The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 10:00 EST

Hi, I'm Jamie Poisson and I host the Daily News podcast, Frontburner. We've been at it for about six years now, and it's been incredible to watch how many more people are turning to shows like ours for reliable, deep information. If that's you, you should follow Frontburner, especially during major news cycles like the one that we're in right now. I mean, here in Canada, we might as well be in an election campaign, even though it's not yet official. Plus, Donald Trump is setting off on his first 100 days back in office.

So, five days a week, we have got you. Fact-checked, researched, reliable. Follow Frontburner. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. It appears Donald Trump will stop short of imposing new trade tariffs on his first day back in the White House. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that instead of immediate tariff action, Trump will direct investigations into trade deficits and unfair trade practices. Trump has threatened in recent weeks to impose steep tariffs on countries like

Canada immediately after being sworn into office. Trump is being sworn in at noon Eastern time as the 47th President of the United States. We'll have live coverage of the Trump inauguration on CBC Radio 1. It gets underway in an hour's time. Meanwhile, one of the countries anxiously watching the arrival of the Trump administration is Ukraine. This as it remains far from clear what Trump has in mind when it comes to American support for the Ukrainian war effort. 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 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, Kiev. Still with news from the incoming Trump administration, it's being reported that Trump will be issuing a series of orders today aimed at remaking America's immigration policies.

Those orders are expected to include, among other things, ending asylum access, sending troops to the southern border, and ending birthright citizenship. We're also expecting an executive order proclaiming that U.S. government will now only recognize two sexes, male and female. Over the weekend, Trump said he would also be issuing an order ending, quote, radical and wasteful diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. There are celebrations across the Palestinian territories following the weekend release of 90 prisoners

from Israeli detention. The releases are one of the initial steps of the implementation of the Israeli Hamas ceasefire. Chris Brown has more now from Jerusalem. None of the first 90 detainees released under the ceasefire deal were convicted of killings. Indeed, most weren't convicted of anything but had been detained since October 7, including Saja Almadi. Our freedom is only complete with the liberation of all of Palestine, she said.

The Israeli prison was hell, hell, hell, said 19-year-old Abdul Aziz Atwani. More than 700 Palestinian detainees may eventually be released, including some convicted of murder, with another exchange with Hamas set for Saturday. In Gaza, meanwhile, people woke up to quiet skies and no Israeli attacks and streets filled with people heading back to what's left of their homes. The number of people feeling shock is countless, said Mohammed Goma from RAFA. It's destruction, total destruction. Chris Brown, CBC News, Jerusalem.

Nine of Canada's ten provinces are under weather warnings this morning. From Alberta to Quebec, it's extreme cold. And for parts of the Atlantic provinces, it's snowfall, freezing rain and damaging winds. The extreme cold conditions from the prairies east meant minus 30 to minus 50 overnight conditions depending on where you live. And while the Greater Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal areas weren't part of those temperature warnings, they all started the day at or around minus 20. And that is The World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________