The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/19 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/19 at 00:00 EST

It's the epitome of classical ballet, beloved the world over. The National Ballet of Canada invites you to experience Swan Lake, revel in Tchaikovsky's glorious score, and an unforgettable production directed and staged by Karen Kane, whose vision emphasizes the love story at the heart of the ballet. Presented by Nicola Wealth Management, on stageth to 22nd. Tickets are selling fast. Secure your seat now at national.ballet.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Herland.

We begin with breaking news from British Columbia. An avalanche has killed a skier in southeastern BC. The Mounties say they got a report Monday night of two missing men who had been skiing in the mountains southeast of the town of Golden. That's about 260 kilometers west of Calgary. One of the men died and his body was retrieved Tuesday. The BC Coroner Service has been called in. The president of Toronto's

Pearson Airport won't speculate on the cause of Monday's plane crash but Deborah Flint says the airport has been dealing with record snowfall. From last Thursday to Sunday, Toronto Pearson saw extreme conditions, two separate snow storms. 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, 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 safety are back in the spotlight. Aaron 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 that happened 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 gas pipeline in November 2021. Justice Michael Tammann 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.

US and Russian officials sat down Tuesday 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. 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. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Riyadh sitting across the table from his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. The goal is to bring an end to this conflict in a way that's fair, enduring, sustainable and acceptable to all parties involved. Said Lavrov, the conversation was, I believe, very useful.

We did not just listen, but we heard each other. The current US 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. And that's the CBC News.