The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 18:00 EST

Episode Date: February 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 18:00 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 Hazelwood. 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. Mark Kearney is the perceived front-runner in the race to become the next Liberal leader and Prime Minister. And today he spoke with CBC News' Rosemary Barton. She gives us a rundown of some of what he's planning to do if he wins. We talked a lot about what he would do with the consumer carbon tax, which is to get rid of it and instead use a carbon credit market that would have industrial polluters pay more and that would be then handed back to Canadians. He talked about a middle class tax cut that

he has yet to announce that would be broad-based for Canadians right across the country. He talked about how we would be prepared to run a deficit in government as long as the money that would be used for that could be pumped back into the economy to try and get some growth going inside Canada. But he also talked about Donald Trump. I have negotiated a number of situations in the past. I know how to manage crises. 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. He has been reticent to get too detailed in terms of what he would do if he were prime

minister to respond to the tariffs because he wants to leave that to the government in place. Rosemary Barton reporting from Ottawa. 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 Valladis 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. In Austria, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner says the man suspected of killing a teenager and injuring five others in yesterday's knife attack was inspired by the Islamic State. Authorities say the 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker was radicalized online and recorded himself swearing an oath to the allegiance of ISIS. Residents of the city of Vilak gathered near the site of the stabbing, shocked and concerned. Most of the people are shocked, I think. I did not think that it could be happening in this peaceful town. It's really an international city. There are people from all around the world that work here, live here, their future is here.

And it's really bad that the locals will think that us can bring an unsafety to their home. This comes six months after another plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna was foiled. Authorities said that suspect had also sworn loyalty to ISIS. The Vatican says Pope Francis' health is continuing to improve. The 88-year-old was hospitalized two days ago with a respiratory illness. Today, he apologized for missing a mass at St. Peter's Basilica.

And that is your World This Hour. For CDC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.