The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 08:00 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. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is among the dignitaries in Poland today, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the concentration camp. More than a million people, mostly Jews, were murdered at the Nazi death camp. But among the survivors attending today's memorial services is Canadian Miriam Ziegler. 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.

And it's scary. It's very scary what's happening down the wall. Ziegler survived Auschwitz but lost family members at the concentration camp. She met today with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau is joined in Poland by French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and King Charles, among other foreign dignitaries. And despite the fact the Russian Red Army liberated the camp in 1945, Russia has not been invited to attend the services in light of its invasion of Ukraine. The Liberal Party is blocking Ottawa MP Chandra Arya from running for the leadership, but we've yet to hear the official reason for his disqualification.

Janice McGregor has more. Janice McGregor Earlier yesterday morning, Arya seemed to still believe he was in the race posting that he thought contestants should have more opportunities to debate. But then by noon, he was posting that he'd been informed that he wouldn't be allowed to enter and that he was carefully considering his next steps because in his view, his disqualification raised serious questions about the legitimacy of the race and by extension, the legitimacy of the next prime minister.

Now that is a serious thing to say about your own party. But it's also a serious thing for the party to tell someone that sits in their own caucus, greenlit to run, elected as an MP in the past, that they're manifestly unfit to be leader. The rules require the party's betters to tell the candidate their reasons and offer the candidate an opportunity to respond. But neither the party nor ARIA are sharing these reasons.

We also don't know yet whether other candidates could be disqualified. The party has up to 10 days to vet candidates and confirm the final ballot. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Roadblocks that have been up for months are down now in Gaza and thousands of Palestinians are returning north. A hostage dispute over the weekend between Israel and Hamas has been resolved, and as a result, the Israeli military has opened a key route to the northern part of the territory. And as of this morning, Gazans have been cleared again to return to what is left of their communities.

M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo say they have taken over the eastern city of Goma. That's panic in the streets just hours after the rebel fighters entered the city. Some are believed to be inmates from a nearby prison break. Congolese officials are denying the rebels. The rebels are in control. They're insisting that government forces still hold strategic parts of Goma, including the airport. A technical issue at the Ministry of Immigration appears to be impacting thousands of Canadians, of Ukrainians, who are in Canada looking to become permanent

residents. Priscilla Kishon-Wong has more. Ole Zadoretsky is an applicant in Halifax. He says thousands of other Ukrainians like him have rallied on social media and says immigration agents can't find their applications. And they say, well, they do not see that application in the system at all. This humanitarian pathway opened in October 2023 and closed after a year. Of the 23,000 applications submitted, only 367 final decisions were reached by end of last year. In a statement, the immigration department says a technical glitch is behind some of the missing applications and it's working on a fix, but Warren's processing times are expected to grow due to high volumes and limited spots.

And with Canada's plans to tighten immigration, families fear the commitment to Ukrainians may waver. Priscilla Kisan-Huang, CBC News, Ottawa. And that is The World This Hour.