The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 06:00 EST

Episode Date: January 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 06:00 EST

On an evening in early December 2018, the young CEO of a cryptocurrency exchange reportedly dies while on his honeymoon in India. This death is not announced to customers for another month. And when they're told Gerald Cotton is the only person to hold the passwords to their funds, conspiracy theories grow, leaving some to wonder, could Gerald Cotton still be alive? Honeymoon, moving the body, all the missing money. It was like, but what happened? A Death in Crypto Land, available now on CBC Listen

and everywhere you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague. To the Middle East. Celebrations in Khan Yunis Gaza, where the long-awaited ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect earlier this morning, but nearly three hours after it was supposed to. Overnight, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed it, saying Hamas had failed to provide the list of hostages due to be released

today. But against the backdrop of more shelling in Gaza, the names were finally handed over, and the ceasefire went into effect at 4.15 a.m. Eastern this morning. Final preparations are underway for the inauguration of Donald Trump. Freezing weather has forced the proceedings indoors. But as Peter Armstrong reports, that hasn't kept thousands of Americans from flooding Washington. Thousands of protesters marched through Washington Saturday to voice their discontent with the

incoming president. The march is a far cry from the enormous nationwide crowds it took to the streets ahead of Donald Trump's first inauguration. And yet Donald Trump is going back to the White House and the streets of the Capitol are full of mega hat wearing sign carrying enthusiasts. My purpose here is to support President Trump. The meticulous planning for the inauguration was scrapped this weekend as Trump announced the ceremony will be held in the Capitol Rotunda because of what he called very cold weather. The bigger issue,

his organizers handed out more than 220,000 tickets for a ceremony that will now be held in the Capitol Rotunda. Ronald Reagan was inaugurated there in 1985 and back then, only 96 people were invited. For a president as exercised about crowd sizes as Trump is probably not how he wanted to get things started. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Washington. And you can tune in to CBC Radio One for live coverage of the inauguration tomorrow starting at 11 a.m. Eastern.

TikTok is no longer available in the U.S. User Justin Nathanson recorded his experience trying to access the app last night. It's just a few minutes to 11 o'clock Eastern Standard Time and I'm gonna open Tik Tok through the app store first. However, it isn't available. Going through the app. Sorry, Tik Tok 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.

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 owners, China's ByteDance, to sell the U.S. operation to an approved buyer, but ByteDance insists it is not selling. The federal government says it will not reopen national negotiations on long-term child welfare reform for First Nations. This is after the Assembly of First Nations rejected a potentially historic settlement offer last fall. Instead, Otto wants to carve out a side deal with chiefs in Ontario, the only region to endorse the original offer. CBC's Brett Forrester has what happens next. We have no choice but to take them to court.

Canada isn't going back to the table, so Cindy Blackstock is going back to court. She's the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and for the last 18 years she has battled the federal government at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and won. She and the Assembly of First Nations together proved the on-reserve child welfare system was underfunded and discriminatory. That snowballed into a 47.8 billion dollar reform proposal last year and offer chiefs surprisingly voted down in favor of renegotiation. But the Liberal government told Blackstock this week

it will not honor their resolutions. That has the advocate asking the tribunal to force Canada to reopen national talks. It's astounding to me that we even have to bring such a motion. In a statement, Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu's office says the federal government is committed to a fair and equitable solution.

Brett Forrester, CBC News, Ottawa. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.