The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 09:00 EST

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 09:00 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 Auschwitz. More than a million people, mostly Jews, were murdered at the Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Here's the 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 have the most horrible nightmares since October and 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 half of the territory has been opened by the Israeli military and Gazans are returning to what is left of their communities. Chris Brown reports. The communities they're returning to such as Jabalia, B'etchanun and Gaza City are utterly ruined. The 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. M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo say they have taken over the eastern city of Goma. It'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 are in control of the city. They're insisting that government forces still hold strategic parts of Goma, including the airport. A modest improvement is being reported, but the World Food Program says at least one-third of the population of Afghanistan is suffering from acute hunger. Showei Lei is the agency's Afghan director. In August 2021, there was this massive deterioration in food security, just rapid levels of hunger that rose.

And that winter, we saw people in acute hunger at 23 million people. And now we're just a little bit shy of 15. Western nations stopped sending development assistance to Afghanistan after the Taliban took control in the summer of 2021. There are still regular humanitarian aid shipments, but Lee is worried that could drop off if the Trump administration follows through on its threat to freeze foreign aid. 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 shot with a victory over Buffalo. And for KC, it means a shot 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 big game being played in New Orleans. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.