The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/11 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/11 at 02:00 EDT

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Tees and Cs apply. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Hurland. Investigators in Utah are hunting for the killer who shot Charlie Kirk on a university campus. The conservative American commentator was murdered Wednesday. The governor of Utah calls it a political assassination. Steve Futterman reports from the scene of the shooting. Law enforcement officials here in Utah are looking for. a killer and if they have any clues they are not revealing those clues to us right now now a number

of hours ago there was a person being questioned in custody that person was called a a person of interest it was felt that authorities seemed fairly confident that that person might be the person they were looking for but eventually that person was released now right now detectives other law enforcement officials are going through every nook and cranny at the school trying to come up with any possible clues. They're trying to look at cell phone videos. They're trying to look at security videos. They're also using a number of high-tech methods to identify who may have been at the site where the shooting took place. They feel that shot was fired from around 200 meters away, just one single shot. They believe it was done by someone highly proficient, and that one shot

killed Charlie Kirk. Steve Futterman for CBC News outside the Utah Valley University in ORM, Utah. Police north of Toronto are trying to figure out why a car crashed into a daycare. The one-and-a-half-year-old boy was killed and six other children were injured when an SUV drove into the building. Constable Kevin Nebria is with York Regional Police. We are asking that anyone who has information, who witnessed something, who has dash-camp footage, to please reach out to our investigators.

A 70-year-old man was arrested at the scene. Police do not believe the crash was intentional. Prime Minister Mark Carney will announce the first batch of what he calls Nation Building Projects in Edmonton Thursday, major energy and infrastructure initiatives that he says will spur economic growth and create jobs. Olivia Stefanovic has details. CBC News has learned the first series of projects that Carney is advancing

to the new major projects office for consideration. The information comes from a list shared on the condition of confidentiality. It includes a second phase expansion of LNG Canada's plant in Kittamat, BC. That project would double the production of liquefied natural gas, a new nuclear project in southern Ontario. It would make Canada the first G7 country to have an operational small modular reactor, developing a new copper and zinc mine in east central Saskatchewan, expansions to the port of Montreal,

and the existing red-christ copper mine in northwest BC. In addition to the five projects, Kearney will identify several others that are at an earlier stage of development. Olivia Stepanovich, CBC News, Edmonton. The president of South Korea says that South Korean companies will likely hesitate to invest in the United States unless the U.S. improves its visa system. Li J. Myeong made the comment today after the U.S. arrested 300 South Korea nationals at a Hyundai plant in Georgia last week. Michelle Song reports. A video released by ICE showing a majority of South Korean workers shackled in front of a Hyundai EV battery plant in Georgia sent shockwaves across Korea. ICE says it arrested illegal aliens.

But Charles Cook, a lawyer representing two of the detainees, says his clients were wrongfully arrested. These two individuals were in the United States from Korea under what's called a visa waiver, which is basically a visitor visa for business. The plant is one of the largest economic development projects for the state, and South Korea's president committed a $350 billion investment in the U.S. If the White House were to lower tariffs on its exports. President Donald Trump said on Sunday his relationship with the longtime ally remains stable, but he called on foreign companies to follow immigration laws and hire American workers. Michelle Song, CBC News, Toronto.

And that is your world this hour. BBC News. I'm Neil Hurland.