The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/12 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/12 at 14:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Tom Harrington. The 13 premiers have a meeting at the White House this afternoon. They're in Washington trying to persuade staff, policy staff, turn, President Donald Trump, tariffs are a bad idea. But some, such as BC Premier David Eby, say they're already preparing for the possible loss of American customers. What we're doing is we're diversifying markets. We're looking for other customers, everyone from our aluminum producers to our miners,

to our forestry companies, to our agriculture producers, our seafood sales, all of it. And that's really unfortunate because that's at a cost of prosperity to British Columbians and Canadians and to Americans alike. That's the message we're trying to deliver here. EB Call's discussion so far positive and that politicians from both parties understand the importance of the Canada-U.S. relationship. The U.S. dominated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's meetings with EU leaders this week, specifically Trump's threat to impose tariffs not only on Canada, Mexico and China, but on the European Union as well.

As David Thurton reports, Trudeau had a brief meeting with the US Vice President. It was just a quick greeting exchange. The Prime Minister describing a brief meeting with US Vice President JD Vance. Both Justin Trudeau and Vance attended an AI summit in Paris this week with other world leaders. During the quick chat Trudeau says he spoke about all the Canadian steel and aluminum that America relies on. $2.2 billion worth of steel and aluminum exports from Canada go directly into the Ohio economy, often to contribute to manufacturing that happens there.

He nodded and noted it, but it wasn't a longer exchange than that. Trudeau says these brief meetings are part of the diplomatic push. So anytime we have an opportunity, we will be highlighting those facts and doing everything we can to prevent this policy that will hurt both Americans and Canadians. Canada's premiers are also in Washington delivering that same message. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. To Brussels. Returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders

is an unrealistic objective. America's new defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, made it clear Washington does not object to Russia profiting from its invasion of Ukraine. He told a NATO meeting America will have little, if any, role in guaranteeing Russia does not invade again. The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement.

Instead, any security guarantee must be backed by capable European and non-European troops. The U.S. remains committed to NATO, he says, but demands that other partners increase their defense spending. The Israel Hamas ceasefire appears to be in jeopardy. Hamas claims humanitarian aid is being withheld from Gaza, so it has delayed this weekend's planned hostage release. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls that unacceptable and threatens a return to hostilities. Sasha Petrasek reports.

If Hamas doesn't return our hostages by Saturday noon, Netanyahu said in a video address, the ceasefire will end, though he's been vague on how many hostages he expects. All of this has raised tensions among hostage families protesting with signs that read, don't blow the deal, and among the majority of Israelis who are desperate to see the remaining 76 hostages freed. You must release them, I would like to say, yesterday. We can fight the Hamas later. Mediators from Qatar and Egypt are scrambling to save the ceasefire.

Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. The Four Nations face-off tournament gets underway today to Montreal. It's the first time in almost a decade the NHL's best are playing in an international competition. The opening game has Team Canada taking on Team Sweden. Tomorrow, Finland takes on the United States. The round-robin event continues into next week with the championship game scheduled for February 20th in Boston.

The tournament is replacing the annual NHL All-Star game. NHL players will take part in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.