The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/15 at 01:00 EST

Episode Date: November 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/15 at 01:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, The World This Hour. I'm Mike Miles. U.S. President Donald Trump says he has made up his mind on what to do about Venezuela. We'll see what happens. I mean, I can't tell you what it is, but we've made a lot of progress with Venezuela in terms of stopping drugs from boring in. But Venezuela's president is calling for the U.S. to make peace after military attacks on 20 boats on Venezuelan waters. Washington dramatically up the ante, sending an aircraft carrier into the Caribbean. Paul Hunter reports. On the streets of Caracas, in a boisterous crowd, Venezuela's president walking defiantly with Venezuelans

as both the rhetoric and the looming force from the U.S. military ratchets tensions ever higher. Raise your hand if you want Venezuela to become a Yankee colony. All of this, as the giant U.S. aircraft carrier, Gerald R. Ford, moves ever closer to Venezuelan waters. And as the U.S. continues to target what it says are drug smuggling boats in the region this week striking the 20th such boat killing four people, said the Pentagon today. Many now believing the U.S. is readying to force a regime change in that country. A notion getting pushback even from some Republicans. Here's Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon. Make your case to the American people. There has to

support for the people. As Venezuelans await whatever's next, Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. The UN's climate conference is underway in Brazil. CBC's international climate correspondent, Susan Ormiston, is there, and reports on a day that began with protesters peacefully protesting, demanding more indigenous voices at the table. A face-off at COP 30 in Brazil, indigenous protesters, arms linked in a human chain. Cop doesn't speak for us, says Maria Lusa. It speaks for the interests of countries and companies. This protest was peaceful and firm.

When COP 30 President Andre Correa Dolago emerged, he was swarmed in a crush of people. We were in the middle. Could you give us in a comment in English, please? We're just, we're going to have a dialogue. It's great. What can you offer the indigenous people? How do you make space for them?

Oh, they have space. There are more than 500 indigenous Brazilians in the delegation. Later, inside the venue, CEO Anna Toney said Brazil is listening. So we should embrace the different ways of protesting. As delegates go into week two, there are more protests planned. The UN has told Brazil to tighten security, and it has. Susan Ormiston, CBC News, Belen. The Alberta Federation of Labor says it's moving forward with plans for a general strike.

It's been criticized for not taking immediate action after the introduction of legislation forcing striking teachers back to work. President Gil McGowan says he takes responsibility for not taking the action some members would have liked, but he says the wheels are in motion. Our Federation of Labor has actually formally established a committee called the General Strike Committee. Okay. And it is meeting now to talk about what a general strike will look like in the wake of Bill 2, in the wake of the UCP's use of the notwithstanding clause to strip workers of rights,

and in the lead up to the next provincial election. McGowan commented Friday while introducing an action plan against UCP government policies. Montreal is headed off a potential transit strike this weekend. The city's transit agency reached a tentative agreement with drivers, operators, and station agents. Details won't be known until the agency and union ratify the deal. King Charles celebrated his 77th birthday in Wales Friday. Well wishers sang to the king accompanied by a harp as he cut into an enormous cake modeled on a 200-year-old Welsh castle. Charles also presided over the opening of a light rail depot

and even took controls of a train. The king's still being treated for cancer but returned to his public duties just a few months after his 2024 diagnosis. That is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.