The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/14 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/14 at 08:00 EST

The next thing I know is I wake up and I just remember like something bad happened to me last night. Somebody hurt me. This is Carrie Lowe's story. Carrie did everything quote unquote right. She reported right away. Her legal team says police systematically mishandled her case. Meanwhile her attackers remain at large. I'm Maggie Raher and this is Carrie Low vs. available now on

CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. A newly released report is showing that Donald Trump would have been convicted of election interference had he lost the November presidential election. A report from U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith was released early this morning. Richard Madden reports from Washington. A hundred and thirty pages where outgoing special counsel Jack Smith essentially defends his investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He says Trump abused his power, pressured state officials and quote, inspired

his supporters to commit acts of physical violence when the votes were being certified on January 6, 2021 in a series of criminal efforts to retain power. Smith says he believes there was enough evidence to convict. Smith resigned last week ahead of Trump's inauguration and he denies accusations his case was politically motivated saying it's quote laughable but he does acknowledge he had an uphill battle to begin with citing the US Constitution that bans prosecuting a sitting president and while much of the evidence was already public it's all now moot. Now there's a second chapter that gets into Trump's handling of classified documents, but a judge has banned that from being made public, so the Attorney General is heading to court to fight for its release.

Richard Madden, CBC News, Washington. Amid speculation that he is planning to run for the Liberal leadership, former Bank of Canada and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney appeared last night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. A wild hypothetical. Let's say the candidate wasn't part of the government. Let's say the candidate did have a lot of economic experience. Let's say the candidate did deal with crises. Let's say the candidate had a plan to deal with the challenges in the here and now.

You sneaky. You're running as an outsider. I am an outsider. Sources have told Radio Canada that Carney will be formally launching his campaign on Thursday. As for the other potential candidates, there are a number of high-profile liberals who, at this point, may or may not be preparing to throw their hat in the ring. Janice McGregor has more.

Sources tell CBC Radio Canada that former minister, Christia Freeland, will formally announce and kick off her leadership bid sometime within the next five days or so. But in the meantime, two current ministers who've been pondering a run against her are going to be out today at a trio of events. None of these events are campaign launches per se. Francois Philippe Champagne's doing a new now or fireside chat at the Canadian club in Toronto. He will be taking questions from reporters

and after a week of saying he's thinking about it, we'll see if he's prepared to call it. Karina Gould is announcing some government funding in her riding in the morning. Then both of them are slated to appear together at another fireside chat event at the Chamber of Commerce in Gould's riding later in the afternoon. Meanwhile, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is in Washington for the next couple

of days speaking to Republican legislators and other influencers about the value of Canadian exports. If he is still pondering a leadership run, it doesn't seem like he's focusing on that this week. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Qatari officials say a proposed Gaza ceasefire agreement is now in the hands of both Israel and Hamas. Majed Al-Ansari is a Foreign Ministry spokesperson. It's very important not to over or raise the expectations to a level that doesn't link to what's happening on the ground right now. We do believe that we are at a developed stage.

We do believe that we are at the final stages, but obviously until there is an announcement, there will be no announcement. The proposal calls for the agreement to be rolled out in three stages and would involve, among other things, the exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. The governor of New York is set to announce a plan to offer free university tuition to students pursuing degrees in certain high-demand fields. Kathy Hochul is ruling out the proposal today in Albany. The program would cover New York residents enrolled in degree programs in nursing, teaching, technology and engineering, all at colleges operated

by the State University of New York and City University in New York. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.