The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/13 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: February 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/13 at 11:00 EST

When a body is discovered 10 miles out to sea, it sparks a mind-blowing police investigation. There's a man living in this address in the name of a deceased. He's one of the most wanted men in the world. This isn't really happening. Officers are finding large sums of money. It's a tale of murder, skullduggery and international intrigue. So who really is he? I'm Sam Mullins and this is Sea of Lies

from CBC's Uncovered. Available now. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Millions of Canadians are dealing today with a cold blast of winter. And one of the cities getting the worst of it is Toronto. It is what it is, man.

I don't really feel like the snowplowers work fast enough to get things out of the way. So, good luck everyone. Commuting, driving in town will be terrible. But I'm not going to be driving. I'll be using public transit and just dress warm. For Toronto and most of Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick, there's anywhere from 15 to 40 centimetres of snow to deal with. Schools are closed for the day and flights are being delayed or cancelled. And across most of the prairies, it's another day of extreme cold with temperatures

anywhere from minus 20 to minus 30 and that's without the windchill. Canada is joining Ukraine's European allies in insisting that Kiev be involved in any talks aimed at ending the war against Russia. It follows yesterday's telephone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump is saying that Putin wants the war to end and Washington will soon be opening peace talks with Moscow. Crystal Gomancing has more. It's not Americans who protected Ukraine three years ago when Russia started full-scale invasion. It was not American Marines who stopped Russians near Kiev. It was the Ukrainians.

Ukrainian MP Alexei Gontrenko says Ukraine will not be sidelined in talks about its future and ending the war. That conviction was echoed today by NATO defence ministers meeting in Brussels, including Canada's Bill Blair. It is essential from our perspective that Ukraine must be part of that negotiation and that we're going to continue to support them, to enable them to be in the strongest possible position to achieve that just and sustainable peace. Gontorenko also wants sustainable peace but says giving up Ukrainian territory is not

acceptable. No, it will never happen, never ever. NATO is also feeling the pressure from the U.S. for alliance members to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. As many as 28 people have been injured after a vehicle was driven this morning into a crowd in Munich, Germany. We have a meeting of the WERDI, who are on the Seidelstrasse, heading towards Munich Square. The Premier of Bavaria is saying police believe it was a deliberate attack.

The driver of the vehicle has been detained. Police say he's a 24-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan. Munich is under heavy security as it prepares to host an international security summit. Among those attending are U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. After diplomatic stops this week in Paris and Brussels, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is back in Ottawa for a Cabinet meeting today on the ongoing threats from Washington. Janice McGregor has more. The prime ministers obviously spent the last few days taking the temperature in

Europe, talking to allies, also staring down Donald Trump's threats. The economic disruption of these tariffs hits at the same time as the White House is also disrupting diplomacy on Ukraine, on Gaza, warming back up to India again. But perhaps the most important input into today's Cabinet meeting is what Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc brings back from his face-to-face with the incoming Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, yesterday, as well as Trump's economic adviser, Kevin Hassett. LeBlanc said Canada's work on the fentanyl crisis is in what he called a positive lane.

That this meeting gave them a sense of what metrics the Trump administration will use to review Canada's actions on the border. He said they've got a better sense now of what lies beyond the terror of threats too. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Two Nova Scotia men are asking the federal court to declare that the current suspension of parliament is illegal. They are claiming there is no to declare that the current suspension of parliament is illegal. They are claiming there is no reasonable justification for the House to be temporarily shut down. At the prime minister's request, the governor general prorogued parliament last month, allowing

the ruling liberals to select a new leader. The court is hearing arguments from both sides over a two-day hearing process now underway. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.