The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/24 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/24 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 is our. I'm Joe Cummings. The four Liberal leadership candidates are meeting tonight on stage for a French language debate in Montreal. For Marc Carney, Christia Freeland, Carina Gould and Frank Baylis, it's the first of two debates this week that come just two weeks before the party picks their new leader. Janice McGregor has more. The Quebec audience tonight is absolutely critical for the Liberal Party's fortunes.

Public opinion surveys suggest that a significant part of the Liberals' recent uptick in support could be attributable to voters now thinking twice about voting for the Sovereignness Party. Party organizers considered a long list of topics for this debate, but they landed on four final themes. Canada's place in the world, a first round that's going to include Canada-US relations, then competing ideas for growing a strong economy, third, affordability measures, housing, healthcare, and finally climate action. Party supporters are going to be filling in a ranked ballot, which means that if no front runner wins, a majority of first choices being a party's second choice might be critical. So it'll be interesting to see how aggressive the contestants get against each other tonight

or whether they're going to channel it all instead on the two men waiting in the wings for whoever wins this thing. Pierre Polly-Eve and Donald Trump. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Kiev today, marking the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And Trudeau is insisting that Canada's support for Ukraine will continue for the extent of the war and after.

We will continue to look for ways to engage. But the first priority is to make sure that there is a ceasefire and that we set up the conditions for a lasting peace. When we establish the way we're going to keep a lasting peace, I can tell you I'm certain that Canada will be involved, but we're not at that position yet. Trudeau is one of 13 world leaders in Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

Trudeau made the trip with a commitment to deliver another 25 light-armoured vehicles to the Ukrainian military. As well, he's announced that Canada is turning over $5 billion in seized Russian assets. The Israeli government is stepping up its military presence in the West Bank, and Israel's defense minister says this new deployment could continue for at least a year and potentially longer. Sasha Petrosik reports.

Tanks roll across the occupied West Bank for the first time in more than two decades. Israel's show of force against what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says is increased activity by Hamas and other groups in refugee camps. We are fighting terror on all fronts, he says, and will stay as long as necessary. Israel ramped up its forces here in the wake of three bus bombs near Tel Aviv. The camps, home for Palestinian families originally displaced by Israel's creation in 1948, have long been strongholds for militant groups. They've now been mostly emptied by the Israeli military which has destroyed houses and

torn up infrastructure, forcing 40,000 Palestinians to move. Hundreds of fighters and civilians have been killed here in the past months. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. Grammy award winning singer Roberta Flack has died. The first time ever I saw your face. That's Flack with her 1972 hit, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. It was named record of the year at the Grammys. And a year later, she won the same honour again for another Top Ten single, Killing

Me Softly. Flack died today at the age of 88, her death coming three years after she was diagnosed with ALS. And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.