The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 12:00 EST

Céline Dion! that helped manufacture Celine Dion, the pop icon. Celine Understood. Available wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. A year and a half ahead of the fixed election date, Ontario voters are going to the polls. We will be calling the election next Wednesday. I'll be seeing the Lieutenant Governor on Tuesday.

We need a mandate from the people to fight against Donald Trump's tariffs, the attack he's coming against our families, our businesses, our communities. That's Ontario Premier Doug Ford announcing a February 27 election. Ford's election call is being made despite the fact he still has 18 months left in his current majority mandate. He's looking to lead his progressive conservative party to a third straight electoral victory, having posted majority wins in both 2018 and 2022. US President Donald Trump is scheduled to fly into Los Angeles today for an on-the-ground

look at the city's ongoing wildfire crisis. As he leaves, he continues to insist that L.A.'s firefighting efforts are being hampered by the state's water policies. And about 20 years ago, they turned off the water. And it's the water that comes from the Pacific Northwest. Some of it comes out of Canada. And they turned it off and they routed out to the Pacific. And in the meantime, you don't have water in the hydrants, you don't have water in the

sprinkler systems. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. Water resource officials in California say Trump's claims are wrong and gloss over the state's complex water dynamics. California Governor Gavin Newsom says he's eager to meet with the president to outline what federal help is needed to help Los Angeles navigate the wildfire disaster. Meanwhile Donald Trump's ongoing tariff threats now include Russia. The US president says trade action against Russia could force an end to the war in Ukraine. Breyer Stewart has more now from Harkiv.

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's 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. Less than a week after the Israel Hamas ceasefire went into effect, and the United Nations is dozen regions. Briar Stewart, CBC News, Kharkiv. 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. Thirty years ago today, January 24, 1995, opening statements were heard in what was called at the time the Trial of the Century.

It was the case of O.J. Simpson charged with murder and the death of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. And following months of high drama, he was acquitted. Simpson died last year at the age of 76. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.