The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/09 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/09 at 14:00 EDT

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We're hours away from finding out who will be the next Liberal leader and the country's next Prime Minister. The party's six-week leadership race wraps up this afternoon and the winner will be announced at a convention in Ottawa. Rosemary Barton tells us what to expect today and in the next few weeks. Well, Liberals have until 3 p.m. today to vote. There has been some problems with the voter ID process to get the voters into the system. But in spite of that, they say the party says that 145,000

people have already voted. And then it will be a question of who wins. It is a rank ballot and a point system. And we will find out later today who the winner is. We'll hear from former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and the current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. And it will also be an attempt for the Liberal Party to kind of rally the troops and set the course for what comes next. Of course, we've seen the Liberals have rebounded in the polls, not to the point where they've overtaken the Conservatives, but it has given the party some new expectations of momentum and possibility here. Rosemary Barton reporting from Ottawa. CBC Radio 1 will have special coverage beginning just before 5 p.m. Eastern of the Liberal leadership results hosted by Susan Bonner and Catherine Cullen.

Russian special forces crept for miles through a gas pipeline in an attempt to surprise Ukrainian soldiers in Russia's Kursk region. The Rus was part of an offensive aimed at cutting off thousands of Ukrainian troops who seized the Russian region last August. Dominic Valaitis has the details. Unverified footage from inside the pipeline appears to show Russian elite soldiers complaining and swearing about their mission. A 10-mile slog through a one and a half meter wide recently decommissioned gas pipeline. Some of the men reportedly spent several days inside the pipe before exiting and attacking Ukrainian soldiers from the rear near Sudza. The operation was part of a wider effort by Russia to recapture areas of its

Korsk region which were taken by Ukrainian forces in a shock offensive last year. Russian military bloggers claim the mission was a success and the elite soldiers are now fighting a major battle in Sudza. Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, say the men were promptly detected and attacked with rockets, artillery and drones. Dominic Vilaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. Syria is facing some of the worst violence since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad last December. Human rights groups say more than 1,000 people have been killed since Thursday, when clashes erupted between members of Assad's Alawite minority and regime fighters.

Krystal Guamantse has more. A social media video shows a crowd near the Latakia airport and a Russian military base chanting, people want Russian protection. Other graphic videos of bloodied bodies on the streets have also surfaced. Violence returned to several of Syria's coastal cities, including Latakia and Tardis, at the end of last week. Truckloads of government forces were sent to the region after fighters still loyal to deposed leader Bashar al-Assad, attacked government-run checkpoints. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says more than 700 civilians have been killed in

around 30 massacres targeting members of Assad's Alawite community. Possible revenge killings against the minority group. Assad was overthrown in December and fled to Russia. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, Jerusalem. In Queensland, Australia. Residents of Red Cliff cut fallen trees with a chainsaw after their town was hit by Elfrid, a downgraded tropical cyclone.

The storm brought fierce winds and heavy rains, causing localized flooding, leaving more than 300,000 homes and businesses without electricity. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.