The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 at 13:00 EDT

1942, Europe. Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. They make him a member of Hitler's army. But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. Could a story so unbelievable be true? I'm Dan Goldberg. I'm from CBC's Personally, Toy Soldier. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Angie Seth. Major stock markets are bouncing back today, days after Trump's sweeping tariff plan caused worldwide turmoil. But the US trade representative says it's not Wall Street he's concerned tariff plan caused worldwide turmoil. But the U.S. Trade Representative says it's not Wall Street he's concerned about.

It's Main Street. Jamie Greer insists Trump's sweeping tariff plan is good for the U.S. economy. He's speaking at a congressional finance hearing. Katie Nicholson has more. I'm kind of offended by your testimony that says we must accept self-inflicted economic pain. Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto pushing hard on U.S. Trade Representative

Jameson Greer. Greer also had to answer tough questions from Republicans like James Lankford, who pressed him on what American retailers who sell clothing made in Asian countries are expected to do. The president has been clear that he does not intend to have exclusions and exemptions. While Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan asked Greer what it might take to call off the plan. Would the administration reverse course if the president's tariffs led to 10% inflation? Senator, the president is fixed in his purpose. This trade deficit and the offshore and loss of manufacturing jobs is something that has

persisted for too long. Tomorrow Greer may face more of the same before the House's chief tax rating committee. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Washington. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev is in Edmonton today. He's promising to lower taxes for Canadians by cracking down on offshore tax havens. We will be naming a bring-it-home economic and tax task force whose mandate will be to ensure that we close overseas tax havens and force the very wealthy to pay what they owe. Pauliev also wants to create a name and shame publication to expose corporations evading taxes. He says his proposed measures can recover as much as one1 billion a year in lost revenues. As for the others, NDB leader Jagmeet Singh

is in Vancouver, Liberal leader Mark Carney is also in BC, he's in Delta, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet is in Ottawa, and Green Party co-leader Elizabeth May is in Guelph, Ontario. UN chief Antonio Gutierrez says more than a month after the Gaza ceasefire was broken the territory has become a killing field and a total blockade by Israel has strangled UN's capacity for delivering life-saving aid. No food, no fuel, no medicine, no commercial supplies. As aid has dried up, the floodgates of horror have reopened.

Guterres says Israel is not fulfilling its obligations as occupying power under international law, and he is demanding an independent investigation into the deaths of humanitarian workers in the Gaza Strip, including those working for the UN. Ukraine Meantime has summoned China's ambassador to launch an official protest. President Vladimir Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces have captured two Chinese men fighting on Russia's side in eastern Ukraine. Dominic Velaitis reports. And then what? Commander. Footage released by Ukraine shows one of the two Chinese men its forces claim to have captured.

Wearing military overalls, he makes explosion sounds and points in the air as if shooting as he explains the situation. At a press conference, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the two men were captured in Dornetsk region with Chinese ID and bank cards in their possession. And in a separate post on social media, he said Kiev has information that many more Chinese citizens are serving in Russian military units. But he stopped short of suggesting they were there on Beijing's orders. Beijing, which is a close ally of Moscow, has not commented on the claims. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia.

At least 27 people are dead after the roof of a nightclub collapsed in the Dominican Republic. It happened early today in the capital of Santo Domingo. Officials say the governor of Monte Cristo, a province in the northwest, is among the dead. And more than 150 people were injured. It remains unclear what triggered the collapse. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Angie Seth.