The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/04 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/04 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 this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. With Donald Trump pausing his threatened trade action on Canada, the next tariff battle for the White House is China. And China is putting up a fight, threatening today to impose a wide range of tariffs and export controls if the Trump administration doesn't stand down. Yenna Lee reports from Beijing. A 15% tax on U.S. coal, 10% on goods such as crude oil, farm equipment and pick-up

trucks. These are just some of the US imports that face new Chinese tariffs. China also announced export curbs on five critical minerals, metals that are crucial to technology and innovation. Beijing argues that this is just a response to Washington's actions as the US slapped an additional 10% tax on all Chinese goods first. Now, this situation doesn't have to lead to further escalation and further escalation. On the contrary, it appears both sides are actually entering a round of negotiations. These new TIP for TAP Chinese tariffs are set to start on February 10th. So there is some time and some space for discussion still. According to the White House, a call between Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping could take place in the coming days.

Yen-A-Lee for CBC News, Beijing. Meanwhile, Canada may have received an 11th hour reprieve from Trump's tariff threats, but that doesn't mean the Canadian federal government's work is done. In fact, it's only just started. Janice McGregor explains. This may be an economic reprieve, but it's not a political one. Sure, Canada's not rolling out tariffs this morning, but everything else remains. They have to make sure that the new spending actually delivers results that Washington will see. And Canada can explain away Trump's trade deficit allegations, but the data on military spending and defence capabilities are not flattering. Even work on the retaliation strategy can't let up because March 4th isn't very far away and even

after that there's the other trade reviews with April 1st deadlines. Those could trigger other actions against Canada. On and on it goes. Canadians have demonstrated, again, that they value their sovereignty. But divisions have emerged over the best tactics for defending that. And as complicated as it is for the Liberal government during this period of transition in Ottawa, it's also

complicated for the conservative opposition as it tries to balance its instincts for patriotism while still harnessing the same populism that propelled Trump to power in the first place. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Still with news from the Trump administration, it has finalized an agreement to send prisoners serving time in the United States to prisons in El Salvador. Here's U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio after meeting with the president of El Salvador. Here's US Secretary of State Marco Rubio after meeting with the president of El Salvador.

Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State He has offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of U.S. citizenship and legal residence. The United States will be paying El Salvador to take the prisoners. Included in that agreement will be migrants who have been detained for entering the United States illegally. Voters in Greenland are going to the polls on April 6th, but before that election, the autonomous territory is looking to ban foreign political donations. The government there says it needs to safeguard its political integrity. It's concerned about potential election interference

after US President Donald Trump expressed an interest in buying the Arctic island. The proposed bill says political parties can't receive donations from anonymous donors or from anyone who resides outside Greenland. More than 30 B.C. firefighters have returned home from their deployment fighting the L.A. blazes. The B.C. crews include technical specialists who were deployed earlier last month to support the battle against the Palisades wildfire. A few

days later, another 22 firefighters were sent down on the front line of the Eaton and the Hughes wildfires. The blazes are now considered contained, but 29 people lost their lives, and more than 19,000 homes and other buildings have been destroyed. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.