The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/21 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/21 at 14:00 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 is our, I'm Karen Hauerloch. Israel is accusing Hamas militants of violating the ceasefire deal. The militant group handed over the body of an unidentified woman instead of an Israeli hostage, as promised. Now there are concerns the tenuous deal may not last long. Sasha Petrosik reports. The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has always been fragile, the mistrust always deep.

Now it's deeper still, with Israel's discovery that a coffin, Hamas said, contained the body of hostage Shiri Bebas wasn't her at all. Hamas admits there may have been a mix up. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls for vengeance. I vow that I will not rest until the savages who executed our hostages are brought to justice. Bebas's two young children also came back from Gaza in coffins. Hamas says they died in an Israeli airstrike. Military spokesman Daniel Hagari says no.

Six more living hostages are set to be released tomorrow. How smoothly that goes could well be a test of the cease-fire's staying power. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. There are more mixed messages from the Trump administration on its efforts to end the fighting in Ukraine. Donald Trump's special envoy praised Ukraine's president during their meeting in Kyiv. Meanwhile, President Trump and his national security adviser continue to put pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky. Anna Cunningham has more. In Kyiv, Trump's man retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg on his third and final day of

talks. He posted to social media praising President Zelensky, calling him an embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war. By contrast, in Washington, President Donald Trump spoke to a gathering of US governors, telling them Ukraine has no cards in peace talks. What Trump wants is for Zelensky to sign a deal giving the US access to his country's critical mineral deposits. Zelensky so far refusing, saying there are no security guarantees in the deal. US National Security Adviser Mike Walz says it will happen. Here's the bottom line. President Zelensky is going to sign that deal. The pressure on Ukraine is coming from a country once viewed as its closest ally.

Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. Also in Washington. The message down here is a paraffon candidate has attacked on Americans. I'm very confident that message is getting there. Very, very confident. That's Ontario Premier Doug Ford. He's attending a conference of American governors, along with Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston. They're trying to convince state leaders to push back on Donald Trump's tariff plans.

They highlight the price Americans will pay if the president goes through with his threat to impose tariffs on Canadian goods. There's a development in the case of the bus driver who smashed into a daycare in Laval, Quebec in 2023. The Crown has agreed with the defence that Pierre Nissen Tamin is not criminally responsible because of a psychiatric disorder. He will not face a jury trial that was slated to start in April. Instead, he will appear at a hearing before a judge alone. Two children were killed and six others were injured in the incident.

The Pope's doctors say he has yet to recover from his lung infection, but he's not in imminent danger of dying. Dr. Sergio Alfieri. He is in critical condition. That means that one patient of 80, 80 years old with chronic Lyme disease and you have some infection is critical condition, but he's fine now. But Francis was admitted to hospital in Rome a week ago after he was struggling to breathe.

He was diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs, made worse by bronchitis. Doctors expect the 88-year-old will remain in hospital at least through next week. And that is your World This Hour for News Anytime. You can visit our website at cbcnews.ca. I'm Karen Howelluck. END

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