaders from eastern and southern Africa met to discuss the conflict in the Congo today. The meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, came nearly two weeks after M23 rebels seized the city of Goma. The CBC's Anna Cunningham reports from London. A rally in the streets of Goma where the International Red Cross continues to find the bodies of the dead victims of the M23 rebel group who took the city a few weeks ago. The armed group backed by neighbouring Rwanda claims this is a revolution. The fear from other African nations is it could ignite a regional war. We stand together to call on all parties to actualise the ceasefire.

Kenya's President William Ruto speaking ahead of the meeting in Tanzania. It's telling how many nations are at this summit. The DRC has many borders. Concerned too from the UN about a growing humanitarian crisis. UN Secretary General Antón Antonio Guterres. The humanitarian situation in and around Goma is perilous. There is a fragility about this meeting. Previous peace talks hosted by Angola and Kenya have failed.

Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. It's Super Bowl weekend. Host City New Orleans is buzzing as the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles set to play Super Bowl 59. There's always a lot of security for the big game, but even more so for a city still reeling from tragedy. Steve Futterman reports. We have a big event coming and we are committed to having a safe environment for every individual that attends. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and it's hard to miss the increased security.

Just five weeks ago in the early hours of January 1st, as celebrations were still going on, terror struck the big easy. A man in a pickup truck drove down Bourbon Street, still jammed with people, killing 14. Brittany Bustamante is a bartender who works on Bourbon Street. The wound, she says, have not completely healed. Nobody's gonna forget that it's still like high alert and the city is not

all the way the same yet. You know, there's still a lot of people scared and this week with tens of thousands of people in town to watch football. Many have also walked over to the makeshift memorial on Bourbon Street to pay respect to those who were killed. Steve Thuderman for CBC News at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Baig.