The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/26 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: January 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/26 at 00:00 EST

What does a mummified Egyptian child, the Parthenon marbles of Greece and an Irish giant all have in common? They are all stuff the British stole. Maybe. Join me, Mark Fennell, as I travel around the globe uncovering the shocking stories of how some, let's call them ill-gotten, artifacts made it to faraway institutions. Spoiler, it was probably the British. Don't miss a brand new season of Stuff the British Style. Watch it free on CBC Gem. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles, the deputy leader of the federal conservatives

met with media outside a Toronto bar where Housing Minister Nate Erskine-Smith was set to announce his support for Mark Carney. Michelle Lansman was criticizing the apparent Liberal frontrunner when Erskine Smith arrived. I'm in Canadian. Welcome to the beach with ECR. Thank you. And in Canadian?

I want to know what you promised Mark Carney. I want to buy you a drink. Perfect. And I promised him nothing. We want to know what Mark Carney promised Mr. Erskine Smith for his endorsement today. Zero nothing. So I hope that you asked him So I hope that you asked him these questions. I hope that you get the answers today. I'm telling you, he promised me nothing.

Lansman went on to call Kearney the ultimate insider, pretending to be an outsider. Nate Erskine Smith joins Bill Blair and Anita Annand in endorsing Kearney for liberal leader. He has the support of more than a dozen cabinet ministers compared to Freeland, who's been endorsed by five. Candidates for the Ontario Progressive Conservatives met Saturday to discuss strategy ahead of Premier Doug Ford's election call on Wednesday. Premier Lee Schenick 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 gonna 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. MPP standing for reelection, 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 P. Shannok, CBC News, Toronto.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he wants to see Gaza, in his words, cleaned out. As for the Palestinians living there now, he wants Jordan and Egypt to accept them. Trump added he didn't know whether the mass movement would be temporary or long-term. He calls Gaza a demolition site following 15 months of war between Hamas and Israel. The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas is a week-old Sunday, but the weekly Saturday protests against Benjamin Netanyahu's government go on. Hundreds turned out in Tel Aviv. They want to ensure all those still held by Hamas are allowed to come home. Zahiro Shehar Moore is the nephew of a hostage whose body was recovered in Gaza.

Four more Israeli hostages were released Saturday. A fifth was expected but was not let go. Israel responded by not allowing displaced Palestinians to return to northern Gaza as promised. In Germany, around 20,000 people took to the streets of Cologne Saturday to protest against far-right politics and the far-right Alternative for Germany party. This comes on the day the AFD was kicking off its election campaign campaign and days after an Afghan killed two people in a knife attack, reigniting the debate on migration in Germany. Polls place the AFD in second place behind the right-of-center

Christian Democratic Union. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his governing social democrats are third. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met with the families of six men who were murdered at a Quebec City mosque days before the anniversary of that 2017 attack. Eight years ago, six men were killed at the Centre Cultural Islamique du Québec, and this year the Centre has planned several events to mark the tragedy. Cultural Centre President Mohamed Labidi says it is important to remember those who were killed and injured as well as the ignorance that led to their killings. That is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.