The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/28 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: December 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/28 at 07:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. bro.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Kumar. Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Ukrainian President Volodymers Zelensky in Halifax on Saturday, ending with the promise of more financial help for the war-porn 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. Salensky reiterated his view that Russia was dragging its feet on ending 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. Selansky is now in the U.S. where he'll meet with President Donald Trump today in hopes of making a peace deal to end the war. Meantime in Ukraine, days of heavy Russian bombardment have left thousands without power across the country. Moscow has testified its attacks to put pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymy Zelensky as he attempts to negotiate a peace deal with U.S. President Donald Trump. Ukrainians are watching the meeting closely, including European leaders.

Anna Cunningham reports from London. In Ukraine's capital, Kiev, there is hope that peace is around the corner, but also a sense that those hopes have been dushed before. The latest Russian strikes on Kiev were designed to send a message from the Kremlin. Speaking to his military command late Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin warns that without peace will resolve all the problems before us by military means, he says. Like Canada, European leaders are reiterating their full support for peace in Ukraine.

Some EU member countries who share borders with Russia and Ukraine are being cautious. Poland recently announcing it is investing in new anti-dron measures. Finland too has been strengthening its land. the border. But Russia remains critical of the EU. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lov telling the Russian State News Agency tasks that any European troops deployed to Ukraine would become legitimate targets for Russia's armed forces. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. It's Election Day in Myanmar. This is the first one since the military seized power nearly five years ago. The military

supervising the vote. It comes as the Civil War rages. across most of the country. Ontarians will now be able to put more products into their blue box starting in 2026. The province is now moving towards a privately operated recycling program. Michelle Song reports. Coffee cups, they'll be going to various mills. Starting January 1st, Ontario 1st, Ontario can throw into the blue bin coffee cups, deodorant sticks, and toothpaste tubes, among other new products.

Circular materials manages Ontario's recycling program. Alan Langdon is the CEO. We need to collect as much packaging as possible to ensure that we can meet material management targets. Ontario's new system takes the cost of recycling away from municipalities and puts it on to the companies who produce packaging, like big retailers, a recycling model now adopted by several provinces like Quebec and Nova Scotia. When it comes to this new list of products, waste management experts say it's one thing to collect them, but that doesn't mean it's all being turned into something new.

could be diverted back to the landfill. Cal Lacken is a professor at York University. Everything that you recycle loses some of its value and loses some of its properties. And so recycling should really be our last option and our focus should be on waste reduction. Michelle Song, CBC News, Toronto.

French actor and singer, Richard Bardot, has died at the age of 91. Bardot first became known internationally for her film career, typically, as a sultry sex symbol. She rose to fame in the 1956 movie and God-created woman. She then went on to appear in dozens of films

through the 1950s and 60s. In 1963, she released the song La Marag, which remains one of her best-known hits. And that is The World is Sauer. For CBC News, I'm Hill Kumar. Thank you.