The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 08:00 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. Today is the last day the Canadian government has to convince Donald Trump to reconsider his February 1st tariff threats. But with the clock ticking, it doesn't appear the U.S. president has any plans to change his mind. Olivia Stavanovic reports. Mexico and Canada have never been good to us on trade.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his threat. I'll be putting the tariff of 25 percent on Canada and separately 25 percent on Mexico. Adding, he may or may not target Canadian oil. Warning the levies set to be introduced on Saturday could spike. Those tariffs may or may not rise with time. Trump cited Canada's trade deficit with the U.S., along with concerns over illegal migration and fentanyl, even though the movement of those crossings at the northern border amount

to a fraction compared to the southern border. In the final push to prevent any tariffs, Public Safety Minister David McGinty is joining his cabinet colleagues in Washington, D.C., appealing to U.S. lawmakers. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was saying that if the U.S. moves ahead with the tariff threat, Canada will respond immediately. Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney says he will dump the Trudeau government's carbon pricing policy if he becomes party leader.

In a release issued overnight, Carney says his plan is to replace it with a series of incentives that encourage Canadian consumers to go green. The flight data recorders have now been recovered from the wreckage of the passenger plane that crashed Wednesday night into the Potomac River in Washington, D. It means the crash investigation is now fully underway with the preliminary report on the mid-air collision expected in 30 days. All 64 people on the passenger plane were killed along with the three people aboard the military helicopter. At this point, 28 bodies have been recovered from the wreckage. Humanitarian officials are cautiously monitoring the distribution of emergency aid shipments

into Gaza. This as UNRWA, the UN's main relief agency in the territory, is now technically banned from operating. Sasha Petrasek has more from Jerusalem. More than 400,000 Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza, hoping to find something. Nothing left, says Bilal Naeem. All the water wells are destroyed and food is hard to find, he says. No hospitals either.

Aid delivery into Gaza has increased by hundreds of trucks every day since the ceasefire began. But that's now threatened as the main UN agency coordinating aid, UNRWA, has been banned from Israel. UN spokesman Stefan Dujarek says it's not clear if Israel will now try to stop shipments. The humanitarian operations in Gaza continues including with UNRWA work there. The UN is also calling for urgent medical evacuations for 2,500 children, saying they are at risk of imminent death. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. Canadian Alanis Morissette was among the artists performing last night at a celebrity fundraiser for the victims of the LA fires. I'm rich but I'm happy. I'm poor but I'm blind. I'm short but I'm healthy.

Well, M.S. was joined by the likes of Billie Eilish, Pink, Katy Perry, and Dr. Dre, among others, with comedian Billy Crystal acting as MC. Crystal is among the thousands of people who lost their homes to the wildfires. These were the clothes I wore when I fled my house with my wife Janice, like so many of us did on January 7th. It was all I had, wore it for a week, plus an N95 mask. I looked like an evacuee or someone who had just robbed a 7-Eleven.

The money raised is going to Fire Aid, a charity to benefit those in need of accommodation and food. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.