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

Episode Date: February 14, 2025

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

It's the epitome of classical ballet, beloved the world over. The National Ballet of Canada invites you to experience Swan Lake, revel in Tchaikovsky's glorious score, and an unforgettable production directed and staged by Karen Kane, whose vision emphasizes the love story at the heart of the ballet. Presented by Nicola Wealth Management, on stage March 8th to 22nd, tickets are selling fast. Secure your seat now at national.ballet.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague. Donald Trump is looking at imposing new tariffs on more countries exporting goods into the

United States. And as the proposal was unveiled, Trump again trash-talked Canada. Katie Simpson has more from Washington. The reciprocal makes tariffs really fair. Officials are being asked to determine tariff rates for individual countries based on a wide range of reasons, including if a country imposes tariffs on US goods,

whether the US thinks the country has unfair trading practices or if it has a value-added tax. Canada's GST is considered a value-added tax. How this could affect Canada remains unclear, but Canada and the US already have 99% tariff-free trade thanks to the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement. Canada's been very bad to us on trade but now Canada is going to have to start paying up. All of this comes after Trump already threatened 25% blanket tariffs on all Canadian goods starting March 4th, additional 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum starting March 12th,

and even more tariffs based on long-standing trade irritants that could also start April 1st. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift a funding freeze that has shut down U.S. aid and development programs abroad. The funding freeze, which was set to last 90 days, had been in place for three weeks. Judge Amir Ali issued the order Thursday following a lawsuit brought forward by companies that are receiving U.S. funding for programs abroad. And Trump says Vladimir Zelensky will have a seat at the table at Ukraine's peace talks.

European leaders backed Zelensky after Trump's phone call yesterday with Vladimir Putin and their pledge to start negotiations Friday in Munich. Chris Brown reports. The Russian leader's long-standing goal has been to make Ukraine a puppet state. So for many Ukrainians, Trump's plan smelled of betrayal. Zelensky, who will meet face-to-face with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, said, as a sovereign country, we simply will not be able to accept any agreements without us. It's still not clear what role Zelensky will take in these negotiations. Same for the European countries that would guarantee Ukraine security afterward,

prompting this warning from the EU's top diplomat, Kaya Callis. Any agreement will need Ukraine and Europe. There is no betrayal there. In Brussels' foreign NATO meeting, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth underscored, Trump does see Russia as the aggressor in the war. Putin has said he expects to keep all of the Ukrainian land Russia has conquered, and for Ukraine to disband most of its army. Chris Brown, CBC News, London.

And Trump says he's reached a deal with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for India to import more U.S. oil and gas as part of plans to shrink the trade deficit between the two countries. At a news conference at the White House, Donald Trump said the U.S. would also significantly increase sales of military hardware. Starting this year, we'll be increasing military sales to India by many billions of dollars. We're also paving the way to ultimately provide India with the F-35 stealth fighters. A Toronto-based artificial intelligence firm is being sued for copyright infringement.

The Toronto Star and several other major media organizations accuse the company, Coheer, of scraping copies of their articles from the internet, then using them to train their AI system all without permission or compensation. The suit calls for compensation of $150,000 for every article taken. The U.S. has joined Canada in the win column at the Four Nations Faceoff Hockey Tournament. The Americans cruise to a 6-1 victory over Finland Thursday night in Montreal. The regulation win gives the U.S. three points, one ahead of Canada. The two-storied rivals will now face off against one another Saturday night back in Montreal.

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