The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 13:00 EST

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Gaza. In a social media post, the president says Israel would turn over the territory and American troops wouldn't be needed. At the same time, the Israeli government announced plans to allow Palestinians to leave Gaza. Sasha Petrasek has more. Israeli Defence 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. The Energy and Natural Resources Minister is in Washington today. Jonathan Wilkinson is talking to U.S. officials about Donald Trump's threatened tariffs. He says Canada has the resources America needs. I just go back to things like Canada can do a lot on critical minerals to reduce the American dependence on China. This is at a time where China is banning the export of a number of important critical minerals

to the United States. And I think that's a much more productive conversation. And so I am certainly trying to ensure that we're offering an alternative that is a positive alternative to turn away from the discussion on tariffs. Beijing is in its own tariff tiff with Washington after Trump imposed a 10% levy on Chinese goods this week. Trump's tariff threats and insults have prompted many Canadians to rethink trips to the U.S. As Steve O'Gravina tells us from Montreal, travel agents say anger and anxiety are prompting a wave of cancellations.

Teacher Pascal Nadeau has been saving for three years to take a trip to wine country in California in the spring. He booked airline tickets, an RV rental and accommodation. Now he's cancelled it all. Neto says the trigger for him was when Donald Trump said the U.S. didn't need Canada for anything. He was disgusted by that sentiment. So he'll spend his vacation dollars elsewhere. And he's not the only one. Amra Durakovich speaks for the travel company Flight Center. She says since the weekend, people across Canada have been canceling trips to the U.S. explicitly because of the tariff threat.

That is the sentiment I'm hearing when I speak with our customers. They are upset. They are hurt. Trust has been broken. Durakovich says in some cases people are canceling 10 or $20,000 trips, even if they lose their deposits. Steve Rukavina, CBC News, Montreal. Montreal police are investigating a wave of vandalism on the campus of McGill University. Spokesperson Caroline Chelfre says callers reported a group of people making their way

around the area last night. The group of suspects quickly smashed several windows on three buildings and they also committed graffiti to then flee the scene on foot before the arrival of the police. Some verification were made to locate possible surveillance cameras nearby the scene. Police are not commenting on a possible motive but video shows some pro-Palestinian messages spray painted on the walls. No suspects have yet been identified. Investigators are still looking for the motive for this week's mass shooting in Orebro, Sweden.

10 people were killed when a gunman opened fire at an adult education center in the town west of Stockholm. The person who was hit inside the school, he is not... Chief investigator Hanna Virkwitz says the man was not known to police but was licensed to carry the weapons used. She says it's not yet clear if he had a connection to the school.

Tuesday's attack was the worst mass shooting in Swedish history. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.