The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/04 at 22:00 EST

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/04 at 22:00 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 this hour. I'm Neil Herland. President Donald Trump says he wants the US to take control of Gaza and the Palestinians

who live there should be permanently resettled elsewhere. Trump's comments came in a news conference late tonight, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The U.S. 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 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. Trump also suggested he'd consider deploying American troops during the

rebuild. Earlier Trump said Gaza is so badly damaged the Palestinians should be permanently resettled in neighboring countries. Canada is creating a so-called fentanyl czar to address American concerns that the drug is crossing the border and causing harm. Ashley Berker reports. At a border crossing in Manitoba, Public Safety Minister David McGinty is touring a lab used to detect fentanyl. And he will identify certain substances that are present. He's part of the government's effort to show Donald Trump they're trying to crack down

on one of his key concerns. We're getting this job done. We're going to be really wrestling this fentanyl scourge to the ground. The photo op unfolding after a chaotic day. A senior government source says on a high stakes call with Trump, Canada's pitch to try and stop the tariffs included its proposal to appoint a fentanyl czar. Fentanyl czar role will be involved in helping to pull all of this together so we can get over any hurdles and execute on a plan that involves minimizing, if not eliminating, fentanyl from Canadian soil.

A senior government source says Ottawa is looking for a serving or former police officer for the job and they would act as a go-between with the U.S. Ashley Burke, CBC News, Ottawa. The Mounties in Saskatchewan are investigating four suspicious deaths on the Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation. The CBC's Helena Mahalik reports. RCMP say four people have been found dead on the nation about 80 kilometers east of Regina. Fire Hills First Nation Police Service received the report at about 11.15 on Tuesday morning.

The deaths were deemed suspicious right away, and RCMP major crimes took over the investigation. Then, Tuesday afternoon, around 3.15 p.m., there were multiple reports about a man pointing a gun at Zagameh Anishinabeck. The First Nation is just over an hour east of Kerry the Kettle. RCMP stressed they do not know if the two incidents are connected but police remain at both locations. I had a phone call with Kerry the Kettle's chief Scott Ishippy. He says he just asks for respect for his nation and says it's not easy for them to deal with at this time.

The CBC's Halina Mahalik in Saskatoon tonight. And finally the Aga Khan has died at the age of 88. For decades, Prince Karim Aga Khan was the spiritual leader of an estimated 15 million Ismaili Muslims, a unique and powerful figure, Haverd Gould reports. Prince Karim Aga Khan, graded by school children in Kenya, 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 protest 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 Neil Herland.