The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/14 at 23:00 EST

Episode Date: February 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/14 at 23:00 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 Claude Fague. The audience of world leaders in Munich was expecting details on the Trump administration's plan

to end the war in Ukraine. Instead, Vice President J.D. Vance wagged his diplomatic finger at America's European allies. At the same time, he downplayed the threat posed by Russia. Chris Brown has the details. At the Munich Security Conference, Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky finally got some face time with top Trump officials, including

Vice President J.D. Vance. Trump's team has promised they'll bring Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and stop Russia's invasion. In exchange for its military help, though, the U.S. wants a deal on Ukraine's rare earth minerals, which Zelensky said he's not quite ready to sign. Earlier, European leaders gathering to hear Vance make the keynote speech also wanted more details. Instead, he gave them a lecture on democracy. And what I worry about is the threat from within.

The stunned room listened as Vance berated his hosts, Germany, for allegedly silencing voices on the far right. All week, visiting Trump officials have been pounding home the message that the U.S. now has higher security priorities than Europe. Chris Brown, CBC News, London. Canada's auto sector is hoping to avoid U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. The industry is bracing itself for a head-on collision.

Nisha Patel breaks down the potential impact on Canadian carmakers and car buyers. U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened a 25% tariff on all Canadian imports, plus an additional 25% on steel and aluminum. North American automakers like Ford and GM say they're making contingency plans, but it's tough to plan when the U.S. president keeps shifting gears. Trump said he would unveil new auto tariffs on April 2nd, but gave few details. If we don't make a deal with Canada, we're going to put a big tariff on cars. It could be a 50 or 100 percent, because we don't want their cars.

Tariffs are a key part of Trump's economic plan. They can raise revenue to pay for his promised tax cuts. But Brett House, an economics professor at Columbia Business School, says they could come at a cost for U.S. companies. We saw during the last round of tariffs from the first Trump administration that the net losses to industry far exceeded any of the gain. Nisha Patel, CBC News, Toronto. The GST-HST holiday ends tomorrow.

The Trudeau government brought the tax break in two months ago with the aim of helping families and small businesses over the holidays. But new data shows the number of transactions across all stores actually fell 4 percent when compared with the same period the year before. Not all retail items were exempt from the tax holiday. The crew of an Army helicopter that collided with a jet midair in Washington, D.C., may have had inaccurate altitude readings in the moments before the crash. The collision happened in January near Reagan International Airport, killing the 67 people

aboard both aircraft. Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, Jennifer Homendy. We are looking at the possibility of there may be bad data. Were they seeing something different in the cockpit that differs from the FDR data, which was radio altimeter? Homendy also says the helicopter crew may not have heard instructions from air traffic control to move behind the plane. The plane crash was the deadliest in the U.S. since 2001.

A woman who had alleged she was raped by singers Jay-Z and Sean Dinney Combs when she was a teenager has dropped her claim. who had alleged she was raped by singers Jay-Z and Sean Diddy Combs when she was a teenager has dropped her claim. The anonymous plaintiff, referred to as Jane Doe, who was 13 at the time in 2000, voluntarily withdrew the case Friday. Jay-Z, whose legal name is Sean Carter, issued a statement referring to the dismissal as a victory, but Combs remains in custody on federal criminal charges related to racketeering and sex trafficking.

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