The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 09:00 EST

Episode Date: February 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 09:00 EST

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for important information to be revealed. 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. 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 case 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 a venture, say CBC News, CBC 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.

Justin Trudeau was in Portugal today for the funeral of a family friend, the Aga Khan. The Prime Minister is en route to France and then on to Belgium. As Olivia Stefanovic tells us, Trudeau is hoping to strengthen ties with European allies who are also facing terror threats from US President Donald Trump. 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. 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 in a word with US Vice President JD Vance. Olivier Stifanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. It's Super Bowl weekend. How city New Orleans is buzzing as the Kansas City Chiefs face the Philadelphia Eagles.

There's always a lot of security for the big game, but even more so this year. Steve Funderman 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, still jammed with people killing 14. Brittany Bustamante is a bartender who works on Bourbon Street. The wound, she says, have not completely healed. Nobody's gonna forget that it's still like high alert and the city

is 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 that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fink.