The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 at 04:00 EST

Episode Date: January 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 at 04:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Neil Kumar. A passenger jet has collided in midair with a military helicopter while attempting to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington DC. A massive search and rescue operation in the Potomac River is now underway. All takeoffs and landings from the airport near Washington have been halted. The CBC's Katie Simpson tells us more. There is a frantic search and rescue operation with all kinds of federal agencies working with local authorities to really do everything they can to search for survivors. You're getting ships

from the Coast Guard, you're getting local search and rescue, and really this is the the emphasis that everyone is really making the effort on right now. Officials with the army say three army personnel were on board that helicopter. According to American Airlines they have confirmed this was a regional passenger jet making its way from Wichita, Kansas to Reagan National Airport. It was on final approach when there was a mid-air collision with a Black Hawk helicopter. One of the senators who represents Kansas in Congress, he says there were 60 passengers

and four crew members on board that plane. The main effort right now is the search and rescue operation looking for anyone who may have survived this horrific midair collision. That's the CBC's Katie Simpson in Washington. At least 300 emergency responders are braving the cold weather to look for the 64 people on the plane and three soldiers on the helicopter. Keds' senator Roger Marshall says his thoughts are with the families of those involved. I want the folks to back home to just know that we care, that we love them, and that

this is a time when we'll have to join arms together and help each other out. We've been through things like this before, through tornadoes and floods and things, but it's really hard when you lose, you know, probably over 60 Kansans simultaneously. And I don't want to forget the pilots and the flight attendants. The plane was flying in from Kansas. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie was in Washington on Wednesday, where she met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio

to make her case against crippling tariffs. U.S. President Donald Trump says he will hit Canada and Mexico with 25 percent tariffs on Saturday if illegal migrants and fentanyl don't stop flowing into the U.S. Caroline Bargout has more. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie says she is cautiously optimistic Canada can avoid being slapped with tariffs. But she knows ultimately it's US President Donald Trump who will be making that decision. She explained what Canada is doing with more than one billion dollars to secure the border

and stressed that less than one percent of fentanyl and illegal migrants are coming from the north. Minister Jolie also reminded the Americans of the relationship between the two countries. I think that the relationship between Canada and the U.S. is extremely deep and any form of trade tensions or trade war would have deep and lasting impacts and so in that sense I think that doing the job of helping my American colleagues to understand what would be at stake is something that is definitely resonating. Jolie says if tariffs are imposed, Canada would retaliate and everything is on the table. She plans to remain here until Friday and meet with as many people as possible to make her case. Caroline Bargoud, CBC News, Washington.

The accounting firm KPMG has surveyed Canadian business leaders about the threat of US tariffs. It found 8 in 10 want Canada to respond with targeted dollar-for-dollar retaliatory levies. The survey also found the majority of businesses are delaying capital investments until the details of the American plan are known. Public safety minister David McGinty is responding to Canada beefing up border security. I think we should take Mr. O. Elutnick's comments seriously. I think we should take them at face value. And I think we should continue reminding our American neighbors how far we've come and

Canadians how far we've come. We had a very strong border. We have an even stronger border today. And I'm quite convinced that the evidence that's being presented to the administration will break through. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Kumar.