The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/16 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/16 at 19:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. Mark Carney is heading out on his first international tour as prime minister. He's meeting officials from the UK and France. Catherine Cullen is covering the trip. It's unusual for a prime minister to leave on an overseas trip so soon after being sworn in. But Mark Carney is trying to send a message. As US President Donald Trump attacks Canada in a tariff war, he's emphasizing Canada's friends. He'll meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and then UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. They'll talk trade and the economic potential of artificial intelligence,

as well as international security. All three countries are speaking up in support of Ukraine and Carney has just spoken with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Carney is also expected to meet with the King while in London and he'll cap off his trip stopping in a Caluit to send a message about Canadian Arctic sovereignty. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Montreal. Canada's ambassador to the US says the government's strategy in navigating the trade war with Washington should aim to be less reactive to every comment made by the Trump administration. I just think we need to kind of not always take every single interview completely to heart and it doesn't mean

that it's not it's appropriate but on the other hand we are we are having to move from here to a place where we can solve these problems with the Americans. Kirsten Hillman was at a meeting this past week with US Commerce Secretary Howard Letnick and Ontario Premier Doug Ford. She echoes Ford's sentiment that it was a constructive meeting and says the conversation gave him an opportunity to push back on how the U.S. trade agenda doesn't recognize the importance of the Canada-U.S. relationship. In Alberta, the union representing more than 4,000 school support workers says they've reached tentative deals that could end a two-month strike as early as Wednesday. The Canadian

Union of Public Employees says the contracts are for staff with the Edmonton Public School Board, as well as the public and Catholic school boards in Fort McMurray. Severe weather has created a path of destruction across the central and southern U.S. At least 36 people were killed across six states after high wind gusts, hail, and a string of tornadoes. Phil Blechianak reports. And he says, get to my house now because there's two of them headed your way. Outside what's left of his home in Calera, Alabama, Tim Streakland says he escaped to a friend's house

just before the tornado struck. And so we loaded up and we left, leaving the cats and dogs. We just got out of here. As soon as we got up there. It was here more than half a dozen states in the U. S. Southeast and Midwest were hit with destructive winds that spawn powerful tornadoes in Butler County, Missouri. Tiffany Bowles says her gas station took a direct hit. I mean, this is all big loss. We've lost all of our pumps. They were pulled out

of the ground. More than 50 tornadoes were reported nationwide according to the US National Weather Service. Hundreds of thousands are without power. Extreme weather warnings remain in place for Florida up through Pennsylvania Sunday as the massive storm moves eastward and out into the Atlantic Ocean. Philip LeShannock, CBC News, Toronto. Thousands jammed Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach today. Not there to party, they were supporting former president Yerbero Senero, who's awaiting a Supreme Court decision later this month on

whether there's enough evidence to try him. He's accused of trying to overthrow the government with the January 6th-style storming of the country's presidential palace, Congress, and Supreme Court. The world's getting its first look at Pope Francis in more than a month. The Vatican has released a photo showing the Pope celebrating mass in the hospital chapel. He's being treated for double pneumonia. Outside, some dancers are trying to lift the pontiff spirits. The sound of the tango, a favorite dance of Pope Francis. One of the dancers called it a way to send energy and love through movement.

And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood.