The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/16 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/16 at 08:00 EDT

In Scarborough, there's this fire behind our eyes. A passion in our bellies. It's in the hearts of our neighbors. The eyes of our nurses. And the hands of our doctors. It's what makes Scarborough, Scarborough. In our hospitals, we do more than anyone thought possible. We've less than anyone could imagine.

But it's time to imagine what we can do with more. Join Scarborough Health Network and together, we can turn grit into greatness. Donate at lovescarborough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fague. The US has carried out large scale attacks on Houthi rebel sites in Yemen.

Video released by US Central Command shows missiles rebel sites in Yemen. Video released by US Central Command shows missiles being launched from an undisclosed location. The Houthis say more than 30 people were killed by the strikes on the capital of Sana'a. More than 100 others are reportedly injured. For months, the Iranian-backed militants have been disrupting international shipping in the Red Sea. A fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia has killed at least 59 people.

Fire crews work to bring the blaze under control. It happened at about 2.35 a.m. local time in a town east of the capital Skopje. Video from the nightclub shows sparks from the pyrotechnics in igniting the ceiling above the band. Officials say about 100 people are injured and are being treated in local hospitals. Severe weather in the US is being blamed for at least 34 deaths.

Powerful weekend tornadoes have been tearing through the American Midwest and Southeast. Steve Futterman has more. Oh my God. There are harrowing stories of people barely escaping, some posting those moments on social media. Jerrica McCoy compared it to Hurricane Katrina. We went through Katrina, but we've never experienced anything like this. She was inside a camper with her family in Mississippi when the tornado hit, knocking the camper over. All I could hear is my six-year-old screaming that she didn't want to die.

You know, you don't want to hear that coming out of your baby's mouth. Entire neighborhoods have been leveled. Homes and trees, no match for powerful winds. All that's left now are scattered remnants. In Missouri, at least a half dozen people have died. This man lives near St. Louis. I had glass flying everywhere into my face, my arms and everything. All this woman could do was hide in her basement. I thought that we were going to die. We didn't know what was happening. The storm continues to move east.

Today there could be flooding and possibly new tornadoes on the east coast. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. China's foreign ministry has expressed outrage over an increase of U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports because of the fentanyl trade. President Donald Trump says the additional 20 percent tariffs are in retaliation for China not doing enough to stem the flow of chemicals used in the production of the deadly opioid. Laura Westbrook reports on a growing trade war between the two countries. Beijing is stepping up its rhetoric towards the United States, this week accusing Washington of using tariffs as a pretext to a trade war.

In a recent government paper, China set out its efforts in controlling chemicals used to make fentanyl, which kills thousands of Americans a year. Under the Biden administration, the two countries restarted fentanyl cooperation last year. But Donald Trump says China is not moving hard and fast enough. But that will be difficult. Drew Thompson from Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy says there is a mismatch between expectations of what

constitutes cooperation and what Trump wants. I don't think the United States appreciates or particularly cares, immense regulatory challenge that China faces. With Trump's approach to China involving more stick and less carrot, Wu warns that will only lead to more friction between the world's two largest economies. Laura Westbrook for CBC News, Hong Kong. In Peru, a fisherman describes eating cockroaches, turtles and birds to survive after spending 95 days lost in the Pacific Ocean.

Maximo Napa set off from the coastal town of Marcona on December 7th. He packed two weeks worth of food and supplies, but ten days into his trip, stormy weather there, threw him off course and into the Pacific Ocean. On Wednesday, he was scooped up nearly 1,100 kilometers off the country's coast. Napa says it was thoughts of his family, including his two-month-old granddaughter, that helped him survive. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.