The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: January 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 10:00 EST

They're elected to run your country, your province, your city. They make decisions every day that affect your life, and they should be held accountable. Join me, David Cochran, on CBC's Power and Politics podcast, where I speak to the key players in the political stories everyone is talking about. You'll hear from those who've got the power, those who want it, and those affected most by it. You can find the latest episode at cbc.ca slash listen or wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fague.

The long-awaited ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect earlier this morning, 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 the names that included two women in their 20s and one in her 30s were finally handed over, triggering the ceasefire into effect at 4.15 a.m. Eastern this morning. The CBC's Sasha Petrusic reports from Jerusalem. We are now seeing Hamas militants with guns

and in uniforms riding around the center of Gaza on the back of pickup trucks in most cases. This is seen as a show of force. We're also starting to see aid trucks moving into Gaza through Ra'afah, that's the crossing in the south from Egypt. And we are told that Palestinians have already started to move from the south, where most of them have been kind of confined for many months, to the north. They're not supposed to start moving for a few days yet, according to the agreement. But people

have just packed up and are walking north right now, trying to get back to see what's happened to their houses. They're released. They are supposed to be passed over to the International Red Cross, and then the International Red Cross will take them and hand them to Israeli forces. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. 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. Wait, what? Ain't no power the power of the... 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 1 for live coverage of the inauguration tomorrow, starting at 11am 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 TikTok through the App Store first. However, it isn't available.

Going through the app, sorry, TikTok 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. The law orders TikTok owner China's ByteDance to sell the U.S. operation to an approved buyer, but ByteDance insists it's not selling. Incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz says the Trump team is already working with tech firms to get TikTok back online in the U.S. tomorrow.

And earlier today Trump posted on his Truth Social account quote, save TikTok in all caps followed by an exclamation mark. Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning ahead of a chilly cold snap that will see the temperatures plummet below minus 40 in some parts of the country including northern Alberta and most of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The cold is expected to continue through the weekend affecting parts of northern Ontario and Quebec through to Wednesday. And that is your world this hour. You can listen to us anytime on voice-activated devices such as Google Home. For CBC News, I'm Claude

Fague.