The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: February 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 12:00 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 is Sour. I'm Neil Kumar. As the Munich Security Conference draws to a close, the US Secretary of State

and the Russian Foreign Minister spoke on the phone. They discussed the ongoing war in Ukraine, as well as the removal of so-called unilateral barriers set by the previous US administration. Dominic Velaitis has more. According to the Kremlin, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio initiated the call with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to discuss the situation in Ukraine, as well as the removal of unilateral barriers set by the previous US administration. It's not clear exactly what barriers were discussed, but the US, under President Joe

Biden, imposed waves of sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine aimed at weakening the Russian economy and limiting the Kremlin's war efforts. According to the US State Department, Rubio and Lavrov also discussed the opportunity to work together on a number of other bilateral issues without providing any further detail. News of the call comes as the Munich Security Conference in Germany enters its final day. The US shocked European leaders at the event, saying Ukraine's place was not in NATO, that a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders was unrealistic. Dominic Vilaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia.

In India, a stampede at a railway station in the country's capital late Saturday night has left multiple people dead. According to reports, 18 people including 14 women were killed in the stampede in New Delhi. Many of the victims were believed to be Hindu pilgrims who were traveling to a festival in the northern part of the country. The stampede was reportedly triggered due to a platform change after some passengers slipped and fell on others while coming down from a footbridge that connects train platforms. Sickening and shameful, that's what Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

is calling a video, appearing to show medical staff threatening to kill Israeli patients and bragging about refusing to treat them. Now, police have raided the home of one of those staffers suspended after the video. Phil Mercer reports from Sydney. You have no idea how many Israelis came to this hospital and...

I sent them to Jahannam. For real? Nurses Ahmad Nadeer and Sarah Abdulebdeh were recorded by an influencer in Israel in an online chat room speaking about sending Israeli patients to hell. The video was shared by Max Weifer. It appears to have been recorded in a hospital in Sydney on a social media platform that randomly connects users. I had a mission to accomplish, you know. I had to expose them.

And tonight the two Bankstown nurses have had their registrations formally suspended. Police have raided the Sydney home of nurse Ahmed Nadir, a refugee from Afghanistan. Australia has recently passed tougher laws against hate crimes following a wave of high-profile anti-Semitic attacks. Phil Mercer for CBC News, Sydney. Canada and the US squared off in their on Saturday night. There he goes Larkin, it's a two and one, Larkin scores! Dylan Larkin in TUSA! As seen on Rogers Sportsnet, the Americans got the go-ahead goal from Dylan Larkin late in the second period. The U.S. went on to beat Canada 3-1, securing top spot in the tournament and an automatic

berth in next Thursday's final. Canada faces off with Finland on Monday and will need a win to advance to the final against the Americans in what is now a must-win in regulation for Canada. Here's captain Sidney Crosby. I thought we competed hard. I mean you know like like we said all you know the whole time here we just got to keep getting better and we got to learn from this one. We don't have a lot of time to think about it. It's a big one here coming up so yeah we battled hard and we time to think about it. It's a big one here coming up. So yeah, we battled hard and we got to find a way to go get a win.

That game is set for 1 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday as the tournament shifts to Boston. And that is Your World is Sour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. All this hour is updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Neal Kumar.