The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 15:00 EST

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 15:00 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, the world this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. He joined other world leaders for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day honours the six million Jews and millions of other people murdered by the Nazis in the Second World War. Tom Perry reports from Poland.

Music amid the watchtowers and barbed wire that still stand at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp survivors like tova Friedman here to mark the 80th anniversary of the camps liberation from the Nazis sharing stories of loss and horror. I stood in watch helplessly as little girls from the nearby barrack were marched away crying and shivering to the gas chamber. The ceremony was attended by dignitaries from around the world.

King Charles, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau met before the ceremony with two Canadian survivors who say they're worried about a rise in modern-day anti-Semitism and hate. Tom Perry, CBC News, Auschwitz. Tens of thousands of Palestinians walked the main roads leading north in Gaza. The United Nations estimates at least 200,000 made the trek. Israel opened the north for the first time since the early weeks of the war with Hamas that began 15 months ago. The fragile ceasefire is now into its second week. Hamas has told Israeli officials eight of the 26 hostages to be freed

during the deal's first phase are dead. An IDF spokesperson says the families have been informed and the disclosure matches what Israeli intelligence had believed. Israel says there are still about 90 hostages being held in Gaza. Denmark says it plans to spend more than 2 billion US dollars to boost its military presence in the Arctic. The country's defense minister says some of that money will go towards three new Arctic Navy ships and more drones. The announcement follows comments by President Donald Trump about taking control of Greenland, the semi-autonomous Danish island. There were reports last week of a heated phone conversation on the issue between Trump and

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. Ontario's efforts to expand alcohol sales are costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars more than expected. That is the finding in a new report from the province's Financial Accountability Office. Becca Fitzpatrick has details. Ontarians now have more options for where they can pick up a bottle of wine or a case of beer, but the convenience comes with a cost. The province's financial accountability officer is pegging the net cost of expanding alcohol sales at $1.4 billion. That's from 2024 when the marketplace changes were brought in to the end of

2030. Beer, wine, and ready to drink beverage sales were expanded last year to big box stores, convenience stores, and more grocery stores. That expansion plan was supposed to start in 2026 but it was sped up and that decision cost an estimated $612 million dollars according to the report. Other costs are related to financial support for the beer and wine industries, lost tax revenue and lower sales for the provincially run LCBO stores. Opposition parties say the price tag revealed today shows Premier Doug Ford's priorities are wrong and that money could have been spent on hiring more doctors.

Megan Fitzpatrick, CBC News, Toronto. A Chinese AI firm is disrupting some North American tech stocks today. DeepSeek says it's developed a model of the technology that costs far less than American competitors such as OpenAI and ChatGPT. The value of chipmaker Nvidia fell hard, dropping 17%, which in turn weighed down the NASDAQ exchange. But Nvidia says DeepSeek's work shows how useful its chips can be for the Chinese market. The one-year-old startup is seeing a surge in new users, so many it's having trouble accommodating them.

And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.