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

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 at 16:00 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 is sour. I'm Tom Harrington. The two longest runways at Toronto's Pearson Airport remain closed. With the wreckage from yesterday's plane crash still on the tarmac, Canada's Transportation Safety Board investigation is underway. All 80 people on board the Delta flight survived, but two passengers remain in hospital. Thomas Daggle has the latest. Officials won't speculate on what caused the crash, but Pearson Airport points out in recent days it received more snow than all of last winter.

Airport Authority CEO Deborah Flint says 20 Transportation Safety Board investigators have now arrived to determine what went wrong, with help from U.S. officials and aircraft maker Mitsubishi. We do expect that the investigators on site will be reviewing the aircraft on its current configuration on the runway for the next 48 hours. Delta Airlines now says 21 passengers in all were taken to Toronto area hospitals. In court to catch with the local paramedic service says crews treated patients for back sprains and head injuries. Some headaches, nausea and vomiting due to the fuel exposure.

Firefighters say they had to board the plane to rescue some passengers, but most managed to walk away on their own. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto. Canada's inflation rate rose to 1.9 percent in January, up from 1.8 the month before. Statistics Canada says higher energy prices were a key factor in that increase, but that bump was partly offset by the federal GST holiday. Mark Carney is dominating fundraising efforts in the race for the federal liberal leadership. Elections Canada filings show the former central banker has raised almost $2 million. As Olivia Stefanowicz reports,

his competition is not even close. I'm getting my support from the grassroots. Frank Baylis may not yet be a household name, but the former Liberal MP has raised more money than Christian Freeland in the first leg of the Liberal leadership race, pulling in just over $227,000. I've got a lot of the cultural communities. Freeland's team says it's working to correct its fundraising figures with Elections Canada. The initial data shows the former finance minister also trails behind Karina Gould,

the former Liberal House leader, but not former Liberal MP Ruby Dalla. I am very grateful to all of the donors and the supporters. None of the candidates are fundraising anywhere close to Mark Carney. The former Bank of Canada governor has raised the most money from the most donors. Over $1.9 million for more than 11,000 contributors so far. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. The Vatican says Pope Francis has bilateral pneumonia and his respiratory infection is also complicated by asthmatic bronchitis.

Nevertheless, the Vatican says the 88-year-old pontiff remains in high spirits. Francis was admitted to hospital on Friday after a week feeling unwell. The Vatican has cancelled all of his scheduled audiences through until the weekend. But officials say it is not clear how long the treatment will last. The US and Russia have agreed to start working together to end the war in Ukraine. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other senior American officials met with a Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia. We're not going to pre-negotiate an end to this conflict.

These are the kinds of things that have to happen through hard and difficult diplomacy and closed rooms over a period of time. Rubio says the two countries have agreed to reestablish diplomatic missions and will restore staffing at their respective embassies in Washington and Moscow. Here is National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. This needs to be a permanent end to the war and not a temporary end as we've seen in the past. We know just the practical reality is that there is going to be some discussion of territory. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wasn't invited to the meeting.

He's postponed his visit to Saudi Arabia in order to not give legitimacy to the talks. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.