
Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
Canada's new PM, Mark Carney, has said his country must reduce its reliance on the US and would instead turn towards what he described as its reliable European allies. Also: Antarctic base rocked by alleged assault.
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I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of the 18th of March these are our main stories. The new Canadian Prime Minister has said he wants to reduce security reliance on the United States.
The wave of trade tariffs initiated by Donald Trump has prompted the OECD to downgrade its global economic growth forecast. Rwanda has expelled all Belgian diplomats in a dramatic worsening of relations linked to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Also in this podcast... You get to know everything about the other person.
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An isolated team of scientists in Antarctica appeals for help after one member is accused of physical assault. Tradition has it that a new Prime Minister of Canada goes to the United States for their first visit abroad.
But with tensions fraught between the two neighbours, in particular over Donald Trump's trade tariffs, Mark Carney chose to come to Europe instead. His first stop was Paris to meet President Emmanuel Macron, followed by London for talks with King Charles and Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
At a news conference after the meeting, Mr Carney said he had achieved a great deal during his meetings. This 36 hours away from Canada, the focus is on security, deepening security partnerships with France, with the United Kingdom.
I'm encouraged by the progress that's been made. Secondly, advancing the support for Ukraine is very necessary.
We are taking back a lot, but we're also taking back a deepening of our core partnerships, which is the objective. Our chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette, was at Mr Carney's news conference, and I asked her if the Canadian prime minister had achieved a great deal, as he claims, with his meetings.
He certainly went into great detail about, without, he said there were certain things that were, in his words, very sensitive. But he wanted to convey a very strong impression that, first of all, these alliances were very, very strong and getting stronger, that they had very detailed discussions on strengthening security, including when it came to Ukraine, and on issues like critical minerals, artificial intelligence.
He said that a trade deal, a free trade deal with Britain wasn't the priority on this visit. So you got a sense that it was the broader sort of economic and strategic partnerships.
But Jonathan was asked repeatedly by almost all the Canadian journalists about, there's a concern in Canada that Canada's allies are not really standing up for it.
When President Trump keeps saying things like, I'm going to make Canada the 51st state, Canada would be better off in that way.
And when Mark Carney was asked about that, he basically said, well, he was very diplomatic about it, let me say, saying we don't need anyone to stand up for us.
What he did get from Sir Keir Starmer was the word sovereignty. And of course, King Charles also emphasised the sovereignty.
And he felt that that was good enough combined with what he got behind closed doors. And this all comes as he's expected to call a general election with Canadians really alarmed by Donald Trump's rhetoric.
It has completely transformed the Canadian political landscape. Before President Trump returned to the White House, the Liberal Party that now headed by Mark Carney was way behind in the polls.
They were not going to lose the next general election, they were going to lose badly. First, there was what they call a Trudeau bump.
When he said, I'm stepping down, the Liberal Party inched up in the polls. Then when President Trump started threatening Canada, Canadians made that the top priority.
And Mark Carney wants to present the image. He's a guy who knows all about trade and tariffs.
He criticizes his main opposition figure as being too much like Trump. So now the two main parties are neck and neck.
And it's been weeks now since we've heard Donald Trump talking about Canada becoming the 53rd state, referring to Justin Trudeau as Governor Trudeau. It still seems very hard to believe that the US could try to annex Canada.
It's extraordinary. I think Canadians initially were disappointed that this was coming from such a key ally.
Then there was disbelief. How can they in 2025, how can he possibly be saying this? And now there's like huge defiance saying that it's just, to use Mark Carney's terms, this is never ever going to happen, not in any way, shape or form.
The latest poll by the Angus Reid Institute said that 91% of Canadians said they don't want to be the 51st state, which, of course, raises the question is, who are the 9%? There are a few flying the Canadian flag. But the concern is, and this is partly behind Mark Carney's visit, is the Canadian economy, 80% of Canada's exports go to the United States.
Canada is 10% of the size of the United States. The former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that what President Trump was trying to do was collapse the Canadian economy to force Canada to join.
And Mark Carney made it clear tonight there's a limit to which Canada will not be able to match dollar for dollar, as he says, the American tariffs. Lise Doucette.
The US has told EU officials that it's withdrawing from an international group investigating Russian leaders for crimes associated with the invasion of Ukraine. It's part of a foreign policy shift by the Trump administration as it pushes for a Ukrainian peace deal.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will hold a phone conversation on Tuesday. Mr Trump has said the two men will talk about dividing up land and power plants.
Moscow has been accused of dragging its feet in the peace discussions after a US ceasefire deal was backed by Ukraine last week. Our correspondent in Kyiv, James Landau, reports.
Donald Trump is bent on keeping the diplomatic ball moving. He wants an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin says yes, maybe, but first let's discuss Russia's terms and conditions. In the face of what some see as stalling tactics, President Trump will call his Russian counterpart to maintain momentum in the negotiations.
Speaking on a rather noisy Air Force One, he claimed there was a very good chance of peace. I think we'll be talking about land.
It's a lot different than it was before the wars, you know. We'll be talking about power plants.
That's a big question. But I think we have a lot of it already discussed very much by both sides.
Ukraine and Russia. We're already talking about that, dividing up certain assets.
So what might that mean? It's not entirely clear, but it's thought there are discussions about how best to draw up a ceasefire line in areas where the front line bisects towns and villages. The president was also referring to
the future of the massive nuclear power plant at Zaporizhia, an enabling town, all currently under
Russian control. But President Putin says any ceasefire must not only address questions of
detail such as this, but also what he sees as the root causes of the war, namely an expanding NATO
Thank you. says any ceasefire must not only address questions of detail such as this, but also what he sees as the root causes of the war, namely an expanding NATO and a sovereign Ukraine.
All this is making European leaders cautious, including the EU foreign affairs chief, Kaya Callas. Those conditions that they have presented, it shows that they don't really want peace, actually, because they are presenting as conditions all their ultimate goals that they want to achieve from the war.
As for Ukraine, they too have red lines, as set out by Oleksandr Moreshko, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament, in an interview with the BBC. We will never agree to any territorial concessions.
Second, it's about our membership in international organisations, in particular in NATO. Putin shouldn't decide that.
And finally, we cannot agree to Putin's suggesting some kind of limits on our defence capabilities. So much now depends on the call between the two leaders.
Will Mr call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? Rebecca Kesby spoke to Scott Lucas, Professor of US and international politics at the Clinton Institute at University College Dublin. The bottom line here is, is that this is going to be the Kremlin's attempt to flip Donald Trump by giving him something shiny.
This long awaited call with Vladimir Putin to overtake the narrative of the Ukraine-US ceasefire deal, which is there on the table, and which, of course, Moscow is rejecting. We've known that for almost a decade that this is what Putin does to Donald Trump.
He pulls him aside like he did in 2017 at a G20 meeting in Germany. He gets him at a summit like he did in 2018 at Finland.
And through a combination of both flattering Trump and then putting Trump down, he actually advances Moscow's goals. And we need to be very clear what those goals are here.
Putin and the foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, are still pushing the maximalist Russian position here. They want recognition of Russia's occupation, seizure of almost 25% of Ukraine.
They want a lifting of the US sanctions on Moscow. And they want Ukraine to be weak and demilitarized with not only with no path into NATO, but with really no security guarantees from the West.
And the Kremlin thinks they can get Trump to move towards those conditions with this call. So you're using the word flip.
I wonder if you could just explain what that actually means. And from what you're saying, then, is President Trump likely to be exposed? And why has his team allowed him to be in that position? Well, I mean, the reason why the team allows him to be in this position is Donald Trump gets what he wants when it comes to photo opportunities and invitations.
We saw that with North Korea in the first term. We've seen it with other leaders.
In terms of why I say flip, remember that only two and a half weeks ago, we were talking about Donald Trump pushing the Kremlin's lines that Vladimir Zelensky was a dictator, that he had no public support. And then we had that catastrophic meeting in the White House where J.D.
Vance almost ambushed Zelensky. But then there are others in the Trump administration who still favor backing Ukraine.
They don't want to side with Putin. So they worked with the Ukrainians and with the Europeans, including Keir Starmer here in the UK, to get this Ukraine-U.S.
ceasefire proposal on the table. That put the Kremlin on the defensive.
Now they couldn't advance their goals. They had to look like the bad guys by rejecting the ceasefire or by trying to shift the narrative.
And that brings us to this call, which is if they get Trump to sort of support on social media, which will be his first reaction, their lines, then they've overtaken that ceasefire proposal. And they've given the initiative back to those in the Trump administration, including J.D.
Vance, who favoured no assistance to Ukraine. But doesn't Moscow owe Mr.
Trump something? Because he has taken a lot of flack for speaking to Putin in the first place, something that Joe Biden never did directly. And, you know, Mr.
Trump's been accused of giving away too many concessions of appeasement, almost. He's really sort of gone out to try and extend the hand to Moscow, potentially, you know, risk to his own political reputation.
Yeah, but what they owe Trump, what they give Trump, is the shiny object of the call itself and playing to Trump's ego that he is, as he likes to frame himself, the peacemaker. Scott Lucas from the Clinton Institute at University College Dublin.
A new global economic forecast has predicted that the trade war unleashed by Donald Trump will hit growth and raise inflation around the world. The OECD's chief economist, Alvaro Pereira, told the BBC the organisation was cutting growth forecasts for almost all major economies.
Michelle Fleury reports. The OECD is attempting to assess the impact of President Trump's trade war in its latest update on the global economy.
It concludes that tariffs will be bad for global economic growth and have a significant effect on living standards. Growth in the US is forecast to slow dramatically, according to the Paris-based group, with inflation likely to pick up this year.
And the outlook for Canada and Mexico is even worse. President Trump has imposed tariffs on once close allies like Canada, Mexico and the European Union, as well as rivals like China, with more tariffs expected at the start of April.
Michelle Fleury. In yet another example of how the Trump administration is escalating its controversial immigration policies, a medical professor was deported to Lebanon this weekend, despite having a valid work visa.
The Brown University professor, Rasha Alouia, a kidney transplant specialist, had flown back to the US after a trip to Lebanon. But she was deported despite a judge's order blocking the move.
The Department of Homeland Security says this was because she had attended the funeral of the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Her deportation came as the US also deported more than 250 mainly Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, despite a judge also ordering a halt to those flights.
Our North America correspondent, Nomia Iqbal, has the latest. Rasha Alouia is 34.
She's a transplant doctor and assistant professor at Brown University based in Rhode Island. And she'd been in the US since 2018 on an H-1B visa.
So these are visas typically issued to foreigners who've got special skills for a job that an employer would say they can't get an American to do. But court documents show that in February, she went to Lebanon for what she thought would be a short visit, but was delayed in returning while trying to get paperwork from the US consulate in Beirut.
And her cousin filed a petition on her behalf. You had a US district court judge on Friday saying that the federal government must give 48 hours notice to the court before her removal from the country.
But she was already put on a flight back to Lebanon by US Customs and Border Protection. Do we have any indications why she's been deported, given that she has this visa and her skills are in short supply, apparently, in the US? Well, Homeland Security has sent us a statement alleging that she told agents during her detainment that she had travelled to Beirut last month to attend the funeral of the dead Hezbollah leader Hassan Nazrallah.
Now, tens of thousands of people attended the funeral. It was held at a 48,000 seat stadium in Beirut.
But of course, Hezbollah is considered a terrorist group by the US. They also claimed she had pictures of the Iran's Ayatollah on her phone.
But she reportedly said that this was not a political reason why she went to the funeral or why she had the pictures, but it was more of a religious one. As a Shia Muslim, she said that they were important religious figures and it wasn't anything political.
Nonetheless, the university has sent an email advising international students and faculty members to avoid international travel due to potential changes and travel restrictions and travel bans. This all comes at a time when the Trump administration is really ramping up its efforts to deport people.
Noamia Iqbal. A Lithuanian chief prosecutor has said Russia's military intelligence service was behind an arson attack on an IKEA furniture store in Vilnius last year and on shops in Poland.
The Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, says Lithuania's revelations about arson attacks on businesses in Warsaw had confirmed his government's suspicions. Arrests have been made in both countries.
Our Eastern Europe correspondent, Sarah Rainsford, who's in Warsaw, told us more about the attacks, starting with the one in Lithuania. This is an attack in Vilnius, as you say, on an Ikea store there in the city.
It was a huge fire. It caused around about half a million euros worth of damage to the store.
And now what Lithuanian prosecutors are saying is that there was an explosive device that was planted in the store just before it closed for the evening. And they have linked two teenagers to that, what they're categorizing a terrorist attack.
They say they've got very detailed evidence about how the two operated. They say there was a whole organized group with multiple people involved.
They now have one young man who has been detained in Lithuania and one who's been detained here in Poland, both of them linked to this attack. And they say that they were traveling back and forth before they bought the materials that they used to carry out the attack, that they filmed the fire afterwards.
And the Lithuanian authorities are linking this quite directly, they say, to Russian intelligence. They're saying that the whole operation was run by Russian military intelligence, and they're describing that agency as a serious adversary which operates without rules.
That was the quote from the chief prosecutor who is involved in investigating this particular case. And were the teenagers, were they Russian? No, they were Ukrainian, And that's a kind of curious twist to this whole plot.
But it's not the only time when Ukrainians have been involved in this kind of thing. As you said, there has been a surge of sabotage and arson attacks across Eastern Europe, particularly the Baltics and here in Poland, in recent months over the past year or so.
And in many of those cases, some of the nationals involved have been Ukrainian. Now, in some cases that I've looked into, those have been pro-Russian Ukrainians, particularly one that was just prosecuted in Western Poland a few weeks ago and was given eight years for plotting an act of arson there.
In other cases, as in this case, what the prosecutors are saying is these are people who are acting for cash. They're saying that the pair involved in the attack on Ikea were given a BMW afterwards, and they were promised 10,000 euros payment for the attack.
So there is this very curious trend of using Ukrainians in particular. And I would suggest that probably from the Russian side, that's also about making people across Europe suspicious of Ukrainian nationals and undermining support for helping Ukraine in its war against Russia.
It's all, I think, part of what Russia's up to. Sarah Rainsford speaking to Sarah Montague.
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast. When the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, was overthrown last December by Islamist rebels, there was a small flicker of hope that perhaps this would mark an end to a decade of war and destruction that has seen hundreds of thousands killed, millions forced to flee Syria, and large swathes of the country reduced to ruins.
But those faint hopes were shaken this month after an outbreak of fighting in which hundreds of civilians, mostly from the same Alawite minority as the Assad family, were killed by security forces. With Syria's new Islamist rulers pledging to bring the perpetrators to justice, they have, for the first time, been taking part in an annual conference to gather aid pledges that Syrians desperately need.
The European Union is hosting the conference in Brussels. Announcing an aid package of $2.7 billion, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said Syrians needed help more than ever.
The future of Syria is for all Syrians to build, those who always fought for freedom and those who just discovered hope, those who fled and those who stayed. This must be the promise of the new Syria.
And we will do everything that is possible so that this can be fulfilled. But despite the dire situation in Syria, with 16 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, the funding fell short of last year's pledges after the US, which has been the biggest single donor, cut foreign aid.
In all, more than $6 billion were pledged. I asked BBC Arabic's Reda El Mawi, who was at the aid conference, whether it was enough to help start rebuilding Syria in a meaningful way.
In addition to the $2.7 billion pledged by the EU today, the European Investment Bank just announced it was allocating $1.5 billion to the neighboring countries. Other countries that are not part of the EU, like Britain, for example, the UK, pledged around £160 million for this year.
Switzerland pledged £60 million Swiss francs or $68 million. The World Bank as well mentioned the possibility of contributing up to $200 million.
Is this enough to help rebuilding Syria in a meaningful way? No. The Secretary General of the UN who was talking today said that during 14 years of war, Syria's economy has lost an estimated of $800 billion in GDP.
Whole cities need to be rebuilt. Whole economic sectors have been decimated not only by the war, but also by the sanctions that were gradually imposed on Syria since the start of the war in 2011.
And for the first time, a member of the Syrian government is attending the SAID conference. The new foreign minister, Assad al-Shibani, what has he been saying? Assad al-Shibani commended the suspension of some sanctions on vital sectors such as energy and transportation.
But he said these measures have yet to meet the aspirations of the Syrian people. He called the international community to continue lifting more economic sanctions on the country.
And he described this as a humanitarian and moral necessity. He also called on countries to contribute to their reconstruction efforts and also to encourage investment into Syria.
But European nations, while they want to help Syria, they also want to see its rulers do more to ensure a peaceful political transition, especially after the violence that we saw this month. Yes, Gaya Khalas, the head of diplomacy in the EU, even before the conference, said some new sanction might be imposed if the Syrian government doesn't conduct impartial and transparent investigation into these last events.
But during the conference itself, there was no much mention about this. They indeed said it is very important that all parts of Syrian society, ethnic groups and religious groups should be protected and should be also represented in future governments.
They also mentioned about the importance of the return of many refugees in Europe to Syria. So I sense that the EU also needs a stable Syrian government in order to tackle the problems back home in Europe, the refugee problems or the great number of refugees in countries like Germany, for example.
Reda El Mawi. Rwanda and Belgium have announced tit-for-tat expulsions of each other's diplomats as relations between the two countries worsen over the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
UN experts say that Rwanda is backing rebels in Congo that have seized large swathes of territory, a charge Kigali denies. Ansoi reports.
Rwanda accuses Brussels of undermining its government, taking sides in the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and of using what it calls
lies and manipulation to secure unjustified hostile opinion of the East African nation. The European Union has recently suspended defence ties and announced a review of a critical minerals deal with Rwanda over its alleged role in the DRC conflict.
Rwanda sees Brussels as a key instigator of these moves.
It has now demanded that Belgian diplomats leave its territory in 48 hours.
Brussels has in turn also expelled Rwanda's representatives.
The complete breakdown of relations comes a day after President Paul Kagame
threatened to stand up to his country's former colonial master.
Rwanda suspended development cooperation with Belgium a month ago. Ansoi.
Thousands of people have taken part in protests in North Macedonia, demanding justice and action against corruption, after a nightclub fire killed 59 people in the town of Kocheni at the weekend, many of them teenagers. The venue was allowed to operate despite not having a licence and one of its two exit doors was locked when the fire broke out.
Our Balkans correspondent Guy Delaney reports from Cocherny. Emotions are overflowing in Cocherny.
Young people took out their anger on a town centre cafe bar they believed had the same owner as the nightclub where a fire killed 59 people. The government says the barely converted carpet warehouse was operating with a fraudulent licence.
It only had one exit and the ceiling proved highly flammable when the band on stage lit pyrotechnics. In fact, justice was the word on thousands of lips in Kochani.
People came for a vigil-cum protest in the small central park. Many queued to sign a book of condolence.
Others simply stood and held up signs articulating what they were feeling. Unbearable and corruption were two of the most prevalent words.
That reflects the anger that people feel about the way things work in North Macedonia. An invitation to the protest said the system didn't provide security, well-being and justice.
This man's cousin lost his only child in the fire, a 19-year-old young man. So many young people have died.
They were aged from 16 to 24. That's a whole generation in Cocheney.
That's all I can say. We're suffering.
The government is aware it needs to move swiftly and decisively to avoid anger spreading across the country. Prime Minister Christian Mitskoski has repeated his warning that there'll be no mercy for anyone found to be responsible for the fire.
But there have already been calls for nationwide gatherings, and the name of the organizing group indicates the mood. Who's next? Guy Delaney in North Macedonia.
Taiwan has rejected Chinese accusations that four of its officials have carried out cyber attacks against China. The Chinese Ministry of State Security released pictures of the four Taiwanese men saying they'd been hired by a cyber warfare agency, the Information Communications and Electronic Force Command, or ISEFCOM, to carry out such attacks against the Chinese mainland.
The agency has responded by calling the accusations an ungrounded fabrication aimed at intimidating the Taiwanese public. Our China analyst Kerry Allen told us more.
Chinese state media have been putting out pictures today of four Taiwanese officials. They're all members of the ISF-COM.
And they're saying that these individuals operated using the name Anonymous64 and they spread false information on social media, very much to push a message of pro-independence for Taiwan. China's Ministry of State Security says they did this in a number of ways.
So it alleges that they infiltrated key information infrastructure on the mainland, including water, electricity, gas, heat, communications and networked cameras. It says they also steal logging credentials to gain control and insert Taiwanese propaganda.
Now, as you mentioned, the department in Taiwan has called this an ungrounded fabrication. They've said that this isn't true whatsoever.
And their comment today is that this message from Beijing is aimed at intimidating the Taiwanese public.
And has Beijing produced any evidence to back up its claims?
It doesn't appear they have, no.
So this all comes at a time of rising tensions between Taiwan and China and growing worries about Chinese influence operations against democratic Taiwan.
And it's expelled a Chinese influencer for saying that China should invade the island. It does, yes.
There have been increased tensions in recent years. And I would say ever since Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party came to power in 2016.
But they have particularly amplified in the last year since Taiwan's President Lai Ching-Tur came to power. He's made some strong statements about Beijing.
In fact, in the last week, he labeled China as a foreign hostile force. And that was widely regarded as being some of his strongest rhetoric yet.
As for this influencer who's been expelled from Taiwan, one of the concerns of Taiwan is that China is trying to increasingly use its soft power to influence opinion within Taiwan and to very much push a pro-Beijing message, a message of unification with mainland China. Kerry Allen.
It sounds like something out of a movie. An isolated South African research team in the Antarctic has appealed for help after one member was accused of physical assault and making death threats.
The group of scientists has called for immediate action to be taken. Our climate editor, Justin Rowlatt, who has been to the Antarctic himself, reports.
The Sunai base is one of the most remote places on earth. Ten people were preparing to spend the Antarctic winter there.
The extreme weather and 24-hour darkness meant they didn't expect to see another human being for six months or so. Then, an email last week claimed there'd been a violent attack.
It said there'd been threats to kill, creating an environment of fear and intimidation. Today, the South African authorities confirmed to the BBC there had been an assault.
It said it followed a dispute over a weather-dependent task that required a schedule change. Now, it doesn't sound like much, but those who've spent time in Antarctica say overwintering on a base can be an incredibly intense experience.
Dr Gabriel Walker is the author of a book on Antarctica. You get to know everything about the other person.
You know exactly how they put their coffee cup down and what direction the handle points in. You know that they scratch their nose three times before they sit down.
You know everything about them and in the bad circumstances
it can start to irritate you. If he does that thing one more time it's going to drive me crazy
because there's nothing else, there's no other stimulus and you're with people 24-7. Sources in
the Antarctic community say they understand the plan is to send a team to the base to help resolve
the issue. But with average temperatures of minus 23 Celsius and wind speeds of up to 135 miles an hour, getting that rescue team in is going to be very challenging.
Justin Rowlat. And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later.
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