The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 02:00 EST

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 02:00 EST

Are your pipes ready for a deep freeze? You can take action to help protect your home from extreme weather. Discover prevention tips that can help you be climate ready at keep it intact.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. U.S. President Donald Trump is asking the Pentagon to send more U.S. national goals. Guard troops to Washington. After our targeted shooting, just blocks from the White House sent two National Guard troops to hospital in critical condition. Katie Nicholson reports. Police cars choke the streets near Farragut Square two blocks away from the White House as a pair of National Guard troops from West Virginia were whisked away in critical condition. Metropolitan Police

Assistant Chief Jeffrey Carroll briefed reporters. Members of the D.C. National Guard were on high visibility patrols in the area of 17th and I Street Northwest. When a suspect came around the corner, raised his arm with a firearm, and discharged at the National Guard members. The suspect was tackled to the ground shortly after firing at the troops. He has since been identified as a 29-year-old Afghan National. His potential motive, the subject of an intense FBI investigation. U.S. President Donald Trump called the suspect an animal

and ordered 500 more National Guard troops to do. D.C. Their presence already contentious. Katie Nicholson, 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 came to 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. Late tonight, U.S. citizenship and immigration said it had stopped processing all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals indefinitely. Well, the The fire is still burning at an apartment complex in Hong Kong. At least 44 people have been killed. Another 279 are missing. The buildings were under renovation, and police have arrested three men linked to a construction firm.

Adler soon escaped the fire. I opened the front door. I see there is much smoke filled in a corridor, so I just go back inside. I grab my dog, grab my toe and key, and just rush down there's sterile. We got all the way down to. the ground floor and it was filled with 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 buildings likely help the flames spread. The Quebec government will

table a new secularism bill on Thursday as it aims to strengthen religious neutrality rules in the province. The bill will extend the ban on religious symbols to include public daycare workers. And it could also forbid prayer rooms in colleges and universities. Alison Northcott has more. I think it's really important that our laicite model evolve. Quebec's minister responsible for secularism, Jean-François-Roberge, will table a new bill he says will build on the province's existing laws around religious neutrality.

Quebec passed Bill 21 in 2019. It banned some public sector workers, including teachers, from wearing religious symbols like hijabs and keep us at work. The new bill will extend to private schools and public daycare workers, too. Radio Canada has learned it will include a ban on public prayer and on prayer rooms at colleges and universities. Harini Sivalingham with the Canadian Civil Liberties Association says the bill would infringe on religious freedoms, freedom of expression, and peaceful assembly. These measures are based on a distorted view of what secularism is that puts everyone's rights and freedom in Quebec in grave danger. The Quebec government says its bill,

will be ambitious but moderate. Alison Northcott, CBC News, Montreal. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.