The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/20 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/20 at 16:00 EDT

Hugh is a rock climber, a white supremacist, a Jewish neo-Nazi, a spam king, a crypto-billionaire, and then someone killed him. It is truly a mystery. It is truly a case of who done it. Dirtbag Climber, the story of the murder and the many lives of Jesse James. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Jasmine Seppitus. A memorial for American conservative activist Charlie Kirk will be held tomorrow at a stadium in Glendale, Arizona, his home state. A number of senior Trump administration officials are expected to attend. Steve Futterman has the latest. Security is already ramping up. Early this morning, I was able to get right in front of the stadium. Now I've been pushed back behind a security perimeter. no one's being allowed to get inside. Security, of course, is a big concern, especially with Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and other senior members of the administration expected to attend. There have been three Super Bowls here in the past, but Jose Santiago of the Glendale Police says this is quite different. When you have something like the Super Bowl, we had upwards of two years to plan an event like that. This we had a week to work with. We are basically all hands on deck. The stadium can hold between 65,

and 75,000, in case there's an overflow crowd, an arena across the street will be used. And there could be some protests by groups opposed to Charlie Kirk's politics. Steve Futterman, CBC News, Glendale, Arizona. Donald Trump threw another curveball at the U.S. immigration system. Starting tomorrow, employers who hire highly skilled foreign workers under the H-1B visa program will have to pay $100,000 per employee per year. That's going to hurt high-tech industries who have relied on workers from India and China. It may have some unintended and positive consequences for other countries, including Canada.

Ilya Brodsky is a tech recruiter in Vancouver. It's going to affect more smaller, fast-growing early-stage companies who won't be able to afford that. They'll probably either have that engineer stay offshore in their home country or hopefully open up a King office and bring the engineers up north and have them be here in Canada but working in the same time zone with the ability to maybe visit once in a while, that kind of things.

As well, some in India say they hope the change will help reverse a brain drain to the U.S. In Ukraine, Three people are killed and dozens injured when Russian drones and missiles attacked Ukraine's NEPRO region overnight. The strike-damaged infrastructure in several residential buildings. It comes as peace talks between

the two countries have stalled. In Poland, French Rafal jets have been deployed to patrol Poland's skies as part of NATO's Eastern Century mission to strengthen Europe's eastern flank. It comes as Russian drones and even jets have illegally crossed into NATO airspace in past weeks. A cyber attack has disrupted check-in systems at three major airports in Europe. Heathrow in London, Berlin's Brandenburg Airport and the Brussels Airport. The company that provides computer programs for check-in and boarding systems was the target of the hackers. For now, all check-ins have to be done manually, and that is resulting in many flights being delayed or cancelled. Meanwhile, Terminal 2 at Dublin's airport has reopened after an earlier evacuation. Concerns were raised

about the contents of a piece of luggage. An ammunition disposal team was called in. They deemed the items safe and removed it from the building. Kenny Jacobs is CEO of the Dublin Airport Authority. We are now satisfied that everything is safe and secure. We obviously take the safety and security of the travelling public as our first priority. So flight operations were temporarily disrupted. Happy to stay now, everybody will get back to flying passengers and staff are back in the terminal situations being dealt with and travel with reserves. Police say no arrests have been made. And the Blue Jays will try again to clinch a playoff spot in Kansas City tonight. Last night, they got thumped, 20 to one, by the Royals. Toronto still leads

the American League East by three games over the New York Yankees. Pitcher Shane Bieber gets the call for the Jays against Kansas City's Noah Cameron. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Jasmine Seputus. Thank you.