The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/28 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/28 at 12:00 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. First to Ottawa where Commissioner Marie-Josée Auge has released the final report from the public inquiry into foreign interference. At the outset of our work, I pledged that the Commission will carry out its mandate independently and partially, fairly and transparently. I will also add with rigor, proportionality and speed. I believe it has done just that.

Oakes says she has found no evidence that there are, quote, traitors in Parliament plotting with hostile states against Canada's interest. And the inquiry's final report is also offering 51 recommendations on how to prevent foreign meddling in Canadian elections. One recommendation calls for the Elections Canada Act to be upgraded to better deal with misinformation and disinformation, which Hogue is calling an existential threat to Canadian democracy. An Ontario election gets underway today. Premier Doug Ford will be asking the Lieutenant Governor to dissolve the provincial parliament this afternoon and the campaign will be on. Ford is insisting he needs

a new majority mandate to deal with the challenges of the Trump administration. But the new Democrats, the Liberals, and the Green Party are all saying the snap election is a waste of time and a waste of money. The Chinese AI company DeepSeq is sending shockwaves across the tech world and the stock market, and with good reason. It claims to be as powerful and far cheaper than any existing American technology. Scott Peterson has more. We assumed that the US was the dominant player in artificial intelligence, and now this unknown Chinese company is basically upending all of our assumptions about US dominance and industry experts are saying that this deep seek application has comparable

computational ability to the big players like chat, GPT, Google, the meta but it does it at a fraction of the cost. There's three reasons why I saw such turmoil yesterday in the markets. One, deep seek is an artificial intelligence app. It needs less microchips. Hence, we saw Nvidia shares going down dramatically, 17%. Less electricity as well as needed because they're using less Cameco. Transalta shares also dropping in Canada dramatically. And it's a truly open AI system,

which means it could undercut Microsoft and chat GPT because it's entirely open source. This could upend and is upending already the entire dominance of the US. Scott Peterson, CBC News, Toronto. Sentencing is scheduled today for one of the gunmen who admits to killing former Air India bombing suspect, Rupudam Singh Malik.

Tanner Fox and accomplice Jose Lopez pleaded guilty last fall to second degree murder. Fox is being sentenced today in New Westminster, B.C. Lopez is due back in court on Friday. Malek, who was acquitted on charges related to the 1985 Air India bombing, was shot and killed in Surrey, B.C. in July of 2022. 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 his shattered former neighborhood in Gaza City. There is 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 U.S. 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. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.