The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/01 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: March 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/01 at 08:00 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 Claude Fague. This morning, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky is in the UK preparing for a meeting with European leaders.

He will meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer later today. The meeting is scheduled to take place at 10 Downing Street. Also heading to the UK, Justin Trudeau raising the stakes, the confrontation at the White House yesterday. You will feel it in the future. God bless. You don't know that. God bless.

You don't know that. God bless. You will not have war. Don't tell us what we're going to feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going to feel. I'm not telling you. Because you're in no position to dictate that. Remember that.

You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel. Zelensky later spoke on Trump's preferred network, Fox News, and said he had nothing to apologize for. I respect the president and I respect American people. And if, I don't know, if I think that we have to be very open and very honest. And I'm not sure that we did something bad. Some Eastern European leaders are showing their support for Ukraine in the face of the Zelensky-Trump clash, but it also gave comfort to those aligned with Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Dominic Velaitis has that part of the story from Latvia. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was hoping yesterday's meeting at the White House would be a chance to win more support for Kiev's war effort against Russia. In a statement this morning, he said it was very important his country's plight was heard and not forgotten. The failure of the Trump-Zelensky meeting is dominating Russian TV networks, with hosts slamming it as a public execution and political train wreck. The story is all over news channels in countries on NATO's eastern flank too, with Polish TV describing the White House meltdown as a brawl.

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk was among the first to show support for Zelensky in Ukraine, and there were similar words from the leaders of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban meanwhile, a staunch Trump ally, thanked the US president. Dominic Vlaidis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. And as talks for a possible end to the war between Ukraine and Russia continue, so do the attacks from both sides. Reports this morning that three people were killed and five others injured in a Ukrainian

attack on a Russian-controlled part of the Kherson region. And according to Kyiv's Air Force, Ukraine's air defense destroyed 103 drones launched by Russia overnight. There were 154 launched in total, but 51 were locationally lost, likely due to a result of electronic jamming. Bangladesh has a new political party formed by the students who led an uprising last year, toppling the country's former prime minister. The students are promising to end the politics of division in the South Asian country and

shake up to the political landscape traditionally dominated by two parties. Salima Shivji reports from Dhaka. Long live revolution, yells Nahid Islam, the new leader of a brand new party. This is the launch of the student-led National Citizens Party, staged in front of Bangladesh's parliament building, a move months in the making. The students who took to the streets to oust former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, accused of corruption and authoritarian rule, are now taking a more conventional political route to meet their goals of creating a strong democracy.

The South Asian country has a history of turbulent politics, and the transition since last July's uprising has been chaotic. An interim government led by noble laureate Muhammad Yunus has struggled to clamp down on rising crime and persistent protests. We are facing challenges. Hasnath Abdullah, another student leader who was instrumental in the uprising, is feeling the pressure. So it's getting pretty challenging to meet everyone's hopes. Salima Shivji, CBC News.com. And that is your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.