The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: February 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 10:00 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 and Israel have carried out another hostage-prisoner exchange. More than 180 Palestinians were released from Israeli prisons. Hours earlier, three male hostages were handed over to the Red Cross in central Gaza and are now back in Israel.

The CBC's Sasha Petrcic reports from Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. This is a square in the middle of Tel Aviv where families and friends of the hostages have gathered every week to watch on a big screen TV as hostages have been released. Today there was a lot of excitement and anticipation but also worry once people saw what the hostages actually looked like. This is what one of the observers had to say to me. Seeing them, they're so skinny. They look like the light came out of their eyes.

And it's very difficult. And in fact, there are 17 more in this first phase who are still being held in Gaza, and they don't know what they are going to be looking like. We have been told that some of them are not alive and it will be in fact a transfer of the remains. We're seeing negotiators for both sides in Doha again this weekend trying to get to a second phase which would see some 59 more hostages released. Sasha Petrosik, CBC News, Tel Aviv.

A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk from accessing Department of Treasury systems. The Manhattan judge issued the order this morning after more than a dozen of the states filed, a dozen of states filed a lawsuit late yesterday. They argue Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOJ, has no legal power to access the data. They claim he is disrupting government programs and could disclose sensitive and confidential information. Musk holds no official position, but he has been deputized by President Donald Trump to

eliminate alleged waste and fraud in government. China has been linked to a malicious WeChat campaign against Liberal leadership candidate Krista Freeland. This according to the Canadian group mandated to monitor election interference. The Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force says WeChat news articles disparage Freeland and an estimated 2-3 million WeChat users saw that campaign globally. Several African leaders are meeting in Tanzania today trying to find a solution to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite a unilateral ceasefire, rebel forces are still marching towards the provincial capital of Bakuwu.

Kenyan President William Ruto is at the summit. We stand together to call on all parties to actualize the ceasefire and specifically on the M23 to hold further advancement and the armed forces of DRC to cease all retaliatory measures. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are expected at the opening ceremonies of the Invictus Games today. The competition was started by Prince Harry in 2014 for wounded veterans. As Yvette Brand reports, this will be the first to feature winter sports and a first for BC.

As we go down here, I want you to think about the... A coach shows team Ukraine skier Arsen Ryokpo-Szabko how to turn. A translator explains what being on this Whistler slope means to him. Invictus Games is like a swallow of fresh air. He only clamped on ski boots for the first time six days ago. I am skiing six days. He's one of hundreds of Invictus athletes competing in British Columbia over the next week.

Adaptive ski instructor Ellie Taylor says Ryaboschapko progressed fast. Amazing how he just throws himself in. Prince Harry founded the Invictus Games for wounded veterans in 2014. A decade later, hundreds of competitors from 23 nations will compete in BC. For Ryaboschapko, who was shot in both legs during a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, skiing mountains he'd only seen from a ship is the realization of a dream. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.