The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/26 at 02:00 EST

Episode Date: January 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/26 at 02:00 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 ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas is a week-old Sunday, but the weekly Saturday protests against Benjamin Netanyahu's government go on. No more votes! I'll kill all of you! Hundreds turned out in Tel Aviv. They want to ensure all those still held by Hamas are allowed to come home. Zahiro Shahar-Moor is the nephew of a hostage whose body was recovered in Gaza. Netanyahu, we demand that you come out to the public and declare that you will fully implement

this deal in its entirety." There were also joyous scenes in both Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory Saturday as the second hostages-four-prisoners exchange took place under the cease-fire agreement. But as Chris Brown reports, it didn't go entirely smoothly. Liri Albag, 19-year-old, falling into the arms of her tearful mother and father after being returned to Israel. This was the second such hostage release of the week-long ceasefire, but this time in Gaza City, there was less chaos and even more stage management by Hamas at the hand oversight. A couple of hundred fighters wore black balaclavas and combat fatigues

as the militants brought the women up onto a stage in a striking propaganda display. In the Palestinian territories, more than a hundred prisoners freed from Israeli jails were brought by bus to Ramallah in the West Bank. Some of those freed were hardened criminals but all were picked up and carried to the crowd as heroes. But the day didn't pass without disagreement. Israel had demanded a civilian be released and when she was not its military refused to let tens of thousands of Palestinians return to the northern part of the territory. Chris Brown, CBC News in Tel Aviv.

A Canadian sailor has died after his inflatable boat capsized in Halifax waters. The Royal Canadian Navy says it happened Friday in the Bedford Basin after the victim and another sailor in the boat fell into the water. The pair were involved in what the Navy calls small boat operations. The second sailor was treated and released from hospital. 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 Canadian. I just wanted to welcome you to BCDC. Thank you. And if you need it. I want to know what you promised Mark Carney. I want to buy you a drink. Perfect. We want to know what Mark Carney what Mark Carney promised Mr. Erskine Smith for his endorsement today. So I hope that you asked him, I hope that you asked him these questions, I hope that you get the answers today. I'm telling you, he promised me nothing.

Lantzman went on to call Carney the ultimate insider, pretending to be an outsider. Nate Erskine-Smith joins Bill Blair and Anita Anand in endorsing Carney for liberal leader. US President Donald Trump says he's talking to many potential purchasers of the popular app TikTok. I've spoken to many people about TikTok, and there's great interest in TikTok. And as you know, I have the right to sell it or close it, depending on what I think is best for the country. So what I'm saying is, I'm not going to sell it.

I'm not going to sell it. I'm not going to sell it. I'm not going to sell it. I'm not going to sell it. I'm not going to sell it. I'm not going to sell it. I'm's great interest in TikTok. And as you know, I have the right to sell it or close it, depending on what I think is best for the country. So we'll make a decision over the next 90 days or so. Mr. President. I mean, I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok because I went on TikTok and I ended up winning by a lot of young people.

Trump gave the app a reprieve shortly after taking office. It went dark because of a U.S. law requiring it to be sold to an American buyer before January 19th. TikTok was banned in the U.S. because of security concerns. China-based White Dance currently owns the app and would return a minority stake under a U.S. deal. The CIA believes the COVID-19 pandemic started with a leak from a laboratory in China. That assessment was made public Saturday with the disclaimer the spy agency has low confidence in that conclusion.

The report was ordered released by Donald Trump's newly appointed director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, who says the agency should end its neutral stance on COVID's origins. That is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.