The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/25 at 15:00 EST

Episode Date: January 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/25 at 15:00 EST

This video is a message from a little boy named Salman. He disappeared five years ago in Syria during the war to defeat ISIS. He still hasn't been found. My name is Poonam Tineja. I'm traveling to Syria to find out what happened to Salman and the thousands of children like him lost in one of the most dangerous places on earth. From BBC Sounds and CBC podcasts, Bloodlines. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague in Israel. Four families got to hug their daughters for the first time in 15 months.

Hamas freed the female soldiers in a hostage for prisoners exchange, part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement. Doctors say all are in stable condition. Hours later, in the occupied West Bank, crowds of people cheered as buses arrived with some of the 200 released Palestinian detainees on board, but it wasn't all smooth sailing. Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari. Hamas failed to meet its obligations to first release Israeli female civilian hostages as part of the agreement. We are determined to return to the return of our Be'el Yahud, an Israeli citizen kidnapped

from near Oz. Israel says that in response it will not keep its promise to allow Gazans to return to their homes in the northern part of the territory. Mediators are trying to resolve the dispute. The applications are in and confirmation process is underway in the race to become the next leader of the Liberal Party. Mark Carney continues to rack up endorsements from federal cabinet ministers. Adding two more today, Anita Anand and Nathaniel Erskine-Smith.

That gives Carney 15, while his chief rival, former Deputy Prime Minister Krista Freeland, has five. but Freeland insists It doesn't bother her central to my campaign to see this is not about liberal elites deciding This is about the grassroots. It is certainly looking like Mark is the choice of the liberal establishment It is certainly looking like he is the PMO's candidate. With no warning, the Trump administration has fired at least a dozen inspector generals

from government agencies and departments. In the wake of the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, inspector generals were installed to provide independent oversight against mismanagement and abuse of power. Mitch McCann has more. It's reported that inspectors general have been fired from departments including agriculture, commerce, defence, education, labour, transportation, veterans affairs, as well as the environmental protection agency and the small business administration. But the Trump administration may have broken the rules in how it did it.

The law requires the White House to give Congress 30 days notice before IGs are dismissed, along with detailed case-specific reasons for the decision. In his statement, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said he wants further explanation from President Trump on why he's firing them, adding that regardless of why, the legal requirement for 30 days notice was violated. Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Senate Democrats, called it a chilling purge and a preview of Trump's lawless approach to governing. Mitch McCann for CBC News, New York. Meanwhile, Mexico has refused a request from the Trump administration to allow a US military

aircraft carrying deported migrants to land in the country. The U.S. sent two similar flights, each of about 80 migrants, on board to Guatemala on Friday but was unable to send a flight to Mexico when permission to land was denied. In Germany. Around 20,000 people took to the streets of Cologne today to protest against far-right politics and the far-right party alternative for Germany Party. This comes on the same day that the AFD kicked off its election campaign, and days after

an Afghan killed two people in a knife attack, reigniting the debate on migration in Germany. Polls placed the AFD in second place behind the right of center Christian Democratic Union. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his governing party are third with the Green Party in fourth place. And starting on Monday, masks must be worn at all Prince Edward Island health facilities. Health PEI says the new rule is in response to the fact emergency departments and acute care units

have been straining under a heavy burden for weeks. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.