The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/19 at 15:00 EST

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/19 at 15:00 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 this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. A high-speed rail corridor between Toronto and Quebec City is one step closer to reality. The Prime Minister laid out the plans for the project today in Montreal. Justin Trudeau says the rail line would be a game changer for Canadians. It could get passengers from Montreal to Toronto in three hours. A high-speed rail network between Quebec City and Toronto with stops in Trois-Rivières, Laval, Montreal, Ottawa and Peterborough.

It'll span a thousand kilometers with a hundred percent electric trains that will reach speeds of 300 kilometers an hour. This initial design phase is expected to take four to five years and will cost an estimated $3.9 billion. Trudeau says the rail service will be known as Alto. An Ottawa court has sentenced Pat King to three more months of house arrest. King was one of the organizers of the 2022 convoy protest in Ottawa. He was found guilty in November on five charges including mischief and disobeying a court order.

The Crown have been calling for a 10-year prison sentence. In total, King was given 12 months with 9 months credit for time served. More than 20 investigators are combing over the wreckage of the Delta flight that crashed at Toronto's Pearson Airport on Monday. The fuselage is still blocking the airport's two longest runways. While the questions about how the landing went so wrong remain unanswered. Nicole Williams reports. It was an experienced crew. Airline CEO Ed Bastion defending the team on board Delta Connection flight 4819 in an interview with CBS. There have been plenty of questions about what went wrong Monday.

The plane landing hard, bursting into flames as it skidded along the windy and snowy runway before flipping over. Pilots train for these conditions. They fly under all kinds of conditions at all the airports in which we operate. There's nothing specific with respect to the experience that I'd look to. Investigators remain on scene, pouring over the wreckage to determine what happened. Crews on standby to remove the plane, currently blocking two of the airport's busiest runways. The airline has confirmed 20 of the 21 passengers who were sent to hospital have been released. Nicole Williams, CBC News, Toronto.

President Donald Trump is calling Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator. The post on his platform Truth Social comes a day after he suggested it was Ukraine who started the war with Russia. Anna Cunningham has the latest from London. This is a scathing post by the US President Donald Trump calling the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator without elections. Trump said Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left.

The post follows comments Zelensky made this morning saying Trump was living in a disinformation bubble after the US president on Tuesday seemingly blamed Ukraine for starting the war, saying Ukraine could have done a deal to prevent it, a line well used by the Kremlin. President Putin praising the outcome of Tuesday's talks in Saudi Arabia and saying no one is excluding Ukraine. Trump also writes that Europe has failed to secure peace. That will not go unnoticed by EU and Western leaders, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who joined a meeting virtually in Paris to discuss Ukraine's future and Europe's

security. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. Officials in Australia have decided to euthanise dozens of stranded false killer whales. False killer whales are a species of oceanic dolphins. More than 150 of them were found on an isolated beach in Tasmania. Rescue crews attempted to save some of the 90 whales that survived the ordeal without success. Shelley Graham is with the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service.

Unfortunately, we were unsuccessful with that as the ocean conditions were preventing the animals from getting out and they were continually re-stranding. Reasons for the beaching are unclear. Officials say it's the first mass stranding of false killer whales in five decades. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.