The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 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 is sour. I'm Neil Kumar.

Breaking news. As the White House says, US President Donald Trump will hold off on imposing steep tariffs on Colombia, as that country has now agreed to accept deported migrants being returned on military planes. Earlier, Trump had vowed to impose swift and punishing retaliation after the Colombian government blocked the arrival of deportation flights from the U.S. The U.S. is Colombia's largest trading partner.

Meantime, an off-the-cuff remark by U remark by US President Donald Trump is catching fire across the Middle East. While flying home on Air Force One, he suggested that Palestinians should leave Gaza and live in Jordan or Egypt instead. As Chris Brown tells us, it's an idea that brings up past pain for Palestinians. Comments Donald Trump made about their future in Gaza ricocheted across the Middle East. We just clean out that whole thing.

Trump told reporters that Jordan and Egypt should permanently or temporarily build housing for Palestinians so they can live there instead. It's an incendiary suggestion as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were uprooted from their homes when Israel was created in 1948 and during subsequent wars

This is our country our land in the land of our ancestors We want to live and die in it said Sayah al-Sikwali and Jordan's foreign minister gave it a firm No As did the head of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Israeli analyst Yonatan Zarev, who worked on the Oslo peace accords 30 years ago, says displacement is the worst possible solution. There is no Palestinian, as far as I know, that can accept his deal.

Chris Brown, CBC News in Jerusalem. Israel and Hamas appeared to have resolved a snag in the rollout of the ceasefire agreement. Israel was refusing to allow Gazans to return to the northern part of the territory, saying that Hamas had reneged on releasing all female civilian hostages first. Now Qatari mediators and Israel say Hamas has agreed to release two more women and a third hostage this week followed by another three hostages next Saturday as scheduled. Israel says it will allow Gazans to move north starting today. A Canadian veteran detained in Afghanistan has been released and flown out to Qatar. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie says David Lavery is in

good spirits and thanked her Qatari counterpart for helping to facilitate his release. Lavery entered Afghanistan last November to work on behalf of the Veterans Transition Network and the Government of Canada and provide direct support to Afghan allies. However, he was immediately detained by the Taliban upon his arrival in Kabul. Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney is racking up more high-profile endorsements 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. And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Poland, where he'll join world leaders for a special Holocaust remembrance.

It was 80 years ago today that the Auschwitz death camp was liberated by the Allies. A recent survey showed 18% of Canadians between the age of 18 to 24 believed the Holocaust was exaggerated. And that is your World of Sour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kubar.