The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/04 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/04 at 11:00 EDT

In the summer of 2019, Scott Payne wanted to join a white supremacist group called The Base. But Scott wasn't a neo-Nazi or a right-wing extremist. He was an FBI agent. They hit me back and said, we'd like to have you. And of course I said yes. I'm Kathleen Goltar and this week on Crime Story, Scott takes me into his 28-year career as an undercover operative. Find Crime Story wherever Scott takes me into his 28-year career as an undercover operative. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague. We begin in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, a community clinging on to hope. It's where search continues today for two missing

children, six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack, who haven't been community clinging on to hope. It's where search continues today for two missing children. Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack, who haven't been seen since leaving their home Friday morning. It's in a dense wooded area. RCMP Staff Sergeant Josh Weiss is the incident commander for the search and rescue operation and says a range of technology was also used overnight. So I think we had seven or eight drones out at night using forward-looking infrared cameras between the Alma Fire Department, the RCMP Emergency Response Team, and then there was

heavy urban search and rescue dogs from Halifax Fire that were searching all night and then multiple search teams doing grid searches on the ground. Wee says he expects about 120 people to be on the ground today. Police say there's no evidence the children were abducted and are asking the public to avoid the area while the search continues. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Dutch Liberation. In 1945, thousands of Canadians fought and died to help free the Netherlands from Nazi regime.

A ceremony was held earlier today at the Holten Canadian War Cemetery. Canadian veterans, along with other Commonwealth and Dutch veterans, were on hand to honor the over 1,350 Canadians buried at the site. The CBC's Chris Brown reports. I'm at the Holten Canadian War Cemetery where more than fourteen hundred commonwealth soldiers, mostly Canadians, are buried. Soldiers were killed in the final months of the Second World War in the battles to liberate the Netherlands from Nazi Germany.

This has been a weekend to commemorate and remember on the eightieth anniversary of the surrender of Nazi forces here to Canada's First Army. A large delegation has come from Canada including pipe bands, the Governor General, Indigenous leaders, but the guests of honour are about 20 Canadian war vets, the youngest 96, the oldest 105. 5,000 people have gathered here at this remembrance service. Nearby towns are draped in blue and red and white of the Dutch colors, with also Canadian flags flying nearby. The veterans here have shown incredible stamina,

given their advanced ages. Most move around in wheelchairs. Chris Brown, CBC News, Holton. Romania is taking another run at electing a new president. The last attempt six months ago failed, annulled in the midst of scandal and allegations of Russian interference. As Dominic Velaitis reports, it could influence Russia's war on Ukraine. The polls in Romania are now open in the first round of this crucial election. 58-year-old

Nicolae Surescu was among those casting their votes. I hope the Romanian use their mind. The elections being rerun after November's initial vote was annulled following allegations of Russian interference in favour of the front-runner Karline Georgeccu. He was subsequently banned from standing again. But also casting his vote today was Georgeccu's heir apparent and the front-runner in the opinion polls George Simeon. The 38-year-old Euro-skeptic is an admirer of Donald Trump and the MAGA

movement and opposes military aid to Ukraine. My only objective is to put Romanians first. If no candidate emerges with 50% or more of today's vote, a runoff will be held later this month, the final result of which will be watched closely in capitals around the world. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. To the Stanley Cup Playoffs, it'll be do or die for the Winnipeg Jets when they face off against the St Louis Blues in Winnipeg tonight for Game 7.

Jets forward and Halifax native Morgan Barron says the team is looking forward to the challenge. You know these game sevens are kind of the moments you grow up watching on TV and dreaming about playing in them so yeah we're all really excited about it and I think it's a good opportunity for us. The Jets played game six without their top center Mark Scheifle. He skated on Saturday and will be a game time decision. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.