The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/13 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: January 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/13 at 00:00 EST

Overwhelmed by debt? You are not alone. Empower yourself with trusted solutions. Visit Canada.ca slash debt dash solutions and regain control with confidence. A message from the Government of Canada. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neal Herland. We begin in California where the death toll

from the wildfires around Los Angeles have reached a grim new milestone. Tonight officials confirmed 24 people have been killed, another 16 are missing and there are fresh fears tonight about what's coming this week in the forecast. The CBC's Lindsay Donkohm reports from California. The congregation of Santa Monica's first Presbyterian church is grieving. Three members lost their homes in the Palisades fire. Their sister church, a few kilometers away, is gone. Nikki Cross came here for sanctuary. Yeah, I mean the phrase a lot of people are using on social media is I'm in Los Angeles and I'm safe, but I'm in LA and I'm sad.

Even as people struggle to comprehend the scale of the loss, the threat remains. Santa Ana winds are expected to pick up with gusts of up to more than 70 kilometers an hour predicted for Monday into Tuesday. LA County Fire Chief Anthony Moroney spoke at a news conference. These winds combined with low relative humidities and low fuel moistures will keep the fire threat very high. Lindsay Duncombe, CBC News, Santa Monica. Now to Ottawa. The list of senior liberals not joining the party's leadership race is growing tonight. Those who hope to succeed Justin Trudeau as party leader and prime minister have until

January 23rd to announce their bid. The CBC's Rosemary Barton reports. The latest cabinet minister making that decision, Steve McKinnon, and the transport minister, Anita Onand. In the case of Steve McKinnon, he transport minister Anita Onand. In the case of Steve McKinnon he says that the race is simply too short for him to be able to mount a competitive race but of course

there's other big names that have also decided not to get in. Melanie Jolie making that decision on Friday, Dominique LeBlanc and others. Doesn't mean that we won't get a cabinet minister in the race Francois-Philippe Champagne, Carina Gould, still a couple of names that are floating around as considering whether they want to get into this or not.

And there are of course other people, not in cabinet. Mark Carney, we are expecting that he will announce his leadership bid sometime this week and of course Christopher Freeland is still also potentially in this race. So there will be people in the race, but at this stage it's off to a bit of a slow start for a race that's only going to last two months, so really tight timelines. The CBC's Rosemary Barton in Ottawa. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie is not ruling anything out in Canada's response to Donald Trump's tariff threat. The incoming US president has threatened 25% tariffs on all goods from Canada. Jolie

says the government is considering all options. We're working on a retaliation plan and I can't go into the details of that retaliation plan because I think it would be a bad strategy but what I can tell you is everything is on the table. Canada's foreign minister will visit Washington this week ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration. Canada's women's under 18 hockey team has won gold. They beat the U.S. at the World Championship in Finland and Kleiman reports. It was a dominant performance from Team Canada in defeating the Americans 3-0 in Sunday's gold medal game of hockey's World Championship for

women under the age of 18. Goaltender Mary Lou Grenier had a 14 save shutout. Star defender Chloe Primorano was named player of the game and goals were scored by Kaylee Tiller, Dorothy Capetti and strikers of Lachey who finished as the tournament's leading scorer with eight goals and four assists. It's the third title in the last four years for Canada and its retribution for last year when the team was beaten by the Czech Republic in the last four years for Canada and its retribution for last year when the team was beaten by the Czech Republic in the semi-finals, only the second time in the 17-year history of the tournament Canada had failed to make the final.

Next up on the women's international hockey calendar is the world championship in the Czech Republic in April when Canada will try again to get the better of their American rivals and defend their 2024 gold medal. Ed Kleiman for CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Herland.