The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 07:00 EST

Queer life in Montreal was wild. Montreal in the 90s was a great time, but it had a dark side. It was not a safe city for gay people back then. But what else was behind a series of deaths in the city? Somebody's killing gay men. We want to know why. I'm Francis Proude, and this is The Village, the Montreal Murders. Get early access to episodes at cbc.ca slash listen or by subscribing to the CBC True Crime Premium channel on Apple Podcasts.

From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Today is Inauguration Day in Washington, and after overcoming impeachments, criminal indictments, and assassination attempts, Donald Trump is set to return to the White House as the 47th president. And if an address he delivered yesterday is any indication, he plans to hit the ground running. My administration will take immediate and decisive action to confront every single problem America faces and put our nation back on the path to success and greatness.

Within hours of taking office, I will sign dozens of executive orders, close to a hundred to be exact. We will not waste a single moment in delivering on our promises to the people. Due to cold weather, today's inaugural ceremony has been moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda. It means thousands of Trump supporters who have descended on Washington to watch the proceedings from the National Mall will now have to find other places to view his swearing in. We'll have live coverage of the Trump inauguration on CBC Radio 1. It gets underway at 11 o'clock Eastern.

Incidentally two federal cabinet ministers are in Washington for the inaugural festivities, industry minister Francois-Philippe Champagne and trade minister Mary Ingres. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the rest of his cabinet will be watching from a resort in Quebec waiting for details on if or when Trump will impose his long threatened tariffs. And Canada isn't the only country nervously watching the arrival of the new Trump administration. Ukraine also has concerns. What was Trump's plan for US support for the Ukrainian war effort still far from clear. Briar Stewart has more now from Kyiv.

Trump has never laid out a vision for peace in Ukraine and has just repeatedly made seemingly unrealistic claims about ending the conflict in a day. The U.S. is Ukraine's biggest military backer. Trump has criticized that and has even called Volodymyr Zelensky the world's greatest salesman for being able to secure tens of billions of dollars in U.S. military aid. I think that he will try to put an end to the war, but I don't think that he has enough leverage to find compromises which would be acceptable to both parties. Mikola Kapitonenko is an associate professor in international relations at the National

University in Kyiv. Trump may end up continuing Biden's strategy by providing Ukraine with limited amounts of assistance in exchange for some... Trump's special envoy is expected to visit Kiev in the coming weeks, and Trump says he'll soon be setting up a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Briar Stewart, CBC News, Kiev. A court in India today has sentenced a man to life in prison for last summer's rape and murder of a trainee doctor. Salima Shivji has more.

We demand justice! The chants for justice have been consistent in the months following the rape and murder of a trainee doctor while she was on duty at a Kolkata hospital. As the accused Sanjay Roy was declared guilty on Saturday, the victim's parents had a request. We want him hanged. We want capital punishment, the father of the victim told reporters. But today the grieving family did not get the maximum sentence that they were hoping for.

The judge said while heinous, the crime was not the rarest of the rare and so not a case that deserves death by hanging in India. The sentence came down after Roy's pleas to the court that he's innocent and being framed. There is a sense among many in Kolkata that there were more people involved in the crime and that police didn't investigate fully, especially among the 31-year-old victim's family in France. Salima Shivji, CBC News, Delhi. Nine of Canada's ten provinces are under weather warnings this morning. From Alberta to Quebec, it's extreme cold.

For the Atlantic provinces, it's snowfall, freezing rain and damaging winds. The extreme cold conditions from the prairies east mean minus 30 to minus 50 conditions depending on where you live While the greater Toronto Ottawa Montreal areas aren't part of those temperature warnings They are all starting their day at or around minus 20 And that is the world this hour for CBC news. I'm Joe Cummings