The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 10:00 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. We start in the U.S. where today is the deadline for millions of federal employees to accept a buyout being offered by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. And Musk says if they don't take this buyout, they could be fired. Richard Madden reports. It's fight or flight for the federal workforce, and it's believed roughly 40,000 government workers have accepted buyouts, which is far

short of Elon Musk's ambitious goal of cutting roughly 200,000 jobs, or 10 percent of the federal workforce. Now, many legal experts are questioning the terms because those who accept the buyout have to sign a waiver agreeing not to take legal action. They're also skeptical if workers will actually get severance because it could be delayed by lawsuits. Now, in the past two and a half weeks, we have seen Musk and his team completely dismantle several government agencies from USAID, Treasury, labor, intelligence agencies.

Now, critics are describing Musk and his team of 20-somethings that they are treating government like a tech startup, stripping each agency for parts and even gaining access to sensitive databases and intel of Musk's corporate competitors. Richard Madden, CBC News. startups, stripping each agency for parts and even gaining access to sensitive databases and intel of Musk's corporate competitors. Richard Madden, CBC News, Washington. Israel's defense minister has instructed the military to draw up plans for large numbers of Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip. It follows US President Donald Trump suggesting this week that the US could take over and

rebuild the territory. The defense minister's directive doesn't make clear when Palestinians would be allowed to return to Gaza, which has been devastated by 16 months of war. Following in the footprints of the United States, Israel has now announced it's withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The council is an international body created to protect and promote human rights. The Israeli government claims it has an institutional bias against Israel. On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order removing the U.S. from the council.

Indian opposition MPs are outraged about the treatment of more than 100 illegal migrants flown back to India this week on U.S. military planes. Salimema Shivji reports now from Mumbai. Fury outside India's Parliament as members of the opposition hold up signs in protest. Humans not prisoners one says. It comes after an American military plane landed in India's northern Punjab state yesterday carrying a hundred and four Indians who were living illegally in the comes after an American military plane landed in India's northern Punjab state yesterday, carrying 104 Indians who were living illegally in the US.

Forcibly deported as part of the Trump administration's new immigration crackdown, several complained they were handcuffed and shackled during the entire 40-hour journey. India's Foreign Minister Subramaniam Jayashankar stood up in parliament to respond, saying women and children on the flight were not restrained in any way. We are, of course, engaging the US government to ensure that the returning deputies are not mistreated in any manner during the flight. But he says the focus needs to be on cracking down on illegal migration. Salima Shivji, CBC News, Mumbai.

The latest global data is showing that last month was the hottest January on record, which comes as a surprise to many climate scientists who had expected to see a modest cooling off period. Crystal Gomancing has more. Instead of global temperatures dropping, Samantha Burgess with Copernicus Climate Change Service says this January was nearly 0.1 degree warmer than last January. We've seen really large anomalies, particularly over the Arctic region. Given the temperature increase recorded last month, the impact of La Niña is unclear. Have we as scientists underestimated just how sensitive the climate system is?

Bob Watson is regarded as one of the world's most authoritative environmental scientists. Government action around the world is not going to limit warming to 1.5. We're on a pathway to two and a half to three degrees Celsius and possibly even more than three degrees. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.