The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/25 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: January 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/25 at 14:00 EST

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Find Uncover wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Faye. It was two steps forward, one step back in the Mideast today. Four Israeli hostages were released by Hamas and 200 Palestinian prisoners and detainees were released by Israel. But then the process hit a snag. Sasha Petrasek explains. After an emotional but smooth exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners,

the ceasefire deal hit a snag. Hamas failed to meet its obligations to first release Israeli female civilian hostages as part of the agreement. Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari accused Hamas of holding on to Arbel Yehud, a 29-year-old taken from a border kibbutz. In return, Israel is refusing to allow Gazans to move back to their homes in the north of the territory. Our victory is that we are going home even if our homes are destroyed, says Suheir Bakr going to look for her

son's body near their house. Mediators scrambled to resolve the issue in Cairo while aid organizations rushed to put up enough tents and deliver enough food for this delayed homecoming. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. This is the last weekend to register as a liberal in order to vote for the party's new leader, and the race appears to be narrowing down to two main candidates, former cabinet minister Krista Freeland and former central banker Mark Carney. As Olivia Stefanovic reports, Freeland is taking aim at her rival. I think we need a change.

After nine years of serving at the right hand of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland says she's not the ultimate insider, but that her main opponent, former governor of the banks of England and Canada, Mark Carney, is. Mark is the choice of the Liberal establishment. It is certainly looking like he is the PMO's candidate. But Freeland offered no evidence when pressed by CBC radio's The House, and the Prime Minister's office insists it's staying neutral. Though no one can deny, Carney has more liberal caucus support than Freeland. More than a dozen cabinet ministers are lining up behind the former

banker, including new housing minister Nathaniel Erskine Smith, who is expected to make his endorsement official later today. Olivia Estefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. Mayors of Canadian cities on the U.S. border are forming a new partnership. The Border Mayors Alliance is intended to serve as a unified national voice to safeguard communities and to bring a municipal perspective to an international discussion. Matthew Shoemaker is mayor of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and says proposed tariffs and a trade war are one issue, but so is any general reduction in cross-border traffic.

I know, for example, if bridge traffic drops as it did in our community during COVID, that has a huge impact on local retailers. It has a huge impact on gas stations in town. It has a huge impact on hotels. The municipal level, it's really an on the ground economic impact from a reduction in back and forth travel. Shoemaker says he hopes that cross-border relationship doesn't have to change. In Washington, to help you God, so help me God. Congratulations Mr. Secretary. Pete Hegseth was sworn in as the new U.S. Defense Secretary today after narrowly winning last night. The Senate voted 50-50 for Hegseth, but Vice President J.D. Vance broke the tie in his role as president of the Senate.

The former Fox News personality and decorated veteran is one of the most divisive candidates put forward. Hegseth's past alcohol use, allegations of financial mismanagement at organizations that he ran, and allegations of sexual misconduct drew criticism. He will be in charge of millions of servicemen and women in an annual budget estimated at $1 trillion. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.