The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/17 at 01:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/17 at 01:00 EDT

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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 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 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 Iqaluit to send a message about Canadian Arctic sovereignty. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Montreal. Canada is now getting a better understanding of what exactly Donald Trump is trying to accomplish with his tariff agenda. As Katie Simpson reports, key members of his administration are sharing expanded details of what the

plan will look like. 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 is looking to establish new deals with all of its trading partners. We're going to reset the baseline. 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.

US President Donald Trump said he would speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday as he tries to end the war in Ukraine. Trump revealed the upcoming chat to reporters while flying from Florida to Washington on Air Force One tonight. He said land and power plants are part of the conversation. Trump described it as dividing up certain assets. Severe weather has left a path of destruction across the central and southern US. At least 36 people were killed across six states after a high wind gusts, hail and a string of tornadoes. Philip Lee Shanock 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 hit. 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 Bowles 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 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 favorite dance of Pope Francis. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.