The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2026/01/07 at 16:00 EST

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

The World This Hour for 2026/01/07 at 16:00 EST

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The Trump administration says it will take all the oil up the 15. million barrels to be sold at market rates. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that money will then be used to benefit the Venezuelan people, but did not say how. He says oil seizures give the U.S. control over what the interim government in Caracas is able to do. They are not generating any revenue from their oil right now. They can't move it unless we allow it to move because we have sanctions because we're enforcing those sanctions. This is tremendous leverage. We are exercising it in a positive way. Rubio claiming the U.S. is shepherding Venezuela to an or orderly transition of power, but acting President Delci Rodriguez insists no foreign agent controls

the Venezuelan government. Meantime, the White House says it's holding active discussions about purchasing Greenland and isn't ruling out taking it by force. President Donald Trump says he needs it for national security, but Western nations warned such a move would only undermine it. Karen Paul's reports. To deter Russian and Chinese aggression in the Arctic region. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt defending U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating campaign to acquire Greenland.

And so that's why his team is currently talking about what a potential purchase would look like. Avarok Olson is the mayor of Greenland's capital, Nuke. She says this discussion is disrespectful and offensive. We feel like we are not treated as our own people living in our own country. We are treated like an item to buy. The U.S. has tried to buy Greenland before, offering 100 million U.S. in gold in 1946. Some estimates suggest Greenland's mineral resources are now worth nearly $200 billion U.S. dollars and taking into account its strategic location a value of nearly $2.8 trillion. Karen Paul's, CBC News, Washington. A U.S. immigration agent shot and killed a woman during an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.

ICE began the operation in Minnesota yesterday. A spokesperson for Homeland Security says the officer opened fire on the woman as she tried to run them over with her vehicle. The incidents drawn dozens of angry protesters to the site. Prime Minister Mark Carney set to head overseas again next week for talks with Chinese leaders. As Janice McGregor tells us, it's another signal of relations between Ottawa and Beijing are thawing. The Prime Minister's trip will include international security talks with China's president and its premier, as well as trade talks with business leaders. Agriculture is on the agenda, picking up where Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe's trade mission

left off last September, trying to lift China's retaliatory tariffs on Canadian food exports like canola. Canada's energy sector remains hungry for new customers and new investors, but Mark Carney has to be careful. The Trump administration wants its hemispheric neighbors to fall in line with America's crackdown on China. Chinese trade. Carney will also stop in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual gathering of government and business leaders at the World Economic Forum. The conservatives are already accusing Carney of hob-nobbing around the world instead of staying home to fix policies they say hold Canada back. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. The head of an independent panel looking at Calgary's water system says the infrastructure needs a complete overhaul. Sikreid Kiefer says

recent emergencies could have been avoided. Galgarians have evaced severe water restrictions in the past few years after breaks in what's known as the bear's paw feeder main, Giefer says the water system meets better oversight and more proactive repairs. We've made recommendations to accelerate the install of that piece of infrastructure as quickly as we possibly can. This is an emergency situation. We all don't need to go to sleep at night thinking, well, maybe tomorrow I won't be able to have my shower because the pipe has failed again. Keith Verr says the city needs a board dedicated to running the water system. That is the world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.