The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/23 at 16:00 EST

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/23 at 16:00 EST

The next thing I know is I wake up and I just remember like something bad happened to me last night. Somebody hurt me. This is Carrie Lowe's story. Carrie did everything quote unquote right. She reported right away. Her legal team says police systematically mishandled her case. Meanwhile her attackers remain at large. I'm Maggie Raher and this is Carrie Low vs. available now on

CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world is our. I'm Tom Harrington. Donald Trump says America doesn't need anything from Canada. The president spoke virtually to a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Trump complained about US trade deficits with other countries, adding that Canada has been particularly, in his words, unfair to America. It's not fair that we should have a $200 billion or $250 billion deficit. We don't need them to make our cars and they make a lot of them. We don't need their lumber because we have our own forests, etc., etc. We don't need their oil make our cars and they make a lot of them. We don't need their lumber because we have our own forests, etc. etc.

We don't need their oil and gas. We have more than anybody. Statistics Canada puts the US trade deficit with Canada at between six and eight billion dollars. NATO's new Secretary General was asked about President Trump's call for peace talks on Ukraine. Mark Rutte says it would depend on the terms. If we get a bad deal, it would only mean that we will see the president of Russia high-fiving with the leaders of North Korea, Iran and China.

And we cannot accept that. That would be geopolitically a big mistake. It has to be sustainable. And for it to be sustainable, we have to make sure that Putin will never, ever, ever again try to get a square kilometer of Ukraine in the future." In the meantime, Ruta is urging all NATO members to increase their defense spending as the Alliance faces a number of crises. Trump is pushing them to increase their share of GDP spent on defense from 2% to 5%. A US federal court judge has temporarily blocked President Trump's executive order

ending birthright citizenship, that is the right guaranteeing citizenship to anyone born on American soil. Four states challenge the order as unconstitutional because it violates the 14th Amendment and Supreme Court case law. The temporary legal block applies nationally. Trump signed the order on his first day in office in a slate of orders related to immigration. The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a legal challenge to Quebec's controversial secularism law. Known as Bill 21, it bans some public sector workers from wearing religious

symbols such as hijabs while at work. Kate McKenna reports. We are here welcoming the news that the Supreme Court of Canada, the highest court in the country, has decided to grant leave to our constitutional challenge of Bill 21. Kate McKenna, Chief Justice, Canadian Supreme Court of Canada Stephen Brown is the CEO of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, one of the groups challenging Quebec's secularism law. It bans some civil servants, including teachers, from wearing religious symbols at work. Civil liberties advocates have long said it disproportionately affects Muslim women who wear hijabs. Can't go after the rights of some Canadians without going after the rights of all Canadians.

Quebec preemptively invoked the notwithstanding clause, which overrides some sections of the Charter when it passed the law. The idea was that it would be shielded from legal challenges. In a statement, Quebec's justice and secular ministers say they're prepared to defend the law until the end. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. statement Quebec's justice and secular ministers say they're prepared to defend the law until the end. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. A British man who carried out a fatal knife attack on a girls' dance class was sentenced to more than half a century in prison. Axel Ruda-Kibana admitted killing three young girls and stabbing ten others in the Southport, England last July. Today, a UK judge said

it's highly unlikely the 18-year-old will ever be released. Crystal Commencing has more. The harm that Ruda Cabana has caused to each family, each child and to the community has been profound and permanent. Justice Julian Goose in sentencing Axel Ruda Cabana said it was clear that he would have killed all 26 children present at the Taylor Swift themed dance class in Southport England had he not been stopped. What he did on the 29th of July last year has caused such shock to the whole nation. Three were killed in what was described

as a deliberate and planned attack. Eight other children were wounded along with two adults. Ruta Cabana was also charged with producing ricin and possessing an al-Qaeda training manual. Ruta Cabana pleaded guilty to all 16 charges he faced on Monday. Justice Gu said that saved families and the larger community from enduring a trial, but he did not take it as a signal of remorse. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, Liverpool, England. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.

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