The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2026/01/07 at 18:00 EST

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

The World This Hour for 2026/01/07 at 18:00 EST

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This was so, so preventable. Do you have no decency? Do you have no decency? Minnesota's Democratic Governor Tim Walls expressing his anger after a woman was shot and killed by an ice agent on the streets of Minneapolis. Homeland Security alleges the woman was threatening to run over agents with her vehicle, calling it a terrorist act. Walls in the city's mayor calvat characterization ridiculous, and the real danger comes from the increase in immigration agents. We've been warning for weeks that the Trump administration's dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety, that someone was going to get hurt. Just yesterday, I said exactly that. What we're seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines in conflict, and today that recklessness costs someone their life. Local police say the victim was a white woman and U.S. citizen who was not the target of an ice operation.

The USSes two oil tankers linked to Venezuela. The Trump administration says it will take all the oil, up to 50 million barrels, and sell it at market rates. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that cash will 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 be used. 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 claims the U.S. is shepherding Venezuela to an orderly transition of powers, but acting President Delci Rodriguez insists no foreign agent controls the Venezuelan government. The White House says it's holding active

discussions about purchasing Greenland and isn't ruling out taking it by four. force. President Donald Trump says he needs it for national security, but Western nations warn 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. Prime Minister Mark Carney set to overseas, head overseas again next week for talks with Chinese leaders. As Janice McGregor tells us, it's another signal relations between Ottawa and Beijing are flying. 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 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 hobnobbing around the world instead of staying home to fix policies they say hold Canada back. Janice McGregor,

CBC News, Ottawa. And that is The World This Hour. Get all the news you need anytime, anywhere. Download the free CBC News app today. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.