The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: February 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 12:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world this Hour, I'm Claude Fague. Hamas and Israel have carried out another hostage-prisoner exchange. It's the fifth between the two. More than 180 Palestinians were released from Israeli prisons. Hours later, three Israeli males were also released. The CBC's Sasha Petrosic 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 Treasury systems. The Manhattan judge issued the order this morning after more than a dozen states filed a lawsuit yesterday. They argue Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOJ, has no legal power to access the data and 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. The Canadian government says it will list drug cartels as terrorist organizations under the law. But experts say dozens of groups have their fingerprints on the fentanyl trade, not just the cartels. Darren Major reports. The conduct of criminal cartels are very similar in nature to terrorist groups. Public safety minister David McGinty says adding cartels to the terrorist list will grant law enforcement agencies more powers to track their illegal funds and activities.

It would also allow intelligence agencies, such as CSIS, to be more involved in investigations. There is growing evidence to suggest that Mexican cartels are gaining a foothold in Canada's illicit drug market. But Jessica Davis, a former senior intelligence analyst, says just because more law agencies could get involved doesn't necessarily mean they will. It's not like the gaming government has proactively said, you know, the cartels are a huge problem. We're listing them as tennis entities. We are going to deploy all of our tools and resources to target them. A recent intelligence report on organized crime says biker and street gangs are also heavily involved in drug distribution. Darren Major, CBC News, Ottawa.

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 Brenn reports, this will be the first to feature winter sports and a first for BC. As we get on here, I want you to think about the... A coach shows team Ukraine skier Arsen Ryabpochapko how to turn.

A translator explains what being on this Whistler Slope means to him. Invictus Games... Invictus Games is like a swallow of fresh air. He only clamped on ski boots for the first time six days ago. I am ski 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. Yvette Brun, CBC News, Whistler. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.