The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/26 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/26 at 13:00 EDT

Fisherman John Coppock and his son Craig were hoping that their day on the water would finish with a good haul of cod. Instead, they reeled in way more than they bargained for. They had a net filled with fish and to their horror and surprise, the body of a man. I'm Kathleen Goldthar and this week on Crime Story, a body in the ocean untangles a sea of lies. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. We begin in Rome. The body of Pope Francis has now been laid to rest in the St. Mary Major Basilica after a funeral mass in St. Peter's Square. The Vatican estimates a quarter of a million people attended.

The Pope's coffin was taken inside St. Peter's Basilica for a blessing before the trip to his final resting place. Dozens of world leaders joined the throng of Catholic faithful to bid farewell to the Pontiff. That includes Vladimir Zelensky. The Ukrainian president had a brief meeting with US President Donald Trump before the funeral. Both Zelensky and the White House called the 15-minute discussion productive. Zelensky also met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Italian leader Giorgia Maloney.

The parties are making their final campaign push this weekend. The leaders are heading to ridings they think they can win or need to defend. Mark Carney is spending the day in Vote Rich Ontario, and he's starting in a riding currently held by the Conservatives. Tom Perry reports. We are in the equivalent of game seven of the Stanley Cup in the last two minutes. With the clock ticking down, Mark Carney is ramping up his campaign, the Liberal leader, on a final sprint leading up to voting day.

Is Pierre Pauliev the person you want sitting across the table from Donald Trump? Carney in a Conservative riding north of Toronto going after conservative leader Pierre Paliyev but spending far more time talking about US President Donald Trump and his trade war. If we lose the negotiations, and I will use that term, if we lose the negotiations because we give them what they want, we will lose as a country. Carney focusing on Ontario today hitting five ridings in the Toronto suburbs. On Sunday, he's expected to travel to Western Canada to make one last campaign push. Tom Perry, CBC News, King City, Ontario.

Conservative leader Pierre Pollyet was starting the day in BC before heading to Sudbury, Ontario. NDP leader Jack Meatsinghe is campaigning in London and Windsor, Ontario, then he's westward bound for events in Vancouver and Burnaby. Alberta doctors say the province needs to ramp up its messaging on measles. 137 cases have been reported just in the last two months. The head of the Alberta Medical Association

says the province should offer regular briefings, public information campaign, and set up vaccine clinics in areas with low vaccination rates. A major explosion rocked Iran's largest port today. The blast killed at least four people and injured hundreds more. As Dominic Valadis tells us, early reports suggest it was caused by improperly stored chemicals. Captured on dashcam, the huge explosion ripped through the Shaheed Rajay port shortly after midday local time. The blast was so powerful it shattered windows within a seven kilometre

radius and was heard nearly 30 kilometres away. Iranian state media says at least four people were killed and more than 500 others injured. An investigation is underway, but the explosion's already being blamed on poorly stored chemicals at the port, which is Iran's largest. The entire site has now been closed and shipping operations suspended. A series of deadly incidents have hit Iranian energy and industrial infrastructure in recent years with many blamed on negligence Dominic Vleitus for CBC News Riga Latvia. Tensions continue between nuclear rivals

India and Pakistan in the wake of a terrorist attack that killed 26 tourists in Kashmir this week. A militant group calling itself the Kashmir resistance claimed responsibility, but Indian officials accused Pakistan of backing it. Pakistan denies this and has pledged to cooperate with a quote neutral investigation. India has demolished the homes of people it calls militants and says Pakistani soldiers have been firing shots at Indian posts across the disputed border in Kashmir. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Juliane Hazelwood.