The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/25 at 19:00 EST

Episode Date: January 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/25 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. Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney is racking up more key endorsements today. Defense Minister Bill Blair and Transport Minister Anita Anand are throwing their support behind the former banker. And as Olivia

Stefanovic reports, all that momentum has made him a target of the Conservatives as well. This is a guy who might be Prime Minister in six weeks and he has yet to announce a single policy. Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lansman tried to get ahead of Mark Carney's latest campaign stop in Toronto, but it didn't go exactly as planned. We want to know what Mark Carney promised Mr. Erskine Smith for his endorsement today. Local Liberal MP and newly appointed Housing Minister Nathaniel Erskine Smith interrupted Lzman just before endorsing Carney as the next Liberal leader. Canadians are going to know exactly what we intend to do. Carney says he intends to release policy details by the end of next week.

Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. Candidates for the Ontario Progressive Conservatives are gathering today to discuss strategy ahead of Premier Doug Ford's election call next week. Philip Leishanek reports. Heading into a Mississauga hotel, Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy says it's worth calling an election to strengthen Ontario's hand in crucial discussions with US President Donald Trump. We're going to ask for the people to give us the mandate to do everything in our power to protect the economy. But former Conservative staffer and strategist Jamie Ellerton says this meeting is about more than tariffs. Think of it as like a team-building retreat. MPPs standing for re-election, new candidates and their campaign managers all get support from party officials.

Premier Doug Ford will make a speech and be available for photos with candidates and staff will suggest messaging for them. But Ellerton says even an election being heard will be a challenge. With President Trump and the daily barrage of headlines that is essentially sucking up all the oxygen people only have so much time in a day. Ford's government has a healthy lead in the polls, though that could change during the month-long campaign. Phil B. Shavok, CBC News, Toronto. In Israel. The end of the world!

Four families got to hug their daughters for the first time in 15 months today. Hamas freed the female soldiers in a hostage-for- hostage for prisoners exchange, part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement. Doctors say all are in stable condition. And 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 Arbel Yehud, 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. Staff shortages in Saskatchewan and Manitoba have prompted the RCMP to issue an unusual

call for help. Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore is asking members and reservists to consider signing up for two-week stints in either province. However, some municipal leaders are worried that temporarily shifting officers around could leave their home and other detachments short-staffed. More than 400,000 customers are still without power in Ireland, 200,000 without water, and tens of thousands in Northern Ireland and Scotland. After storm Eowyn hit the area with wind gusts reaching up to 160 kilometers an hour as well

as torrential rain. In Ireland, a 20-year-old man was killed by a falling tree. Eowyn is the worst storm to hit Ireland in the UK in at least a decade. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.