The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 at 07:00 EST

What does a mummified Egyptian child, the Parthenon marbles of Greece and an Irish giant all have in common? They are all stuff the British stole. Maybe. Join me, Mark Fennell, as I travel around the globe uncovering the shocking stories of how some, let's call them ill-gotten, artifacts made it to faraway institutions. Spoiler, it was probably the British. Don't miss a brand new season of Stuff the British Style. Watch it free on CBC Gem. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.

Few details are available at this point as the Canadian Transportation Safety Board continues with its investigation into yesterday's plane crash at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. The plane arriving in Toronto from Minneapolis crashed while attempting to land and ended up rolling on its roof. All 80 people on board survived. Nicole Williams has more.

Drop it! Come on! A moment of terror caught on cell phone video as passengers scrambled to get out of an upside down plane that flipped after it crashed on the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport. And then the next thing I know is kind of a blink and I'm upside down, still strapped in. Pete Carlson was on the flight from Minneapolis to Toronto. As we made our descent and made touchdown all of a sudden everything just kind of went sideways. 18 people were taken to hospital for injuries including one child but airport CEO Deborah Flint confirms all 80 people on board alive. This is in due part to our heroic and

trained professionals our first responders at the airport. For now, still few answers. Pearson Fire Chief Todd Aiken. It's very early on. It's really important that we do not speculate. Nicole Williams, CBC News, Mississauga, Ontario. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in rehabihadh meeting behind closed doors today with Russia's

foreign minister and senior Saudi officials. These talks appear to be the first step toward ending the war in Ukraine, but they're taking place without Ukraine at the table. Crystal Gamansing reports. The previous US administration led efforts to freeze out Moscow after it launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This face-to-face meeting a sign that Russia is a pariah state no longer. Sergey Markov is the former spokesperson for the Russian president. United States want to stop the war. Russia want to stop the war. For the war to end, Markov says Ukraine must demilitarize and President Volodymyr Zelensky

removed from office. Brian Lanza was a Trump presidential campaign advisor. He says the president and his team will sift through rhetoric versus demands to get a deal. I think that's what President Trump brings. He understands what's real and what's not. Ukraine wants peace, but President Zelensky says he will not accept any plan made without his country at the table. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London.

Canadian scientists are questioning why their meetings with U.S. government scientists are now being reviewed by the Trump administration. The CBC's Jala Bernstein has obtained internal American emails showing that all international scientific collaboration now has to be submitted for approval. Jayla Bernstein reports. Aaron Fisk is the Canada research chair in changing Great Lakes ecosystems at the University of Windsor. Up until a few weeks ago, he worked closely with Americans.

That reality now drastically altered. It's bizarre and it's scary. CBC News has seen emails sent to staff at NOAA, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The memos place limits on international scientific meetings. A former NOAA official told CBC News there are also talks of significant cuts to the workforce. Dalhousie University Professor Doug Wallace is with the Marine Environmental Observation, Protection and

Response Network. Why would you, apparently, anyway, demolish something which is really a crown jewel of the USA? A spokesperson for NOAA denied there is any pause on international communication. The Canadian government told CBC News that it had received no official notice of changes to its collaborative relationship with NOAA. Jaila Bernstein, CBC News, Montreal. For parts of the country, yet more winter weather is on the way this week.

Another 15 to 70 centimeters of snow is in the forecast for areas north of Toronto. This has an extreme cold warning as an effect for most of southwestern Ontario. For the prairies with the wind chill temperatures today as they wake up will feel anywhere from minus 30 to minus 40. And that is the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.