The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 07:00 EST

When a body is discovered 10 miles out to sea, it sparks a mind-blowing police investigation. There's a man living in this address in the name of a deceased. He's one of the most wanted men in the world. This isn't really happening. Officers are finding large sums of money. It's a tale of murder, skullduggery and international intrigue. So who really is he? I'm Sam Mullins and this is Sea of Lies from CBC's Uncovered, available now.

From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Representing Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Poland today, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Oczewicz. More than 80, more than a million people, mostly Jews, were murdered at the Nazi death camp. Here's a CBC's Tom Perry. Today's ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp is marking 80 years since

the camp was liberated. It's also, of course, honouring the millions of Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust by the Nazis. Today's ceremony is going to be focused on those Holocaust survivors. Their numbers, of course, are dwindling with the passage of time, but many are here for today's event. Justin Trudeau, in fact, met with two Canadian survivors today. Miriam Ziegler and Howard Chandler both survived Auschwitz but lost family members here.

Miriam Ziegler told me about just how emotional it is for her coming back. I had the most horrible nightmares since October when I was told I was coming here. I don't think I slept one night, like, you know, just slept and would wake up with a nightmare. One country that's not included today is Russia. It was the Soviet Red Army that freed the prisoners at Auschwitz 80 years ago, but with Russia still at war with Poland's neighbor Ukraine, they're not on the guest list. Tom Perry, CBC News at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. With a weekend hostage dispute now resolved between Israel and Hamas, hundreds of thousands

of people in Gaza are on the move. A main route into the northern part of the territory has been opened by the Israeli military, and Gazans are returning to what's left of their communities. Chris Brown has the latest. The communities they're returning to, such as Jabalia, Bied Hanun, and Gaza City, are utterly ruined. But Palestinians are calling it a victory because many feared Israel would never let them back. The northern part of Gaza suffered among the most intensive attacks of the 15-month war with Hamas fighters deeply entrenched. Also Israel's far-right Jewish settler movement openly pushed to keep the Palestinians out of the north permanently so they could move in. One of their leaders, Itamar Ben-Ghavir,

posted on social media this morning, this is what absolute surrender looks like. Many other Israelis though will be relieved that the ceasefire survived a major test. The next step calls for Hamas to release three hostages Thursday and three more on Saturday. Chris Brown, CBC News, Jerusalem. Amid the ongoing terror threats from the Trump administration, one of the proposed responses from Canada could be to cut off the import of U.S. alcohol. And it's an idea that many Canadian craft distilleries are seeing as an opportunity. Yvette Brent has more.

And it's just chock-a-block full of multinational products and almost none of them are from British Columbia. Tyler Dyke, president of the Craft Distillers Alliance of Canada says the US trade threat could be an opportunity to boost sales of Canadian-made spirits. Sometimes it's harder to move stuff across the provincial border than it is to ship outside of Canada or bring inside of Canada, which is ridiculous. But Jeff Guinard, executive director of the Alliance of Beverage Licensees, says this is bad news for a hospitality industry that needs certainty. It doesn't really make any sense to get into a trade war with your best friend and, you know, neighbour.

He says while he hopes this helps local distillers and beer and winemakers, cross-border trade is a much bigger business. For Vancouverite Egan Davis, the dispute makes no sense. The United States is so close and it just makes sense that they would be like we would be very good trading partners. It's just regrettable that we're in this position. Davis hopes the whole thing blows over until it does. He's stocking up on tequila. Ah, for Mexico. Yvette Brenn, CBC News, Vancouver.

It will be Philadelphia against Kansas City in this year's Super Bowl. The Eagles advanced yesterday with a lopsided win over Washington. Kansas City earned their spot with a victory over Buffalo. And for KC, it means a shot now at making Super Bowl history. To reach a level that's never been seen before in the history of the NFL, a chance at three consecutive Super Bowl titles. Kansas City gets their shot at a third straight Super Bowl win on February 9th, with this year's title game being played in New Orleans. And that is the World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.