The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/21 at 16:00 EST

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/21 at 16:00 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 Howellock. A Hamas official says the group has handed over the body of Israeli hostage Sheree Bebus to the Red Cross. The Israeli military says it is checking those reports. Her body was supposed to be returned yesterday, along with those of her two children, as part of the hostage exchange deal. But Israeli investigators say the body was that of an unidentified woman from Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing revenge on Hamas militants. As the Prime Minister of Israel, I vow that I will not rest until the savages who executed

our hostages are brought to justice. The International Committee of the Red Cross says as an intermediary, it does not participate in sorting, screening or examining the deceased and it's concerned and unsatisfied in the way Israeli hostage and Palestinian prisoner release operations have taken place. 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 Kiev. But President Trump and his national security adviser are continuing to pressure 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. U.S. 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.

In Washington. It's an ongoing discussion, that's what I say. And I think Canadians should know that we're doing what we can under the circumstances. That's Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston. Houston, along with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, spoke today to a conference of American governors. 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 defense that Pierre Nyssaing-Damont 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. In Alberta, a strike by educational support staff is keeping some students with complex needs out of class.

Until now. A judge has decided those kids should be back in school. Sam Sampson has the details. Martin Doyle's 11-year-old son Ryan lives with autism and is non-verbal. For five weeks during an education support staff strike in Edmonton, children living with disabilities like Ryan have been forced to stay home. Alberta law requires schools to have in-class options for students with disabilities, but due to the strike and fewer staff members, the

provincial education minister asked for an exemption last month. Four families filed a lawsuit claiming they suffered irreparable harm as a result. On Thursday, a Court of King's Bench judge overturned that exemption, saying it was in the public's interest for all students to go to school, even in a labour shortage. Orla O'Kelly is the family's lawyer. It's in our view a huge win for children with disabilities. Alberta's education minister is reviewing the decision.

Sam Sampson, CBC News, Edmonton. And that is the World This Hour for CBC News. I'm Karen Howerlach.