The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 01:00 EST

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 01:00 EST

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After 15 months of war, 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 Chris Jafreeland held a campaign kickoff Sunday 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 US 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 over spending. 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 she would scrap the unpopular consumer levy on pollution. Rafi Wujucani on CBC News, Toronto. And in Burlington, Ontario. My name is Carina Gould and I'm running to be the next leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Government House Leader Carina Gould kicked off her leadership campaign Sunday in her hometown. At 37 years old, Gould is the youngest candidate in the leadership race. She says it's crucial that a new generation of leaders take charge 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. Donald Trump is returning to the White House Monday and he's threatening big tariffs on Canadian goods entering the U.S. 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. And finally, former Montreal Canadians forward Marcel Bonnet is dead. Throughout his career he won four Stanley Cups, three with the Canadians.

Bonnet started playing with the Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins before joining the Habs in 1957. Marceme Bonin dead at 93. And that is your World This Hour. I'm Neil Herland.