The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2026/01/08 at 09:00 EST

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

The World This Hour for 2026/01/08 at 09:00 EST

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say it's white we will not put up with us that is from a vigil held in the city overnight for 37-year-old Renee Good. She was shot and killed yesterday in an altercation with immigration enforcement agents. A head of U.S. Homeland Security is calling the shooting an act of self-defense against a domestic terrorist. But those at last night's vigil dispute that. A member of our community was killed in this very spot protecting her neighbor. On social media, U.S. President Donald Trump, is calling the shooting justified. Minnesota Governor Tim Walts says the state will carry out a full and fair investigation to, quote, ensure accountability and justice. Waltz also calls

the comments from the White House propaganda. The Trump administration is announcing that it is withdrawing the United States for more than 60 international organizations, treaties, and U.N. bodies. It is a sweeping retreat from a range of multilateral engagements, including the longstanding UN Climate Treaty, which is the foundation for ongoing global climate research. John Northcott has more. The pullout from many organizations, commissions and panels, is extensive, from climate to labor and migration. Many are affiliated with the UN, but there are other international bodies as well. There are both explicit and implicit reasons for doing this. The Secretary of State

Marco Rubio issued a statement saying these organizations were, quote, redundant, mismanaged, unnecessary and wasteful, going on to say that they are a threat to U.S. sovereignty, freedoms, and prosperity. Implicitly, within days of capturing Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, continuing to seize oil tankers around the world and threatening Greenland sovereignty, all of this indicates the U.S. is increasingly going it alone when it comes to international obligations. A member of a U.S.-based nonprofit advocacy group, the Union for Concerned Scientists, described this latest move as a new low. John Northcott, CBC News, Toronto.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump says it is not clear at this point how long the United States will maintain its oversight of Venezuela. But in an interview with the New York Times, he says it could be longer than a year. Trump says his administration will be taking the country's oil, getting oil prices down, and giving money to Venezuela. He also says his officials are getting along well with Venezuela's interim president, Delci Rodriguez. Now to Ukraine, where 800,000 homes and businesses are without power, following a series of overnight Russian drone and missile strikes. At Ukraine's acting energy minister, saying the strikes targeted energy facilities right across the country's southeast. He says as many as eight mines were hit as well, forcing hundreds of workers to seek shelter.

It's estimated that more than 900,000 Canadians are currently taking a job. GLP1 drug like OZMPIC for either weight loss or obesity. But what happens when those people stop taking that medication? Jennifer Lagrasa has more. It just wasn't good enough. Months after starting OZempeg, Heather White quit cold turkey. The Toronto residents said side effects, nausea and digestive issues were too much. And she's not the only one to ditch the meds.

Around 50% of people are discontinuing treatment within 12 months of starting. West is the lead author of new research published in the British Medical Journal. It found that people who stopped taking a weight loss drug regain the weight, returning to their original size in less than two years. Certain health benefits from the drugs like lower blood pressure were also reversed when people got off. Sonia Rikert is a family doctor in London, Ontario. She says people are often surprised to hear that weight loss drugs are a lifelong commitment. Obesity is a chronic disease.

One major drawback, majority of the studies in this new research didn't track people for longer than one year. Jennifer Lagrasa, CBC News, Toronto. And that is the world this hour. I'm trying to.