The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 07:00 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. In the wake of Donald Trump commenting this week that the United States should consider taking control of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government is making plans now for a large number of Palestinians to leave the territory. 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.

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. With the Trump administration demanding that Canada tighten its border security, the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency are making sure the White House knows that's exactly what they're doing. Cameron McIntosh explains. 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 hot spots

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, threatening tariffs, there's pressure. Christian Lueprecht is an expert on border security. The much more important audience is likely the 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. Police in Norbrow, Sweden continue to search for a possible motive for this week's mass shooting, the worst in the country's history. Ten people were shot and killed when a man entered fire, opened fire at an adult education center, which authorities say the attacker may have attended. Janice Persson, chief investigator, Anna Berkvist, saying the shooter was not known to police

and had the licenses for the guns used in the shooting. While most of Canada spent a good part of January in the deep freeze, that certainly was not the case elsewhere around the world. In fact, EU scientists are reporting last month was the hottest January ever recorded. One of the authors of the study is Samantha Burgess. When we look at air temperatures across the globe, we've seen really large anomalies, particularly over the Arctic region, where those anomalies have been 20 degrees above average. So that's a huge anomaly.

So that combined gave us insight early on in the month that January would be much warmer than average. Borg just says the average global temperature over 18 of the last 19 months has stayed more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial times. And she says the burning of fossil fuels is the largest contributing factor. The heist of 100,000 eggs from the back of a trailer in Pennsylvania has become a whodunnit case.

Pennsylvania state police say they still have no leads four days after the theft. Law enforcement officials say the crime appears to be tied to the sky-high cost of eggs in the U.S., where bird flu has caused the cull of millions of chickens. The missing eggs are believed to be worth about $40,000 U.S. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.