The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 08:00 EST

I distinctly remember hearing someone yell, stop that van. From CBC Podcast, an investigation into how young men are being recruited and radicalized on the internet. And she asked me if I was friends with a guy named Alec Manassian. By a new supercharged form of hate. On Facebook, police say he wrote the incel rebellion has already begun. A dark online subculture that's spilling over into the real world. Boys Like Me, available now

on CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Donald Trump's ongoing tariff threats now include Russia. The U.S. president is insisting that tariff action against Russia could lead to the end of the war in Ukraine.

Briar Stewart has more now from Harkeev. Trump says he's ready to meet with Vladimir Putin immediately to try to end the war. Every day we don't meet, soldiers are being killed in a battlefield. If Russia's president doesn't negotiate, Trump threatened to sanction and tax Russian goods. In an interview with Fox News, Trump also had pointed words for Ukraine's president. Zelensky, I will say this, he wants to settle now. He's had enough. Russia is still pushing ahead in eastern Ukraine as Kiev tries to replenish its depleted ranks

by looking at ways to offer incentives to recruit younger men. Ukraine says it shot down just under half of the drones Russia launched overnight, but at least three people were killed when one slammed into a 10-story apartment building 25 kilometers from the capital. While Ukraine cities and villages continue to be bombarded, Russia says it repelled a massive drone attack in more than a dozen regions. Briar Stewart, CBC News, Kharkiv. A monster winter storm has now reached Scotland after roaring across most of Ireland overnight.

Here's meteorologist Liz Bentley. One of the strongest storms we've seen for years. I mean, it's been called the storm of the century in the Republic of Ireland. And so, yeah, red warnings in place across the whole of the Republic of Ireland. It came into force across Northern Ireland at 7 a.m. this morning and will come into force across central Scotland. So we see that storm transferring from the west of Ireland or the strongest of the winds from the west of Ireland into Northern Ireland and then into Scotland over the course of the next few hours.

At least 500,000 people are without power in Ireland. Across Scotland and Northern England schools, businesses are closed with trains and flights all being canceled. CBC News has learned Ontario Premier Doug Ford is planning to call an early election. And that call could come as early as next week. Lisa Shing has more.

Hopefully we'll have a strong mandate. Though he didn't outright say it, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is sending all the signals. I'm asking for a mandate from the people of Ontario to make sure that we protect them. And now CBC News has confirmed Ford is planning to call a provincial election next Wednesday, which would send Ontarians to the polls at the end of February. This ballot is Ford versus Trump. Conservative strategist Andrew Brander says the timing is right. The PCs are ahead in the polls and...

Everyone is going to believe that there's a risk associated with President Trump. Ford has repeatedly said he needs a new mandate from Ontarians to spend billions of dollars in response to the potential economic devastation that would come with Donald Trump's threatened tariffs. Provincial opposition leaders say Ford already has a strong mandate and should not cause more uncertainty. Lisa Sheng, CBC News, Toronto. Less than a week after the Israel Hamas ceasefire went into effect, and the United Nations is reporting that progress is being made in the delivery of emergency aid across Gaza.

Sasha Petrusic has the latest. The United Nations and other agencies have been quite happy with the increase in aid that's been able to make it in. They're saying that an average of 780 aid trucks are getting into Gaza from different entrances. Most of that is food, and they're especially happy that it is able to be distributed inside Gaza. That was a big, big worry because of the condition of the roads, the infrastructure.

Their only challenge now is that there's really nowhere to put this aid. It has to be distributed right away because there are no warehouses, those have been destroyed. And it will be especially challenging over the next few days because a lot of people will be moving from the South to the North into Gaza City and those areas. There are tent cities being put up there, but the aid demand is going to be huge there as well.

Sasha Petrusik, CBC News on the Israel-Gaza border. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.