The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 09:00 EST

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 09:00 EST

It is a wild time in the world right now. And sometimes it's actually hard to figure out what's what. The current is here to help. My name is Matt Galloway and we bring you conversations to expand your worldview, solutions to some of the wicked problems of our time. Like is Canada underreacting to Trump's takeover threats and our phones rewiring our brains? We'll also bring you great stories you might never heard of before, including

why are we suddenly obsessed with doppelgangers? You can find The Current wherever you get your podcasts, including YouTube. I'll talk to you soon. 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 100 to be exact. We will not waste a single moment in delivering on our promises to the people. Due to the cold weather, today's inaugural ceremony, ceremony incidentally has been moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda.

We'll have live coverage of the Trump inauguration on CBC radio one. 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 Ing. 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 plans to 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 with 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 US is Ukraine's biggest military backer. Trump has criticized that and has even called Vladimir 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. Trump's special envoy is expected to visit Kyiv 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, Keefe. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is using his final hours as president to issue a number of high-profile pardons. They all appear to be preemptive pardons aimed at preventing charges from being laid under the next administration. At the top of the list is Dr. Anthony Fauci, who refused to back Trump's unfounded claims during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Liz Cheney, who was part of the House Committee that investigated the January 6th insurrection. 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. 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. He's been saying this since the first day. 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 and friends. Salima Shivji, CBC News, Delhi. And that is the World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts.

The World This Hour is updated every hour, seven days a week. And for news anytime go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. From CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.