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

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 06:00 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. U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal this week that the US could take control of the Gaza Strip is drawing Condemnation and not just from Gazans or from the United Nations as well in the search for solutions We must not make the problem worse It is essential to avoid any form of ethnic cleansing What is UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres commenting even as the Israeli government is taking steps toward moving some Palestinians out of Gaza.

Sasha Petrusic has more. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the military to prepare a plan for what he calls the voluntary departure of Gazans. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also seems to have embraced the idea. I mean what's wrong with that? They can leave, they can then come back, they can relocate and come back. But Israel has a history of not allowing Palestinians to return and settler groups have already drawn up their own plans for occupying Gaza.

That's why Arab countries like Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have flatly rejected the Trump plan. For Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian representative to the UN, it's emotional. We love the land of our country. Whether we have palaces on it or destroyed buildings, we are determined to rebuild it. But even if the ceasefire lasts, that could take years.

Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. Another month and another record global temperature has been set. EU scientists say last month was the warmest January ever recorded. It was 0.1 degrees Celsius hotter than January last year. This comes as a new report has been released here in Canada suggesting many of the new homes being built to deal with the country's housing crisis aren't in a good position to withstand the demands of climate change. Inayat Singh explains. A new report from the Canadian Climate Institute says thousands of new homes may get built

in flood and fire risk areas. Report author Ryan Ness says governments need to step in. Many provinces and territories do not create regulations that limit the amount of construction that can occur in hazard-prone areas. The fix is to direct development away from those areas and give information to municipalities and home buyers. Billions of dollars are on the line because all those risky homes could cost homeowners and insurance companies big time.

Sharmillian Mendis-Millard is the director of Flood Advocacy Group, Partners for Action. We're going to be facing and continuing to face so many events that are overwhelming our resources and systems. So why introduce risk when we don't have to? A call to heed the report's warning so all those new homes don't cause a crisis of their own. Inayat Singh, CBC News, Toronto. Now to Ottawa, where CBC News has learned Canada Post is carrying out another round of management layoffs. Marina van Stalkenberg has the details. CBC News has learned nearly 50 Canada Post managers are being laid off this week.

Nearly half of them are in Ottawa, but also in Toronto, Montreal and other regions. Spokesperson John Hamilton says it's only internal managers losing their jobs. To the public this will largely be invisible. This won't impact their day-to-day mail. Last month, Canada Post also cut 20 percent of its senior executive team. Canada Post's finances are so bad it was going to run out of the money it needed to operate by the spring but the federal government stepped in last month with a one billion dollar loan the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has argued the corporation's money problems

are in part because it's become too top-heavy. Jim Gallant is a national negotiator with the union. There are a lot of managers they get paid a lot of money. Canada Post says no unionized employees are being laid off. Marina von Stackelberg, CBC News, Ottawa. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.