The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/01 at 09:00 EST

Episode Date: March 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/01 at 09:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Faye. Following a public berating at the White House yesterday, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is now in the UK for a meeting of EU leaders tomorrow. Also heading there, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The CBC's Tom Perry will be travelling with the Prime Minister. This summit is being hosted by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. He was in Washington this week.

He met with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. And after that visit, when Starmer got back to the UK, he called this summit of European leaders. I think it's fair to say the message coming out of Washington is that if there's going to be any kind of security guarantees for Ukraine and some future peace deal with Russia, that it's going to be the Europeans who are going to have to step up. The United States wants nothing to do with that. If anything, the United States has been taking Russia's side in this conflict over Ukraine. So Stammer is bringing together the European allies to talk about that.

We heard yesterday that Justin Trudeau would be attending this summit to add Canada's voice to that future planning. We did hear Justin Trudeau, he put out a tweet yesterday voicing his support for Ukraine, but of course Canada is in a very delicate position right now. It wants to support Ukraine, but the United States is set to bring down tariffs on Canada starting next week, and so the government's trying to balance supporting Ukraine with not getting on the wrong side of Donald Trump. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. The first phase of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has ended.

The negotiating teams for both sides are returning from Cairo, but no sign of a new deal yet. The CBC's Sasha Petrosic reports from Jerusalem. The talks in Cairo have not ended, but they're not making much headway either. Hamas has said that it is rejecting Israel's formulation to extend the first phase of the ceasefire, a phase which actually ends formally today, and has delivered 33 hostages out of Gaza, Israelis, and in exchange released some 2000 Palestinians from Israeli prisons. But Israel wants to continue releasing more hostages without moving on to phase two, because it doesn't really want to pull out of Gaza with its military.

And that's one of the conditions of that second phase. It's something that Hamas really wants and therefore it is reluctant to simply extend the first phase because it sees those hostages as the only way to push Israel to get out of Gaza and effectively end the war. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. Canada could be facing tariffs from the US as early as Tuesday. CBC radio's The House was in Washington this week. Host Catherine Cullen has more. Well it is a busy day. Canada's ambassador to the

United States Kirsten Hillman is in the midst of a blitz to demonstrate Canada is serious about border security and keeping Trump's tariffs off. She's been accompanied across Capitol Hill by cabinet ministers and Canada's new Fentanyl Tsar, Kevin Brosseau. He says U.S. lawmakers are interested in his new role. I'd say the reaction has been very positive. Something Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar attested to. I was really impressed to hear from the Fentanyl Tsar of Canada.

But some lawmakers are harder sells. Hillman also met with Florida Republican and Trump ally Congressman Byron Donalds. Hillman said she pointed out his district sells a lot of fruit and vegetables to Canada and that tariffs and counter tariffs would stop that. We will be buying from, I don't know, Chile, Mexico, Peru, I don't know where, but not your congressional district. She says it's important that Americans know that while Canada wants to be friends, the alternative will cause a lot of pain on both sides.

Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Washington. And you can hear more on the House coming up after the 9 o'clock edition of World Report. Liberal leadership candidate Krisha Friedland weighed in on the proposed tariffs last night, appearing on the show Real Time with Bill Maher. You're our neighbors and it was just a shock for Canadians. The President of the United States is saying repeatedly that he wants to use economic coercion to force us to become the 51st state. I take it seriously and Canadians do too.

The HBO show airs on Crave in Canada. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Pig. [♪upbeat music playing.♪