CTV National News | Sunday, March 3, 2024: Israel called to end strikes amid scores of deaths

Tonight mounting pressure for a ceasefire in Gaza ramping up calls on Israel and Hamas there must be an immediate ceasefire officials weigh a possible final hurdle for an agreement that would halt the fighting the systemic discrimination faced by queer and trans black Canadians they experience an incredible amount of

Growing demands for the creation of a National Organization plus Tick Tock takeover on the Dance Floor the instructor using online influence to help Inspire kids and their fancy Footwork CTV national news with Heather butts good evening the prospect of a ceasefire in the Israel Hamas War still hangs in the balance tonight pressure is mounting to Halt the fighting but the path to that agreement coming to another roadblock as more accounts emerge of the toll this conflict has taken recently

And when it began back in October ctv’s Tony Grace reports the horrors of War laid bare in Gaza funerals today for some of the more than 30 people reported dead this weekend after Israeli air strikes in Rafa my son is still under the rubble says this man who also said three of his

Relatives including two children were killed also in Gaza the Israeli military sharing video of what it said was a strike on a terrorist Target in conun I think the air strikes will continue right up until the moment where both sides agree to the ceasefire terms but but it will only just accelerate and

Accentuate uh the need for the ceasefire ceasefire talks resumed in Egypt today but Israel didn’t send a delegation Israeli media reporting the government wants to know which hostages are alive and how many Palestinian prisoners Hamas is seeking in exchange International pressure is building to end the fighting

And get more badly needed Aid into civilians from the US vice president today there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next 6 weeks another tragic link to the conflict will be in Focus this week a un envoy’s findings on sexual violence in the October 7th Hamas attack in Israel we

Need the most credible internationally recognized body to say the truth to reveal what actually happened Professor Ruth Halper and kadari played a key role in getting Envoy pra Patton to visit Israel in January for a closer look at witness accounts and police reports today she urged this group in Toronto to pressure

Advocates and world leaders for accountability Hamas committed crimes against humanity including in the form of using sexual violence as a tool of war the UN envoy’s initial findings are expected to be made public this week with a full report to the UN Secretary General by the end of the month Heather

Tony thank you emotions and tensions surrounding the conflict are running high in Canada this weekend an Ontario man was arrested today after firing a nail gun towards Pro Palestinian demonstrators outside a synagogue chaos broke out at this demonstration north of Toronto as shots rang out shot twice both of the shots

Hit me here um didn’t Pierce through this man didn’t want to be identified but said a battery pack in his pocket sto stop the nails from going through a 27-year-old man is facing four charges including assault with a weapon no one was injured ceas protests in Toronto continued today

As hundreds block streets calling for a ceasefire it comes a day after a demonstration outside the Art Gallery of Ontario forced the cancellation of an event with prime minister Justin Trudeau and his atalian counterpart the death toll from a Russian drone strike in southern Ukraine has almost bubbled since

Saturday rescue workers sifted through the rubble in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa looking for survivors five children were among a dozen killed in a separate attack today dozens of apartment buildings and a school were heavily damaged in an Eastern town near denes wounding 16 people there are mounting concerns tonight about the

Rising tide of hate in this country faced by queer and trans black Canadians a summit in Ottawa this weekend gave people a place to gather and call for the creation of a National Organization to help support the community ctv’s Colton PR reports as a black queer woman Shel Anne Skinner understands discrimination like

Burning a pride flag and like you know and uh calling me the n-word and calling me the b word an outspoken activist in Barry Ontario she says the attacks came to a head when she ran for City Council in 2018 I experienced an incredible amount of hate um you know like phone

Calls messages emails you know threats to my life threats to the my life of my children according to a new study 70% of black lgbtq2s plus people have reported experiencing a hate crime the basic decency of walking down the street hand inand with your partner is something

That I don’t feel safe to do and that people who look like me around this country also don’t feel safe to do it comes as a growing number of conservative politicians have voiced support for policies limiting gender affirming care or even the spaces available to transgender women in Alberta queer organizations say they’re

Already feeling the backlash they’re seeing where relationship building used to be happening the bridge being cut down simply to avoid the negative immediate backlash and consequences of being willing to engage with Korean uh trans communities Advocates are calling for the creation of a national organization dedicated to specifically supporting queer black Canadians citing

A lack of resources outside of major cities while those that do exist are often unequipped to handle their unique situations it’s not something in Edmonton it’s not something in Ottawa it’s a feeling of unsafety that black qu and trans people have all over this country the gender equality Minister

Says the Summit is a reminder of the need to push for progress but Ottawa wouldn’t commit to funding the creation of a new organization only saying that everything is on the table Heather all right Colton thank you a monster storm is bearing down on millions of Americans blizzard warnings remain for the people

In the west with some areas already buried under several feet of snow but the extreme weather doesn’t stop there with deadly fires raging through the Texas Panhandle Canada also seeing some unseasonal conditions ctv’s carali on what this means for the months ahead a brief break from the blizzard without much rest California residents

Clearing what they can we went from Zer to 100 pretty fast before the next snowfall it’s not really snow removal because it doesn’t get removed the blizzard barreled in Thursday battering parts of California and Nevada over the weekend some areas buried under 3 m of snow shutting down 160 km of California

Highway while hurricane force winds rolled into the region gust reaching more than 300 km per hour I was horrified I’m afraid we would just like drive off the road leaving thousands without power only a couple of states away a stark contrast Wildfire burning through homes in the Texas Panhandle leaving at

Least two dead we currently have the largest fire in Texas history more than a million Acres that’s over six times the size of Toronto Crews diving into whatever resources they have with no end in sight in Canada concern over fluctuating weather patterns from temperatures rising to Spring levels and dipping into

Deep freezes we do keep pushing the needle climate change makes the natural swings in climate even more extreme and what it would mean for the spring deadlier wildfires and drought maybe this should be a wakeup call but we’ve been having more than a decade of of wake up calls with sparse snow pack

Levels being recorded in multiple provinces including BC Ontario and Quebec farmers are expecting a devastating impact to their crops this summer Heather thanks KL in Washington a first victory for Nikki Haley in the 2024 campaign tonight winning the Republican president presidential primary in the district of Colombia Haley defeated Donald Trump carrying

Nearly 63% of the votes to his 33% the symbolic win follows her losses in the Missouri and Idaho caucuses over the weekend just two days ahead of super Tuesday before tonight’s win the former South Carolina governor said she may not keep a pledge to support the former president if he becomes the Republican

Nominee at the time of the debate we had to take it to where would you support the nominee and you had to in order to get on that debate stage you said yes the RNC is now not the same RNC now it’s so you’re no longer bound by that pledge

No I think I’ll make what decision I want to make but that’s not something I’m thinking about joining me now to break all of this down for us is political analyst Eric ham Eric let’s start with Nikki Haley now walking away from that pledge well but is she really I think

What we’re seeing from Nikki Haley is she’s recognizing that perhaps the end is near and so as that becomes more of a reality for her I think what we’re seeing here is actually Nikki Haley Unbound and I think this is Nikki Haley making clear that there are many other

Options available to her the question is will she actually pull the trigger on actually walking away from this pledge she is a DieHard Republican and if she’s not going to re to support or indorse the Republican nominee the question is who in fact would she endorse in this

Race it certainly is not going to be Joe Biden okay Eric and we have a big week coming up of course and a major Supreme Court decision could come as soon as tomorrow that’s just before millions of Voters head to the polls for super Tuesday walk us through these two

Issues well depending on what happens in terms of what the Supreme Court does it’s likely not going to have an impact on the outcome of the races Donald Trump is heading into Super Tuesday looking very very strong and I think is going to win in a route the only thing about what

Happens in terms of what the court does will determine whether or not it impacts Donald Trump and his ability to actually stay on the ballot in some of these super Tuesday States perhaps not maybe tomorrow or March 5th but possibly March 12th Eric here in Canada we hear the

Term super Tuesday just how big is super Tuesday and what are you looking for well super Tuesday means that there are multiple States V voting at the same time and so what we’re looking at in terms of what happens is just how big the spread is going to be also what’s

Important in the early states that voted we know that those many of those states were open primaries and these states these are going to be closed primaries which means you won’t have the possibility of Democrats voting in Republican primaries and vice versa and so now we really get a chance to see

Just how strong Donald Trump is as an actual candidate considering that he has actually underperformed in many of the early primary states that we’ve seen thus far all right Eric ham joining us tonight thank you violence is surging in Haiti overnight gangs attack the country’s largest prison allowing thousands of inmates to

Escape the national penitentiary in the capital was nearly empty following the attack by armed groups seeking to overthrow the country’s prime minister police have regained control the jailbreak comes amid increasing violence in the capital in the last week several officers have died along with gang members many of the families of those

Missing from Malaysia Flight MH370 are again holding out hope for word about their loved ones we are committed to that search and the search must go on the government says it’s in talks with a US technology firm over a new search for the missing plane 10 years after the

Boeing Tri 7 vanished with 23 9 people on board a multinational government search in the southern Indian Ocean ended in 2017 without success now to a major volcanic eruption on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos off the coast of Ecuador the CBRE volcano considered one of the most active in the region spewed

Lava towards the sea authorities say the area is home to a number of species including iguanas and Penguins but poses no threat to humans still ahead tonight we got the call that no parents wants to get a dream vacation turns into a nightmare for a Quebec family plus a young teacher from New

Finland uses Tik Tok as a digital dance Floor a Quebec family overcome by grief following the death of their son is speaking out tonight the 24-year-old Fell From a Balcony at a resort in the Dominican Republic and later died CTV Stefan jaru speaks with the family as they seek answers in mid January William guu his girlfriend and some of her

Relatives were vacationing at an allinclusive in Puna Ana but on the 15th his parents back home received a panic call from William’s girlfriend we got the call that no parents wants to get William they were told fell off the third floor balcony and was critically injured Sylvie marot

Jumped on the next flight to Santo Domingo but it was too late for her son so I wanted to see him I wanted to touch him I wanted to to see and maybe just try to talk to him The Grieving parents then discovered their son’s Behavior was

Bizarre before he fell and he was in distress CU he he was not there it was absolutely hallucinating hotel security simply picked him up and dropped him in his room rather than call an ambulance or a doctor G fell off his balcony shortly after his parents suspect he was

Drugged and he wasn’t the only one they say his girlfriend’s younger brother had the same symptoms of the younger brother um came in his parents room and was like absolutely not making sense the medical examiner did call for an autopsy and a toxicology report but their parents can’t access the results police never

Questioned the other victim or anyone else there that night the family hired a lawyer to have them find answers there’s a situation where there’s a young man that uh died after suspicious circumstances that would be easily enlightened by the cooperation of the authorities the local authorities I mean Stefan ziru CTV

News still ahead a decade of dedication we’ve talked to people over the phone and stuff but it’ll be cool to meet them the next step for a teenager and his labor of love in Kenya a Montreal teenager has spent more than a decade dedicating his spare time to helping others having an immense impact act on a village in Kenya and he’s about to visit his labor of love in person for the first time here’s ctv’s Olivia omali Joshua morenet is packing for a

Trip over a decade in the making I think I should be a little bit more excited but I think as it as it gets closer I get more and more excited about it CTV News first met Moren seret in 2013 he was much smaller and said much less but

Still had Big Dreams after hearing about the importance of clean water and a drought in Africa the then seven-year-old began collecting cans and raising money to build a well in Kenya he’s always been a very kind and understanding person so um I mean it it

It gives us Pride you know to know that that he’s he’s wanting to do those kinds of things now age 18 morenet has helped build three wells in kakamanga a small rural Village Northwest of Nairobi this has allowed a lot more opportunity for many girls to benefit from being able to

Go to school later this month he and his mother are going to see the fruits of their labor of love in person for the first time ever we’ve talked to people over the phone and stuff but it’ll be cool to meet them cool to uh to see the

Impact that that myself and my community and my family have made the teenager is bringing soccer balls school supplies and clothes all donated from members in the community Moran seret has never done it alone and he’s always known that cuz I can’t do it all by myself I need some

Help especially as the price to build a well continues to rise he is currently fundraising for a fourth well its estimated price tag is $118,000 triple the cost compared to the First with the prices of the wells going up it it becomes hard and harder um to

Do alone Moran s’s 16-day trip begins March 11th a more than decade old dream he and his mother still can’t believe is coming true Olivia om Ali CTV News the incredible playing career of NBA legend LeBron James is still going strong and soaring to new heights James against Porter Drive Spence gets

Inside it’s good it’s 40,000 for LeBron LeBron James the Los Angeles Lakers Superstar became the first player in league history to score 40,000 points adding to his remarkable Legacy as he attempts to put the career scoring record Out Of Reach another phenomenal basketball achievement this one in the women’s game at the college

Level this for college basketball history she does it with a f shot Iowa hay star player Caitlyn Clark became the all-time leading scorer male or female the 22-year-old passing Hall of Famer Pete marovich when they announce it and everybody screams that’s when I knew but uh pretty cool a record-breaking moment

More than 50 years in the making good for her after the break inspiring the next Generation on the Dance Floor the influence of fancy footwork online Trends seen on Tik Tok have taken over school hallways and even workplaces the moves viewed on social media also spreading to dance studios and for a

Young New Finland woman it’s a way to help teach her students and Inspire Young Artists ctv’s Garrett Barry has more on the online influence encouraging kids to get up and move eight staying on top of the hottest Trends requires a lot of fast footwork Tik Tok dances usually are more

Than one style combined into one and you’ll see them usually like it could be Street Jazz and Hip Hop mixed into one together um which usually you don’t see a whole lot but for these Young Learners so we got one it’s really no sweat I

Like doing dances and I have a lot of friends and like if we forget it then we watch people like in front of us Kimberly White Way’s Tik Tok class is a hit she lifts her lessons off of the top trends on social media sure Tik Tok is

One of the hardest classes I teach the kids all will probably tell you the same thing so confident in its success the 23-year-old made it a part of her plan to build her own dance studio honestly I think it’s so popular because all these girls are seeing the dances themselves

Before I teach so they’re seeing it on their own phones at home they can see they’re scrolling through the young woman makes sure to include some healthy boundaries for kids when it comes to their social media use we talk about um different things with social media and

You know um like maybe what not to do what to do she’s a Tik Tok maker herself with a few hits on the platform with thousands of views so by the time I actually teaches the kids it’s like second nature I like a lot of them like the speed and the moves the

Trends are always changing new hits almost every week so what makes dance fun to do um mostly everything and our students can’t seem to get enough G Barry CTV News St John’s that’s our show for this evening I’m Heather Bots for all of us at CV national news thank you for watching

Sandy and Omar are back tomorrow and I’ll see you again on Friday good night

Ceasefire talks continue in Egypt as Israeli airstrikes kill scores of people; LGBTQ+ Black Canadians call for national support amid hate.

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