The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/26 at 15:00 EST

Episode Date: January 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/26 at 15:00 EST

Bankman Freed's entire house of cards started to crumble as crypto asset prices plummeted in May. This morning we unsealed an eight count indictment charging Samuel Bankman Freed. I'm Jacob Silverman, host of The Naked Emperor. I'm going to explain how Sam Bankman Freed built and destroyed a multi-billion dollar crypto empire. Available now everywhere you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Faye. U.S. President Donald Trump has stirred up a hornet's nest by suggesting that Palestinians should leave Gaza and live in neighboring countries. It's literally a demolition site right now.

Almost everything's demolished and people are dying there. So I'd rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change. The idea of forced relocation raises the specter of what Palestinians call great catastrophe when the State of Israel was founded and the majority of Palestinians were displaced. Ghassan al-Khatib is a former minister with the Palestinian Authority. I think that the Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank and everywhere, together with the Jordanians and the Egyptians, will definitely reject this proposal.

The idea of forcing Palestinians out of Gaza and the West Bank has long been advocated, pushed by extremist Israeli settlers, including members of the Netanyahu government. Meanwhile, Trump plans to deport millions of undocumented migrants, but it has hit a snag American immigration agents are out arresting migrants and putting them on planes. But some countries are refusing to play ball. Caroline Bargout explains.

For the past several days, military planes have been picking up undocumented migrants from the U.S. and flying them back to their home countries. But Colombia has decided not to allow migrant flights to land in that country. President Gustavo Petro tweeted that a migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with dignity and respect and should be flown back on civilian planes. Trump responded on Truth Social saying he plans to place emergency 25 percent tariffs on all Colombian goods coming into the U.S. and to raise the tariffs to 50 percent in one week.

He's also calling for a travel ban and sanctions on the Colombian government. Trump says the U.S. will not let the Colombian government violate its legal obligation to, quote, accept the criminals they forced into the United States. On Friday, Mexico refused to allow a flight to land, whereas Guatemala accepted two flights last week. Caroline Bargoud, CBC News, Washington. Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney is racking up yet more high-profile endorsements today in his run to replace Justin Trudeau, although the field of candidates has shrunk

by one. JP Tasker has the latest from Ottawa. Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is the latest top liberal to throw his support behind Mark Carny, the former governor of the Bank of Canada. Together we could be a really great economic team for the country. This is a moment where we need to restore confidence in our country. So far, 52 Liberal MPs have endorsed Carny compared to 26 for his main opponent, Christia Freeland.

I seem to be the choice of many of the Liberal MPs. More than a dozen cabinet ministers are backing Carney, even though they worked closely with Freeland for much of the last decade. Housing Minister Nathaniel Erskine-Smith is one of them. I do think that Mark offers a better chance to unite the country in standing up against tariffs. The Liberal leadership race lost one of its candidates today. MP Chandra Araya said the party won't allow him to run for the top job.

There's no word yet on why he's been shut out. JP Tasker, CBC News, Ottawa. In the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of panicked people fled ahead of the fighting between the Congolese army and a Rwandan-backed rebel militia called M23. The militia began its attack three years ago, but fighting intensified this month as they seize more and more territory. The DRC government accuses Rwanda of having used the militia in an attempt to grab mineral-rich

areas in Congo, and the UN warns the violence risks sparking a wider regional war. The union, representing about 750 employees at CN Rail, says it will go on strike on Tuesday unless a negotiated settlement is reached. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has given CN a 72-hour strike notice. The railway says it has a contingency plan in place. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fege.