The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 16:00 EST

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 16:00 EST

Hi, I'm Damon Fairless, host of Hunting Warhead from CBC Podcasts and the Norwegian newspaper VG. Hunting Warhead follows a global team of police and journalists as they attempt to dismantle a massive network of predators on the dark web. Winner of the grand prize for best investigative reporting at the New York festivals and recommended by The Guardian, Vulture, and the Globe and Mail, you can find Hunting Warhead on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague. In the U.S. deportation flights have begun as President Donald Trump makes good on his

promise to remove everyone in the U.S. 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 says 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. The Trump administration has pulled the security detail assigned to protect Dr. Anthony Fauci. He had a very public role advising the government on handling the COVID-19 pandemic and regularly receives death threats. Fauci has now hired and will pay for private security.

The National Institutes of Health had been paying. In Ontario, we will be calling the election next Wednesday. I'll be seeing the left-handed 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 the 1st.

The federal government is making just over one billion dollars in repayable funding available to Canada Post. The money should help Canada Post remain solvent and continue operating while dealing with significant financial challenges. The corporation has

recorded significant losses since 2018. 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're 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 Sasha Petrusic. The Israeli army says it will not complete its withdrawal from the southern Lebanon by

the Monday deadline. The Netanyahu government accuses Lebanon of failing to fully enforce the ceasefire agreement. Ford is recalling more than 270,000 Broncos and Mavericks in the U.S. because of a defect that can cause vehicles to stop unexpectedly or fail to start. The internal manufacturing defects are thought to affect only 1% of the vehicles. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.