The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/04 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/04 at 16:00 EDT

When a body is discovered 10 miles out to sea, it sparks a mind-blowing police investigation. There's a man living in this address in the name of a deceased. He's one of the most wanted men in the world. This isn't really happening. Officers are finding large sums of money. It's a tale of murder, skullduggery and international intrigue. So who really is he? I'm Sam Mullins and this is Sea of Lies from CBC's Uncovered, available now.

From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. We begin in Pictou County, Nova Scotia where the search for two missing children continues. Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack haven't been seen since Friday morning. Searchers are combing a dense wooded area for any sign of them. RCMP Staff Sergeant Josh Weiss is the incident commander. He says a range of technology has been used. 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. He says people in the area can help with the search by checking sheds, culverts, and ditches on their properties. Police say there's no evidence the children were abducted. Prime Minister Mark Carney is preparing to meet the U.S. president in Washington on Tuesday.

Carney says he expects difficult but constructive conversations about trade and security. Everett Eisenstadt was a former economic adviser during the first Trump administration. He says he would tell the prime minister to stay pragmatic and use the meeting as a first step in navigating a new relationship with the US. We really need to see it from each other's perspectives. There's security discussions, there's border discussions, there's a real recognition about the need for resilient supply chains. So

there's an opportunity there to open the aperture beyond just the traditional trade discussion that I think could be very, very fruitful. Carney has said he doesn't expect the meeting to lead to an immediate resolution to the tariff issue. In the UK, eight people have been arrested on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks and seven of those arrested are Iranian nationals. As Anya Cunningham tells us, British intelligence officials say Iran is a big problem. Police say these arrests were part of two separate investigations. Counterterrorism officers detained five men, four of them Iranian nationals, on Saturday on suspicion of plotting to target a specific premises where has not been revealed.

The three other men, all Iranians, were arrested in West London by the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism command. They were detained using national security legislation on suspicion of involvement with a foreign power. There is intense scrutiny of suspected Iran-backed activities in Britain. The UK's domestic intelligence chief, Ken McCallum, said last year that since 2022, officers had responded to 20 Tehran-backed plots that potentially posed a lethal threat to British citizens and residents. The Iranian embassy in London has not commented. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London.

Brazilian police say they thwarted a bomb plot targeting a Lady Gaga concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Police say it was organized by an online group that promotes hatred towards the LGBTQ plus community and others. They are planning to get teenage followers to detonate improvised bombs and throw Molotov cocktails. 2.1 million people attended the free concert on Saturday. Today's mass at St. Peter's Basilica marks the final day of mourning for Pope Francis. Cardinals will gather at a Papal Conclave on Wednesday to choose the 267th Pope. The pontiff chosen will indicate if the Vatican

will continue Francis' policies or return to a more conservative path. And the Winnipeg Jets have a do or die game, seven tonight against the St. Louis Blues. But 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 we're all really excited about it and I think it's a great opportunity for us. The bad news, center Mark Schieffeli will not be playing because of an undisclosed injury he received in game five. The good news is every game in this series has been won by the hometown team and tonight's game is being played in Winnipeg. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.