The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/28 at 04:00 EST

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/28 at 04:00 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 Claude Fague. To Gaza. Gridlock in Gaza City is tens of thousands of Palestinians headed north to reenter the enclave today. It's the second day Palestinians have been allowed to cross into Gaza following the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. An estimated 300,000 people crossed back into Gaza City last night. The crossings were delayed over the weekend after Israel claimed Hamas reneged on its original deal to release certain hostages. The lawyer for an American man seeking asylum in Canada says Canada Border Services Agency will not give his client forms he needs to sign

to drop his claim and is effectively detaining him unlawfully. CBC's Caroline Bargout explains. Anthony wants to go back to the United States today. And there's no reason why CBSA cannot or should not be allowing him. Lawyer Robert Thibault represents Anthony Vaux, who was convicted on four misdemeanor offenses for unlawfully being in the Capitol building during the riots of January 6, 2021. He was given nine months in prison.

Instead, he came to Canada to seek asylum for political persecution. Three weeks ago, he was arrested by Canada Border Services Agency for not coming into the country at an official port of entry. Vo spoke to CBC News from the Surrey Detention Centre last week. He says CBSA officers told him he was being detained because they think he will miss his asylum claim hearings and consider him a flight risk. There's no reason why they should arrest me for that. I have given like no indication that I would miss any hearings. detained because they think he will miss his asylum claim hearings and consider him a flight risk. There's no reason why they should have asked me for that.

I have given like no indication that I would miss any hearings. Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned all the January 6 rioters. Tipo says Voh no longer needs asylum and wants to go home. He says Voh has signed the necessary forms and is just waiting for CBSA to release him. We reached out to CBSA but have not received a response. Caroline Bargout, CBC News, Washington. The U.S. chipmaker NVIDIA has suffered the biggest single day loss in U.S. market history, almost $600 billion, as investors responded to the development of a low-cost AI chat box

by Chinese company DeepSeek. President Donald Trump said DeepSeek should be a wake-up call for the US tech industry. This is very unusual when you hear a DeepSeek when you hear somebody somebody come up with something we always have the ideas were always first so I would say that's a positive that could be very much a positive development instead of spending billions and billions you'll spend less and you'll come up with, hopefully, the same solution. Now, yesterday, the Trump administration fired over a dozen Justice Department lawyers who brought two criminal cases against the president.

Acting Attorney General James McHenry cited a lack of trust for implementing Trump's agenda as a reason for the firings because of their significant role in prosecuting Trump. The firings appear to have targeted career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith's team. Smith resigned from his post earlier this month. A new

multimillion dollar grant to a pandemic research hub in Saskatoon is driving research towards a powerful vaccine. Researchers are hoping this can put them a step ahead and in front of a powerful vaccine. Researchers are hoping this can put them a step ahead and in front of a future pandemic. Dane Patterson reports.

Volker Goertz says Canada was not prepared for the last pandemic. It was outmaneuvered by the COVID-19 virus. So let's make sure that next time we're better prepared. Goertz is the director and CEO of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, or VEDO for short. It's developing a vaccine to protect against a wide range of coronaviruses. That includes SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, and potentially future viruses.

This is why we are here. We're protecting Canadians from the next infectious disease, the next pandemic. It's a tall order. Dr. Nicole Leary knows that. She's a part of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and has granted Veto 24 million dollars to drive that research. This vaccine could kind of serve as a holy grail. Veto's vaccine is being built to be thermo stable. It won't need to be stored or transported in a temperature controlled environment. Dane Patterson, CBC News, Saskatoon. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.