The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 08:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague. At least one person is dead after an overnight strike in Kyiv. Ukrainian officials say Russia launched more than 100 drones and nearly two dozen missiles targeting the capital. A separate strike left at least three people injured and caused several fires. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had some choice words for the U.S. response to the attacks. Reporter Dominic

Velaitis has the latest. Air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine overnight. In the capital, Kiev, several office buildings were damaged and what the authorities said was another Russian missile attack. One man was killed. At least three others were injured. This morning, the damage was clear to see. A huge crater is visible. In one of

the buildings that was hit, debris is scattered all around. The early morning attack on the capital came after officials in Ukraine's southern region of Mykolaiv said three women had been injured and several buildings damaged in another Russian strike. In his overnight address, Zelensky thanked those allies which condemned the Russian missile and drone strikes. But in a separate post on social media, he criticized the U.S. embassy in Ukraine for what he described as its surprisingly disappointing response to the attack.

Dominic Vlaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. Conservative party leader Pierre Poliev is campaigning in British Columbia this weekend. Yesterday Poliev spoke to a raucous crowd of supporters at a campaign event in Penticton. Brady Strachan reports. Penticton who's ready for Canada? Supporters packed a large industrial warehouse to capacity with a few hundred people forced to listen to the campaign rally from outside. To ask some taxes. Conservative party leader Pierre Poliev spoke for an hour on topics such as the economy, crime,

the price of housing and standing up to the United States amidst a tariff war. Donald Trump doesn't get to pick our next prime minister. Canadians do and they want to put Canada first for a change. Poliev is the first federal party leader to campaign in the Okanagan this election. A fact not lost on supporters who came to the rally like John Allman. We need someone like Pierre, stands for the people. You can tell by the size of the crowds that come to see him. That's what matters, not the polls. That's all phony baloney. Poliev takes his campaign further west on Sunday, making stops in Bises Lower Mainland.

Brady Strachan, CBC News, Penticton, British Columbia. It's another busy day on the federal election campaign trail. Today Poliev will be making stops in Metro Vancouver. NDP leader Jack Midgsyng will be in Nova Scotia, then heads to Montreal. Bloc Québécois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is in Quebec. The Liberal and Green parties have not yet released their leaders' itineraries. A man is under arrest after an hours-long lockdown on Parliament Hill. Ottawa police say a man gained unauthorized access to the East Block yesterday afternoon before barricading himself inside the building.

The East Block houses parliamentary offices. Police initially warned those inside the building to get to the nearest room, lock the doors and hide. The building was later evacuated. Ottawa police say the man was taken into custody without incident. Pope Francis has made his first public appearance since being discharged from hospital two weeks ago. The crowd in St. Peter's Square cheers and applauds as the Pontiff greets them with a raspy voice. Francis spent five weeks in a Rome hospital battling life-threatening pneumonia. A Canadian scientist is the winner of a 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Dr. Daniel Drucker is an

endocrinology researcher at the University of Toronto. He won for his role in discovering the GLP-1 hormone. It's used in ozempic and other medications. Drucker and four of his colleagues received the $3 million US award. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.