The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: February 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 17:00 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 Julie-Ann Hazelwood. Much of Canada is dealing with harsh weather today. A winter storm is hammering Ontario and Quebec, and parts of western Canada are experiencing extreme cold. Linda Ward reports. As fast as plows can clear the roads and sidewalks, they're covered again. 3 to 6 cm of snow per hour with a total of 15 to 25 cm expected by this evening, up to 40 or 50 cm for parts of Quebec. Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Carrie Schmidt is urging people to stay off the roads. You can't see the lane markings. We have had cars and ditches. Some collisions are happening as we speak.

At Toronto Pearson Airport there have been hundreds of flight cancellations and delays. Forecasters say they expect the snowfall in the last week to beat the total accumulation last winter. And central Canada isn't the only one coping with tough conditions. Much of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and parts of northwestern Ontario are under an extreme cold warning, with temperatures hitting minus 40 and even minus 50 in some places. Linda Ward, CBC News, Toronto. 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 water boat teams, as well as so many other responders that are out there. Beshear says the flash flooding is largely over, but there will be riverbank 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 to your...

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. Someone painted a swastika on the side of a Montreal synagogue this weekend. Emmanuel Bachelot says anti-Semitism is on the rise and asks the community to stand with them. Montreal mayor Valérie Plante called the incident unacceptable and said police are investigating. Authorities say a mass stabbing in southern Austria yesterday was likely an Islamist attack, that is, and that the suspect had been radicalized online and sworn allegiance to ISIS. Stephen Hoff has the latest. Stephen Hoff has the latest. It's about an Islamist attack.

Austria's interior minister confirming that Saturday's deadly attack in the southern Austrian city of Villach was an Islamist terrorist attack. That left a 14-year-old boy dead and five others wounded, three currently in intensive care. Authorities say the suspect, a 23-year-old Syrian refugee, had been radicalized online and recorded himself swearing allegiance to ISIS. Most of the people are shocked. Residents reacting today to the attack in the small Alpine city. What these terrorists want is to bring fear to the people. I have no fear.

The incident could have been much worse had another Syrian not intervened. The food delivery driver drove his vehicle at the attacker, interrupting the attack. The suspect remains in custody facing charges of murder and attempted murder. While the attack brings a long simmering debate on refugees back to the forefront in Austria. Stephen Hoff for CBC News, Vienna. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.