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00:00Canada's attempt to lower tensions this Thursday night.
00:07Two cabinet ministers and Ontario's premier are in America's capital.
00:12We want a constructive meeting.
00:13Canada only works as a state.
00:15The threats Trump repeated about NATO members in front of the head of NATO.
00:20A BC woman detained by U.S. immigration.
00:23This may take months for her to get out of custody.
00:26Why she was arrested and the inhumane conditions she says she's endured.
00:31And hoping for a homecoming.
00:33The mission to bring two astronauts back to earth after a prolonged delay.
00:39Global National with Donna Friesen.
00:46Good evening and thanks for joining us.
00:48Tariffs are at the top of the news again.
00:51Ontario's premier has made another trip to Washington along with two federal cabinet
00:55ministers after the U.S. Commerce Secretary appeared to offer Canada an olive branch.
01:00The hope was to lower the temperature of the escalating trade war.
01:04But while meeting NATO's Secretary General today, President Trump said he has not changed
01:09his mind nor has he changed his tone.
01:13And to be honest with you, Canada only works as a state.
01:15It doesn't we don't need anything they have.
01:18It's so perfect as a great and cherished state.
01:24I'm singing O Canada, the national anthem.
01:27I love it.
01:28I think it's great.
01:29Keep it.
01:30But it'll be for the state, one of our greatest states.
01:33Maybe our greatest state.
01:34David Akin has our top story on another high stakes meeting in the American capital.
01:40Federal cabinet ministers Dominic LeBlanc and Francois-Philippe Champagne along with
01:44Ontario Premier Doug Ford headed to Washington hoping to get the U.S. to lift existing tariffs
01:50on Canadian imports and prevent any further tariffs.
01:54But they had barely cleared Canadian airspace when Donald Trump said he had no intention
01:59of backing down.
02:00Look, we've been ripped off for years and we're not going to be ripped off anymore.
02:04No, I'm not going to bend at all.
02:06Aluminum or steel or cars, we're not going to bend.
02:11And yet four hours after Trump made those comments, Ford emerged from a meeting with
02:15Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick feeling encouraged.
02:19We shared a tremendous amount of views back and forth and I'm feeling very positive.
02:26The meeting ran an hour and 45 minutes and they'll do it all again next week.
02:31We made sure that they understand that we're here to defend Canadian interests, that there's
02:36a potential for a reset as well where you have now a new prime minister that is going
02:41to be sworn in tomorrow.
02:43Lutnick invited the Canadians to Washington Tuesday after Trump hit the roof when Ontario
02:49imposed a 25 percent export tariff on electricity it sells to about a million and a half Americans.
02:56Ford paused those electricity tariffs and agreed to today's meeting.
03:00And while Ford said his meeting today with Lutnick was civil, Lutnick started the day
03:05on the Bloomberg television program Surveillance slamming Canada and the EU for pushing back
03:11on Trump's tariffs, while Lutnick praised the United Kingdom and Mexico who have, so
03:16far at least, not retaliated.
03:19Europe and Canada do not respect Donald Trump and do not respect America's ability to build
03:25its steel and aluminum industry, which is vital for national security, whereas you watch
03:30Mexico and you watch the UK be pragmatic and thoughtful.
03:35Trump meanwhile repeated the falsehood that the U.S. subsidizes Canada.
03:39In the case of Canada, we're spending $200 billion a year to subsidize Canada.
03:44The U.S., of course, has a trade deficit with Canada because it buys so much oil, lumber,
03:50manufactured products and other goods from Canada.
03:54That was a point the Canadian delegation was set to hammer home with Lutnick this afternoon.
03:59Donna?
04:00OK, David Aiken, thank you.
04:02B.C.'s premier is mapping out his response to the trade war.
04:05He has tabled legislation to allow B.C.'s government to cut red tape and regulations
04:10to take fast action against Trump's threats.
04:14He has no regard for the chaos that he's causing because we feel this is part of his
04:20strategy to hurt the Canadian economy and to force us into his vision of annexation
04:28to the United States of America.
04:31B.C. intends to impose tolls on commercial vehicles carrying goods from Washington state
04:35to Alaska.
04:37And B.C. Hydro has banned Tesla products from its electric vehicle rebate program.
04:42President Trump's pick to be the next U.S. ambassador to Canada mostly stuck to diplomatic
04:47language during his Senate confirmation hearing today.
04:51Would you agree that Canada is a sovereign state and should not be even jokingly referred
04:56to as the 51st state?
05:01Canada is a sovereign state, yes.
05:04How the president and the relationship between the former prime minister in Canada, the characteristics
05:12and nature of that relationship, I don't know.
05:17The former congressman from Michigan steered clear of annexation talk.
05:21He said if confirmed as U.S. ambassador to Canada, his goal is to grow the business relationship
05:27between the two countries.
05:29Canadian and U.S. stocks continued their slide today.
05:32The TSX plunged to a four-month low and the Dow Jones was another 500 points down.
05:37The S&P 500 fell 1.4 percent today.
05:40The index is down more than 10 percent from its peak less than a month ago.
05:45The Nasdaq was down a further 2 percent.
05:49At this low point in Canada-U.S. relations, the American secretary of state, Marco Rubio,
05:54landed in Quebec for a meeting of G7 foreign ministers.
05:58As Taria Isry reports, peace and stability are on the agenda and Canada's European allies
06:04are showing their support.
06:07The G7 family photo.
06:09Behind the smiles, there's some family dysfunction.
06:13Internal tensions America's top diplomat did not want to discuss.
06:17Mr. Rubio, is it appropriate for a G7 member to threaten the sovereignty of another G7
06:23member?
06:24U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's trip to Charlevoix marks the highest level visit
06:29by the second Trump administration to this country.
06:32Canada only works as a state.
06:34Almost daily, Donald Trump repeats his threat to make Canada the 51st state.
06:39Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie did not address the annexation threat or tariffs
06:44in her opening remarks.
06:46Peace and stability is on the top of our agenda.
06:50Even if it's not on the official agenda, there's a lot of talk about the Trump administration's
06:55push to absorb its northern neighbor.
06:58The answer is very clear.
06:59Canada will be Canada also in the future.
07:01Germany's foreign minister is showing her support.
07:04Especially in moments when your heart is really beating, it's important to keep a calm head.
07:13We are actually wearing the Canadian colors for solidarity.
07:16Despite the show of solidarity, countries have been careful about openly criticizing
07:21the U.S.
07:22They're keeping their heads low because they're worried that you stick your head up over the
07:25parapet and it's apt to get shot off.
07:28The U.S. has hit every country with steel and aluminum tariffs, including those in the
07:33G7, an organization made up of the world's leading democracies, which is also trying
07:40to find consensus on the war in Ukraine.
07:45Canada holds the G7 presidency this year.
07:48The main event, which will be the Leaders' Summit, will be held this June in Kananaskis,
07:53Alberta.
07:54By then, Canada will have a new prime minister confronting Trump's threats in front of an
07:58international audience.
08:00Donna Turia-Israe in La Malbaie, Quebec, thank you.
08:04And one last note about tariffs.
08:06Trump is demanding the EU rescind what he calls a nasty 50% tariff on American whiskey.
08:11If it doesn't, he says he will impose a 200% tariff on alcohol from EU countries.
08:17Liquor is among $40 billion worth of U.S. products being targeted by the EU in retaliation
08:23for those tariffs on steel and aluminum.
08:27On his final day as prime minister, Justin Trudeau posted a farewell message to Canadians.
08:33I'm proud to have served a country full of people who stand up for what's right, rise
08:38to every occasion, and always have each other's backs.
08:41My only ask is that no matter what the world throws at us, you always be the same.
08:48Trudeau will resign tomorrow morning, and Mark Carney will be sworn in as prime minister
08:52at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
08:54Carney will also unveil his new cabinet at that ceremony.
08:58Russian President Vladimir Putin says the fighting must end in Ukraine, but whether
09:02the U.S.-brokered ceasefire might actually happen is far from certain.
09:06Putin says there are issues that need to be discussed.
09:09Ukraine's president says Putin's response to the ceasefire proposal is manipulative.
09:14And President Trump, he said he hopes Russia will do the right thing.
09:19Both men say they want to talk.
09:21Redmond Shannon looks at where things stand.
09:24Vladimir Putin is asked what the world has waited two days to find out.
09:31Will he accept the U.S.-Ukraine 30-day ceasefire plan?
09:36We agree with the proposals to cease hostilities.
09:39A positive sounding answer at first, but there are conditions.
09:45This cessation should lead to long-term peace and would eliminate the original causes of
09:49this crisis.
09:51Putin's causes include the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO, which the U.S. now says
09:56is off the table.
09:58But there is also Putin's false claim Ukraine is led by neo-Nazis.
10:03He knows there is little prospect of a changing government in Ukraine in the near future.
10:08Putin's maximalist demands in Ukraine have not changed.
10:12He wants to destroy Ukraine as a country and he does not want it to become part of NATO
10:17and the European Union.
10:20And there is the timing of this peace proposal.
10:23Putin's troops are retaking much of the Russian land occupied by Ukraine since last year.
10:30An advantage he will want to press home.
10:33Putin visited the region Wednesday.
10:37Who will figure out how and when the ceasefire is broken?
10:40These are many of the questions that need to be analyzed carefully.
10:43Putin met with Washington's special envoy Thursday and the Russian president says he
10:47is prepared to speak with his U.S. counterpart directly.
10:51No, he put out a very promising statement, but it wasn't complete.
10:56And yeah, I'd love to meet with him or talk to him, but we have to get it over with fast.
11:01You know, every day people are being killed.
11:04Vladimir Zelensky called Putin's response predictable and said the Russian leader is
11:09just afraid to tell Trump directly that he wants to keep the war going.
11:14Redmond Shannon, Global News, London.
11:17Russia's war on Ukraine was one of the issues when NATO Secretary General met Trump at the
11:22White House today.
11:23Getting assurances for America's ongoing support for NATO was also on the agenda.
11:28And as Trump repeated his threats to annex Canada and Greenland, NATO's secretary general
11:33sitting right next to him said nothing.
11:36Candace Cole reports.
11:39President Trump's meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte appeared to be one of mutual
11:43admiration.
11:45Trump boasting of his support for Rutte.
11:47It's great to be with a friend of mine.
11:50And Rutte praising Trump for the E.U.'s $800 billion defense package to support Ukraine.
11:55When you look at Trump 47, what happened the last couple of weeks is really staggering.
12:02During their sit down at the White House, Trump reiterated the need for a ceasefire
12:06between Russia and Ukraine, vowed not to back down on tariffs against Canada, and when asked
12:11about his plans to annex Greenland.
12:13Well, I think it will happen.
12:15I'm sitting with a man that could be very instrumental.
12:17Rutte says he'll stay out of the discussion of whether Greenland should join the U.S.,
12:22but...
12:23When it comes to the high north and the Arctic, you are totally right.
12:26The Chinese are now using these routes.
12:27We know that the Russians are re-arming.
12:29There are seven Arctic countries working together on this under U.S. leadership.
12:33It's very important to make sure that that region, that part of the world stays safe.
12:37Trump has repeatedly mentioned taking over Greenland, citing security threats from China
12:42and Russia.
12:43However...
12:44This would be illegal unless Greenland sort of provides the green light to actually do
12:51that.
12:52Greenland has already said it does not want to be part of the United States.
12:56An all out takeover would be unprecedented because Greenland is part of Denmark, a NATO
13:01member.
13:02The same goes for Trump's talk of making Canada the 51st state.
13:06It would essentially break up NATO because you can't trust the Americans.
13:10I think that has become very clear since the Trump administration has taken over.
13:17Legal treaties, international law, international principles, norms don't matter anymore.
13:22Trump also did not rule out re-establishing his relationship with North Korea dictator
13:27Kim Jong-un.
13:28Donna?
13:29Candace Cole, thank you.
13:36Protesters get inside Trump Tower in New York.
13:38Calling up what they're demanding, plus calls to free a Canadian woman from a U.S. immigration
13:44detention center.
13:56About 100 people were arrested after they occupied the lobby of Trump Tower in New York
14:00City today.
14:01They're from a group called Jewish Voice for Peace.
14:04They're demanding the release of Palestinian activist and former Columbia University student
14:09Mahmoud Khalil.
14:10He is facing deportation from the U.S. despite having legal status in the country.
14:15The Trump administration alleges Khalil is a supporter of Hamas.
14:20The family and friends of a Vancouver woman are pleading for help after she was detained
14:24by U.S. immigration officers while trying to cross into the country from Mexico.
14:29As Neetu Garcher reports, Jasmine Mooney has been held for 10 days in what she says
14:34are brutal and inhumane conditions.
14:37This is Holy Water.
14:39This Canadian businesswoman, founder of a water health drink brand, is speaking out
14:43after being held in what her family calls inhumane conditions at an American detention
14:48center.
14:49She was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, on March 3rd after crossing
14:54the border between Mexico and San Diego.
14:58Speaking with ABC 10 News, she describes what happened.
15:12Her mother says she was held for three nights at the border before being transferred while
15:16handcuffed and in chains to a detention center in San Diego and later moved to a facility
15:22in Arizona.
15:23I was put in a cell, and I had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, with an
15:29aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body for two and a half days.
15:34There are girls, women that have been in here for a week, for months, and have not been
15:40told anything.
15:41Mooney moved to L.A. in the summer of 2024, working on her business with a three-year
15:46work visa, which she applied for successfully by entering the U.S. from Mexico.
15:51She was trying to do the same thing after her first visa was unexpectedly revoked in
15:55November.
15:56Lawyer Len Saunders does not represent her, but says he spoke with her a few weeks ago.
16:01When she told me she was going there, I advised her not to, only because of the current political
16:06climate.
16:07She may be down there for a few more months, minimum.
16:10Global Affairs Canada says the government can't intervene in the entry or exit requirements
16:14of other countries.
16:16What I am livid about is the length of time she's been in custody and the inhumane living
16:22conditions these women have been in.
16:24The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says ICE has made more than 32,000 arrests since
16:30President Trump's inauguration, and its detention centers are at capacity.
16:35Legal experts say it's hard to understand why U.S. authorities would expend so many
16:39resources on a Canadian with no criminal record and no charges, leaving many wondering if
16:44they're making an example of people like Mooney to send a message.
16:48Neetu Garcha, Global News, Vancouver.
16:52Donatella Versace is stepping down as the creative director of the Italian fashion house
16:57Versace.
16:58After nearly three decades being in the top job at the luxury brand, the 69-year-old says
17:03she's giving it up.
17:04She took over after her brother and company founder Gianni Versace was murdered in Miami
17:09in 1997.
17:11Donatella will continue with the company in the role of chief brand ambassador.
17:16The announcement is fueling speculation Versace will be sold to rival Italian fashion brand
17:21Prada.
17:22Still ahead, what's being blamed for a sudden surge in measles cases in Ontario.
17:35It was 12 years ago today that Pope Francis was elected head of the Roman Catholic Church
17:40To celebrate, the Vatican says the medical staff brought a cake with candles to the Pope's
17:44hospital room.
17:46Doctors say the latest chest x-ray shows the 88-year-old's condition is improving, though
17:51they warn his recovery from double pneumonia remains fragile.
17:55Pope Francis has not been seen in public since he was hospitalized nearly a month ago.
18:01Measles is on the rise in Ontario, mostly among unvaccinated people.
18:05Public health officials say the number of reported cases have more than doubled over
18:09the past two weeks, and since the end of February, 195 new cases have been reported.
18:15They're largely connected to an ongoing outbreak that began in October, which has now been
18:19linked to almost 400 cases.
18:22Last year, there were just 146 measles cases reported across the entire country.
18:28A new study suggests the time it takes the brain to recover from a sports-related concussion
18:33varies widely from person to person.
18:36Researchers at the University of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital assessed the MRI scans
18:40of more than 100 athletes before and after they suffered mild brain trauma.
18:45Catherine Ward explains what they found and what it suggests about when athletes should
18:50be cleared to return to play.
18:53When athletes get hit, and brains are damaged.
18:57The big question is how long does it take for the brain to recover from these injuries.
19:01New research adds to a growing body of evidence that long after people are cleared to return
19:05to play after a concussion, evidence of the injury can remain.
19:09The heat maps here represent the effects of concussion on the brain.
19:13Lead author Nathan Churchill was part of the team that followed 187 varsity athletes.
19:19Each had their brains scanned at the beginning of their athletic season, and again if they
19:23got a concussion.
19:25For some, signs of the injury could be seen up to a year later, when looking at MRI scans
19:30even though they did not have symptoms.
19:32We still saw decreases in blood flow.
19:36We saw signs of injury to brain tissue.
19:38We saw signs of inflammation.
19:39Ravi Menon is a professor of medical biophysics at Western University in Ontario.
19:45There is the concern that if you get another concussion, this could be additive or actually
19:50be something that puts you over the top for other future issues.
19:56These experts say more study is needed to figure out if return to play guidelines require
20:01changing.
20:02The rules that we have are based on symptoms and what this paper and many others previously
20:08show is that the symptoms resolve before the physiologic changes in the brain.
20:15Now whether that is important or not is something we still don't understand.
20:19We want to get a better understanding going forwards of what are the cumulative effects
20:23and at what point does this new normal turn out to have negative consequences for the
20:27athletes.
20:28Catherine Ward, Global News, Toronto.
20:33Another setback for two astronauts on the International Space Station.
20:44A European Space Agency probe is on a cosmic road trip and did a flyby of Mars and it got
20:49within a thousand kilometres of the Mars moon Deimos.
20:53That's Mars in the background.
20:55Astronomers think the moon may be an asteroid captured in Mars' orbit or a chunk of the
21:00planet itself.
21:02NASA is going to try again to launch a mission to the International Space Station.
21:07A SpaceX rocket was set to blast off yesterday but that was scrubbed at the last minute.
21:12It means two American astronauts are still waiting for a ride home.
21:16They went up for about a week and ended up staying there for nine months.
21:20So as Heather Urich's West explains, to say they are stranded is more fiction than fact.
21:26We're coming up to get you.
21:27I've authorised Elon.
21:29It's a story full of drama and heroics.
21:31Two American astronauts stranded in space set to be rescued at long last thanks to the
21:37US president and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
21:41You've got to get them out.
21:42Problem is the pair doesn't actually need to be rescued at all.
21:46Every day is interesting because we're up in space and it's a lot of fun.
21:49Yes, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were originally scheduled to return to Earth last June.
21:55The pair travelled to the ISS on the Boeing Starliner, taking the new spacecraft on its
22:00first piloted test flight.
22:02There were some issues during launch with some helium leaks and some thruster failures.
22:08So they weren't sure if it would be really safe for the astronauts to return back with
22:13the same system.
22:14Not wanting to repeat a disaster like what happened with the space shuttle Columbia when
22:18seven astronauts were killed upon re-entry in 2003, NASA decided to bring Starliner back
22:24to Earth with nobody on board.
22:27Williams and Wilmore would join the mission of the next team of scientists scheduled to
22:31command the ISS, known as Crew 9.
22:34If there really was an urgent situation, could they have used one of the capsules at the
22:39International Space Station to bring them home?
22:41Sure they could have.
22:42In the event of an emergency, there are always at least two spacecrafts at the ISS capable
22:48of bringing every astronaut home.
22:50But until now, there hasn't been a need.
22:53Instead, the pair will come home with the rest of Crew 9 this week.
22:57Elon is going to go up and get them.
23:01Should I go on that journey just to be on the ship?
23:03The spacecraft carrying not Musk or Trump, just the four astronauts of Crew 10.
23:09Heather Yurek's West Global News, Calgary.
23:13And that is Global National for this Thursday.
23:15I'm Donna Friesen.
23:16Tonight's Your Canada showcases Sudbury, Ontario, Whitehorse and Mr. PG in Prince George,
23:23BC.
23:24Keep them coming.
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23:29And thanks for watching.
23:30Jeff Semple will be at the anchor desk tomorrow, and I will see you again on Monday.
23:34Bye-bye.