The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/04 at 20:00 EST

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/04 at 20:00 EST

Every language is a note in the symphony of our heritage. Together, they create a harmony that cannot be silenced. Discover your voice on the new APTN Languages TV channel. From CBC News, the world is ours. I'm Tom Herrington. Donald Trump is turning decades of American foreign policy in the Middle East upside down. The president says the Palestinian people cannot and should not return to Gaza.

After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he went one step further. The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too. We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply

unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. He also suggested he consider deploying American troops during the rebuild. Before their meeting, Trump said Gaza is so badly damaged, the Palestinians should be permanently resettled in neighboring countries. The first U.S. military aircraft carrying migrants to Guantanamo Bay departed today. President Trump's administration is preparing to keep tens of thousands of illegal immigrants at the naval base in Cuba. Today's flight, as to those that have already carried deported migrants to Guatemala, Peru, Honduras and India,

Gitmo, as it's called, was primarily used to detain suspects and those accused of crimes associated with the September 11th terror attacks. Donald Trump's threat to cripple the Canadian economy with tariffs has brought new urgency to a long-standing problem. How difficult it is to trade between the provinces. But that may be about to change. Lindsay Duncombe reports. It is an eye-opening conversation that is happening right now. Speaking in Montreal, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie said premiers are ready to make it easier to trade province to province.

Well I think it's really important that we do so. Over time, different regulations in different industries just kept piling up, and each jurisdiction wants to keep playing by its own rules. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says getting rid of those barriers could increase the economy by more than $200 billion, or more than $5,000 a person. A 2017 agreement set up a group to eliminate barriers, but the president of the BC Business Council, Laura Jones, says it's slow going. They're kind of doing it piecemeal, like one at a time, and it's very slow.

Opposition leader Pierre Poliev has promised to overhaul that 2017 agreement to remove barriers. Lindsay Duncombe, CBC News, Vancouver. Sweden is reeling after the worst mass shooting in the country's history. Officials say about 10 people have died and many others are injured after gunfire erupted at an adult learning center. Police are continuing their work to identify the victims in a small town 200 kilometers west of Stockholm. Anna Leena, a member of the clergy, offered space at her church nearby for families to wait for updates.

We try to help them to communicate with their relatives and give them support when they are waiting for news. The suspect is believed to be among the dead. Police say a motive remains unclear. The Aga Khan has died at age 88. Prince Karim Aga Khan was for decades the spiritual leader of an estimated 15 million Ismaili Muslims, a unique and powerful figure. Haver Gould reports.

Say good morning, His Highness. Good morning. Prince Karim Aga Khan, greeted by school children in Kenya, the school one of the billions of dollars worth of development projects he created in Africa, the school one of the billions of dollars worth of development projects he created in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. There's so much that has to be done. It's better, I think, to try and do it once properly. In 1972, when Ismailis were expelled from Uganda, the Aga Khan asked Prime Minister

Pierre Trudeau to help, and Canada took in thousands of refugees. Decades later, the Trudeau family friendship led to an expenses scandal for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when he vacationed on the Aga Khan's private island in the Caribbean. Building and sustaining a prurist society is always going to be a work in progress. The Aga Khan was a billionaire with properties and business interests around the globe, but his overarching duty, he said, was to help the vulnerable while promoting tolerance. Havard Gould, CBC News, Toronto. And that is Your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington.