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The United States is preparing to send more soldiers to the Middle East.

But US President Donald Trump is still expressing optimism about a deal to end the war.

The White House has reportedly sent a plan to Iran, though.

A spokesperson for the Iranian military says the US is negotiating with itself.

The CBC Sasha Petrusick is in Jerusalem with the latest.

Warning sirens echo across Israel overnight as Iranian missiles target and sometimes hit neighborhoods in the North and around Tel Aviv.

The US and Israel answer with air strikes on Iran and at least a thousand more American troops

heading to the region. The war continues.

I don't know about any agreement as Israel's military spokesman Effie Deferin.

Our plans are unchanged.

At the White House, the view is very different.

US President Donald Trump making it sound like peace is almost a done deal.

As his envoys reportedly plan meetings with Pakistani mediators and maybe even Iranian officials.

But we're actually talking to the right people and they want to make a deal so badly.

You have no idea how badly they want to make a deal.

US media says there's a 15 point proposal to end the war.

One that Trump says includes an Iranian promise to abandon its nuclear program and also a special present from Tehran.

Actually, they gave us a present and the present arrived today.

It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money.

And I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.

There is no confirmation from Iran of any of this.

In fact, its military spokesman, Ebrahim Zulfakari, mock Trump telling him he's fired.

Iran says the US is just negotiating with itself.

Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem.

Senate Republicans are trying to push forth a bill that could bring to an end delays at airport security across the US.

It would fund the entire transportation security administration while defunding parts of immigration and customs enforcement.

The CBC's Willie Lowry joins me now from our Washington Bureau.

Willie, what exactly are the Republicans presenting?

Martino Republican senators have sent Democrats a proposal that would fund all of the Department of Homeland Security,

except for some parts of immigration and customs enforcement.

Roughly five weeks into the partial government shutdown and spurred by long lines at several airports across the country,

Republicans and Democrats are really wrapping up negotiations, but Democrats say the proposal doesn't go far enough.

They want to ensure that ICE agents are not allowed to wear masks while patrolling and that they seek judicial warrants before entering homes and businesses.

All of this coming as President Donald Trump dispatches ICE agents to airports to help with TSA staffing shortages and those long lines.

Willie, this bill is getting a rather cool reception it seems, so what will happen next?

Many Democrats have already said they won't vote for the bill. Here's Senator Cory Booker.

I won't vote for another dollar of an agency that's so reckless, so out of control.

So you're a no.

I'm a hard no from everything I've heard so far.

Obviously, I'm going to evaluate a deal if it comes before me.

But the parameters of the negotiation what they've already thrown out to me makes it really unacceptable.

But it's not just Democrats, President Trump has yet to endorse it either.

Well, I'm going to look at it and we're going to take a good hard look at it.

I want to support Republicans and you know, sometimes it's awfully hard to get.

Democrats are expected to offer a counter-proposal.

Any legislation will require 60 votes to pass and to sign off from the president.

The CBC's Willie Lowry in Washington. Thank you, Willie.

My pleasure.

The RCMP are investigating allegations of corruption at Calgary City Hall.

Details have not been released, but officers have searched a number of properties,

including the homes of former mayor Jotie Gondek and a former councillor.

Andre Shabot is a sitting councillor whose home was also searched.

I have no idea what the investigation is about.

I do know that I was asked to provide my devices for them to look at for to gather evidence.

That's as much as I know. I'm fully cooperating with the police.

The investigation was launched after Calgary police received a complaint last October.

The timing coincides with Calgary's last municipal election.

Elections Canada says voters will have to write in the name of their preferred candidate

in the coming by election in Terbonne.

The Quebec writing has been the target of a group called the longest ballot committee.

It's run dozens of candidates and high profile races to object to Canada's first pass the post system.

But many MPs are fed up with these long ballot protests.

And as Darren Major reports, a House committee is urging the government to change election rules.

The longest ballot committee constitutes a coordinated effort to undermine our elections,

undermine confidence of the democratic process and so confusion amongst voters.

MPs, including conservative Michael Cooper, say it's time the government take action against the longest ballot committee.

Elections Canada has had to make a number of adjustments to accommodate massive lists of protest candidates in recent years.

The federal electoral body has printed meter long ballots that have caused delays in counting.

More recently, voters were asked to write in the name of their preferred candidate,

rather than choose from a list of more than 200 people.

Cooper says the organizers are exploiting loopholes in Canada's election rules that need to be closed.

We now urge the liberal government to speedily introduce targeted legislation

to prevent groups like the longest ballot committee from disrupting future elections.

The House Procedures Committee released a report yesterday that MPs say will keep the group in check.

It includes recommendations that would limit how many nomination forms a voter could sign,

and who can act as an official representative for a candidate.

But Mark Mooter, who has run multiple times as part of the group's efforts, says any changes to the rules won't slow them down.

Listen, we're motivated and this isn't going to stop until electoral reform is actually enacted.

The group is currently running dozens of candidates in an upcoming Montreal area by election.

That vote, which could possibly help the liberals get a majority in the House, takes place next month.

Darren Major, CBC News, Ottawa.

When the temperature drops, the risk of frostbite goes up.

Every winter across Canada, severe frostbite results in amputations, mostly among people who are homeless.

But as Leah Hendry reports, in Montreal, a new drug and a new approach are making a positive difference.

Homelessness goes badly with health.

James Hughes runs the Old Brewery Mission, a homeless shelter in downtown Montreal.

He says chronic health conditions such as diabetes are common, so is substance abuse, which can make people more susceptible to frostbite.

Frostbite happens when the skin and underlying tissue freezes from exposure to extreme cold.

It can range from mild frost nib, stage one, to stage four, where the damage can spread to the muscles, tendons, and bones.

As the tissue dies, the skin hardens and turns black, the worse the frostbite, the higher the chance of amputation.

We have people here in our cafe and in our emergency services who have lost limbs.

On average, there are five or six frostbite amputations every year in Montreal.

But if it's a bad winter, that number can go even higher.

In 2023 and 2025, there were 12.

But in 2026, there have been none so far.

Dr. Ali Azapana is a plastic surgeon.

He says Quebec hospitals now use a drug called Ileprost to try to reverse the damage.

It keeps the blood vessels open and prevents clotting.

So the chance of amputation decreases substantially.

In addition to the drug, the city added hundreds of warming shelters to get people out of the cold this winter.

That's amazing.

And whether that or the drug was what saved limbs, Hughes says it's good news in a sector where that's in short supply.

Leah Hendry, CBC News, Montreal.

The Church of England is making history for the first time since it was founded almost 500 years ago.

The Church is installing a female Archbishop of Canterbury.

Sarah Malale is being enthroned in an elaborate ceremony.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate, will be among the guests.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is considered the leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

Rachel Truik is the Bishop for Gloucester in Southern England.

And she says this is a big step forward for the Church.

12 years ago, we were struggling for women to be able to be conscripted as bishops.

I don't think any of us thought we'd have a female Archbishop this quickly. So it is huge.

Malale's appointment is being criticized mainly in Africa and Asia by conservative churches opposed to female leadership.

That is the latest national and international news from World Report.

I'm Martina Fitzgerald.

This is CBC News.