The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 10:00 EDT

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But it's time to imagine what we can do with more. Join Scarborough Health Network and together, we can turn grit into greatness. Donate at lovescarborough.ca. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. An electrical fire in West London has led to the closure of Heathrow Airport, one of

the busiest airports in the world. Many, many, many of the aircraft that are landing in Heathrow are the largest aircraft in the world. So that complicates things. That is Ian Pechnik, a global airline analyst. More than 1,300 flights, either directly or indirectly, have been affected, and it will be hours yet before the airport reopens.

Here's Briar Stewart. Briar Stewart, Air Force Commander, Air Force Command, Air Force Command, Air Force Command There were supposed to be nearly 300,000 passengers transiting through Heathrow. All of their travel plans have been disrupted because of the fire that began last night at a substation a few kilometers from here. The airport is expected to be closed until midnight, but we know that the effects of this will last longer than that because passengers will have to be rebooked and aircraft and crews will have to be repositioned.

And to give you a sense of the Canadian impact, Air Canada said that they had to cancel 16 flights. We also know that WestJet had flights scheduled into Heathrow today, so did British Airways from Canada. And you also had flights that unexpectedly were diverted to Goose Bay in Finland and Labrador because they had to refuel after they were turned around mid-air. So it is a big deal for people disrupting their travel plans, and it's led to a lot of frustration. Briar Stewart, CBC News, London. Ahead of Sunday's election call, Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Ottawa for a meeting this afternoon with the premiers.

Among the issues on the agenda, a member of the Carney team is saying there will be discussions on establishing a single Canadian economy instead of 13 separate ones. Dropping interprovincial trade barriers has become a priority among the premiers in the face of the ongoing trade action by the United States and, as of this week, China. 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 center. It brings together some of the most accomplished operatives in the global fight against online fraud. 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 room full 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 World This Hour. For news anytime go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.