The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/02 at 16:00 EST

Episode Date: March 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/02 at 16:00 EST

Larry Driscoll confessed to a murder that he swears he did not commit. And yet in 2015, Driscoll found himself in a police station describing the crime. And there was a confrontation in the vehicle. I think she was trying to take my billfold and I went to defend myself to try to push her out of the car. I'm Kathleen Goltar and this week on Crime Story, the interrogation that sent an innocent man to prison. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour.

I'm Jasmyn Seppiades. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says tariffs will be levied on Canadian and Mexican goods on Tuesday. But it's not clear if President Donald Trump will make those tariffs 25 percent. They have done a lot so he's sort of thinking about right now how exactly he wants to play it with Mexico and Canada and that is a fluid situation. There are going to be tariffs on Tuesday on Mexico and Canada exactly what they are. We're going to leave that for the president and his team to negotiate.

Lutnick also said the U.S. will levy an additional 10 percent tariff increase on Chinese goods. If the U.S. does apply tariffs, Canada is ready. Internal Trade Minister Anita Anand says Ottawa's strategy will remain the same no matter what Washington does or decides to do. The only rational response from the Canadian government is the one that we are taking which is we have put out our policy response and we will implement that policy response meeting those tariffs dollar for dollar. Anand says Canada will respond to the U.S. with $155 billion in retaliatory tariffs on targeted American imports. European and NATO leaders have wrapped up their meeting on how to continue supporting Ukraine in its battle against

Russia's invasion. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer organized the meeting and says they've come up with a four-part plan. First, we will keep the military aid flowing and keep increasing the economic pressure on Russia. Second, we agreed that any lasting peace must ensure Ukraine's sovereignty and security. And Ukraine must be at the table. Third, in the event of a peace deal, we will keep boosting Ukraine's own defensive capabilities

to deter any future invasion. Fourth, we will go further to develop a coalition of the willing to defend a deal in Ukraine. The UK is prepared to back this with boots on the ground and planes in the air together with others. Europe must do the heavy listing. Stammer also said US involvement was essential and he does not see Washington as an unreliable ally. Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended President Donald Trump

after he berated the Ukraine president on live television on Friday. Rubio says Trump is focused on peace. And the sooner everyone grows up around here and figures out that this is a bad war that's heading in a bad direction that could spiral into a broader conflict, the sooner people grow up and realize that I think the more progress we're going to be able to make. The meeting between Trump and Zelensky was arranged so the two could sign a deal on Ukrainian critical minerals. In the end, no deal was signed and Zelensky was thrown out of the White House.

And the United Nations is calling on Israel to immediately resume the flow of aid into Gaza and for Hamas to release all hostages. This is negotiations on a second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement teeter on the brink. Philip Leschanak has the latest. We fulfilled all our commitments. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says the first stage of the temporary ceasefire is over so aid trucks can no longer enter or leave the Gaza Strip. He says with the 42-day first phase done, negotiations about what happens next are deadlocked.

SAR says Israel agreed to a U.S. proposal to extend the first phase in return for more hostages. Unfortunately, it was rejected by Hamas. The next phase would have seen Israeli troops begin to leave Gaza. Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem says by closing the border and denying aid to Gazans, Israel has broken the ceasefire agreement and accused the country of weaponizing hunger. To move on to the second phase of the ceasefire agreement, it hopes to have a proposal before an emergency Arab summit on March 4th. Philip Le Chat Noc, CBC News, Toronto. And that is The World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Jasmine Sepulis.