The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 at 22:00 EST

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 at 22:00 EST

In Scarborough, there's this fire behind our eyes. A passion in our bellies. It's in the hearts of our neighbors. The eyes of our nurses. And the hands of our doctors. It's what makes Scarborough, Scarborough. In our hospitals, we do more than anyone thought possible. We've less than anyone could imagine.

But it's time to imagine what we can do with more. Join Scarborough Health Network and together, we can turn grit into greatness. Donate at lovescarborough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Herland. The president of Toronto's Pearson Airport won't speculate on the cause of yesterday's plane crash,

but Deborah Flint says the airport was dealing with record snowfall. From last Thursday to Sunday, Toronto Pearson saw extreme conditions, two separate snowstorms. Flint says the two longest runways at Pearson remain closed due to the ongoing investigation. The Delta Airlines plane crashed while attempting to land and rolled onto its roof. All 80 people on board survived. I cannot commend enough the crew, the flight attendants, pilots and our emergency responders for their quick and effective response. It's really incredible and when you see that aircraft it just makes you really thankful for all the safety checks that go into running one of the world's safest air transportation systems.

Canada's Transportation Safety Board says it has recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders. As survivors of the plane crash search for answers into what went wrong, questions about air travel safety are back in the spotlight. Erin Collins reports. Come on! With a calmness that's difficult to fathom, the crew of Flight 4819 shepherds passengers out of the flipped fuselage of the Delta Airlines plane. Our plane crashed.

The dramatic nature of this crash, eye-catching. Part of the fascination, just how rare plane crashes actually are. The number of accidents happen over the years has decreased remarkably. David McNair is a former investigator with the Transportation Safety Board. McNair says that as crashes trend down, safety features on planes have improved. He points specifically to the seats on the Delta flight as potentially contributing to the survival of the passengers and crew on board. They're stronger. They're almost twice as strong. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Calgary.

A BC Supreme Court judge says RCMP officers made racist and dehumanizing remarks about two indigenous women blockading the coastal gaslink pipeline in November 2021. Justice Michael Tammond says the protesters' convictions will stand, but ruled the pair and another protester will see their sentences reduced as a remedy. The three protesters were convicted last January of criminal contempt, but tried to have the charges stayed because of the police misconduct which was captured in audio recordings. U.S. and Russian officials sat down today to discuss ways to stop the war in Ukraine,

Europe's deadliest conflict since the Second World War, the talks wrapped with an agreement to appoint a high-level team to negotiate. But as Paul Hunter reports, there's still no clarity on when and even if Ukraine may be included in those talks. With the war raging on in Ukraine, the fighting now approaching its third anniversary. A meeting in Saudi Arabia with a stated goal of beginning to find a way to end the fighting. Today is the first step of a long and difficult journey, but in a formal one, and President Trump is committed to bringing an end to this conflict, he wants to bring an end to it.

The goal is to bring an end to this conflict in a way that's fair, enduring, sustainable and acceptable to all parties involved. So Lavrov said, I, the conversation was, I believe, very useful. We did not just listen, but we heard each other. The current U.S. administration, he said, has a better understanding of Russia's position on Ukraine. And coming out of the four-and-a-half-hour meeting, the two countries agreed to improve their diplomatic ties, boost their economic ties, and said more talks on

Ukraine will follow. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with attempting a coup after his 2022 election loss. The prosecutor general alleges he was part of a plan to stay in power despite losing to the current president Lula de Silva. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.