The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/05 at 23:00 EST

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/05 at 23:00 EST

What does a mummified Egyptian child, the Parthenon marbles of Greece and an Irish giant all have in common? They are all stuff the British stole. Maybe. Join me, Mark Fennell, as I travel around the globe uncovering the shocking stories of how some, let's call them ill-gotten, artifacts made it to faraway institutions. Spoiler, it was probably the British. Don't miss a brand new season of Stuff the British Stole. Watch it free on CBC Gem. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland.

One man is dead and 15 people have been arrested after a series of illegal border crossings in Alberta and Manitoba. In recent days, Canadian officials are trying to demonstrate that Canada is more than capable of tackling problems at the border. Terry Reed has more. You can obviously see the clear image. Video from an RCMP airplane shows six people crossing the border near Emerson, Manitoba. It was January and freezing cold. Then Monday, Mounties stopped nine people crossing near Coots, Alberta, dragging their suitcases into Canada.

The next day, an individual drove across the border, leading police on a high-speed chase. It ended with a suspect dying in a field from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This event speaks to the dangers our officers and CBSA officers face at the border. Lisa Moorland, assistant commissioner of the RCMP, says it also demonstrates that Mounties are doing their part to secure the border. Canada Border Services Agency says it can't say what happened to the 15 people that were arrested, citing privacy. Terry Reath, CBC News, Edmonton.

The RCMP are treating four deaths on a Saskatchewan First Nation as murders. Two women and two men were found Tuesday in a home on the Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation, east of Regina. Inspector Ashley St. Germain says investigators believe the home was targeted. The Saskatchewan RCMP continues to investigate this quadruple homicide as well as another serious firearms related offense that occurred in close time and proximity. Investigators have been working diligently to determine the circumstances around both of the incidents and whether or not they are related. A 29 year old suspect is now under arrest. Well it was a stunning

comment from US President Donald Trump. The idea to relocate Palestinians and make way for a US takeover in Gaza. As Paul Hunter reports, reaction is ranging from horror to nods of approval. President Trump is in charge and America is back. At the White House press briefing, the day after U.S. President Donald Trump stunned the world by proposing the U.S. take ownership of the Gaza Strip, send all displaced Palestinians to other countries

and develop Gaza into, quote, the Riviera of the Middle East, a defense of the plan, from White House press secretary Caroline Levitt. President Trump is an outside-of-the-box thinker and a visionary leader who saw the Trump administration and the other special-media cities. And she added a clarification, though Trump had seemed to suggest it would be a permanent relocation for the nearly two million displaced Palestinians," said Levitt. The president has made it clear that they need to be temporarily relocated out of Gaza for the

rebuilding of this effort. Reaction to Trump's proposal globally was swift. A number of world leaders rejected the idea, some suggesting it would be an international crime. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. Donald Trump's threat of tariffs on Canadian goods has changed the political conversation in this country, and it could become the focus of a federal election. As Tom Perry reports, candidates hoping to win the next vote are already unveiling their policies. President Trump is threatened to tariff Canada. Conservative leader Pierre Pauliev focusing not on the federal carbon tax but on the threat posed by Donald Trump. Trump accuses Canada of allowing fentanyl to flow into the U.S. Pauliev

is pledging a crackdown. It should not take a foreign leader to get the Liberals to wake up to the drug crisis that they have caused here at home. Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney is also watching the US administration promising to diversify Canada's export markets and boost defense spending. My government would work to reach 2% of GDP in defense spending by the end of this decade. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will sit down with business and labor leaders in Toronto Friday to focus on what now dominates this country's politics, tariffs, trade and Trump. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. And that is your World This Hour. I'm Neil Herland.