The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 19:00 EST

Episode Date: January 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 19:00 EST

Every language is a note in the symphony of our heritage. Together, they create a harmony that cannot be silenced. Discover your voice on the new APTN Languages TV channel. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague. The Trump administration is expanding the use of fast-track deportation powers nationwide. Immigration officers will be able to deport migrants without appearing before a judge.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, confirms agents arrested 534 people overnight. And Trump is already claiming success. 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. We're taking them out first. The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Roz Baraka, says a business in his city was raided without a warrant.

There were three people who they say were undocumented that they detained, but they also detained folks that were, in fact, citizens of this country. None of these people were rapists or murderers or criminals. Critics say migrants who are genuinely at risk if returned to their homeland are in danger. Ontario voters are going to the polls next month. Premier Doug Ford is calling an election 18 months ahead of schedule.

Philipp Lee Sch Shanick reports. It would be an absolute disaster. Doug Ford says he's the best choice to defend Ontario and Canada against U.S. President Donald Trump compared to his Liberal and New Democrat rivals. Imagine Bonnie Crombie or Merritt Stiles sitting across from President Trump negotiating a deal Ontario liberal leader crombie says Ford's early election call is aimed at getting ahead of an RCMP investigation into connected developers who wanted to buy protected lands. They're closing in on what happened in that eight billion

dollar green belt scandal. But Ford says he needs a strong mandate to defend Ontario's economy against US tariffs. New Democrat Merit Stiles says it's already the Premier's job. It is the mandate of a government to do that. You don't need another mandate. Ford says he'll make it official next week, sending Ontarians to the polls on February 27th. Fulpi Shannok, CBC News, Toronto. Worldwide economic losses from natural disasters hit $368 billion last year. And here, the Insurance Bureau of Canada says

the cost of insured damage caused by severe weather in 2024 totaled roughly $8.5 billion. It pointed to damage from a Calgary ha storm, the remnants of Hurricane Debbie, and the devastating Jasper wildfire. Monday marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in Poland to attend a ceremony marking the anniversary. Approximately 500,000 Jews were murdered there during the Holocaust. Few of the survivors are still alive and today in Ottawa, one of them shared his story.

Nicole Williams was there. You were so desperate. You were so desperate. Even 80 years later, the memories of what happened at Auschwitz are still clear to David Moskvich. That whole day, there was snow there and people, dead people, were all over the place. I saw one of my uncles. Now 95, Moskvich was just 14 when he was brought to the death camp from then Czechoslovakia. My mom went straight to the gas chamber, of course, which we didn't know. Six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, approximately half a million of them at the notorious death camp.

And on the day of liberation, there were just 7,000 survivors. As the remaining survivors die and pass on into history, the stories they leave behind are all the more important. Nicole Williams, CBC News, Ottawa. A fierce storm has shut down parts of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Storm Eowyn brought record-breaking winds gusting to 182 kilometers an hour in Galway. More than 90,000 homes in Ireland and more than 100,000 in Scotland have lost power. One death is being attributed to the storm when a tree fell on a man in Donnygall.

And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.