The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 12:00 EDT

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the At Issue podcast every week, wherever you listen. 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 Vladimir Zelensky had some choice words for the US response to the attacks. Reporter Dominic Vallaitis 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 Mikolayev said three women had been injured and several buildings damaged in another Russian strike. In his overnight address, Zelenskyy found 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 Vlaitus for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. NDP leader Jack Midsingh is campaigning in Nova Scotia today.

Affordable housing is his topic. Singh 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 evictions and demovictions. 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 jock up rent. The NDP says any province or municipality wanting federal funds for housing will need to adopt adapt laws to protect renters. Now Singh is heading to Montreal later this afternoon. Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet is also in Quebec attending events in a Montreal suburb. Conservative leader Pierre Pauliev will make stops in Metro Vancouver. Liberal leader Mark Carney is in Victoria. Green co-leaders will split their day. One will be in BC, the other in New Brunswick.

Pope Francis has made his first public appearance since being discharged from hospital two weeks ago. Bon domenica a tutti. Grazie tanto. 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 baseball bat maker is suddenly making it big in the big leagues B45 baseball is a Quebec City bat maker who among other manufacturers is making the so-called

Torpedo bat the New York Yankees have already hit 27 homers in eight games, some of their players using the bat. Rachel Watts reports. 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 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 planet, 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 ailer I would try I wanted 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.