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

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

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

You don't have to face debt alone. We're here to help you regain control of your finances with trusted solutions. Visit Canada.ca slash debt dash solutions and take control today. A message from the Government of Canada. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. Less than 10 hours after taking the presidential oath, Donald Trump is ramping up his agenda and carrying through with one of the

most controversial promises he made on the campaign trail last year, pardoning January 6th criminals. Approximately 1,500 people. Six commutations. Trump is signing multiple executive orders at the Oval Office tonight. He also made a surprising announcement saying he'd bring in those Canadian tariffs on February 1st. He also signed an end to birthrate citizenship that guaranteed American citizenship to anybody born in the U.S., including children born to those in the country illegally. Trump spent the early part of the evening with supporters at the Capital One arena in

downtown Washington, people who couldn't watch the inauguration because cold Weather moved it indoors. Ella Morrow takes us through what happened. Could you imagine Biden doing this? I don't think so. President Donald Trump attacking his predecessor as he signed a stack of executive orders. A moment usually reserved for the Oval Office taking place instead in front of thousands of supporters. The first item that President Trump is signing is the rescission of 78 Biden-era executive actions, executive orders, presidential memoranda and others. Among them, again pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord.

Joe Biden rejoined the agreement after Trump withdrew in his first term. Instead, Donald Trump said he would be declaring a national energy emergency to increase U.S. energy production. And now we're going to go and drill, baby, drill into all the things that we've wanted to do. After a ceremony that broke one more presidential norm, Trump took the pens he used to sign the orders and tossed them into the crowd. An empowered president pushing to get his agenda started on day one. Ellen Mo, CBC News, Washington. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she was pleased to see now-President Donald

Trump had not imposed the tariffs, at least today. She says Canada has more time perhaps to make its case. If you take energy out of the picture, we actually buy more US goods and services than they buy from us. So we actually are the ones with the deficit and I think we can make that argument. I think we can also make an argument about how our discounted energy gets value added in the U.S. and then it gets exported internationally and they benefit from that too. Smith's been accused by other premiers and the Prime Minister of putting Alberta's interests ahead of Canada's.

Joe Biden used his final hours as president to issue a number of high-profile pardons. They include Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and members of the House Committee that investigated the January 6th assault. Biden also pardoned five members of his own family. He says he wants to prevent them from being targeted by baseless and politically motivated investigations. Biden also commuted the sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Peltier served nearly five decades in federal prison for the killings of two FBI agents back in 1975. There's new evidence the class of drugs that includes Ozempic may have health

benefits that go far beyond weight loss. A new study suggests they could help with dozens of conditions ranging from Alzheimer's disease to drug addiction. Mike Crawley has that story. It's the largest study of its kind to date into the effects of Ozempic-type drugs, known as GLP-1s. It looks at more than a quarter million people in the U.S. taking these medications for diabetes and finds, compared with a control group, a reduced risk for more than 40 other medical conditions, among the strongest links, reductions in substance abuse.

Dr. Ziad Al-Ali of Washington University in St. Louis is the lead author of the study, published in the journal Nature Medicine. JLP wants to suppress appetite by working not only on the stomach but also on areas in the brain that are involved in impulse control. The study also suggests a 12 percent reduction in cases of Alzheimer's disease. The authors stress the findings are for now just observational and far more research is needed before these drugs would be prescribed for any other conditions. Mike Crawley, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.