The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/19 at 06:00 EST

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/19 at 06:00 EST

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Explore over 890,000 titles on Audible.ca by signing up for a free 30-day trial and start listening today. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We start with U.S. President Donald Trump and his response to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky being left out of discussions on ending the war against Russia. I think I have the power to end this war. But today I heard, oh, well, we weren't invited. Well, you've been there for three years. You should have ended it three years.

You should have never started it. You could have made a deal. But Zelensky is not shying away, saying today through an interpreter that it's understood that the war was started by Russia. We are seeing a lot of disinformation, and it's coming from Russia. Unfortunately, President Trump, with all due respect, is living in this disinformation space. Zalansky says his talks this week have been focused on what Europe is prepared to do to help Ukraine if the U.S. reduces its military assistance.

February 24, incidentally, will mark three years since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the face of mounting criticism about cuts being made to U.S. governmental services, President Trump is standing behind the man responsible, Elon Musk. Trump and Musk sat down for a joint interview last night on the Fox News Network. Katie Simpson has more. President Trump is a good man. Elon Musk sat next to Donald Trump, flattering his boss with a steady shower of compliments during the hour-long interview on Fox News.

At this point, I spent a lot of time with the president, and not once have I seen him do something that was mean or cruel or wrong. The president himself didn't miss a beat, returning the favour with compliments of his own. He's a very good person, and he wants to see the country do well. Both Musk and Trump defended the work of Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency. Led by Musk, Doge is spearheading the federal government purge, dismantling agencies and firing tens of thousands of workers in the name of cost cutting. I think he's going to find a trillion dollars.

If Trump and or Musk watched the live broadcast, there's a chance they saw the commercial paid for by the province of Ontario promoting it as a steady trading partner. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. Sentencing is scheduled today for Pat King, one of the organizers of the 2022 convoy protest in Ottawa. King was found guilty in November on five charges, including mischief and disobeying a court order. The Crown is seeking a 10-year sentence,

which would be the maximum penalty. His defense is asking for time served and probation. The convoy protest saw hundreds of trucks and thousands of people gridlock downtown Ottawa for about three weeks in protest of public health mandates introduced during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. A BC judge has ruled partially in favour of three demonstrators who say their charter rights were breached when they were arrested at a protest blockade against the

coastal gas line pipeline. Jackie McKay reports. Even though we didn't get the stay of proceedings, I really consider this a victory nonetheless. Defense lawyer Francis Mahon says it's rare for a court to find an abusive process. The accused are Slato, a wing chief of the Gittimtan clan of the Wet'suwet'en nation, Shailen Sampson, a Gitsan woman with Wet'suwet'en family ties, and Cory Jaco, who is Gawne Gehega from Akwesasne. Justice Michael Tannen of the BC Supreme Court says a reduction in sentence would be appropriate because of serious acts of racism that occurred.

RCMP officers compared Slato and Sampson to orcs and ogres in audio recordings played in court. The officers didn't know they were being recorded at the time. The justice also says the RCMP should have obtained warrants before entering the cabins to arrest the accused. These acts breached their Section 7 charter rights. The judge will take all of this into account when sentencing happens in the coming months. Jackie McKay, CBC News, Vancouver.

Travelers are being warned to expect continuing delays today at Toronto's Pearson International Airport as investigators work to determine what caused Monday's crash landing of a Delta Airlines plane. The Transportation Safety Board is saying the aircraft's wreckage will remain on the runway until investigators finish that part of the inquiry. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.