The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 15:00 EST

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 15:00 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, the world is our, I'm Karen Howelluck. US President Donald Trump is signing another batch of executive orders this hour that may include imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China starting tomorrow. Many here are waiting to see if Canadian oil and gas will get an exemption. Here is White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt. I can confirm that tomorrow, the February 1st deadline that President Trump put into place at a statement several weeks ago continues.

The President will be implementing tomorrow 25% tariffs on Canada for the illegal fentanyl that they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country, which has killed tens of millions of Americans. Canada is still lobbying senior Republicans and Trump administration officials trying to convince Trump not to impose the tariffs. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says if the Trump administration moves ahead with its tariffs, Canada will respond. And while it's not clear what that response will look like, Trudeau says it will involve more than just one sector of the economy.

Anything we do will be fair right across the country that all Canadians will share in the job of standing up for our interests and quite frankly standing up to defend the most successful trading relationship in the world. Trudeau says Ottawa doesn't want to impose retaliatory tariffs but will do so if it has to. Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney says he will eliminate the Trudeau government's carbon pricing policy if he becomes the party's next leader. What we'll do is create a system of incentives to reward Canadians for making greener choices. So it means that you'll no longer have to pay more to fuel your car or heat your home.

But when you choose an energy efficient appliance or an electric car or home insulation, you will be rewarded and we will get the big polluters to pay for it. When you choose an energy efficient appliance or an electric car or home insulation, you will be rewarded and we will get the big polluters to pay for it. Carney says the carbon pricing initiative had merit but has become too divisive. Liberal leadership contender Christy Freeland is also promising to do away with the consumer carbon tax. Authorities in Washington, D.C. say 28 victims of that deadly midair collision Wednesday night have been identified. The city's fire chief gave an

update this afternoon. John Donnelly says they've recovered the remains of 41 bodies. He expects they'll recover the rest, but that may take time. So we're working as fast as we can. I'm not going to be able to give a timeline on that as there's a lot of unknowns. But we hope that we have better salvage, not better, but we have more salvage equipment here tomorrow and that that operation can begin then. There were 64 passengers and crew on board the American Airlines flight with three crew members on the Black Hawk helicopter. Officials say there were no survivors.

A political move in Germany has not gone well for a leader trying to shift his party to the right and pass a migration bill with the help of the far-right Alternative for Germany party. The attempt came weeks before federal elections but as Rebecca Koller tells us, it didn't go as planned. When Friedrich Merz, head of Germany's Christian Democratic Union, said he was willing to cooperate with the German far-right to pass a migration bill, it sent political shockwaves across the country and sparked protests. Until now, Germany's established mainstream political parties have pledged not to work

with the far-right alternative for Germany, saying there needs to be a firewall against the far-right. Before the vote, one lawmaker from the ruling Social Democrats urged Merz to rebuild the firewall, saying it wasn't too late to close the door to hell. In the end, lawmakers from Merz's own party voted against the bill, defeating it. An embarrassment for the man current polls suggest will likely be Germany's next chancellor. Germans go to the polls on February 23rd. Rebecca Collard for CBC News, Berlin.

And that is the World This Hour. For news anytime, you can visit our website at cbcnews.ca. I'm Karen Howelluck.