The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: January 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 17:00 EST

This is a very strange and frustrating story. To have your family member stolen, murdered, then missing. I'm Connie Walker and this is Missing and Murdered, Finding Cleo. It's such a mystery, such an impossible task. Please, help us find her. Finding Cleo. If you'd like to hear more, you can find the full season wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.

We begin in Gaza, where the ceasefire deal is underway. underway. That's the sound of dozens of armed Hamas 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 of the first three Israeli hostages to the custody of the Red Cross. In hostages square in Tel Aviv, 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 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 Doran Steinbrooker, who was 31 years old, also from a kibbutz. Sasha Petrasek in Jerusalem. Speaking in South Carolina, outgoing President Joe Biden commented on the hostage release and aid headed to Gaza. We pray for them and their families for their 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. That Hamas started on October 7th, 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 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. There are now three frontrunners in the race for the Liberal Party leadership. Former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney kicked off his campaign on Thursday, and today Government House Leader Karina Gould and former Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland launched their campaigns. Janice McGregor has more. Chrystia Freeland struggled to launch into her speech, but her packed room of supporters shouted down the pro-Palestinian protesters trying to disrupt her.

If I am Prime Minister, Canada will never back down. She said she knows Donald Trump doesn't like her, and she's ready to lead in the coming trade war. If Pierre Poliev is elected, he will be on the first flight to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring. Earlier at her launch event in Burlington, Ontario, Karina Gould called for a pause in the consumer carbon tax. And I'm not too proud to change policies if they're not working for Canada. All three leadership frontrunners now say that they would not continue Justin Trudeau's climate policy. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa.

TikTok is 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 try to pause the ban through executive order on his first day in office. Trump says he wants to give TikTok's China-based parent company more time to find an approved buyer. Owner ByteDance has said it will not sell the app. And that's your World This Hour. Remember you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven

days a week. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.