The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 21:00 EST

Episode Date: January 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 21:00 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 Mike Miles. America is powering ahead tonight with efforts to secure its borders. U.S. immigration authorities are ramping up rates and arrests

as the president tries to make good on his promise of mass deportations. Paul Hunter reports from Washington. Security video shows what appears to be the tail end of the raid. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE agents with a man apparently handcuffed after being apprehended at a seafood depot in New ark, New Jersey yesterday. The latest signal, President Donald Trump's long-promised deportations of undocumented migrants in this country are underway. People were fingerprinted. Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, a city that has pledged to protect migrants, says there was no warrant.

None of these people were rapists or murderers or criminals. It's believed there are some 11 million undocumented migrants in America. Trump has suggested all are now targets. He's already using the U.S. military to help out. The White House releasing photographs of a number of migrants being marched onto a military cargo plane in Texas for deportation. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. Ontario voters are going to the polls next month.

Premier Doug Ford's confirmed he's calling an election 18 months ahead of schedule. Philip LeShannock reports. It would be an absolute disaster. Doug Ford says he's the best choice to defend Ontario and Canada against US 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 $8 billion green belt scandal. But Ford says he needs a strong mandate to defend Ontario's economy against U.S. 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. Fulton Shannock, CBC News, Toronto. The Insurance Bureau of Canada says the cost of insured damage caused by severe weather in 2024 totaled roughly eight and a half billion dollars. It pointed to damage from the Calgary The cost of insured damage caused by severe weather in 2024 totaled roughly $8.5 billion.

It pointed to damage from the Calgary hailstorm, 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 person shared his story. Nicole Williams was there.

He was so desperate. He was so desperate. Even 80 years later, the memories of what happened at Auschwitz are still clear to David Moskowitz. That whole day, there was snow there, people, dead people, were over the place. I saw one of my uncles. Now 95, Moskovich 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 Aowyn brought record breaking winds gusting to 182 kilometers an hour in Galway. More than 90,000 homes

in Ireland and more than a hundred thousand in Scotland have lost power. One death is being blamed on the storm. A man killed by a falling tree in Dunagall, Ireland. That is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.