The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/20 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/20 at 17:00 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 Seputus. As of tomorrow, U.S. companies employing highly skilled foreign workers will have to pay $100,000 a year for each one.

The Trump administration says the H-1B visa program has been overused. As Kate Fisher reports, this is going to be tough on high-tech giants who rely on Indian and Chinese workers. This is the latest move by the Trump administration to crack down on immigration. Until now, H-1B visas have cost around $1,500 in administrative fees. Now companies will need to pay $100,000 for each employee every year. Amazon was the greatest beneficiary of the program last fiscal year, followed by other tech giants, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, according to US government figures. Most applicants came from India and New Delhi says the

Increased costs are likely to have humanitarian consequences, warning of potential disruptions for families. Critics of H-1B visas argue they undercut American job seekers, while supporters, including billionaire Elon Musk, say they help to attract top global talent to the U.S. Kate Fisher for CBC News, Washington. U.S. attorney Eric Siebert resigned Friday night under pressure from the Trump administration. The Associated Press is quoting sources as saying he was told to resign or be fired. After a months-long mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James did not result in criminal charges. James is perceived to be a Trump adversary.

Ukrainian officials say at least three people were killed during a large-scale Russian missile strike. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is calling the attack a deliberate strategy to terrorize civilians and destroy infrastructure. As well, Russia is being accused of violating airspace in Estonia and Romania. Dominic Volaitis has more on the rising tensions. Estonia says the three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets entered its airspace without permission and stayed for 12 minutes before finally being forced to withdraw by NATO planes. Estonia's foreign minister, Margas Sarkner, says the incursion was a very clear province.

It's clear that Putin has started on a new level testing NATO. Estonia is now the second NATO country this month to request Article 4 consultations. Poland did so just 10 days ago. And just this morning, NATO aircraft was scrambled once again after Russia launched air strikes targeting Western Ukraine near Poland's border. Moscow, meanwhile, has denied its jets violated Estonian airspace, claiming at the time they were on a show. scheduled flight to Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave sandwiched between Polish and Lithuanian

territory. Dominic Volaitis for CBC News, Norfolk, England. A new report suggests tens of thousands of New Brunswickers are leaving emergency rooms without being treated. The study is based on data from the Horizon Health Network obtained through Freedom of Information Requests. In that network alone. More than 41,000 patients left the ER without treatment last year. Economist and author Emmanuel Foubert says that's almost 13%. This is likely to have a big impact on patients because patients that leave untreated are much more likely to come back in the matter of weeks because they need to be treated for their problem. People are not just leaving together magically better. Foubert suggests that collaborative clinics, immediate care centers, and broader

scopes of practice for nurse practitioners and pharmacists could help. Horizon says it considers ER walkouts unacceptable and is working aggressively to create new models of primary care. And the remaining Nova Scotia residents who were forced to evacuate their homes by the Long Lake Wildfire are returning home today. Twenty families lost their homes. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Jasmine Seputus. Thank you.