The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: January 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 13:00 EST

This video is a message from a little boy named Salman. He disappeared five years ago in Syria during the war to defeat ISIS. He still hasn't been found. My name is Poonam Tineja. I'm traveling to Syria to find out what happened to Salman and the thousands of children like him lost in one of the most dangerous places on earth. From BBC Sounds and CBC podcasts, Bloodlines. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. We begin in Gaza. After some hiccups, the ceasefire deal is underway. That's the sound of dozens of armed mass fighters in uniform and wearing blackface

coverings chanting as they pull three women out of a minivan and push them into another vehicle. It's the much anticipated transfer for the first three Israeli hostages to the custody of the Red Cross. In hostages square in Tel Aviv, supporters of the hostages cheer as images of the transfer are played on television. In Israel, buses are standing by to take 90 Palestinians released from Israeli jails to the West Bank or Arab East Jerusalem. The CBC's Sasha Petrusic is in Israel and has been watching events unfold today. He has more on the hostages.

They are being transported by helicopter from Reims, which is just on the Israeli side of the border from Gaza. They were taken over by the Red Cross over into Israel under army escort. They are being taken to a hospital and there they will undergo medical exams. The youngest of these is 24 years old, that's Romy Gonen. She is the one who has family connections in Toronto. She was abducted from a music festival. Emily Demary, 28 years old, she was abducted from a kibbutz. And Doron Steinbrooker, who's 31 years old, also from a kibbutz.

Sasha Petrasek reporting in Jerusalem. In Toronto, former finance minister Krista Freeland's campaign launch event was disrupted by hecklers. Supporters clapped in a bid to drown out the hecklers and Freeland used the moment to support her argument that she's the strongest candidate. We're not gonna let anyone stop us, are we? strongest candidate. We're not going to let anyone stop us, are we? No!

Freeland says she stood up to Donald Trump during his first term and she's the person to do the job this time. Some Canadian business leaders are making their way to Washington for tomorrow's inauguration of Donald Trump, making a last-ditch effort to remind Americans that tariffs on Canadian goods jeopardize American jobs and American businesses. Candice Lange is the president and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. You know, we've done what we can on the ground to make sure that trade is not viewed as maybe Trump would be spinning it these days as charity. Truth is, trade supports 1.4 million American jobs.

And if Trump tariffs do hit us, that actually shrinks the economy in the United States. Leng says she expects Donald Trump will be issuing a long list of executive orders, some of which will impact Canada. Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump is promising to postpone the U.S. ban on TikTok. The popular Chinese-owned app went dark last night, affecting about 170 million Americans who use it. On social media, Trump promised to sign an executive order giving the app's owners, ByteDance, more time to seek a buyer and saying he wants to be at least 50% owned by an American entity.

By Dance has said it will not sell the app. Environment Canada has issued extreme cold warnings for parts of the country. Temperatures are expected to plummet below minus 40 in some places, including northern Alberta and most of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. And the cold will move east, reaching parts of northern Ontario and Quebec over the next couple of days. The agency urges people to stay inside if possible, and if not, to be aware that frostbite can develop on exposed skin

in a matter of minutes. And that's your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood.