The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/15 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: February 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/15 at 17:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. The Conservative Party organized a rally to mark Flag Day. But leader Pierre Pollyov also used the event to target U.S. President Donald Trump and his threats and attack one of the frontrunners in the Liberal leadership race. Kate McKenna was at the rally. Well, he says that if Donald Trump does go ahead with a blanket tariff on Canadian goods in early March,

then Canada needs to respond strongly, show them our strength, show them our leverage. Dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs is what he proposed, but he also proposed a sort of diplomatic mission as well, trying to convince Americans that actually this is going to make life more expensive for both countries, it's going to make life harder for workers in both countries. Now, those two messages are sort of similar to what we've seen from the Liberals on this issue, but he also outlined

a number of other things that he would do to increase Canada's nationalism at home. For instance, having more people and more students going into French immersion, increasing growing the cadet program and the Rangers program in the north. Kate McKenna reporting from Ottawa. Foreign ministers from the G7 gathered at the Munich Security Conference to discuss a range of issues including Donald Trump's efforts to reach a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. Abbie Kuwawasin has more details. Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Jolie chaired the G7 meeting with her counterparts on the sidelines

of the Munich Security Conference. She said they discussed several pressing issues, including the ongoing war on European soil. In less than two weeks, it will mark three years since Russia's full-scale illegal invasion of Ukraine. When asked if U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had agreed to include Ukraine and Europeans in any peace talks with Russia, Jolie said, I won't speak for Secretary of State Rubio. But she reiterated Canada's stance. We need to make sure that Ukrainian voices are at the table, that Europe and Canada is at the table,

because ultimately it is about Ukraine's security, but it's also about the Euro-Atlantic security. There is concern that the Trump administration will go over the heads of allies in hopes of wrapping up a quick peace process with the Kremlin at the expense of Ukraine's sovereignty. Abbie Kowalos in CBC News, Berlin. Also at the security conference in Munich.

On the European side, we have to step up, we have to spend more, and they are right. The decision we will take as soon as we have agreed on those targets will be a number much more than two percent NATO Secretary General Mark Root says Europe needs to step up its defense spending Suggesting that the US is right to say NATO members are not spending enough before Donald Trump took office He criticized NATO for its 2% spending target. The US president said allies should commit 5% of their GDP to defense a that allies should commit 5% of their GDP to defense. A teenager is dead and four others are wounded after a stabbing in southern Austria.

Police are calling it a random attack. Stephen Hoff has the latest. A 23-year-old refugee has been detained in the city of Villach in southern Austria after he's accused of stabbing five people. A 14-year-old was killed and two others were seriously injured. Authorities describe the victims as Austrian. It remains unclear if police are searching for any other suspects and in a briefing authorities say they hadn't identified a motive for the

attack. The stabbings come as Austria debates how to handle an influx of refugees entering the country. The governor of the state said the perpetrator must face the most severe consequences, while the leader of the far-right Freedom Party is calling on authorities to immediately halt asylum and deport any migrants who commit a crime. Coalition talks between the Freedom Party and the center-right People's Party collapsed last week, leaving Austria without a government for the last 139 days. Stephen Hoff, for CBC News, Vienna. The Vatican says Pope Francis had a restful night in hospital.

The 88-year-old was admitted yesterday suffering from a respiratory illness. His medical team says tests showed some improvement, but he will not leave the Angelus Prayer at St. Peter's tomorrow. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.