The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 09:00 EST

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 09:00 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 suggesting that the United States should consider taking control of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government is now making plans 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.

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. Today is the deadline for more than two million U.S. federal employees to accept a buyout being offered by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. Musk says if they don't take the buyout, they could be fired.

The case is before a judge in Boston who's expected to rule today on the legality of the buyout offer. 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 is pressure.

Christian Lueprecht is an expert on border security. The much more important audience is likely US in, the White House. For the RCMP, that's meant showing off a couple of newly leased Blackhawk helicopters, while 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. Investigators are still looking to establish a possible motive for this week's mass shooting in Obrås, Sweden.

Ten people were killed when a gunman opened fire at an adult education center. That is Chief Investigator Anna Berkvits saying the man was not known to police and was licensed to carry the weapons used in the shooting. She says it's not clear yet what his relationship was to the school. Tuesday's attack was the worst mass shooting in Swedish history. While most of Canada spent a good part of January in the deep freeze, that certainly wasn't the case everywhere else 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 an insight early on in the month that January would be much warmer than average. Burgess 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. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.