The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 04:00 EST

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 04:00 EST

This ascent isn't for everyone. You need grit to climb this high this often. You've got to be an underdog that always over-delivers. You've got to be 6,500 hospital staff, 1,000 doctors, all doing so much with so little. You've got to be Scarborough. Defined by our uphill battle and always striving towards new heights. And you can help us keep climbing.

Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. 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 Guard troops to Washington. After our targeted shooting, just blocks from the White House, send 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 D.C. Their presence already contentious. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Washington.

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 last night, Trump vowed to investigate all Afghan refugees. We're not going to put up with these kind 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. And late last night, the U.S. government said it had stopped processing

all immigration requests from Afghan nationals indefinitely. The fire is still burning at an apartment complex in Hong Kong. 55 people are now confirmed dead. Another 71 are injured. 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 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 buildings likely help the flame spread. The Quebec government will table a new secularism bill today 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 laicity model evolve. Quebec's minister, responsible for secularism, Jean-François-Roberge, will table a new bill today, 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 kippas at work. The new bill will extend to private schools and public daycare workers, too. Radio Canada has learned it will include. 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.

It will be tabled later this morning. Alison Northcott, CBC News, Montreal. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.