The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 03:00 EST

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 03:00 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 Style. Watch it free on CBC Gem. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland.

The Mounties have released details about several incidents on the Canada-U.S. border. Along with the Canada Border Services Agency, the force wants to demonstrate to the U.S. that Canada can keep the border safe as it faces scrutiny from the Trump administration. Cameron McIntosh has more. You can see in the map there... RCMP Assistant Commissioner Lisa Moreland points to a video screen. You can see a thermal camera image of six hotspots moving through a wooded area. Six individuals were heading towards the Manitoba border.

Shot from a plane, RCMP directed officers on the ground to intercept. An example of border technology, RCMP are very keen to draw attention to. RCMP make a lot of border arrests. Usually don't go this big, but with US President Donald Trump fixated on securing the shared border arrests. Usually, don't go this big. But with US President Donald Trump fixated on securing the shared border, threatening tariffs, there's pressure. Christian

Lueprecht is an expert on border security. The much more important audience is likely US, in particular the White House. For the RCMP, that's meant showing off a couple of newly leased Blackhawk helicopters. Well, Federal Public Safety Minister David McGinty allowed cameras in as he spoke to RCMP and border agents about shifting priorities. A plan not just to strengthen the border, but to be seen to be doing it. Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Winnipeg. The Israeli Defense Minister has ordered his army to prepare a plan to allow Gaza residents

to depart the Strip. The instruction follows President Donald Trump's announcement that the U.S. plans to take over Gaza and resettle the Palestinians living there. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed the idea last night on Fox News. The actual idea of allowing first Gazans who want to leave to leave. I mean what's wrong with that? They can leave, they can then come back, they can relocate and come back.

But Palestinian leaders reject the plan. Australia has passed tough new anti-hate crime laws, which include mandatory minimum sentences for terror offenses, such as displaying hate symbols and swastikas. The tougher laws follow a wave of anti-Semitic attacks in Australia. Chris Wins is the Premier of New South Wales. He also plans to introduce tougher hate speech laws in his state. Well, the circumstances that we are confronting in our community are so extreme that it requires

changes to the law. In fact, I don't believe the laws as they're currently constituted adequately confront this danger, this hate speech danger in our community. In December, an Australian synagogue was destroyed by fire and last month police found a trailer packed with explosives containing a list of Jewish targets. The West Coast continues to be hit by freezing conditions with cold warnings in place for the BC Interior and more snow forecast in Vancouver. As Michelle Gossoub reports the conditions are challenging for those who live on the street. We're woken up very abruptly and then after that we're just you know left

to kind of freeze until 9 a.m. On a Vancouver street Grace LaNoire has built a makeshift shelter from suitcases, tarps and umbrellas, trying to stave off the cold during the hours when shelters aren't open. You know, we kind of sometimes make a little fire with wooden spoons and forks. BC has been hit by a blast of winter weather, temperatures the region isn't used to that are dangerous to the many people who live outside. Shelter staff will not turn people away when conditions reach this degree of life safety concern.

Jesse Weggen asked is the extreme weather response coordinator in Abbotsford where cold weather shelters have been filling up. The extended cold snap isn't done with BC just yet. Extreme Arctic outflow warnings are in place for the interior and the north and central coasts. In the interior, temperatures could plunge to minus 40. Michelle Gasub, CBC News, Vancouver. Baseball star Shohei Otani's former interpreter will be sentenced today in a California court. Ipe Muzuhara pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $17 million from the baseball star to cover

gambling debts. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Hurland.