The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/18 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/18 at 18:00 EDT

Just weeks after 9-11, letters containing anthrax were sent all over America, and it would go down as the deadliest biological attack in U.S. history. I'm Kathleen Goltar, and this week on Crime Story, I speak with Jeremiah Kroll about a long-forgotten story that's had a lasting impact on American life. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. With the debates done, party leaders got back

on the campaign trail today, and voters are making their way to advance polls. As Tom Perry reports there's a lot of eagerness to cast ballots. At Ottawa City Hall the line for advanced voting stretched out the door and down the length of the building. We came to early voting and we got here and waited two hours to vote. While some voters have made their choice party leaders are back out looking for those still wavering. We can give ourselves so much more than the Americans can ever take away. Liberal leader Mark Carney again making the case this election is about who's best to take on US President Donald Trump.

While conservative leader Pierre Polyev says it's about putting someone new in charge. Now the question is whether we, with rising costs and crime, the Liberals deserve a fourth term in power or whether it's time for a change. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Québécois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet sticking to their message as well, urging voters to support them and keep whoever wins this election in check.

Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is in Montreal today. He says he will reverse a federal ban on single-use plastics, including food packaging and straws. Only 1% of plastic waste ever ends up in the environment. The other 99% it's disposed of safely or recycled. But the Liberals don't care because this isn't about science, it's about symbolism and control. They're not about saving the planet, they're about punishing all of us to make themselves feel good.

Mark Carney says Poliev is following the US lead on climate. The Liberal leader has no plans to reverse the plastics ban. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is in Quebec promising to boost immigration funding by $100 million a year. Singh says the province would also be reimbursed for dealing with an influx of asylum seekers, and he promises to invest in a national hydroelectric grid that would benefit Quebec. US Senator Chris Van Hollen is urging El Salvador to act in the case of a mistakenly deported resident of Maryland.

Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego Garcia was sent to a super prison in his native country despite being granted protection by a judge in 2019. Van Hollen flew to speak with Garcia in El Salvador and says securing the meeting was difficult. He says his case is not just about Garcia. It's about protecting the constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America. If you deny the constitutional rights of one man, you threaten the constitutional rights

and due process for everyone else in America. Both the U.S. and El Salvador have refused to arrange Garcia's release. The Trump administration says without proof Garcia is a gang member and that his fate now rests with El Salvador. The US could abandon Russia-Ukraine peace talks if it doesn't see progress soon. Stalled ceasefire negotiations have led to mounting frustrations on all sides and conflicting messages from the White House. Phil Bleszanianak has the latest. We're not going to continue with this endeavor for weeks and months on end. In Paris, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested the US was days away from leaving talks if a deal is not imminent.

We have other priorities to focus on as well. But hours later in Rome, US Vice President JD Vance sounded much more optimistic. hours later in Rome, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance sounded much more optimistic. We think we have some interesting things to report on. We do feel optimistic that we can hopefully bring this war, this very brutal war, to a close. From the Oval Office, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested one side was being difficult. He didn't say whether it was Russia or Ukraine, but just that the time to make a deal was now or... We're gonna just take take a pass but hopefully we won't have to do that. Marco is right in saying that we're getting, we want to see it end.

Trump declined to say what would happen to American military aid to Ukraine should the U.S. decide to abandon ceasefire negotiations. Philip E. Shannock, CBC News, Toronto. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.