The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2026/01/07 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

The World This Hour for 2026/01/07 at 10:00 EST

With the Morial app, you can sharpen your French skills in no time. You'll have a blast learning with content from Radio Canada. It's easy as Arndor Trois. Learn French. Have fun. Repeat. Download the free Morial app now. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. The Prime Minister's office says Mark Carney will be going to China.

China next week. The PMO says Carney is making the trip to discuss trade, energy, agriculture, and international security. The visit runs from Tuesday to Saturday, but there's no confirmation at this point on whether Carney will be meeting with President Xi Jinping. Justin Trudeau was the last Canadian Prime Minister to visit China. That was in December of 2017. The White House says all options are on the table when it comes to the possibility of the United States taking over Greenland. and that includes deploying the military. President Donald Trump says the island is vital to U.S. national security and acquiring the Danish territory is now a priority.

Willie Lowry has the latest from Washington. U.S. media is reporting that Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers on the Hill that the U.S. was interested in buying the island. In a statement sent to CBC, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said, quote, the president and his team are discussing a. range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal. And of course, utilizing the U.S. military is always an option at the commander-in-chief's disposal. There is bipartisan concern with both Democrats and some Republicans fearing what this might mean for longstanding international

relationships. Denmark, meanwhile, has requested a meeting with Marco Rubio as it scrambles to figure out just how serious the U.S. is and what it can do to keep the U.S. a key NATO ally happy without actually giving it what it wants. Willie Lowry, CBC News, Washington. The United States says it has seized two oil tankers linked to Venezuela. One is a Russian-flagged vessel in the North Atlantic. The U.S. military says the other is a stateless dark fleet tanker. It says it was seized in the Caribbean Sea.

The U.S. says both vessels were in violation of... of American sanctions. Meanwhile, a week of national mourning has been declared in Venezuela in the wake of last week's raid, last weekend's raid, that saw the U.S. capture President Nicholas Maduro. Here is the country's acting president, Delci Rodriguez. I've made the decision to declare a seven-day morning period to honor and glory the young men and women who died offering their lives, defending Venezuela, defending President Nicolas Maduro. It's for them our recognition. It has wounded my soul the images of the bodies, but I know they were martyred for the supreme values of this republic. Venezuelan officials say dozens of military members were killed in the raid, and the Cuban government says 32 of its military and police officials deployed to Venezuela were also killed.

Citing in part a spike in crime rates, the Ontario government last year closed the province's safe injection sites. But a recent study is suggesting a more nuanced picture with researchers in Toronto finding that in neighborhoods where the sites were located, overall crime rates plateaued or even declined. Jennifer Yoon has more. It's the worst thing that could ever happen to a community. Ontario Premier Doug Ford on banning supervised injection sites near schools back in August 2024. His government insisted they were linked with higher crime rates.

Now a study is offering data to the contrary. did not increase. McGill University professor Demeter Panagio Toglu tracked robberies, assaults, and grand thefts around several Toronto safe injection sites. Except break-ins, she says crime rates either stayed the same or even declined. Keith Hambly is the CEO at Fred Victor Center, one of the safe injection sites in the study. I think we are there to be a good neighbor, to hear people, what their concerns are. That site is still open, but most of the injection sites have now closed. And this new data, It doesn't appear to be changing Ontario's policy, according to a statement from the government.

Faniaiotoglu wants more research on other factors that affect how safe people feel near injection sites. Jennifer Youen, CBC News, Toronto. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.