The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/24 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/24 at 19:00 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 Kate McGilfrey. Mark Carney is defending his public safety minister amid calls to fire Gary Ananda Sangaree. The minister appeared to undercut Ottawa's gun buyback program and a leaked audio recording.

A long time in the making, the program is facing backlash from gun owners and the federal conservatives. David Thurton has more from Ottawa. What the government is doing with the gun registry is putting in place a much more efficient way. Prime Minister Mark Carney's first question period after controversial comments from his public safety minister, Gary Hernandez-Sangery. In a leaked audio recording, Anandhii appears to question the effectiveness of the Liberals' gun buyback program for individuals beginning next month as a pilot project in Nova Scotia

and suggests that municipal police forces don't have enough resources to fully implement it. Conservative leader, Pierre Poliev, zeroed in on those comments. The minister says it's a bad idea. but they're only doing it for political reasons. Why is the Prime Minister putting lives at risk for politics? Hernandez-Angery has since said his comments were made in Jess during a private conversation. Connie said Tuesday he has confidence in the minister who is doing important work.

David Thornton, CBC News, Ottawa. China has announced that it will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 7 to 10% below peak levels over the next 10 years. At a UN climate conference today, President Xi Jinping announced China's national climate plan. He also appeared to call out the U.S. for resisting the low-carbon transition. The United States did not attend this conference, which comes ahead of COP 30 negotiations in Brazil in November. For its part, Brazil committed to cutting its emissions by at least 59% by 2035, with Brazilian President Lula de Silva warning today that climate denialism cannot

be allowed to win. The RCMP has charged a bank employee after he allegedly accessed Prime Minister Mark Carney's banking profile as part of a criminal plot. This man worked at an RBC branch in Ottawa. He was arrested in July. Rafi Bougi Canyan has more. We need to have strong procedures in place, obviously, to preserve privacy. Finance Minister Francois-Philippe-Champine reacting with caution to the news.

And it applies to all Canadians. As first reported by La Press and The Journal of Montreal, the RCMP have arrested a 23-year-old Royal Bank of Canada employee for fraudulently accessing the profile of Prime Minister Mark Carney. They say Ibrahim al-Hakim did it as part of a criminal plot, creating fake bank profiles and obtaining lines of credit for others in exchange for cash. None of the charges have been proven in court. The bank says it's cooperating with authorities and El-Hakim is no longer employed by the RBC. One other account police say he accessed belonged to Justin Trudeau. clear if that's the former Prime Minister or someone with the same name.

Police say Carney's private info or the country's national security have not been put at risk. Rafi Bougi Canyon, CBC News, Ottawa. We're all here to celebrate today. Cheers at an ostrich farm in southeastern BC today. The Supreme Court of Canada has granted a stay in the destruction of some 400 birds. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered their deaths after avian flu was detected in the flock last December. And the owners of universal ostrich farms have been fighting that order ever since. The Food Inspection Agency has until the following Friday to respond. And four

astronauts bound for the moon met with the press today. NASA says it's planning its 10-day Artemis II mission for next year. It's been 50 years since any country has made the trip to the moon. The mission will be a test to prepare for a future moon landing. And one of the crew members for the first time ever is a Canadian, Jeremy Hansen. a day like this, it puts things in a perspective for you. And I took a moment to kind of step back and think about, wow, what an extraordinary privilege it is to train with my fellow crewmates here to go on this mission. That mission could commence as soon as February 26. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.