The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/26 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: January 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/26 at 17:00 EST

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CBC Marketplace Podcast is available now on the CBC Listen app or wherever you get your podcast. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fay. 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 is 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 force relocation raises the specter of what Palestinians call great catastrophe when the state of Israel was founded and the majority of Palestinians were displaced. Kassan 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, Lebanese authorities say Israeli soldiers have killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 100 in southern Lebanon. That's as the deadline for the Israeli military's withdrawal passed, with soldiers staying put. As Philip LeShannick reports, while Lebanese civilians want to get back into their homes, Israel says it needs more time. Despite warnings from Lebanese and Israeli armies, thousands of civilians have returned to towns and villages along the border to survey the damage. Makriya Finasch looks at the rubble that was once her home and accuses Israeli

defense forces of needless destruction fueled by revenge. Look at what the Israeli army did. Who can rebuild this, she says. IDF soldiers fired on protesters who demanded the Israelis leave as laid out by the ceasefire agreement that ended the Israel-Hezbollah war in November. The 60-day deadline expires today, but Andrea Tenenti of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon says the IDF remains in several villages. And that makes very difficult for the Lebanese army to be able to be redeployed.

Israel says a requirement that Hezbollah weapons and infrastructure be removed from the area has not happened and has asked for a 30-day extension. Filthy Shannok, CBC News, Toronto. 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 Carney, 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 Carney 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 Hamilton, Ontario. We had fire blowing out of the apartment into the hallway. Extreme heat, extreme smoke, extreme flame. That's Hamilton Fire Chief David Cunliffe describing an apartment fire that killed two children and an adult. Firefighters struggled to get into the apartment because of the dangerous conditions.

Eight others were injured and taken to hospital. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Poland where he'll join other world leaders for a special Holocaust remembrance. It was 80 years ago Monday that the Auschwitz death camp was liberated by the Allies to attend a remembrance marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fink.