The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 10:00 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 Kiev. 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 US response to the attacks. Reporter Dominic Vilaitis has the latest. Air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine overnight. In the capital, Kyiv, 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 criticised the U.S. embassy in Ukraine for what he described as its surprisingly disappointing response to the attack. Dominic Vleitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. NDP leader Jack Mitzsing is campaigning in Nova Scotia this morning. Affordable housing is his topic today. Mitzsing says too many people don't have a safe, affordable place to live. Our plan is national rent control. We want to make sure that people actually have protections, that renters are protected. Our plan is to end fixed-term leases. We want to end rent ev people actually have protections, that renters are protected. Our plan is to end fixed term leases.

We want to end rent evictions and dem evictions. We want to strengthen tenant unions to be able to negotiate for their tenants with the landlords. We want to end the collusion that's going on where large corporate landlords are colluding to jack up rent. The NDP says any province or municipality wanting federal funds for housing will need to adopt laws to protect renters and Singh is heading to Montreal later today. Meanwhile, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is also in Quebec attending events

in a Montreal suburb. Conservative leader Pierre Bolliev is on the west coast making stops in Metro Vancouver. The Liberal and Green parties have not yet released the leaders' itineraries. The U.S. is revoking all visas for South Sudanese citizens. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also blocking any new arrivals from the country. South Sudanese in the U.S. had been granted temporarily protected status. Rubio says Juba is failing to repatriate its citizens in a timely way. A Canadian baseball bat maker is suddenly making it big in the big leagues. B-45 baseball is a Quebec City bat maker and among the manufacturers trying to keep up with the demand of

the so-called torpedo bat. The New York Yankees have already hit 27 homers in eight games, many of their players using that torpedo lumber. Rachel Watts reports. So basically we have a torpedo bat. Bat maker Manuel Buffard is busy sanding and sawing in the B45 baseball factory. He's making a lot more torpedo bats than usual. It's unlike a regular bat. The torpedo was designed by an MIT physicist and brings the most amount of wood or mass

to the part of the bat where contact most often happens. B45 baseball has been making the bats for about a year. Mary-Pierre Gaslin is the general manager. As of last Saturday, demand for torpedoes was zero. And now that's all, that's basically all the requests we've been getting. Just this week they received interest from about 30 players in the MLB. It's a small plant, it's a small team, so it's, we're a little tired, we didn't expect that

for sure but it's exciting. Assistant General Manager Olivier Le Pen doesn't know how long interest will last. But if I was an aider I would try, I want to try that bad, of course, because I want to see if it helps me get better results. Rachel Watts, CBC News, Quebec City. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.