The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/01 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: March 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/01 at 11:00 EST

I'm Jeff Turner, host of the podcast On Drugs. Each episode I take a deep dive into a different aspect of drug culture. And this season we cover everything from the popularity of ketamine to the enduring allure of tobacco. We explore the age of ozempic and the magic and mystery of anesthesia. You can listen to episodes of On Drugs wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague. Please, you think that if you will speak very loudly about the war you can speak?

He's not speaking loudly. He's not speaking loudly. Your country is in big trouble. Can I answer? No, no. You've done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble. I know. You're not winning. You're not winning this. 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, Justin Trudeau. The CBC's Tom Perry is traveling 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 in 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 from both sides are returning from Cairo, but no sign of a new deal yet.

Egyptian sources say Israel wants six more weeks of the current deal, while Hamas wants a second phase and an end to the war. The CBC's Sasha Petrusic 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. Two buses have crashed in Bolivia, leaving multiple people dead. According to local authorities, the accident occurred in the western Potosi region early

this morning on the route between the cities of Uyuni and Kolchani. At least 33 people were killed and several others injured. One of the buses was headed to a local festival. In Turkey, after 40 years of bloody conflict, the outlawed Kurdish group, the PKK, has declared a ceasefire with the state. It comes after the group's jail leader called on members to lay down their arms. The Kurdistan's Workers' Party has been fighting for autonomy and Kurdish minority rights in Turkey since the 1980s. Turkey considers it a terrorist group. It's also designated as a terrorist organization by the EU and the United States. Liberal leadership

candidate Krista Freeland 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 show airs on Crave here in Canada. And that is Your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.