The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/16 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/16 at 12:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fague. The U.S. has carried out large-scale attacks on Houthi rebel sites in Yemen. Video released by U.S. 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. US Secretary of State Marco

Rubio says US strikes on Yemen will continue until the Houthis no longer have the capability to attack global shipping and the US Navy. 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 2.30am local time in a town east of the capital, Skopje. Video from the nightclub shows sparks from the pyrotechnics igniting the ceiling above the band. Officials say 155 others were 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 gonna 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. More than a thousand Voice of America employees have been placed on indefinite leave. It follows US President Donald Trump's order to pull funding from its parent company and eliminate all activities that aren't required by law. Dominic Vallidis reports. Voice of America was set up in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda during the Second World War. The US-funded broadcaster, described as a beacon for populations living under totalitarian rule,

went on to reach some 360 million people a week. The news may be good or bad. But more than 1,300 Voice of America employees have now been placed on administrative leave after US President Donald Trump ordered the gutting of the media outlet's parent organization, the US Agency for Global Media. But Trump has also ordered terminating grants to Radio Free Europe, which broadcasts to countries in Eastern Europe, including Russia and occupied Ukraine. Radio Free Asia, which broadcasts to China and North Korea, has also been stripped of its funding.

Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. 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 and packed two weeks worth of food and supplies. But ten days into his trip, stormy weather 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.