The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 21:00 EST

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/19 at 21:00 EST

Every language is a note in the symphony of our heritage. Together, they create a harmony that cannot be silenced. Discover your voice on the new APTN Languages TV channel. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Herland. After 15 months of bloodshed, the Gaza ceasefire deal is now in effect.

The fighting has stopped. The first three Israeli hostages and 90 Palestinian prisoners have been released, but as Chris Brown reports, the ceasefire is fragile. Israel's defense forces released video of the handover from the Red Cross. Emily Demary, who held up a hand that apparently showed she had lost two fingers, Doron Steinbrecher and Romy Gonen. Seemingly in good health, the three walked through a hospital door and into the arms of ecstatic relatives. As Israelis cheered the release of hostages in East Jerusalem, Palestinians also celebrated outside of a prison, as Israel released detainees from its jails. Of the 90 released today as part of the ceasefire, almost all were women and all were arrested after October 7.

Hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by war started making their way back to their homes. Some said by just surviving, it felt like their side had prevailed. Chris Brown, CBC News, Tel Aviv. Former Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland held a campaign kickoff today for the Liberal leadership race. She painted herself as the person Canada needs to stand up to Donald Trump and pointed out she's already done it. Rafi Boujikanean reports.

Everything at Freeland's official launch was geared toward the message she's the right person to stare down the incoming US president. I led the fight to save NAFTA and Canadian jobs. Freeland renegotiated Canada's free trade agreement with the U.S. during Trump's first presidency. She's now presenting that as part of her credentials to take over as liberal leader. She told journalists the differences with Trudeau were more long-standing. For some time I had been in disagreement with the Prime Minister, specifically overspending. Those disagreements got worse after President Trump threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on our country.

Now trying to distance herself from a signature Trudeau government policy, the carbon tax. Freeland says you would scrap the unpopular consumer levy on pollution. Rafi Wijucani on CBC News, Toronto. Donald Trump is returning to the White House tomorrow and he's threatening big tariffs on Canadian goods entering the US. The Canadian government says it's ready to introduce retaliatory tariffs as early as Monday. Dominic LeBlanc is Canada's finance minister. The initial plan would be to have a very short consultation period on a first round of counter

measures if you will, tariffs in response to what they might do, but then it leaves us the opportunity to escalate as well, to take a bigger bite, to look at other sectors. These would be temporary measures to get us, we hope, out from the other side of these tariffs. Trump has threatened to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian goods. It's a move that experts and lawmakers say would be devastating for the Canadian economy. A nursing station on a Manitoba First Nation has shut its doors because there's no clean water. The Chamatois First Nation has had little to no running water for several days.

Sherry Schwetter is director of the Women's Crisis Centre. I think they've been on emergencies only for five days now. This has been going on for about a week now that our water comes and goes. The Shimadawa First Nation has been on a boil water advisory for six years. It has to bring in clean drinking water by plane. Schweder says the last water delivery was before Christmas and she doesn't know when more will arrive. And finally former Montreal Canadiens forward Marcel Bonnet is dead.

Throughout his career he won four Stanley Cups, three with the Montreal Canadiens. Bonnet started playing with the Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins before joining the Habs in 1957. Marcel Bonin was 93. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.