The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: January 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 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. U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be blaming the Biden administration for last night's plane crash in Washington. Trump claims the former Transportation Secretary, Democrat Pete Buttigieg, put diversity ahead of safety. Do you know how badly everything's run since he's run the Department of Transportation? He's a disaster.

He was a disaster as a mayor. He ran his city into the ground, and he's a disaster. He was a disaster as a mayor. He ran his city into the ground and he's a disaster now. He's just got a good line of bullshit. The Department of Transportation, his government agency charged with regulating civil aviation. Well, he runs it, 45,000 people, and he's run it right into the ground with his diversity. Trump says one of his recent executive orders will put an end to any diversity initiatives the Biden and the Obama administrations put in place

within federal government departments. Those departments include the Federal Aviation Administration. As for last night's midair collision, it involved a military helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane. And it 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. As D.C. 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. No official cause of this collision has been determined at this point.

In other news, with the clock ticking, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie says there is no indication the Trump White House 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 Boujikanean has the latest. 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 percent American tariffs from kicking in, possibly on 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 U.S. comes from Canada and less than 1% of illegal migrants in the U.S. 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 Boudjikan, YonCBC News, Ottawa. Now to Gaza, where today Hamas is releasing more hostages. This is the third hostage-prisoner exchange since the Israel-Hamas ceasefire went into effect. Sasha Petrusic reports. It was a very chaotic scene in Khan Yunis as two more Israeli prisoners were released. These are civilians, one of them a female civilian, 29- 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.

And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.