The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/23 at 22:00 EST

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/23 at 22:00 EST

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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 Neil Herland. Former Liberal MP Ruby Dalla says she's not giving up. Tonight, she announced she's appealing a decision by her party to disqualify her from the federal

Liberal leadership race, and she posted an emotional video on the platform X. Please do not disqualify me. It will not send the right message for our party to immigrants and for young people and women in our country. A Liberal party committee voted unanimously on Friday to disqualify Dalla from the race to be the next leader. The party said she broke ten rules, some involving the party's expense policies. The four remaining Liberal candidates will face off in two debates

starting Monday night. Germany is headed for another coalition government, but with a different leader at the top. The center-right Christian Democratic Union is in first place after Sunday's national election. Ebi Kuwawassen reports. Now Rambo Zambo can also be in the Adenau. A man who's never held public office before will become the next German Chancellor. Friedrich Merz declared victory after his conservatives picked up about 29% of the vote. But he still has to form a coalition with other parties in order to govern.

Merz has already ruled out negotiating with the far-right AFD, which came in second with about 20% support. Thunian is the deputy director at the Jacques Delors Centre in Berlin. I think what we really need is quick coalition talks and a stable government. That really is only possible with two parties. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has conceded defeat, but his central left party could still end up in the governing coalition. Meritz has called for speedy talks, saying the world will not wait for the government to be formed as Washington retreats.

Abby Koelas in CBC News, Berlin. The Vatican says Pope Francis is still in critical condition at a hospital in Rome, and the leader of the Catholic Church is showing signs of mild kidney failure. The 88-year-old Francis was admitted more than a week ago with pneumonia. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to visit Ukraine Monday on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion and across Canada today Ukrainians gathered to remember those who died in the war. Gavin Axelrod reports.

Hundreds have gathered at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights this afternoon in Winnipeg. It's standing room only with people packed shoulder to shoulder on the eve of the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. People here are draped in blue and yellow Ukrainian flags and holding posters calling for the end of the war. There will be speeches from dignitaries and musical performances. We spoke to one couple who have been living in Winnipeg for the last few years. They say the war is always on their minds along

with their friends and family who are still at home in Ukraine and those who have been killed in the fighting. Nearly 300,000 Ukrainian refugees are living in Canada. Gavin Axelrod, CBC News, Winnipeg. Israel says it's delaying the release of about 600 Palestinian prisoners until the militant group Hamas stops parading Israeli hostages in public ceremonies, Sasha Petrasek reports. Across the occupied West Bank and in Gaza, there's frustration and anger from Palestinian families waiting for the release of loved ones held in Israeli jails. The delay is a huge burden, says Badr Abu Aliyah.

More than 600 detainees were supposed to be freed in exchange for six Israeli hostages released yesterday. But Israel put a hold on that, saying it doesn't like the way hostages are paraded by Hamas, calling it degrading propaganda. Palestinian officials call it a pretext by Israel. If Israel doesn't, the bodies of four hostages may not be released by Hamas this week, and if the ceasefire collapses altogether, 59 other hostages may not make it out of Gaza. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. And that is your World This Hour. I'm Neil

Herland.