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0:00This week on Two Blocks from the White House. Canada's mood is elbows up as it deals with the escalating trade war with the US. But in the US, the feelings are a lot more complicated if they are feelings at all. So this week we're asking how are Americans reacting to the trade war? Find and follow Two Blocks from the White House wherever you get your podcasts. And watch us on YouTube with new episodes to drop every Wednesday. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Tricia Kindleman, starting this hour in Moscow. A motorcade leaves the airport moments after US special envoy Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkopf landed on the tarmac. They met with Russian officials today to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine before traveling to Kiev tomorrow.

1:04That visit follows heavy Russian strikes across several Ukrainian cities overnight. Emergency crews put out fires in Kiev where an intelligence building and the local airport were hit. At least four people were killed. Russian president Vladimir Putin has now ordered a 72 hour pause on strikes against Kiev to coincide with the diplomatic visit. Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky says Kiev will also observe a pause on air strikes for the duration of the talks. Also today, US forces have struck a three Iranian-crued oil tankers. The US military says the strikes are in retaliation after Iran targeted American Navy warships in regional waters. Officials say two oil-filled tankers were, quote, completely disabled off the coast of Iran while a third empty tanker was destroyed in the Gulf of Oman. No casualties have been reported. These strikes come days after both countries resumed direct attacks against each other.

2:07The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, is calling for severe consequences to stop Israeli settler violence in the Occupied West Bank. Huckabee met with Palestinian Americans living in a town near Ramallah, following reports of escalating attacks on their homes in land, and a cutting-ham has that story. It's been a very, very instructive morning. US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, speaking in the Occupied West Bank after his meetings with Palestinian Americans in the town of Tomasaya. He said all the residents he met are US citizens. We heard about the challenges that they face living in their own homes and their own property, some of the intimidation that is being carried out by people that I have characterized as being terrorists. Huckabee says people do not feel safe. People in these communities have a right to live with a level of security. In August, the United Nations condemned a rise in Israeli settler violence and said it was raising the alarm about new illegal Israeli outposts in the Occupied West Bank.

3:09Huckabee talks CBC News. He has not changed his stance on the Israeli settlements that are illegal under international law. My view is that crime is crime and terror is terror and it ought to be consequence to the full extent of the law. He also confirmed that he stood by his use of the biblical reference Thou shalt not steal when condemning the Israeli settler violence. What I do not support is when people come in and try to take the property that other people have a legal right and the documentation to prove it. Huckabee is a long time ally of Israel's settler movement. In the past, he has expressed support for Israeli control over the occupied West Bank while condemning settler violence. The Canadian government is among those who consider Israel's expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank illegal under international law. Anna Cunningham CBC News. London. The Vice President of the Philippines has posted bail after an arrest warrant was issued over alleged assassination threats against the president.

4:11Sarah Duterte is accused of publicly threatening to order the assassination of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, his wife and the former House Speaker if she were killed. Duterte denies the allegations and says she will fight the charges. It's the latest escalation in a bitter political feud between the two powerful dynasties. Duterte is also facing an impeachment trial which could derail her 2028 presidential bid if she is convicted. And at least 10 people are dead and dozens more injured after two massive explosions and a military base in Bolivia. The blast happened at an army barracks in Vyacha near La Paz where fireworks and pyrotechnics were being stored. Local officials say more than 60 people were hurt including a young girl suffering from severe burns. Emergency crews are still searching through the rebel force survivors as investigators work to determine what triggered the initial blast.

5:15And the Napoli Army pulled two survivors from separate disaster sites today following catastrophic glacial flooding. Rescuers extracted a Chinese national from a buried hydropower tunnel where officials estimate at least 900 people remain trapped across damaged power projects. Meanwhile a 64 year old woman was pulled from the mud after spending 10 days trapped inside her partially buried home. Rescue teams have since airlifted her to the Capitol for treatment. 10 days after severe flooding hit the Himalayan region more than 1300 people are confirmed dead with over 5,000 others still missing. A hiker in British Columbia has been found alive after a week-long search near Squamish. Stanislaw Vologot lost above the sea to sky gondola last Sunday when his phone died and was further delayed after injuring his foot. Yesterday, Vologot managed to walk out of the mountains onto a road directly under a search drone looking for him.

6:19Speaking to CBC News from his hospital bed, Vologot described the moment he was spotted by rescuers. I was crying from happiness when I made it to the road that there was actually I was crying from happiness and I saw the people as well. They were all so crying. A Volo is being treated for minor injuries and is expected to recover. The Canada U.S. Trade War is taking a heavy toll, particularly on American border towns that depend on Canadian visitors. As political rhetoric escalates, residents worry about long-term damage to cross-border relationships. CBC Radio's The House visited several communities in New York, left voted for Donald Trump in the last election. Host Catherine Cullen has more. We've been stressed. In New York State, right next to a border crossing, Cory Fram has a lot on his mind. He's director at the Thousand Islands Tourism Council. He says Canadian spending was down 57% last year compared to the year before. And he says the trade war and inflammatory rhetoric are clearly to blame.

7:20There's almost a sense that those of us along the border are kind of having to pay the price for what is a supposed economic benefit for the greater good of each of the respective countries. Over in Ogden'sburg, New York, they've also seen a decline in Canadians coming for cross-border shopping. The area is part of a county that Donald Trump won in the last election by about 18 points. Carol Davis voted for him. She and her husband Gary don't like what the U.S. President is doing with Canada. They promise you everything. When he got elected, he'll gas, he's going to be cheap, food is going to be cheap. And everything's gotten worse. Though another Trump voter, Jim Rupert argues tariffs will help level the trade playing field. The end of the day, there needs to be a balance and there needs to be a fairness going left and right. Scott Gray is the New York State Assemblyman for this area and a Republican. But he isn't fully endorsing Trump's trade war. Probably don't support the method in which he's doing it. Does there need to be some rebalancing of our economics and our trade?

8:25But Gray says it needs to be done without all the current friction and animosity. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Ogden'sburg, New York. And you can hear Catherine Cullen's full report on the House right after World Reports. And finally, long before the modern African Cheetah, there was the American Cheetah, a swift predator that disappeared after the last ice age. But new research from a team of Canadian and American scientists suggests that name might be a misnomer. That's after ancient bones found in Canada's north were re-examined. Catherine Pilkington reports. That's the sound of Yukon Paleontologist Grants Azula cutting into 30,000 year old bone. All that's left to tell the story of a long extinct cat. This here, that's the paw. The bones were uncovered in northern Yukon and thought to be the remnants of an ancient Puma or Cougar. They were sent to the University of California for DNA analysis. First off, their molly cassette John Stone was fresh from undergrad.

9:27The samples were some of the first she'd ever worked on. And so when I did the first preliminary analysis and these didn't look like Puma's at all, I was like, oh, I've done something really, really wrong here. The bones turned out to be from the American Cheetah, an ice age species which might not be so American after all. With its slim build and long legs, a dead ringer for the modern Cheetah, the cats were believed to have evolved to chase prong horns, the fastest land mammal in North America. The discovery created a mystery for researchers like Azula. We don't have pronghorn antelope in Yukon and we, as far as we know, have never had pronghorn antelope in Yukon. Bone fragments were sent to a Laskin researcher Matthew Willer, who was stumped by the initial isotope analysis. The data was like nothing I'd seen before. He figured out that Cheetahs had turned pescatarian, surviving almost exclusively off salmon. Researchers say the study reshuffles their understanding of carnivore species in Beringia. The region where Russia, Alaska and Canada were once connected. Ketron Filkington, CBC News, White Horse. That is the latest national and international news for world report, I'm Trisha Kindleman.

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