The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/13 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: January 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/13 at 07:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We start in Los Angeles and the city's ongoing wildfire emergency. We start in Los Angeles and the city's ongoing wildfire emergency. It's one of dozens of emergency crews fanned out across LA County looking to bring three of the largest fires under control. But after a break over the weekend, weather forecasts are calling for strong winds to pick up again straight into Wednesday. This has the number of fatalities has now reached 24, with more than 100,000 people forced from their homes. We're focused on two things, containing the fires and saving lives and protecting property.

As LA Fire Chief Christian Crowley, it's estimated more than 12,000 buildings have been destroyed or damaged, with the total area burned larger than the city of Paris. And now Cal Fire is issuing a special warning to those outside the fire zone in San Diego. It says San Diego County and the city both need to take immediate precautions amid concerns that their region could be next. Alberta Premier Daniel Smith met over the weekend in Mar-a-Lago, Florida with Donald Trump. The visit comes amid Trump's ongoing tariff threats and just a week from his return to the White House. Katie Simpson

reports. Posing for a photo on the patio at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump is giving a thumbs up. On one side of him is Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. On the other, Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary. He says Smith spoke to Trump about the Canada-U.S. trading relationship comparing it to a marriage. People, you know, have issues in marriage, but we're long-term married and we know we have to work this out. Smith is the first Canadian Premier to travel to Mar-a-Lago

to meet with the President-elect and his inner circle. She described the conversation as friendly and constructive, highlighting the hundreds of thousands of American jobs that rely on Alberta energy exports. Officials in Ottawa are increasingly concerned that Trump will impose 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico his first day in office. Canada has presented a plan to improve border security as per Trump's demand, but his language around tariffs has not changed. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington.

Qatari mediators say they have handed Israel and Hamas a final draft of a Gaza ceasefire agreement, and it includes the release of hostages still being held by Hamas. It follows talks between President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy and Israeli intelligence, as well outgoing President Joe Biden spoke over the weekend with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is calling on Moscow to consider a prisoner swap. The request comes after Ukraine captured two North Korean soldiers who were fighting for Russia. Dominic Vlados has more.

The unverified video posted by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky shows the interrogation of the two North Korean soldiers. Speaking through an interpreter, one of the men says he didn't know he was fighting in Ukraine and had been told he was on a training exercise. Zelensky is now appealing directly to North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, offering to swap the two captured soldiers for Ukrainians held by Russia. Western analysts believe around 11,000 North Korean soldiers have been deployed to Russia's Korsk region to support Moscow's forces.

Dominic Vlades for CBC News, Bristol, England. U.S. health officials are warning about a deadly surge in respiratory illnesses across 35 American states. COVID and RSV are the two biggest concerns, along with stomach viruses and flu. Meanwhile, here in Canada, a public health unit in southern Ontario has now confirmed the norovirus among the 190 students who have fallen ill in recent days at the University of Wealth. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.