The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 23:00 EST

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 23:00 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 this hour, I'm Claude Fague. We have leverage.

Melanie Jolie says Canada is working with the European Union and Britain on countering US tariffs. The Foreign Affairs Minister says she's also working to prevent them while also being ready for them. We are the biggest customer to the US. We are the biggest customer in 36 countries, 36 states within the US. So there are lots of allies in the U.S. and also in Washington, and that's why we're doing the work. Jolie says the U.S. has a trade surplus with Canada if you don't take into account energy

exports. The U.S. chip maker, NVIDIA, has suffered the biggest single day loss in U.S. market history, almost $600 billion as investors respond to the development of a low-cost AI chat box by Chinese company DeepSeek. There were big losses, too, for NVIDIA's rival Broadcom. President Trump said DeepSeek should be a wake-up call for the U.S. tech industry. This is very unusual when you hear a DeepSeek, when you hear somebody come up with something. We always have the ideas. We're always first. for the US tech industry. Meanwhile Google Maps has said it will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Name System.

But the change will only happen in the United States. In Mexico, the app will continue to call itself the Gulf of Mexico. Everywhere else, it will carry both names. Renaming the Gulf of Mexico was one of President Trump's initiatives. Tens of thousands of Palestinians displaced by months of war are re-entering Gaza's bombed out north. The column of humanity stretched kilometers as people hauled what little they had back to what is left of their homes. Chris Brown has more from Jerusalem. In the significant development in this tenuous ceasefire Israel removed

barricades from a coastal road and hundreds of thousands of uprooted Palestinians streamed into Gaza's north. Most walked and pulled, carried or wore everything they owned. Sarah Radhi held a cat in her arms as she walked and told our CBC videographer she felt indescribable happiness mixed with sadness as she hopes for a new beginning. Northern Gaza communities such as Jabalia and Gaza City suffered some of the worst destruction. Three quarters of the buildings are rubble. The path north was unblocked after last-minute negotiations involving Qatar

concerning hostage Arbel Yahud, whose captors released a proof-of-life video. She and two others will now be freed Thursday and three more hostages on Saturday. Chris Brown, CBC News, Jerusalem. Transport Canada is abandoning a plan to build an airport in Pickering, Ontario east of Toronto. Instead, the government is handing over the land to enlarge the Rouge National Park. Michelle Song reports. The Pickering lands will no longer be used for a future airport site. A packed room stood up cheering for the long-awaited announcement. Transport Canada will transfer the Pickering lands to Parks Canada after more than 50 years.

It held about 3,500 hectares of the land in hopes to build an airport, a project advocates fought hard against. It's so emotional for us on a very personal level. Advocates like Mary Delaney with Land Over Landings. She campaigned to protect farmlands in this area. So our main goal has always been to protect and prevent development of any kind, an airport or urban sprawl of any kind on top of these class one farmlands. The Pickering Lands is also a key part of wildlife conservation. It is a significant corridor allowing species to move between habitats.

Michelle Song, CBC News, Pickering Ontario. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.