The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/27 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: December 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/27 at 13:00 EST

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from cbc news the world this hour i'm kate mcgilfrey the prime minister just met with ukrainian president volatimier zelensky in halifax after the meeting mark carney announced an economic aid package for the war-torn country two and a half billion dollars worth of economic assistance that helps unlock financing from the iMF from the world bank from the european bank for reconstruction and development to begin this process of rebuilding While talking to the media, Zelensky reiterated Ukraine's commitment to peace. He says that Russia is dragging its feet on putting an end to the war and thanked Canada for its support. We need to stop this war in any way, and we need two things, pressure on Russia and sufficient strong support for Ukraine.

Zelensky made his Canada stop on his way to the U.S., where tomorrow he'll meet with Donald Trump and try to make inroads on a peace deal to end Russia's war in Ukraine. That war and its heavy costs continued overnight and into the morning. Russia attacked Ukraine's capitals with missiles and drones, killing one person and injuring 27 others. The CBC's John Northcott has more from London. Whether or not cooler heads prevail in ongoing diplomatic discussions, the war itself in Ukraine remains hot.

A 10-hour bombardment that saw deaths, power outages and large swaths of Kiev, about a third of the city, forced to go without heat, and temperatures hovering around the freezing point. Around 1 a.m. local time on Saturday morning, Russia launched what has been described, according to monitors, as a mass attack with hypersonic, ballistic, and cruise missiles. The country's president, Vladimir Zelensky,

said that in all, some 500 drones and 40 missiles were used by Russia. In pleading for greater allied aid, Zelensky called the attacks during the holiday season sick. He said that while Russia may be speaking of peace, It is the missiles that he argues are delivering their true message. John Northcott, CBC News, London. Thailand and Cambodia have signed a ceasefire agreement after three days of negotiating.

Now we invite the border side to proceed with the actions of the side copies of the dark statement. This puts a halt to weeks of fighting at their border. If peace holds for 72 hours, Thailand will repatriate 18 Cambodian soldiers captured earlier this year. Recent violence killed at least 100 people and displaced more than half a million people on both sides. The two countries have a long-standing border dispute dating back to 1907. The Canadian Navy is looking ahead to what its future fleet might look like, one concept being floated, an all-Canadian ice-capable landing ship to defend the Arctic. As Murray Brewster tells us, it's being considered as Ottawa prepares to pour billions into defense.

U.S. amphibious armored vehicles, rolling down the back ramp of the USS Portland off California last summer. The U.S. Marines able to deploy troops and equipment on a beach anywhere in the world. It's a capability Canada doesn't have, and the Navy is wondering whether it should. We examined what would happen if we had a small community in distress in the high Arctic in February. How could we get capability there? Vice Admiral Angus Topshi is commander of the Navy. We sort of realized that some form of Arctic mobile base probably made a lot of sense, and that is effectively what an amphibious ship is.

Topshey says an amphibious ship would also be useful for humanitarian relief operations overseas. The concept would solve a decades-old transportation problem for the military, one that, until now, it hasn't had the money to address. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. And the last of the Dionne Cuntouplets has died at age 91. And at Dion, along with her sisters, were global sensations when they were born in 1934 in Ontario. They were taken away from their parents when they were only a few months old by the Ontario government who put them in a nursery-style exhibition called Quintland.

The sisters later said they were damaged by this experience. Annette Dion was 91 years old. That is the world this hour. Get news anytime on our website, cbcnews.ca.com.ca. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.