The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/01 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: March 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/01 at 13:00 EST

What does a mummified Egyptian child, the Parthenon marbles of Greece and an Irish giant all have in common? They are all stuff the British stole. Maybe. Join me, Mark Fennell, as I travel around the globe uncovering the shocking stories of how some, let's call them ill-gotten, artifacts made it to faraway institutions. Spoiler, it was probably the British. Don't miss a brand new season of Stuff the British Style. Watch it free on CBC Gem. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Peter Dock. Ukraine's president got a warm welcome

from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London. Well, let me just say that you're very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. Thank you very much, Keir. I saw a lot of people and I want to thank you, people of the United Kingdom, for such big support from the very beginning of this war. Thank you, your team. After a public be raiding at the White House yesterday, Vladimir Zelensky is holding talks

with Starmor today. Tomorrow he'll meet with Starmor, European Union leaders and Canada's Prime Minister. CBC reporter Tom Perry has more. 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. Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland weighed in on the proposed tariffs during an appearance 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. Meanwhile, in a magazine interview, Trump took credit for what he claimed was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's decision

to fire Freeland. In fact, she had been offered another post but chose to resign. He also told the magazine, Pierre Poliev's biggest problem is that he's not a MAGA guy. The first phase of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has ended. Negotiators from both sides are trying to come up with a deal for a second phase, no sign of a new deal yet.

Egyptian sources say Israel wants six more weeks of the current deal while Hamas wants an end to the conflict. CBC reporter Sasha Petrusic has the latest 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 2,000 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. Sascha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. And the Vatican says Pope Francis had a peaceful night after yesterday's breathing difficulties. Francis has been in hospital for more than two weeks fighting double pneumonia. Doctors say it will be a day or two before they can assess the impact of yesterday's respiratory crisis. The pope is still in guarded condition, meaning he is not out of danger.

And that is your World This Hour. Remember you can listen to us as a podcast, updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Peter Duck.