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the Senate. The US House

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promises to give Germany a major

1:00

tourism boost. But more people means

1:03

more problems. We'll tell you how

1:05

that country is beefing up security.

1:08

And later, an ancient game is

1:10

attracting a young fan base. I'm

1:13

waiting for pregnant Nanda, for

1:15

Rosa, Alexandra and Tan. International

1:19

chess superstars are going head to

1:21

head in Toronto. Kief

1:30

finally has the answer it's waited

1:33

months for, one that

1:35

Ukraine's president says will save tens

1:37

of thousands of lives. After

1:39

fraught negotiations and delays, the

1:42

US House of Representatives today

1:44

approved 61 billion dollars

1:46

of military aid. It

1:48

is all but guaranteed to pass the

1:51

Senate and make its way to the

1:53

president's desk. Sasha Petrasik reports. On

1:55

this vote, the A's are 311 and the nays are 112. The

1:57

bill is passed. With

2:02

cheers and lots of

2:04

Ukrainian flag waving, Democrat

2:06

and Republican lawmakers overwhelmingly

2:08

supported 61 billion

2:11

dollars U.S. in aid

2:13

to Kiev, the most contentious part

2:15

of a complicated package of bills

2:18

that sparked much drama and took

2:20

months to pass the House of

2:22

Representatives. If we turn our backs

2:24

right now, the consequences could be devastating. Pushed

2:27

through by embattled Republican Speaker Mike

2:29

Johnson, who was still arguing with

2:32

some in his own party after

2:34

the vote about what's at stake.

2:36

It's a dangerous time. Three

2:39

of our primary adversaries, Russia and

2:41

Iran and China, are working together

2:44

and they're being aggressors around the

2:46

globe. The bills also include eight

2:48

billion dollars for Taiwan and 26

2:50

billion for Israel, whose support rose

2:53

here this week after

2:55

it was targeted by Iran.

2:57

For Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,

2:59

this is a lifeline which

3:01

he immediately acknowledged with Thank

3:03

You, America. Thank you, America.

3:08

I thank all American hearts who, like

3:11

us, feel that Russian evil must

3:13

not win, he says. In

3:17

recent weeks, the prospects of

3:19

a Russian military victory seemed

3:21

more likely, as Ukraine ran

3:23

low on ammunition and struggled

3:25

to repel Russian drones and

3:27

missiles. Zelensky pleading with

3:29

Washington for the kind of

3:32

defensive weapons Israel has. We

3:34

are telling this directly

3:36

to defend. We need

3:38

seven more patrols or

3:40

similar air defense systems,

3:43

and it's a minimum number. But

3:46

U.S. lawmakers dragged out debate in

3:48

a house narrowly controlled by Republicans.

3:51

Bogged down by a split among

3:53

them. Supporters of Donald

3:55

Trump, like Marjorie Taylor Greene,

3:57

who calls today's vote a...

4:00

sell out. We had members of

4:02

Congress in there waving the Ukrainian flag

4:04

on the United States House of Representatives

4:07

floor. While we're

4:09

doing nothing to secure our border, I think

4:11

every American in the country should be

4:13

serious. She's part

4:15

of a Republican faction trying to

4:18

oust Johnson, who succeeded in rallying

4:20

conservative hawks like Colorado's Doug Lamborn

4:22

for the vote to pass. Our

4:25

standing in the world is at stake.

4:27

The bills now go to the Senate,

4:29

where majority Democrats are likely to pass

4:32

them quickly. The White House says

4:34

it's ready to ship Ukraine's

4:36

military hardware right away. Sasha

4:39

Petrasik, CBC News, Washington.

4:42

As Sasha mentioned, the U.S. House is pledging

4:44

$26 billion for Israel, about one-third of which

4:49

is for people in need of

4:51

humanitarian aid, including in Gaza. Officials

4:55

from the territory's health ministry says

4:57

an Israeli airstrike on Friday killed

4:59

at least nine people. The

5:01

conflict has led to a dramatic

5:03

escalation of tensions in the Middle

5:06

East, with Israel and Iran launching

5:08

tit-for-tat strikes against one another. Sarah

5:11

McMillan has more. Bodies

5:15

covered in white sheets are transported

5:17

on stretchers outside a hospital in

5:19

Rafa. Local officials say

5:22

most of the victims in this latest

5:24

airstrike are children. A

5:28

man surveys rubble as people collect

5:30

belongings from destroyed buildings. We are

5:32

civilians, he says. How can they

5:34

bomb us like this? This

5:36

latest attack comes in a week where

5:39

many in the region have been watching

5:41

Israel and Iran and the mounting tensions

5:43

between those countries, with a series of

5:45

airstrikes threatening to engulf the Middle East

5:48

in a wider regional war. Yesterday,

5:51

Iran played down an apparent

5:53

Israeli airstrike near a major

5:55

airbase and nuclear site, indicating

5:57

they were pulling back from what could have been a an

6:00

all-out conflict. Meanwhile in Iraq,

6:02

authorities are investigating an explosion

6:05

there. Things

6:08

don't ever stay quiet. Sajin

6:10

Gohal is the International Security Director

6:12

at the Asia Pacific Foundation. He

6:14

says there seems to be a

6:17

moment of calm between Israel and

6:19

Iran, but says history shows that

6:21

likely won't last. Each side

6:23

seems to want to stoke

6:25

up tensions, be seen to

6:27

not lose face not

6:30

lose their own ability to

6:33

operate militarily and also to have

6:35

a deterrence. But with

6:37

the countries appearing to pull back

6:40

for now, attention is again turning

6:42

to Rafa. The city is the

6:44

last refuge for displaced Palestinians in

6:47

Gaza. With more than half of

6:49

the enclave's population of about 2.3

6:51

million now sheltering there. Earlier

6:54

this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

6:56

Netanyahu said a date was set

6:58

for a ground operation in Rafa.

7:01

There's a sort of been an eerie silence on that.

7:03

We have to watch this space to see whether they

7:05

go through with that or not. The

7:08

US and other allies have

7:10

urged restraint, saying that a

7:12

wide-scale Israeli military operation in

7:14

Rafa could make an already

7:17

dire humanitarian crisis much worse.

7:20

Sarah McMillan, CBC News, Toronto.

7:23

A prominent British-Palestinian doctor has

7:25

been denied entry into Germany.

7:28

He was set to speak at

7:30

a pro-Palestinian conference, which was shut

7:33

down by police. It's the

7:35

latest example of how Germany is struggling

7:37

to balance the right to free speech

7:39

with its historic support for Israel. Rebecca

7:42

Collard in Berlin has more. I

7:45

was asked what I was doing in Germany.

7:47

I told them that I'm here attending a

7:49

congress. Dr. Rassan Abusita recounts his

7:52

arrival in Berlin this month. The

7:55

British-Palestinian doctor was meant to be

7:57

the keynote speaker at the Palestinian

7:59

Congress. three-day conference in

8:01

the German capital. The surgeon

8:03

had spent more than 40 days

8:05

in Gaza, helping the injured and

8:07

speaking almost daily to international media.

8:09

But as a witness to

8:12

the crimes happening in Gaza,

8:14

I've been asked by the Congress

8:17

organizers to give my evidence to

8:20

what I had seen at Shifa and at Ali

8:22

hospitals. A German government spokesperson told CBC

8:24

News they could not comment on

8:26

why Abu Sita was denied entry

8:29

to the country, citing data protection

8:31

reasons. The conference organizers and

8:33

activists say it's a sign of

8:35

growing repression here of any criticism

8:37

of the war in Gaza or

8:39

German policy toward Israel. As

8:43

Abu Sita was being held in the Berlin airport,

8:45

German police shut down the conference he was meant

8:47

to attend. Organizers say when they

8:49

arrived at the venue, they were met by hundreds

8:52

of German police officers. News

8:56

posted online show police carrying a

8:58

well-known Jewish-Israeli activist in a watermelon

9:00

kippah out of the conference. According

9:02

to a government spokesperson, the

9:05

conference was shut down because

9:12

of Islamist propaganda and hatred

9:14

towards Jews. But Matt Devliger,

9:17

another Jewish activist attained by

9:19

police at the conference, disagrees.

9:22

Any German power

9:25

is going to call anything. They don't

9:27

like anti-Semitic. They've been calling Jews anti-Semitic.

9:29

Jews have been disproportionately canceled in this

9:31

country over the last month. And

9:34

they've used the term anti-Semitism against everything that

9:36

they don't like. Dr. Rosana Boussita

9:38

says at the end of his interrogation in

9:41

Berlin, he was told not only was he

9:43

banned from entering Germany until the end of

9:45

April. That they

9:47

threatened that even if I

9:50

tried to speak through

9:52

Zoom in Germany during that

9:54

period Or send

9:57

a recorded video to Germany from somewhere

9:59

else. That I would be

10:01

breaching the German law with the

10:03

risk of a fine or a

10:05

years in prison. And he is

10:07

not alone. Former Greek Finance Minister Yannis

10:09

out of focus was also supposed to

10:12

speak at the event, was informed he

10:14

was banned for making any political speeches

10:16

in Germany. Of the Federal

10:18

Republic of Germany burstyn and

10:21

prevented jews by the stadiums

10:23

and the rest of us

10:25

who wanted to have a

10:27

congress during which Skus peace,

10:30

reconciliation for Existence, universal Human

10:32

Rights and. Let Abu sitter their

10:34

focus was told he's not even

10:36

allowed to speak by video call

10:38

to Germany or send pre recorded

10:41

speeches from outside the country. With.

10:43

As a collared for Cbc News. Berlin.

10:50

Many young Canadians say home

10:52

ownership is simply unattainable, and

10:54

some experts agree. We

10:56

have allowed the dream that a good home to be

10:59

in reach for what hard work than or and will

11:01

allow their dreams and really with away. Coming

11:03

up, we'll explore the Federal government's

11:06

budget promise to help move again

11:08

Canadians eight. Is. Rentals and into.

11:10

The had diluted. Millions.

11:20

Of soccer fans will be flocking

11:22

to Germany in June. For the

11:25

twenty twenty four you waste. A

11:27

European Football Championship one of the

11:29

sport's biggest of than to the

11:32

Euros will pit the Continent's best

11:34

teams against one another. Nearly three

11:36

million people are expected to attend,

11:39

with millions more visiting Justice soak

11:41

up the atmosphere, but as Lauren

11:43

Sprawl in London reports, the huge

11:46

numbers are also bringing increasing security

11:48

and safety concerns. Insubordinate

11:53

insulin and intoxicated

11:55

thousands. Of England soccer fans

11:57

knocking other boundaries and hurdling past.

12:00

security guards in neon yellow vests. These

12:03

were the scenes at Wembley Stadium in London

12:05

just before the final match of Euro 2020.

12:08

Scenes the organizers of this year's Euros

12:11

are keen to avoid. Germany's

12:14

Interior Minister told members of the press

12:16

last month that the host nation would

12:18

work tirelessly to ensure Euro 2024 would

12:21

be a peaceful, memorable event. Which

12:24

might be easier said than done. Ultimately

12:26

what you're dealing with is largely

12:29

a bunch of drunken men transporting

12:31

themselves around a country. The Euros

12:33

are expected to welcome as many as 12 million people

12:36

just to soak up the atmosphere. Analyst

12:39

Martin Lodge says there is an inevitable

12:41

risk of violence when that many football

12:43

fans are in attendance. The

12:46

world cup final of 2006. The

12:48

last event of this magnitude Germany hosted was the

12:50

2006 World Cup which

12:53

Lodge says left little to improve upon.

12:55

In many ways this was such a successful event.

12:58

The problem is it went too well. In

13:01

that sense there was very little crowd

13:03

violence. Everyone was happy so it seems

13:05

like a very different world from

13:08

the present. The

13:10

pandemic, economic instability and the rise

13:12

of populist, sometimes extreme

13:14

politics in Europe, continues to divide

13:17

society according to analysts. Some

13:19

also blame these trends and an upset in

13:22

soccer-related violence. Data

13:26

released from the UK's home office last

13:28

year showed the number of arrests at

13:30

football matches in England and Wales was

13:32

the highest it's been in nine years.

13:34

But the behaviour of fans at the Euros

13:37

is not the only thing keeping organizers on

13:39

high alert. Major

13:43

sporting events have long been a

13:45

common target for terror attacks. A bomb

13:47

planted by the IRA during the 1996

13:50

Euros destroyed a shopping centre in Manchester,

13:52

although luckily no one was killed. In

14:00

2015, a suicide bomber was stopped

14:02

as he tried to enter the Stade de

14:04

France during an exhibition match between France and

14:06

Germany. But not before the

14:08

bomb detonated, killing one passerby. Of

14:11

course, the terrorist threat has changed. David Hawley

14:13

worked as a security advisor for the BBC during

14:15

the 2006 World Cup. Terrorist

14:18

groups are now operating in Europe. They

14:20

have sleeper cells. They obviously hit Moscow

14:22

recently and have hit all over Europe

14:25

in the last few years. So it

14:27

is a much higher, more

14:29

visible threat this time around. He says the

14:31

main challenge with preparing for these kinds

14:33

of mega events is how spread out

14:35

everyone is. There's going to be so

14:37

many targets. It's not just the Stade

14:39

de France. There are going to be

14:42

thousands of fans in fan zones, market

14:44

squares, wherever there's an open cafe or

14:46

pub. Germany has announced temporary border

14:48

controls for the duration of the tournament.

14:51

The interior minister says this is

14:53

to prevent possible perpetrators of violence

14:55

from entering the country. Lauren

14:59

Sproul, CBC News, London. A

15:03

New Brunswick man who spent decades

15:05

trying to clear his name after

15:07

a wrongful conviction has died. Last

15:10

month we brought you the story of Walter

15:12

Gillespie. He and his friend Robert

15:14

Mailman were convicted in the 1983 murder of a man

15:16

in St. John. Gillespie

15:20

spent 21 years in prison. The

15:23

two men got a new trial last

15:25

December and in early January they were

15:28

acquitted of all charges. Gillespie

15:30

died Friday at his home in St. John. He

15:33

was 80 years old. The

15:35

federal government's budget is promising

15:37

fairness for every generation and

15:39

two in particular are being

15:41

targeted. The Liberals laid out

15:43

a plan to help boost housing supply

15:46

and make home ownership a reality for

15:48

young Canadians. Evan Dyer looks

15:50

into that for us tonight. The

15:52

economy doesn't seem fair to young adults. This

15:55

week's budget rolled out with a new focus,

15:57

no longer the middle class and those working

15:59

to join it, but millennials and

16:01

Gen Z. That demographic,

16:04

in all honesty, we need

16:07

to beg their forgiveness. Paul Kershaw is a

16:09

professor at the University of British Columbia's School

16:11

of Population and Public Health and founder of

16:13

the group Generation Squeeze. We have allowed the

16:16

dream that a good home should be in

16:18

reach for what hard work can earn. We've

16:20

allowed that dream to really slip away. The

16:22

problems have been accumulating for decades, says Kershaw.

16:25

Under Prime Minister Harper, average home prices went

16:27

up 60%, according to the Canadian Real Estate

16:29

Association. Under Prime Minister Trudeau, they've gone

16:31

up another 54%. Kershaw says

16:33

a whole generation has benefited even as the

16:36

young have lost ground. I live in Metro

16:38

Vancouver, and I've gained about a million and

16:40

a half wealth in the last 20 years

16:42

while I've been watching TV, cleaning

16:45

in the kitchen and sleeping. And

16:47

that's come at the expense of a younger

16:49

person being able to be just as smart

16:51

as me, just as hardworking as me, but

16:53

now can't live where I am. But Kershaw

16:55

says housing is only one of the ways

16:57

in which the baby boom generation picked the

16:59

best fruits of the economy and left behind

17:01

mostly scraps or even a clean-up bill for

17:03

those who followed after. He calls it overextraction.

17:06

And it can also be seen in the

17:08

legacy of environmental damage and climate change, which

17:10

surveys show have left younger Canadians pessimistic for

17:12

the future. It can also

17:14

be seen in fiscal overextraction, the way

17:16

in which the boomers use their numbers and

17:18

voting power to prioritize their own needs. And typically,

17:20

governments come in, and one of the rules of

17:23

government is to try and smooth

17:25

over differences that generations faced

17:27

simply because of when they were born.

17:29

Robin Bodway is an economist at Queen's

17:32

University in Kingston. He says during two

17:34

world wars and a depression, governments used

17:36

borrowing to spread heavy burdens over time.

17:39

Governments are also building up debt for

17:41

reasons that have nothing to do

17:43

with spreading burdens across generations, but have more

17:45

to do with providing current

17:48

services to existing generations. The

17:50

budget goes some way to help the young,

17:53

the economists say, but old-age security spending has

17:55

its own momentum and will continue to grow

17:57

much faster than other programs. their

18:00

source in failures of planning decades ago.

18:02

Kershaw says that by 2028, for

18:05

every new federal dollar spent

18:07

on the environment, housing, defense,

18:09

childcare and healthcare for people

18:11

under 45 combined, nearly three

18:13

new dollars will go to

18:15

old age security, healthcare for

18:18

over 65 and debt servicing.

18:21

Nothing any government can do will change the demographic

18:23

fact that there are more old people than ever

18:25

before. That reality is here

18:27

to stay, say economists, and government will

18:29

need to shift their priorities or face

18:31

more disillusionment from the young. Evan

18:34

Dyer, CBC News, Ottawa. A

18:51

centuries-old strategy game is growing

18:53

in popularity among young people.

18:55

The prestigious candidates chess tournament

18:58

is happening in Toronto. It's

19:00

the first time the tournament has been

19:03

held in North America. Hayden Waters spoke

19:05

to some young fans and brings us

19:07

this report. A

19:10

group of kids are swarming in front

19:13

of a concert hall in damn-tam Toronto.

19:15

Eduardo is campus and his sister April

19:17

flew from Calgary to be here. Both

19:19

are eager to get autographs, but it's not

19:21

rock stars they are waiting for. I'm

19:24

waiting for Pranamanda, Feruza,

19:26

Alexandra and Stan. Eduardo

19:29

is ryming off a list of the

19:31

best chess players in the world. They've

19:33

been in Toronto for the past few weeks

19:36

competing in the candidates tournament. If you follow

19:38

chess, you know it's a huge deal. Players

19:40

and media are here from around the world.

19:43

Aria Antari is a chess grandmaster

19:45

visiting from Norway. This is like

19:47

the most prestigious tournament in the

19:49

chess world. The winner here plays

19:51

the world championship match. It's really

19:53

prestigious. In

20:00

chess with, Jan Nopomnichy has won

20:02

the last two candidates tournaments. He's

20:04

here again, eyeing a third victory.

20:06

But many are excited by the

20:08

prospect of a new, younger winner.

20:11

Like 17-year-old phenom Gekash Deep. Anna

20:16

Bosesoevy is helping win the event. She's

20:18

also a grandmaster, who moved from Russia to

20:20

Toronto. I think this change

20:23

of generations, these new young players

20:25

coming in, they're helping to

20:27

keep this tournament more

20:30

lively, let's say, with more interesting

20:32

games. And we can see

20:34

every day we have a lot of decisive results. So

20:36

it's not just draws, draws, draws, and it's an amazing

20:38

chess. Her

20:45

de Silva worked with the Annex Chess Club in

20:47

Toronto. Over the past few years,

20:49

she has seen the game take off.

20:51

She credits the boom in internet chess during

20:54

the pandemic, and of course the Netflix

20:56

show, The Queen's Gambit. It's all helped

20:58

introduce a new generation. As

21:02

the games drag into their fourth hour,

21:04

Eduardo Iscampo continues to patiently wait out

21:07

front. He dreams of competing one

21:09

day too. I hope that I

21:11

can have the same

21:13

level that they need. I

21:16

love chess and I want to be

21:19

like them. In

21:21

waters, CBC News, Toronto. Under

21:24

the bright lights of New York Times

21:27

Square, a Nigerian chess master has broken

21:29

the record for the longest chess marathon.

21:39

It happened at about 12.40 a.m.

21:42

eastern this morning. Tunde Onokoya

21:44

played chess nonstop for 60

21:46

hours to break the Guinness World Record.

21:49

The 29-year-old is hoping to

21:51

raise US$1 million for children's

21:54

education across Africa. The

21:56

Guinness World Record organization has yet to publicly

21:58

comment about the chess battle. on Okoye's

22:00

attempt among the dozens who

22:03

cheered him on at the scene with

22:05

Nigerian music star DeVito. We'll

22:07

leave you with a song unavailable off his

22:09

2023 album, Timeless. This

22:19

has been your World Tonight for April 20, 2024. I'm Ethel

22:21

Mooza. Good night. I'm

22:30

Ethel Mooza. I'm Ethel Mooza. Good

22:32

night.