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

Episode Date: February 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/13 at 13:00 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, the world this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. Donald Trump is scheduled to sign an executive order this hour putting reciprocal tariffs on any countries that place tariffs on American goods. Economists say the move could depress growth and spur higher inflation in the U.S. and around the world. Trump claims such tariffs level the playing field and will encourage domestic manufacturing. He's already announced tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports starting on March 12th.

On March 4th, Canada and Mexico are facing 25% levies on everything they send to the U.S. The new U.S. defense secretary told a NATO conference America is not abandoning Ukraine. Pete Hegseth walked back yesterday's comments that Ukraine should not expect to get back territory it lost in the war. But he did say Donald Trump is committed to a diplomatic end to the conflict which is approaching its third anniversary. And Hexeth warns European countries need to spend more on defense. We can talk all we want about values but you can't shoot values. You can't shoot flags and you can't shoot strong speeches. As much as we may not want to like the world we live in, in some cases

there's nothing like hard power. Hexeth repeated Trump's demand NATO nations allocate five percent of their GDP for defense. But the Alliance's secretary general, Mark Rutte, says many members are upping their defense budgets. We discussed the importance of our continued support to Ukraine and we discussed the need for European allies in Canada to do even more. In 2024, NATO allies provided over 50 billion euros in security assistance to Ukraine. Nearly 60% of this coming from Europe and Canada.

Well above the 40 billion that we had pledged for the year. The UK is among the NATO members saying there can be no Ukraine peace talks without Ukraine's full participation. To Munich, Germany now, where as many as 28 people have been injured when a vehicle drove into a crowd. We have a meeting of the WERDI, who are on the Seidelstrasse on their way to Königsplatz. The Premier of Bavaria says police believe it was a deliberate attack.

The driver of the vehicle has been detained. He's a 24-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan whose application had been rejected. He was known to police for drug and shoplifting offenses. Munich is under heavy security as it prepares to host an international security summit this weekend. Among others, US Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Lodyr Mryzelskiy are expected to attend. Here at home, Liberal leadership candidate Karina Gould promises to update Canada's employment insurance system if she becomes the next Prime Minister. It means providing more supports to vulnerable seniors and it means providing

a dignified existence to people with disabilities and it means setting us on a path towards a basic income in this country. Gould says the current program is difficult to access and takes too long to deliver. Basic income programs have been raised at Liberal policy conventions, but they have never appeared in a campaign platform. A massive winter storm has left many parts of this country digging out, but also digging in. That's because there's more of the white stuff on the way. Jamie Strachan has the story.

For Erin Smale, the best way to her Ottawa office this morning? Skis. The office is open and because I don't want to drive my car this morning, I thought this might be a bit faster than walking. A massive winter storm dumped between 15 and 40 centimeters across an area from southern Ontario to eastern Quebec. It meant a snow day for many students. Most schools in Toronto and Montreal cancelled. Canada Post also suspended service in Ontario. The storm caused multiple flight delays, snarled municipal transit and clogged roads, making it difficult for drivers to get around says the OPP's Kerry Schmidt.

Not a lot of crashes in the overnight hours but dozens of vehicles that were either stuck or stranded in the snow banks. The storm is moving east New Brunswick expects to see 25 centimeters by tonight schools there also closed for the day. Jamie Strash in CBC News Toronto. And that is your World This Hour for CBC News I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.