The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/19 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/19 at 12:00 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, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is giving the green light to the design and development of a high-speed rail network between Toronto and Quebec City. Sarah Lovett has more. Today I'm announcing the launch of Alto, the largest infrastructure project in Canadian history. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promises Canadians a high-speed rail line from Toronto to Quebec

City will happen. Slashing travel times by half, getting you from Toronto to Montreal in three hours. Today was the announcement. A design and development plan will begin with a consortium. That plan has an estimated cost of 3.9 billion dollars. This, as the federal government, is an unsure footing with Trudeau set to step down. At Montreal's central station, passengers heading to Toronto via train express excitement and skepticism. I think it's an election coming up.

It is possible a future government could modify or cancel the project. Sarah Levitt, CBC News, Montreal. Now to Ottawa. Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! There was a scene outside the courthouse this morning after Pat King was sentenced for his role in organizing the 2022 convoy protest in Ottawa. King has been given three months of house arrest. The Crown wanted a 10-year prison sentence. King was found guilty in November on four on five charges, including mischief and disobeying a court

order. During the protests, hundreds of trucks and thousands of demonstrators took over downtown Ottawa for close to three weeks. They were protesting COVID-19 public health measures. U.S. President Donald Trump is dismissing Ukraine's complaint that it has yet to be invited to join talks on ending the war with 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. In response, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is insisting that President Trump is being misinformed by the Kremlin. Here's Zelensky is insisting that President Trump is being misinformed by the Kremlin. Here is Zelensky speaking today through an interpreter. 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.

Incidentally, Zelensky is expected to meet today with Keith Kellogg. Kellogg is the US Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia and arrived in Kiev overnight. With the Trump administration pulling the United States out of the World Health Organization, scientists around the world are voicing their concerns as they start work on a flu vaccine for next year's flu season. Jennifer Yoon has more. For flu shots to get to Canadians' arms, it takes a whole lot of scientists from around the world working on it every year.

They're supposed to meet next week to come up with next year's flu vaccine. But there might be a key player missing. We are communicating with them, but we haven't heard anything back. Maria Van Kirkhove, who leads the World Health Organization's efforts to prevent epidemics, doesn't know if American scientists will be there next week. She says she's reached out to US agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration to radio silence. American epidemiologist Keiji Fukuda, who's been to several of these meetings,

is alarmed. He says it's crucial U.S. scientists are there. These kinds of interactions are how we come up with the best formulations for vaccines. While experts really want Americans to show up, the WHO says the meeting will go on with or without the U.S. Jennifer Yoon, CBC News, Toronto. Travelers should expect delays again today at Canada's busiest airport, Toronto's Pearson International. Investigators are still on the ground examining the evidence from this week's plane crash. A Delta Airlines flight crash-landed on Monday injuring 21 people.

The Transportation Safety Board is saying it has sent the plane's data recorders for analysis and airport officials expect the wreckage to remain on the runway for at least another day. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.