The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 14:00 EST

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In the US, deportation flights have begun as President Donald Trump makes good on his promise to remove everyone in the US illegally. But one mayor is accusing law enforcement of targeting legal American citizens as well. Mitch McCann has more. As Donald Trump works fast towards fulfilling his signature campaign promise, the White House has released an image showing what it sees are undocumented migrants being led onto a military plane reportedly bound for Guatemala on Thursday night.

We're getting the bad, hard criminals out. These are murderers. These are people that have been as bad as you get, as bad as anybody you've seen. The deportations have left Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, furious. He claims a local establishment was raided by immigration officers who even questioned a military veteran despite him proving he was a U.S. citizen. When I got this information, I was appalled, upset, angry that this would happen here in this state, in this country, that this would be allowed. During the campaign, Mr. Trump promised the largest deportation program in U.S. history.

Mitch McCann for CBC News in New York. Meanwhile, Trump's ongoing tariff threats now include Russia. The U.S. president says trade action against Russia could force an end to the war in Ukraine. Breyer Stewart has more 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. Hamas has named the next four hostages to be released tomorrow, in the next phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza. Three female hostages and 90 Palestinian detainees were released last weekend. Sasha Petrasek has more on what's expected to happen. Those four will be female soldiers who were kidnapped back on October 7, 2023. They were actually observers who were watching the border between Gaza and Israel.

When the militants overran their military base and they kidnapped a number of them, these four were kidnapped on that day and they are going to be released tomorrow, we are told by Hamas. A few minutes or perhaps a few hours after the hostages are set free, this time around we're expecting 200 Palestinian prisoners to be set free. They of course also and in the Palestinian community are hoping that all of this signals that the war may be drawing to a close. The scene is certainly much different, much more peaceful than it was before the ceasefire started.

The CBC's Sacha Asassa Patrasik in Ontario. We will be calling the election next Wednesday. I'll be seeing the Lieutenant Governor on Tuesday. Doug Ford confirming what had long been rumored, the people of Ontario will be heading to the polls in February. The Conservative government had a mandate until June of 2026, but Ford says he wants a new mandate to deal with the threat of U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods. You need a strong mandate.

When you have a strong mandate in politics and you have a strong mandate from the people to last over the four years of the Trump administration, I can tell you the opposition treats you with a little more respect. U.S. President Donald Trump says tariffs on Canadian goods could be in place February 1st. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.