The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 00:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Two U.S. National Guard members have been shot within blocks of the White House. It happened in broad daylight near a metro station Wednesday afternoon. Refuge Buccanian has more from Washington. What we know is that this is a targeted shooting.

One individual who appeared to target, these guardsmen. Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, speaking to the media just hours after the incident. Authorities say a lone suspect shot two members of the National Guard Wednesday afternoon. Both taken to hospital and critical condition, streets are on the area of the shooting blocked off by police for hours. FBI director Cash Patel. We have assembled the full force about the federal and state and local law enforcement agencies. The presence of the National Guard in the U.S. Capitol deployed last August as part of a national crime fighting strategy has been contentious, even recently deemed illegal by a U.S. District Judge, a decision that's being appealed. In the wake of the shooting, President

Donald Trump has asked for 500 more of them on the ground. Rafi Bucchan, Yon CBC News, Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is confident that the suspect who allegedly shot the U.S. National Guard members in Washington is a foreigner who entered the states from Afghanistan. And in a fiery video statement tonight, Trump is vowing to investigate all Afghan refugees. We're not going to put up with these kinds of assaults on law and order by people who shouldn't even be in our country. We must now re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden. And we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit

to our country. The name of the D.C. suspect has not been released yet. The fire is still burning at an apartment complex in Hong Kong. At least 44 people have been killed. Another 279 are missing. Hong Kong police have arrested three men in connection with the fire. Flames tore through several residential buildings that had been undergoing renovation. Adler soon escaped the fire. I opened the front door. I see there is much smoke filled in the corridor, so I just go back inside.

I grab my dog, grab my phone and key, and just rush down the stairwell. We got all the way down to the brown floor, and it was filled with a fire. The fire was too intense, and we couldn't go through. And so we had to turn around and go to the opposite side. The cause isn't known yet, but the use of styrofoam in the building,

likely help the flames spread. And we're following another tragedy in mainland China. Eleven people are dead and two others are injured after a train crash in China's southern province of Yunnan. The train hit a group of railway workers on a curved section of track. Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled a sweeping strategy to protect domestic steel and lumber producers. The measures range from import restrictions to financial supports to requirements to buy Canadian. David Zurton has more. We must protect our workers and our industries who are most exposed to U.S. tariffs. Those protections Prime Minister Mark Carney announced include limiting how much foreign steel enters Canada tariff-free from countries outside North America. Doing so will unlock

hundreds of millions of dollars in domestic demand for those producers. Also on the table, $1 billion in loans and support for the lumber industry facing their own software tariffs. a federal rail subsidy. We will make it more affordable to transport Canadian steel and lumber across this country by cutting freight rates for transporting steel and lumber interprovincially by 50%. The subsidy will go to Canadian National, Kansas City, and Canadian Pacific Railways. The Prime Minister also says he plans to speak with U.S. President Donald Trump in his visit to Washington next week.

David Thornton, CBC News, Onawa. your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.