The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/29 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: December 29, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/29 at 00:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. A plan to stop the war in Ukraine remains out of reach tonight at a meeting in Florida, both U.S. President Donald Trump, and Ukraine's Volonimir Zelenskyy insisted progress is being made. But as Karen Paul's reports, Russian President Vladimir Putin is undermining that optimism. After a closely watched meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida, progress, but

no deal. We're getting a lot closer. We have a great achievements. 20-point peace plan, 90% agreed, and U.S. Ukraine security guarantees. The revised 20-point peace plan includes a possible demilitarized economic zone monitored

by an international force. But it appears there was little progress on a major sticking point. Ukrainian territorial concessions in the Donbass region. Perhaps the biggest obstacle of all, Russian president Vladimir Putin. He wasn't at the Mar-a-Lago meeting,

but Trump spoke with him by phone. He wants to see it happen. He wants to see it. He told me very strongly. I believe him. But just Saturday, Putin had a very different take on state media. If the authorities in Kiev

don't want to settle this business peacefully, he says, will resolve all the problems before us by military means. Karen Paul's, CBC News, Washington. The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin-Kurdy, says he will form a new government after his party won half the votes in Sunday's election, signaling a possible end to the year-long political deadlock that has paralyzed the country and delayed key international funding.

Once the results will be certified by Central Election Commission, we should swiftly constitute a parliament out of 10th legislation. later and then form immediately new government. We don't have time to lose. Kurti won elections last February, but failed to get a majority and couldn't reach a coalition deal with other parties. Alberta RCMP have charged a 42-year-old man with two counts of second degree murder after two people were killed near Grand Prairie early Saturday morning. They've been identified as 54-year-old David Lagasse and 44-year-old Michelle Lagas. Police say the suspect and the deceased were known to each other. Curtis Philip Halliday is now in custody.

He's supposed to make a court appearance January 8th. It's been almost a year since U.S. alcohol was taken off many Canadian shelves. Some Canadian distillers say they have yet to see gains from America's loss. Now U.S. distillers are fighting to get their products back on the market. Michelle Allen reports. Toronto distillery owner Chris Jack says it's been a tumultuous few years. years for the spirits industry. After the province pulled U.S. liquor off the shelves, he had hoped more consumers would buy Canadian. But personally, I've seen a small increase, but it's not

massive. American distilleries are taking a hit. They say exports to Canada have decreased as much as 85 percent. A trade group representing liquor producers submitted a complaint to the U.S. government, accusing Canadian retailers of favoring local alcohol over booze from south of the border, which it says isn't fair. Some provinces have recorded an increase in diminutive. for Canadian products. Year-end numbers from Ontario's liquor board show a 20% increase in local products, but Jack says many Canadian distilleries

aren't seeing much extra sales, particularly small local ones like his. There hasn't been a huge push to bring awareness to new products. Only Alberta and Saskatchewan have lifted their ban on American booze. It's not clear when or if Ontario will do the same. Michelle Allen,

CBC News, Toronto. And finally. One of the greatest green beauties of the 20th century has died. Bridget Bardot's cinema career spanned 28 movies. She became an international celebrity as a sexualized teen bride in the 1956 film and God-created woman. Bardot later became an animal rights activist, Bridget Bardot dead at 91. And that is your world this hour.

I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.