The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 08:00 EDT

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start listening today. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. First to London, where a fire at an electrical substation has led to the closure of Heathrow Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world. It means more than a thousand flights, including those two and from Canada, are either being grounded or diverted. Briar Stewart reports.

The fire led to widespread power outages, forcing the closure of Heathrow and all four of its terminals. At the time, 120 aircraft were in the air, bound for the airport. They either had to be diverted or returned back. We're looking at a rather unprecedented event. Ian Petchenik is the director of communications for Flightradar 24. Many, many, many of the aircraft that are landing in Heathrow are the largest aircraft in the world.

So that complicates things. There were about one dozen flights from Canada scheduled to go to Heathrow today. And because Heathrow is a major hub for global connections, the effect on the aviation industry will be wide-reaching. The airport is expected to be closed until midnight, but industry experts say the disruption to travel could last for days. Briar Stewart, CBC News, London.

Last count, 1,300 flights have been affected, with the backlog expected to take days to sort out, as Briar mentioned. Ahead of Sunday's election call, Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting a meeting this afternoon with the Premiers. The meeting is in Ottawa with interprovincial trade and the U.S. and Chinese tariffs expected to dominate the agenda. The Atlantic Premiers are looking to discuss the impact on the seafood industry, and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says his priority is China's canola tariffs. In a controversial move, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired Rowan Barr, the head of the country's security agency. Crystal Gamansing reports from Jerusalem.

Demonstrators in central Jerusalem galvanized against a historic move by their government. Someone who is actually being investigated cannot fire their investigator. Rowy Sassen says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is removing all of the gatekeepers, collapsing Israel's democracy. Staff inside Netanyahu's office are under investigation by Shin Bet for allegedly accepting money while in Qatar for hostage negotiations. The money is possibly linked to helping improve Qatar's image. The agency also highlighted failures in government policies before October 7th while accepting it did not heed early warnings. Ronan Barr said he only needs the trust of Israeli citizens. That his firing to take effect next month or when a replacement is found will make Israel less secure. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, Jerusalem.

CBC's marketplace has taken the extraordinary step of establishing an anti-fraud centre. It brings together some of the most accomplished operatives in the global fight against telephone and online scamming. David Common has more. You're hearing the scammers in your headpiece right now. I am. In a room filled with screens and software used to infiltrate scammer networks, top scam buster Jim Browning has identified a threat. It looks like this scammer is able to see the victim's computer

and they've logged into their bank account. How much money is in that bank account? On one account alone there's nearly 250,000. CBC Marketplace brought together Jim and two other big name scam busters to take on fraudsters around the world. I've actually got CCTV of the scam happening. Browning has even hacked his way into the security cameras of a roomful of scammers targeting North America from Pakistan. The trio of fraud fighters have collectively stopped many millions of dollars flowing from victims to phone, text and online scams.

It's hard to keep up, but it doesn't slow them down from trying and often succeeding. David Common, CBC News, Toronto. You can see more tonight on Marketplace, on CBC TV and CBC Gem. And that is the World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. The World This Hour is updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.