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

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 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 is sour. I'm Tom Harrington. The Transportation Safety Board says it has recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from the Delta flight that crashed yesterday, but the two longest runways at Toronto's Pearson Airport remain closed. All 80 people on board the jet survived but two passengers remain in hospital. Thomas Dagler 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. A BC judge says the RCMP breached the charter rights of three people arrested for a blockade on the coastal gasoline pipeline. He says their Section 7 rights to life, liberty and security of person were violated during a raid. Because of that, the accused will have their sentences reduced. Last year, the judge found the three guilty of criminal contempt of court. They broke an injunction against blocking work on the pipeline in 2021. The Vatican says Pope Francis appears to have double pneumonia. That further complicates

treatment for the 88-year-old Pontiff. Megyn Williams has more from Rome. The Vatican says tests, including a chest x-ray and CAT scan this afternoon, reveal the pope has pneumonia in both lungs. Francis was hospitalized on Friday for bronchitis and has taken a turn for the worse. The Vatican says the infection isn't the only problem the Pope is facing. He has a chronic lung condition, airways are damaged causing infections and mucus buildup. That requires specific drugs which adds complexity. Despite this the Vatican says Pope Francis is in good spirits.

Earlier the Vatican announced the Pope has accepted the resignation of Canadian Bishop Jean-Pierre Blais who was was named in a class action lawsuit alleging sexual abuse. Blais maintains his innocence and the Diocese of Baie-Cormont says his resignation is unrelated to the allegations. Megan Williams, CBC News, Rome. The U.S. 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 in 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 postponed his visit to Saudi Arabia in order to not give legitimacy to the talks. Villagers in southern Lebanon sifting through the rubble of their homes following the departure of Israeli troops. They are looking for the remains of relatives killed in last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah. The war displaced more than one million people in Lebanon and tens of thousands of Israelis from northern Israel.

Today was the deadline for Israel to withdraw from the border region under a ceasefire deal. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.