The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 02:00 EST

Episode Date: January 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 02:00 EST

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Ten Minutes to Save the Planet is available now on CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. It's now been half an hour since a ceasefire was supposed to take effect between Israel and Hamas, but just minutes ago Israel's army said, not yet. Spokesperson Daniel Higary said Hamas still hasn't lived up to the requirement to provide a list of the hostages being freed. He added that the Israeli military will continue to attack in Gaza and that they are fully ready to implement the ceasefire and ready to act if Hamas violates its terms.

Hamas says technical difficulties are delaying the preparation of that list of hostages. TikTok is no longer available in the US. User Justin Aethensen recorded his experience trying to access the app Saturday night. It's just a few minutes to 11 o'clock Eastern Standard Time and I'm going to open TikTok through the App Store first. However, it isn't available going through the app. Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now." The service was taken offline more than an hour before a law banning the China-owned app took effect at midnight Eastern Time. That law prohibits

Apple and Google from making the app available and server companies from providing infrastructure. TikTok is hoping incoming President Donald Trump will reverse the ban. Saturday, Trump said he was considering an exemption to allow TikTok to operate. The law orders TikTok owner, China's ByteDance, to sell the U.S. operation to an approved buyer, but ByteDance insists it is not selling. The federal court of Canada said Saturday night it will speed up a legal challenge to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's decision

to prorogue parliament. Two Nova Scotia residents, David McKinnon and Aris Leveranos, want an order setting aside Trudeau's advice to the Governor General and a declaration that parliament is not prorogued. Constitutional lawyer James Manson represents McKinnon and Leveranos. He outlines why the challenge is urgent. There's a grave threat right now. President-elect Trump is about to take office and he's threatened to impose a massive tariff on all of our exports. Parliament needs to be in session, was what we were saying.

And it seems to me that the court here in these paragraphs was sympathetic to those concerns. Mansons called this an opportunity for the court to determine the limits of prime ministerial power. The hearing has been set for February 13th and 14th in Ottawa. Government House Leader Karina Gould is officially running to replace Trudeau. She made the announcement on social media, and she's not the only Liberal leadership candidate to release a campaign video this weekend. Marina von Stackelberg reports. Canadians have lost faith in our party, and we have to earn back their trust. In a video, Karina Gould walks through a snow-covered neighbourhood and says she is the person to

rebuild the Liberal Party. In 2018, Gould made history as the first federal cabinet minister to have a baby and go on maternity leave. She'll likely be the youngest person entering the race at 37 years old. It's time for a new generation of leadership that understands you and is focused on you. Donald Trump doesn't like me very much. Krista Freeland has launched her own campaign video. The former finance and foreign affairs minister touts her track record in dealing with the U.S.

During the first Trump administration, I fought hard to protect Canadian jobs, the Canadian economy and our way of life. And we won. Both Freeland and Gould are expected to do in-person campaign launches this weekend. Marina von Stackelberg, CBC News, Ottawa. Manitoba's border patrol workers are welcoming more resources to boost security of its boundary with the U.S. The federal government this week unveiled the details of its $1.3 billion plan, and

it includes dozens of aerial drones and two least black helicopters to help patrol the world's longest international border. Manitoba RCMP Sergeant Chris Brown says the Mounties are used to finding ways to get the job done, but extra resources would be beneficial. We're doing a great job of defending the border as it is, but there are gaps and we need to close those gaps. And of course that announcement comes days before the inauguration of President-elect

Trump. That is your worthless hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.