The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/09 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/09 at 14:00 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 this hour, I'm Julie-Anne Hazelwood. The Prime Minister is in Paris today for talks on artificial intelligence,

and more importantly, talks on trade. Justin Trudeau wants to convince more members of the European Union to sign on to Canada's free trade agreement with the EU. Olivia Stefanovic 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 Zaiotti 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. Zaiotti 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. 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 Stefanovic, CBC News, Paris. Israel has met another key condition of its ceasefire with Hamas. The military has completed its pullout from the Netzerim corridor.

The withdrawal will also mean thousands more Palestinians can return to northern Gaza. Anna Cunningham has the latest. This was a militarized zone. For 15 months of war, the Netzerim Corridor allowed the Israeli military to split Gaza in half. The withdrawal of its forces marks a significant milestone, part of phase one of the ceasefire deal. Gazans immediately headed for the Al Saladin road in Gaza City

to head back to their homes in the north. Cars, trucks, tractors, donkey carts, all pile-pile. Mattresses and furniture visible. Opening access to the north also comes with the promise that aid too will be allowed in. But the backdrop is one of destruction, rubble and flattened buildings. It's a slow move towards completing stage one of the ceasefire deal. Meanwhile, Israeli media reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sent a delegation to Doha for the second round of indirect negotiations with Hamas. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. White South Africans are turning down US President Donald Trump's asylum offer. Trump signed an executive order on Friday cutting aid to South Africa and

offering to resettle white South Africans in the US. Trump claimed they were suffering discrimination under a new law that seeks to address racial inequality in land ownership. It's left three-quarters of privately owned land in the hands of Afrikaners, the white descendants of Dutch and French colonists. But flip-bys of the Afrikaner solidarity movement say they don't want to leave. We may disagree with the ANC, but we love the country. As in any community, there are individuals who wish to immigrate, but the repatriation of Afrikaners as refugees is not a solution for us. We want to build a future in South Africa.

The new law allows for expropriation without compensation in circumstances where it is just and equitable and in the public interest to do so. In St. Peter's Square. Pope Francis excuses himself during Sunday Mass, saying he was having trouble breathing and had to ask the master of ceremony to finish reading his homily. Pope Francis has suffered a number of health issues lately. The Vatican says he's been taking meetings at home so that he can rest. Both the Ontario Liberals and Ontario Progressive Conservatives are running 30-second ads during tonight's

Super Bowl. The liberals say their ad will include a clip of PC leader Doug Ford saying he wanted Donald Trump to win the US presidential election, while the PC ad will tout Ford as the best person to protect Ontario from Trump's tariffs. Voters head to the polls on February 27th. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood.