The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/01 at 15:00 EST

Episode Date: March 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/01 at 15:00 EST

1942, Europe. Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. They make him a member of Hitler's army. But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. Could a story so unbelievable be true? I'm Dan Goldberg. I'm from CBC's Personally, Toy Soldier. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. 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. 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, such big support from the very beginning of this war. Thank you, your team. After a public berating at the White House yesterday, Vladimir Zelensky held talks with Starmor today. Tomorrow, he will meet with Starmor and leaders of the European Union and NATO,

including 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. 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. 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.

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. Liberal leadership candidate Christa Freeland weighed in on the proposed American 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, President Donald 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 Vatican's latest update on Pope Francis says he's in stable condition after having a respiratory crisis yesterday.

He is still getting high flow supplemental oxygen but had no lung spasms today. The pope has no fever, he is feeding himself and reading. The 88-year-old has been in hospital more than two weeks battling double pneumonia. And in France's Reunion Island territory in the Indian Ocean, people are clearing down trees and debris after cyclone Garance hit. It left four people dead and caused extensive damage. Ten percent of the population has no drinking water. That is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Peter Dock.