The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/26 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: January 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/26 at 13:00 EST

Hi, I'm Josh Block, host of Uncover, Escaping Nexium from CBC Podcasts. I pull back the curtain on the secretive self-help group that experts call a cult and follow one woman's harrowing journey to get out. The podcast was featured in Rolling Stone Magazine and named one of the best podcasts of 2018 in the Atlantic. Listen to Uncover, Escaping Nexium on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague. It's literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything's demolished.

Donald Trump assessing the situation on the ground in Gaza, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One. He says the answer is to send Palestinians to their Arab neighbors. The CBC's Sasha Petrusic is in Jerusalem and explains why it's a controversial solution. What he's suggesting is basically that Gaza be emptied of Palestinians, that they be moved to Egypt or Jordan.

He is not the first U.S. president to suggest this. Biden suggested moving some Palestinians out of harm's way temporarily. But this sounds much more like it's an idea that extremist settler groups here have been floating, which is to empty Gaza and to put settlements in. It's very controversial because many Palestinians and in fact other Arabs in the region remember what happened 75 years ago when some 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from here in order for Israel to be set up. It is

called the great catastrophe, the Nakba, and still talked about today as part of what's happened to the Palestinian people. The CBC's Sasha Petrusic. Now Trump says he has already spoken with Jordan's king on the matter and will be meeting with Egypt's president today. Conservative leader Pierre Paliyev is challenging one of the frontrunners in the liberal leadership race. In a letter, he asked Mark Carney if he wins the leadership and becomes prime minister, would he commit to banning all Trudeau ministers from his cabinet? Mark Carney responded. I think he's scared is the first thing.

Why is he writing me a letter on a Sunday morning? Secondly, he lacks respect. He lacks respect for many Canadians, many Quebecois, and he lacks respect for the deputies in the House of Commons. These are individuals, they make their own decisions. Carney was in Chouinigan, Quebec, where Minister of Innovation François-Philippe Champagne

endorsed him. The Liberal Party has decided that another candidate, MP Chandra Arya, will not be allowed to run. The Royal Canadian Navy says one of its sailors died when an inflatable boat capsized on Friday in the Bedford Basin near Halifax. A second sailor was treated and released from hospital. Military police are investigating the incident. Elon Musk made a surprise appearance during Germany's AFD election campaign this weekend. The multi-billionaire Tec Mogul spoke publicly in support of the far-right party for the second time in as

many weeks. Dominic Velaitis reports. More than 4,000 people were at the AFD's rally in Haarley this weekend. The far-right party's co-leader Alice Widdell was joined by her new friend. I'm very excited for the AfD. I think you are really the best hope for Germany. Appearing by video link, the tech mogul Elon Musk spoke live about preserving German culture. It's good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything. During the address, Musk appeared to refer to Germany's Nazi past, telling the crowd

children should not feel guilty for the sins of their parents, let alone their grandparents. And I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you. The multi-billionaire caused uproar last week when he made a gesture at Donald Trump's inauguration rally which some compared to a Nazi salute. Dominic Vellaitis for CBC News, Riga Latvia. Singer Paul McCartney is urging the UK government to stop proposed changes to the country's copyright law.

He said it could let artificial intelligence companies rip off artists. You get young guys, girls coming up and they write a beautiful song and they don't own it and they don't have anything to do with it and anyone who wants can just rip it off. I mean the truth is the money's going somewhere. You know, it gets on the streaming platforms, somebody's getting it, and it should be the person who created it. The government is consulting on whether to let tech firms

use copyrighted material to help train AI models, saying creators would have the ability to opt out. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.