The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/28 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/28 at 00:00 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.

Canadian officials are making a last-ditch effort this week to avoid tariffs threatened by US President Donald Trump. As Olivia Stefanovic reports, there are different views on how Ottawa should respond. This is our number one priority and we're working at it every day. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie says the federal government is seized with avoiding tariffs but won't release a full list of American products Canada will levy if U.S US President Donald Trump moves forward with his threat.

And we won't negotiate on, you know, in front of the public. But Jolie's former cabinet colleague, Chrystia Freeland, says she would approach Trump much differently. What I think we need to do is be very, very strong and very specific. Freeland went head to head with the U.S. president the last time he was in the White House. Now that she's running to become the next liberal leader and prime minister, Freeland is urging the government to publish a dollar-for-dollar retaliation list worth more than $200 billion. Olivia Stvanovic, CBC News, Ottawa.

A powerful new Chinese AI platform is shaking up the tech world. DeepSeek has disrupted the market and become the most downloaded app in North America. Peter Armstrong breaks down the implications. As soon as trading open stock markets plunged, tech giants were routed with chipmaker Nvidia leading the fall. On his first day in office, current president Donald Trump announced the Stargate initiative, a $500 billion private sector deal to expand US artificial intelligence infrastructure.

But DeepSeek claims its new model was developed in just two months at a cost of less than six million dollars. China also has less access to Nvidia's most powerful chips. The Western companies have used Dario Amati, the CEO of Anthropic, told the financial news station CNBC last week that Western dominance was crucial. If the United States can't lead in this technology, we're going to be in a very bad place geopolitically. And so after years of convincing themselves and each other that the West was winning this race, along comes a Chinese company claiming it can do just as much in a matter of months

for a fraction of the cost. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. A snowboarder has died following an accident at a resort in B.C. West Vancouver police confirm a 21-year-old Richmond man was reported missing after going snowboarding with friends at Cypress Mountain Resort Friday morning. They say an extensive search by resort ski patrol and rescue teams led to the discovery of the man in a gully near one of the ski runs. Life-saving actions were taken, but the victim succumbed to his injuries.

The BC Coroner's Service is investigating the accident. The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has announced that the army now controls most of Goma in the country's east. However, the M23 rebels continue to claim they control Goma. At least 17 people are reported to have been killed and nearly 400 others injured in the ongoing clashes. A spokesperson for the Congolese government, Patrick Mouyaa-Katembe, urged people to remain indoors. As we speak, bombs are already falling on hospitals and the population is terrorised

because the aim is clearly to sow terror. Yesterday, bombs were already falling on centres for displaced people, and that is why we want to urge all the people in Goma to stay sheltered, stay home, and refrain from committing acts of vandalism or looting. US President Donald Trump signed executive orders Monday night that eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion programs from the U.S. military. The orders also reinstated military members forced out by vaccine mandates. Trump is also giving Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 60 days to implement a new policy

on transgender troops, saying that expressing what he calls a, quote, false gender identity, not consistent with biological sex cannot meet military service standards. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.