The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/16 at 19:00 EST

Episode Date: January 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/16 at 19:00 EST

Every language is a note in the symphony of our heritage. Together, they create a harmony that cannot be silenced. Discover your voice on the new APTN Languages TV channel. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Tom Harrington. Mark Carney has officially announced he is running to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal Leader and Prime Minister. The former Governor of the Bank of Canada is painting himself as an outsider with the skills to fix Canada's problems.

Olivia Stefanovich has more. I'm back home in Edmonton to declare my candidacy for leader of the Liberal party and prime minister of Canada. It was standing room only in the hockey rink where Mark Carney used to play, but this time he's starting from far behind the opposing team. We're getting warmed up. We're going to head out in that third period and we're going to win. Carney portrayed himself as a centrist, an outsider.

And as a former banker, Carney says he's focused on getting the economy back on track and facing off against Donald Trump. When your opponent is tough, you have to step up. He called Pierre Poliev a naive and dangerous populist, bent on tearing things down rather than building up. But before he can take on Poliev, Carney needs to convince his own liberal teammates he's the one to lead them. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa.

The Prime Minister is pushing back against Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. He says her refusal to sign on to unified response to Donald Trump's terror threat undermines Canada. Trudeau also accuses Conservative leader Pierre Polyev of playing along. Evan Dyer reports. Either he stands up to fight for all Canadians alongside all premiers and the federal government that are doing that, or he chooses to stand with Daniel Smith, Kevin O'Leary, and ultimately Donald Trump. Trudeau used Alberta Premier Daniel Smith's refusal to sign onto a common front against

Trump to challenge Poliev to take his side. Does he support her desire to exempt Alberta Oil and Gas from any Canadian retaliation? Now they're resorting to dividing our people. Poliev avoided stating his position, instead saying Trump should send flowers to the Liberals for blocking pipelines, leaving Canada with no options to sell to countries other than the U.S. Not so, said Trudeau. Canadian taxpayers bought the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion, TMX, to be able to get Albertan oil to new markets. Trudeau said the Albertan government is now making billions from that investment and repeated

his call for the province to join a Team Canada approach. Evan Dyer, CBC News, Ottawa. Israel's approval of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal is on hold. Hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Ghivir is threatening to quit if the agreement goes ahead. Should that happen, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's fragile government coalition might collapse. Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken remains confident the ceasefire will come into force as planned.

We've worked to broker a deal that would bring hostages home, that would stop the fighting, that would surge humanitarian aid to people who so desperately need it, that would create the space to conclude a permanent ceasefire. We now have that and we expect implementation of the agreement to begin on Sunday. Netanyahu says Hamas is not honoring certain elements of the deal. Hamas officials deny Israel's claims and say the group was fully committed to the agreement. The Cuban government has released from jail prominent dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer. He is one of as many as 500 people expected to be freed from Cuba's prisons in the coming days. Their release was negotiated by the Biden administration with the help of the Vatican.

In return, Washington announced it would lift its designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism. One of Hollywood's most original filmmakers has died. David Lynch co-created the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks. He also earned Oscar nominations in directing for Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man and Mulholland Drive. Lynch's family announced his death in a Facebook post. A lifelong smoker, he was diagnosed with emphysema in 2020. David Lynch was 78 years old.

And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington.