The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/24 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/24 at 07:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the world This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is among 13 world leaders visiting Kyiv today. They are marking the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and they're promising to continue backing the Ukrainian war effort even as it appears to be losing the support of its most important ally, the United States. Chris Brown reports. This is an important day for all of us to meet here. Canada's Justin Trudeau arrived on the overnight train from Warsaw, along with the leaders of Spain and several of the Baltic nations.

Canada is heading up the G7 this year, and in his news conference on Sunday, Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky said he wanted to get Trudeau's insights on Donald Trump, presumably on how to handle tense negotiations over the future of U.S. assistance to Ukraine and also about what Trump's plans for a peace deal with Russia really are. Trudeau's opening remarks here sounded like a rebuttal to some of Donald Trump's comments. He said Russia is solely responsible for the war and without being specific, he said Canada will be part of any post-war security guarantees for Ukraine. Once a just peace is secured, Canada stands at the ready to work with our partners around the world to provide Ukraine the security it needs for the peace to last.

Chris Brown, CBC News, Kyiv. Well in Kyiv, Prime Minister Trudeau announced Canada is contributing another 25 light armored vehicles to the Ukrainian military. As well Canada is turning over more than five billion dollars in seized Russian assets. German voters have elected a new Chancellor. That is Friedrich Mertz, leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union. It finishes the general election with 29 percent support, and Mertz now has to form a coalition government before taking office. But he's insisting that coalition will not involve the Alternative for Germany or the AFD.

It is a far-right party that came in second in the voting. The Social Democrats, led by outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz, came in third. The candidates in the race to be Canada's next Liberal Leader and Prime Minister will square off tonight in the first of two live debates. With just two weeks left until the winner is announced and two days before voting begins, these two live events are the only chance for liberal supporters to see the four candidates on the stage. The French language debate goes tonight.

The party's English language debate is set for tomorrow, also in Montreal. The Israeli military is stepping up its presence in the West Bank and Israel's defense minister is saying this deployment could continue for at least a year and potentially longer. Sasha Petrasek reports. Tanks roll across the occupied West Bank for the first time in more than two decades. Israel's show of force against what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says is increased activity by Hamas and other groups in refugee camps. We are fighting terror on all fronts, he says, and will stay as long as necessary.

Israel ramped up its forces here in the wake of three bus bombs near Tel Aviv. The camps, home for Palestinian families originally displaced by Israel's creation in 1948, have long been strongholds for militant groups. They've now been mostly emptied by the Israeli military, which has destroyed houses and torn up infrastructure, forcing 40,000 Palestinians to move. Hundreds of fighters and civilians have been killed here in the past months. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. The Vatican says Pope Francis is resting after a quiet night.

Today marks the tenth day of his hospitalization for double pneumonia and a lung infection that has provoked the early stages of kidney failure. Late last night, doctors reported that the 88-year-old Francis was in critical condition but hadn't experienced any further respiratory problems. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.