The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/09 at 04:00 EST

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/09 at 04:00 EST

In Scarborough, there's this fire behind our eyes. A passion in our bellies. It's in the hearts of our neighbors. The eyes of our nurses. And the hands of our doctors. It's what makes Scarborough, Scarborough. In our hospitals, we do more than anyone thought possible. We've less than anyone could imagine.

But it's time to imagine what we can do with more. Join Scarborough Health Network and together, we can turn grit into greatness. Donate at lovescarborough.ca. From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Neil Kumar. The Prime Minister is in Paris today. One of Justin Trudeau's goals is to advance trade talks

with the European Union. 10 member countries still haven't ratified the EU's free trade agreement with Canada. Olivia Stevanovic tells us more. With Donald Trump warning, he will use economic coercion to absorb Canada. Trudeau is looking for support from European Union leaders. Both Canada and the EU are looking for trust partners. Ruben Zaihadi is a political science professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He says Trudeau should use his time overseas to secure new markets for Canadian goods and resources.

Zayadi says there needs to be strong political will to break through the challenges preventing Canada's free trade agreement with the EU from being fully ratified. As we can in Europe, it's not that keen in being open to the free market. The Prime Minister is visiting France and Belgium, two of ten EU countries that have turned down the comprehensive economic and trade agreement with Canada. Olivia Stepanovich, CBC News, Paris. The leaders of Europe's far-right political parties gathered in Madrid for a Make Europe Great Again rally and conference. As Abbie Kutasin tells us, they see Donald Trump's

return to power as a sign the far-right is gaining strength. Do you want to make Spain great again? An American promise in Europe. Extreme far-right politicians on the continent hail Donald Trump in Madrid. The event is hosted by a group called Patriots of Europe. Of the 720 members of the European Parliament they hold 86 seats. Well-known far-right leaders including France's Marine Le Pen join them. She says we are witnessing a true global shift. Some Marine Le Pen, join them. We are facing a real... She says we are witnessing a true global shift.

Some like Le Pen and Dutch politician Gerrit Wilders want their countries to leave the EU altogether. The old regimes are going to fall. Speakers railed against irregular migration, even though such crossings have dropped across the EU by nearly 40% in 2024, according to the bloc's border agency. Abbie Kuo-Doss in CBC News, Berlin.

President Donald Trump has been in office for less than three weeks, but he's been very busy uprooting and overturning just about every U.S. federal government department that plans to try and overwhelm the opposition. But as Chris Reyes tells us, it's being met with illegal resistance. The first item that President Trump has signed. As President Donald Trump goes into his third week of office, the executive orders keep piling up, Washington State Attorney General, McBrown.

What we're facing right now is a Trump administration and on a daily, daily basis, breaking the law, violating the United States Constitution. Across the country, Democrats, civil rights groups and activists have turned to the courts to stem the tide of Trump's aggressive agenda. John Alsop writes for the Columbia Journalism Review. The courts are a potent weapon to fight back against Trump for his opponents, for sure, but the legal system is very, very slow.

And so far, some temporary holds have been put on Trump's executive orders. A federal judge in New York blocked the newly created Department of Government efficiency from accessing the Treasury Department's payment and data system. The unofficial agency is led by Elon Musk, who's been repeatedly praised by Trump for the work he's doing. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. Russia has intercepted and destroyed 35 Ukrainian drones. That's according to the Russian Defense Ministry. That also adds the incident took place overnight. At least half of the drones were destroyed over the Kursk region near Ukraine.

The rest of the drones were intercepted in Russia's west and south. Meantime, according to Ukraine's military, Russia launched 151 drones, but its air force shot down 70. And the Liberal Party will hold two leadership debates in Montreal. A French-language one on February 24th and an English one the next day on February 25th. The winner of the leadership race will be announced on March 9th. And that is your World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven

days a week. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.