The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: January 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 14:00 EST

I'm David Rigeon, host of the award-winning podcast Someone Knows Something. Each season I investigate a different unsolved case, from a mysterious bomb hidden in a flashlight to two teenagers killed by the KKK. The New York Times calls SKS a consistently rigorous, intelligent gem, and Esquire named the series one of the best true crime podcasts of 2021. Find someone knows something wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. After 15 months of fighting the Gaza ceasefire and hostage exchange deal is underway. Aid and convoys are entering Gaza,

displaced Gazans are heading back to see what's left of their homes, and the first of more than 30 hostages were released. Sasha Petrosic has more details. There were cheers and tears from the families of the first hostages released today. Three women, one abducted by Hamas militants from a music festival, the other two taken from their kibbutz, handed over to the Red Cross in a crowd of armed Hamas militants and later to the Israeli military. Spokesman Daniel Hagari. Our mission is not over until every single hostage comes home. Joy too from Palestinians who welcome the release of 90 detainees,

women and children released from Israeli prisons in exchange for the hostages. But the real excitement in Gaza was over the freedom to return to neighbourhoods they fled because of war. Shocking, my house was bombed and destroyed says Shadi al-Hamas, but God willing we will rebuild. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. Speaking in South Carolina, outgoing US President Joe Biden commented on the hostage release and aid headed to Gaza. We pray for them and their families for they're going to be a long recovery. Hundreds of trucks are entering Gaza as I speak. They're

carrying assistance for civilians who suffered enormously from the war. Hamas started October 7, 2023, nearly 15 months ago. Today alone we anticipate several hundred trucks will enter the Gaza Strip and after so much pain, destruction, loss of life, today the guns in Gaza have gone silent. On his last full day in office, Biden also pardoned five people, including late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey.

In 1923, he was charged with mail fraud in the United States and deported to his native Jamaica. In Toronto, former finance minister Christia Freeland's liberal leadership campaign launch was disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters. 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. Freeland pointed out she stood up to Donald Trump during his first term and can do it again. And she says conservative leader

Pierre Polyev doesn't have what it takes. If Pierre Polyev is elected, he will be on the first flight to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring. He will bend down and sell us out. Health Minister Mark Holland is endorsing Freeland for the Liberal Party leadership in Burlington, Ontario. My name is Karina Gould and I'm running to be the next leader of the Liberal Party of

Canada. Government House Leader Karina Gould kicked off her leadership campaign today in her hometown. At 37 years old, Gould is the youngest candidate in the leadership race, saying it's crucial that a new generation of leaders take the helm of the Liberal Party. We can rebuild this party so that we can re-earn the trust of Canadians and build the Canada that we want and win the next election. Gould says Canadians have lost faith in the Liberal Party and she's the one to rebuild that faith.

TikTok says it's restoring service to users in the U.S. after the popular app went dark this weekend. The shutdown was in response to a federal ban. President-elect Donald Trump says he would use executive order to try to pause the ban on his first day in office. Trump says he wants to give TikTok's China-based parent company more time to find an appropriate buyer. Owner ByteDance has said it will not sell the app.

And that is your World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven days a week. And for News Anytime, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.