The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/28 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/28 at 07:00 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. The final report from the Public In into foreign interference is being released today, and it will include a number of recommendations from Commissioner Marie-Josée Oegh on how to prevent foreign meddling in Canadian elections. The inquiry looked at allegations of interference by a number of countries, including India and Russia. But national security analysts are saying it may be difficult for Ottawa to implement

any preventative measures in time for the next federal election, which could be called within a matter of just months. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Warsaw. It's the final stop on his visit this week to Poland, and he's expected to finalize an agreement on nuclear energy with the Polish prime minister. Tom Perry reports. Justin Trudeau flew from Krakow, where yesterday he joined other world leaders and Holocaust survivors, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

In Warsaw today, Trudeau is meeting with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Poland and Canada are set to sign an agreement on nuclear energy in December. Export Development Canada said it would provide up to two billion dollars in financing to help Canadian suppliers build Poland's first nuclear power plant. Upon completing his visit Trudeau will fly home to Canada with his time as Prime Minister running out and federal liberals set to choose a new leader on March 9th. Tom Perry, CBC News, Warsaw. Sentencing is scheduled today for one of the gunmen who admits to killing former Air India

bombing suspect Rupuduming Singh Malik. Tanner Fox and accomplice Jose Lopez pleaded guilty last fall to second-degree murder. Fox is being sentenced today in New Westminster. Lómez, Lopez rather, is due back in court on Friday. Malik, who was acquitted on charges related to the 1985 Air India bombing, was shot and killed in Surrey in July of 2022. PC prosecutors say Fox and Lopez were paid to carry out the murder, but they've yet to reveal who they believe hired the two men. With the Israel Hamas ceasefire holding, thousands of Palestinians across Gaza continue to make

their way north, back to their devastated communities. Chris Brown has more. Overnight, the terrible reality that there is very little to return to in northern Gaza hit home for those who made the long trek north. People will sleep on the grounds at Abu Mohammed, surveying the shattered former neighborhood in Gaza City. There's nothing left. Hundreds of truckloads of aid are now

arriving in Gaza every day. And with Hamas-run police and private guards providing security, there appears to be less looting and less hunger, say aid agencies. UNICEF's Jonathan Crick says among the major concerns is caring for all of the children whose parents were killed and are now alone. There is more than 17,000 children who are unaccompanied or separated from their parents. Hamas has said its negotiators are in Cairo to begin the next phase of ceasefire talks. Top US officials are in the region too and Qatar says it's pushing both sides to keep the fragile truce going. Chris

Brown, CBC News, Jerusalem. The Trump administration has fired over a dozen Justice Department lawyers who brought two criminal cases against the president. The firings appear to have targeted career prosecutors who worked with special counsel Jack Smith. Smith who led the prosecutions against Trump resigned from his post earlier this month. Forty years ago today, some of the biggest names in American music came together to record a song for charity. It was Harry Belafonte's idea to release a charity single like the British supergroup Band-Aid. And USA for Africa was born.

We Are the World was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones. It featured Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, and Cindy Lauper among a long list of stars. It went on to raise more than $60 million for African famine relief. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.