The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: January 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 at 10:00 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 is our. I'm Joe Cummings. First to Washington D.C. and the latest information on last night's mid-air collision between a military helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane. The collision resulted in both aircraft plunging into the Potomac River. We are now at a point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation. At this point, we don't believe there are any survivors from this accident. And we have recovered 27 people from the plane and one from the helicopter.

And as DC Fire Chief John Donnelly, 64 people were on the American Airlines flight, which originated in Wichita, Kansas. Three people were aboard the military helicopter. The aircraft collided as the passenger plane was approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport and Sean Duffy, the U.S. Secretary of Transport, is saying the sharing of airspace in this area is not unusual. The helicopter was in a standard pattern. If you live in the D.C. area, you'll see helicopters up and down the river.

This flight pattern is seen oftentimes when you live in D.C. This was a standard flight pattern last night as well. The American airline flight coming into land was in a standard flight pattern as it was coming into D.C.A. So this was not unusual with a military aircraft flying the river and aircraft landing at D.C.A. Duffy says a full investigation is already underway into the cause of the incident. As mentioned, 27 bodies have been recovered from the plane. One body has been recovered from the helicopter.

Among the passengers on the flight were 14 people returning from the US figure skating championships in Wichita. Six are from a skating club outside Boston. The club is saying two of the members were teenagers. Now to Gaza, where Hamas today is releasing more hostages. This is the third hostage-prisoner exchange now since the Israel-Hamas ceasefire went into effect. Sasha Petrusic reports. It was a very chaotic scene in Khan Yunus as two more Israeli prisoners were released. These are civilians, one of them a female civilian, 29-year-old Arbel Yehud, the other

one an 80-year-old man, Gadi Moses. And along with them, five Thai nationals were released. They were field workers, also kidnapped. These are in addition to the one Israeli soldier who was released earlier today in the north of Gaza. If all goes according to plan, the next step is for Israel to release 110 Palestinian prisoners who have been kept in Israeli jails on various charges, some of them very serious charges. Others, we are told, are going to be children and women who have also

been picked up at various times for different reasons and held in Israeli jails. Sasha Petrosik, CBC News, Jerusalem. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie says there is no indication the Trump administration is backing down on its threat to impose tariffs on Canada. Jolie is in Washington this week meeting with officials from the Trump administration. Rafi Boujikaneen has more. Pleasure to see you. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie meeting her U.S. counterpart, Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Jolie is in D.C. on a last-ditch effort to stave off 25% American tariffs from kicking in, possibly on Saturday Saturday on imported Canadian goods, a threat Donald Trump made shortly after his election, citing the traffic of illegal drugs and irregular migrants from this country to his. Less than 1% of fentanyl that is in the US comes from Canada and less than 1% of illegal migrants in the US come from Canada. Words Jolie and the Canadian government have been repeating for weeks. The government has also kicked in $1.3 billion to add Mounties, helicopters and drones to watch over the border.

And Canadian officials have started messaging videos of blackhawks to their U.S. counterparts. The federal government says it is mulling financial supports for Canadian workers should the tariffs come to pass. Rafi Boujikani on CBC News, Ottawa. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.