The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/23 at 06:00 EST

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/23 at 06:00 EST

On Mother's Day 1985, Philadelphia did something unthinkable. The city had been engaged in a standoff with a radical organization called MOVE. The helicopter takes off, then... The city dropped a bomb on MOVE's headquarters, killing 11 people, five of them children. My daughters were taken away by this corrupt government! Why is it so many have never heard of the MOVE bombing? Black people will never get justice in America. The Africa's versus America,

available now everywhere you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. US President Donald Trump isn't ruling out some form of legal revenge against his predecessor, Joe Biden. The issue of pursuing Biden through the justice system came up during an interview Trump gave last night to Sean Hannity of Fox News.

Katie Simpson reports. Several times Trump was asked directly whether he'd like Biden or others to be investigated either by Congress or the Attorney General, to which he began musing about revenge. I went through four years of hell. I spent millions of dollars in legal fees and I won, but I did it the hard way. It's really hard to say that they shouldn't have to go through it all. So it is very hard to say that they shouldn't have to go through it all. So it is very hard to say that. Trump also threatened to withhold federal assistance to California unless it changes

its wildfire fighting tactics. He's standing by his decision to delay the TikTok ban, downplaying concerns about national security saying the app made him more popular with younger voters. And he again promised to release classified documents about the assassination of JFK. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. Now to Ottawa, where the federal government is ordering significant cuts to a national employment program for immigrants.

Rafi Boudjikanian has the details. It is doing nothing but just phasing us out. The BNDU Charatterjee says trying to stay in Canada is becoming harder all the time. Both Chatterjee and his wife are about to lose their work permits. They've set their sights on an immigration option called the provincial nominee program. It allots a yearly number of skilled workers into all provinces and territories other than Quebec and Nunavut. But this year, Ottawa is reducing those spots by 50 percent. If we want to build houses and apartments, we will need people with trades.

Jean-Claude Damour is New Brunswick's immigration minister. He says the top three sectors in his province that rely on PNP spots are construction, education and health care. And if we don't have them, what will be the impact? Federal Immigration Minister Mark Miller's office says he's willing to show flexibility, but points out the department has reduced levels across all categories as part of its plan to lower immigration for the next two years. Rafi Boudjikani on CBC News, Ottawa.

Emergency crews in LA County are dealing with yet another fast-moving fire this one 70 kilometers northwest of Los Angeles out here it's more sparsely populated however out here we are dealing with high winds along with thick fuel bed and steep topography that is local fire official Matthew Van Hagen, the Hughes Fire, as it's known, has forced more than 50,000 people from their homes with further evacuation orders possible. At the same time, another fire is burning near Belle Air. It is threatening a number of structures in the residential enclave and has forced the shutdown of a major highway.

Meanwhile, it's been six months now since wildfires ravaged the town of Jasper, Alberta. And for those who lost their homes, the wait for temporary housing continues. Julia Wong has more. This further state of Limbo is actually awful. Loni Kledell stands in an empty lot in the town of Jasper. After losing her home in the wildfire, she's been in a hotel for six months,

and temporary housing, promised by the Alberta government, has not arrived yet. The Alberta government offered roughly $100 million to build permanent single detached houses. But there's only room for 60 of those units on the parcels of land set aside by Parks Canada. The town says it needs high-density housing for more than 600 households. Alberta's community seniors and social services minister Jason Nixon says the province isn't budging from its single-family home position.

If we don't have a project that meets those requirements then this money can't be spent. Parks Canada is working to get interim high-density housing but without the province's contribution there won't be enough for everyone who needs it. Director of Recovery for the municipality of Jasper Michael Fark. Now that we understand that the province is not going to be bringing any interim housing, we need to find other solutions. Julia Wong, CBC News, Jasper, Alberta. And that is A World This Hour.

I'm Joe Cummings.