The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/16 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/16 at 21:00 EDT

Struggling with debt? Help is available. Discover reliable solutions to help you get back on track. Visit Canada.ca slash debt dash solutions for support you can trust. A message from the government of Canada. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Herland. Mark Carney is heading out on his first international tour as Prime Minister. He's meeting officials from Britain and France.

The CBC's 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 U.S. President Donald Trump attacks Canada in 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. The world is now getting a better understanding of what exactly Donald Trump is trying to accomplish with his tariff agenda. Key members of his administration are sharing expanded details of what the plan will look like. Katie Simpson has more from Washington. We don't like the status quo. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained what it is the Trump administration is trying to achieve. Rubio said the US isS. is looking to establish

new deals with all of its trading partners. The baseline will be reset April 2nd when President Donald Trump is expected to impose new tariffs based on what he calls fairness. Reciprocal tariffs for countries that tax U.S. goods and or have trade policies the Trump administration does not like. Canada will be included in this. Members of Trump's cabinet are defending the strategy, including Treasury Secretary Scott Besant.

Either the tariff barriers come down, trade is fairer. If they don't do it, we'll take in substantial revenues. The current free trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico is set for a review this year. And it appears the Trump administration is trying to speed up that process. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. In Alberta, the union representing more than 4,000 school support workers says it's 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 left 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. Philip Bleschanok has more. 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 US southeast and Midwest were hit with destructive winds that spawned powerful tornadoes in Butler County, Missouri. Tiffany Bowl says her gas station took a direct hit. I mean, this is all a big loss. We've lost all of our pumps.

They were pulled out of the ground. More than 50 tornadoes were reported nationwide 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. The world is getting its first look at Pope Francis in more than a month. The Vatican has released a photo showing the leader of

the Catholic Church celebrating mass in the hospital chapel. He's being treated for double pneumonia. Outside some dancers are trying to lift the Pope's spirits. The sound of the tango, a favourite 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 Neal Herland.