The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 15:00 EST

Episode Date: February 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 15:00 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 Julianne Hasell Wood. As a winter wallop is being felt across much of the country, this is a common sound. Another storm is hammering southwestern Ontario, eastern Quebec and New Brunswick. People had barely dug out from Thursday's storm and now a new system is dumping more snow. At the same time, much of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and parts of northwestern Ontario are under an extreme cold warning with temperatures of minus 40 and even minus 50 in some places. Most of Nova Scotia is under a freezing rain warning.

And strong winds and blowing snow are reported in parts of Newfoundland and Labrador. In the U.S., at least eight people were killed in Kentucky after heavy rains triggered dangerous flooding overnight. Governor Andy Beshear. Where we are right now is in the emergency response phase. This is the search and rescue phase. We've already seen over a thousand rescues, primarily because of the swift waterboat teams as well as so many other responders that are out there. Beshear says the flash flooding is largely over, but there will be river bank flooding in the next few days.

10 million people from Ohio to Mississippi are under flood warnings, and hundreds of thousands are without electricity. One of the frontrunners in the Liberal leadership race, Mark Carney, is criticizing the number of Canadian politicians involving themselves in efforts to stop the U.S. from putting tariffs on Canadian goods. I have negotiated a number of situations in the past. I know how to manage crises.

I know what you do in the order you can control things. It is not a good idea to insert yourself in the middle of a negotiation, give conflicting signals. Other candidates are doing that. It's not a good idea to do that. Full stop. Carney says the more strategic move is to leave the details to those leading the Other candidates are doing that. It's not a good idea to do that. Full stop. Carney says the more strategic move is to leave the details to those leading the Canadian government. This past week, all 13 premiers went down to Washington and talked to American politicians

and staffers. And yesterday, Conservative leader Pierre Polyev spelled out how he would handle the situation, detailing many tactics already employed by the Liberal government. The Munich Security Conference wrapped up today with a blunt acknowledgement that the US and its European allies appear to be on very different paths. Dominic Volitis has more. In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat. JD Vance sent shockwaves through the Munich security conference with his speech on Friday.

His criticism of Europe for an alleged suppression of free speech and a lack of democracy received considerable pushback. Today, the US Vice President's words were noted by conference chair Christoph Heusgen in his speech at the closing of the event. This conference started as a transatlantic conference. After the speech of Vice President Vance on Friday, we have to fear that our common value base is not that common anymore. Other European leaders, including the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, have also been critical of Vance's speech, the latest in a blizzard of moves from the Trump administration, which some believe marks the beginning of a dramatic shift in the international order.

Dominic Vlaites for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. Australian authorities are investigating after a video surfaced showing a pair of nurses threatening to kill Israeli patients and bragging about refusing to treat them. Phil Mercer has more from Sydney. You have no idea how many Israelis came to this hospital and I sent them to Jahannam. For real? Nurses Ahmed Nadeer and Sarah Abdulebdeh were recorded by an influencer in Israel in an online chat room speaking about sending Israeli patients to hell.

The video was shared by Max Weifer. It appears to have been recorded in a hospital in Sydney on a social media platform that randomly connects users. I had a mission to accomplish, you know. I had to expose them. And tonight the two Bankstown nurses have had their registrations formally suspended. Police have raided the Sydney home of nurse Ahmed Nadir, a refugee from Afghanistan. Australia has recently passed tougher laws against hate crimes following a wave of high-profile anti-semiticism.