The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: February 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 07:00 EST

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Explore over 890,000 titles on Audible.ca by signing up for a free 30-day trial and start listening today. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague. Hamas has released more Israeli hostages in Gaza today. A crowd cheers as three Israeli men are paraded onto a stage in central Gaza. They were then handed over to the Red Cross, which escorted them to the Israeli border. Two men are in their 50s, the other in his 30s. Israel then released 183 Palestinians

detained in Israeli prisons. The CBC's Sasha Petrusic is in Tel Aviv. Joy and excitement and really this sense of waiting to see the faces of these people. They haven't really known whether they were alive or dead for so, so long. Certainly didn't know what shape they were in. This is what one of the people who was here

had to say to me. So on the one hand, you're happy they came out and when they opened the door of the van, we all cheered. And then you see them and you cry and you understand that they've been underground for so long. It is still very fragile and every week there are accusations that fly back and forth between Israelis and Hamas that one side or the other is not living up to some aspect of it. It's an implicit threat that one side or the other will call it off.

For such an interesting CBC NewsBC to see Tel Aviv. Meanwhile, five nationals from Thailand who were held captive by Hamas are closer to heading home. They've been receiving medical treatment since they were released by Hamas last week. The Thai nationals were laborers working on a kibbutz when they were taken. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to Paris today. The trip comes less than a week after Donald Trump agreed to pause sweeping tariffs on Canadian goods. As Olivia Stefanovic reports, Trudeau is expected to strengthen ties with allies who are also

facing threats from the U President. Well, we have massive deficits with the European Union. With tariffs paused on Mexico and Canada, US President Donald Trump is warning the 27 member states that make up the EU could be hit with levies next. We certainly are having conversations. Jonathan Wilkinson is the natural resources and energy minister. He says the prime minister's trip to Paris and Brussels is a chance to get face time with European leaders. I think many are of the view that if the president would do something like this to Canada, which

historically has been the closest ally of the United States, what may be in store for Europe. Trudeau is set to meet EU leaders and the Secretary-General of NATO in the coming days. But first, the Prime Minister is heading to Paris to attend a global artificial intelligence summit where he may get an award with U.S. Vice President JD Vance. Olivier Stavanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. Well, at Super Bowl weekend, host city New Orleans is buzzing. There's always a lot of security for the big game, but even more so for a city still reeling from a tragedy. Steve Futterman reports.

We have a big event coming and we are committed to having a safe environment for every individual that attends. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and it's hard to miss the increased security. Just five weeks ago in the early hours of January 1st as celebrations were still going on, terror struck the big easy. A man in a pickup truck drove down Bourbon Street still jammed with people killing 14. Brittany Bustamante is a bartender who works on Bourbon Street. The wounds she says have not completely healed. Nobody's gonna forget that. It's still like high alert and the city's not all the way the same yet, you know. There's still a lot of people scared.

And this week with tens of thousands of people in town to watch football, many have also walked over to the makeshift memorial on Bourbon Street to pay respect to those who were killed. Steve Futterman for CBC News at the Super Bowl in New Orleans. And the game will feature the Kansas City Chiefs against the Philadelphia Eagles. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.