The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 05:00 EST

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 05:00 EST

Is your home ready for the next big snowstorm? 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. We begin with a tragic update from Hong Kong. Authorities have just announced the death. from a fire at an apartment complex has risen to 55.

Another 71 people are injured, and those numbers could rise today. The flames are still burning, but crews are expected to extinguish the blaze. Adler soon escaped the fire. When I turned back around, the fire was so big, it was already on top on the building. So I was very lucky to be still here and alive with my dog and my family. The buildings were under renovation, and police have arrested three men linked to a construction firm. The cause isn't known yet, but the buildings had bamboo scaffolding, which likely helped the flame 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. British Columbia has thousands of kilometers of railway, much of it passing through remote wilderness, home to big mammals such as moose, big horn sheep, and grizzly bears. But many of those animals are being killed in rail collisions. A new CBC investigation was produced in partnership with the narwhal, working with the Global Reporting Center at the University of British Columbia, and in shedding light on train and wildlife collisions.

Jackie McKay has more. It was pretty shocking to come here and find four dead grizzly bears. Wildlife scientist Clayton Lamb stands under a railroad bridge where the animals were killed. But it's something he is seen before, tracking animals using wildlife callers in the Elk Valley of South Eastern BC for more than a decade. Journalists at the Narwhal publication filed a Freedom of Information request to the BC government and shared the responses with CBC. Data shows that CN Railway reported 340 wild. wildlife collision incidents between 2020 and 2023. Biologist Colleen St. Clair has studied the problem around Banff.

She says the best thing trains could do is slow down. Places where they know that collisions are more likely. In a statement, CPKC says it prioritizes practical mitigation strategies. CN says the company is actively evaluating a range of detection devices. Jackie McKay, CBC News, Elk Valley, BC. learning new details about the suspect who allegedly shot two U.S. National Guard members in Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump released a video statement last night. The suspect in custody is a foreigner who entered our country from Afghanistan, a hellhole on earth.

He was flown in by the Biden administration in September 2021 on those infamous flights that everybody was talking about. Trump says authorities will re-examine Afghan nationals living in the state. States. The discovery of a rare sea slug is making waves in Nova Scotia and farther afield. Snorkelers found the elusive sea slug in Rainbow Haven Provincial Park in Dartmouth in mid-October. The find has captured the interest of researchers across the U.S. Francis Willick reports. There's hundreds, if not thousands. On this chilling November morning, avid snorkeler, Ellie of the North, has returned to the scene of her discovery a few weeks earlier. And I just started yelling, there's a sea slug here.

What she found was Eastern Emerald Elysia. It looks like a regular garden slug. That is, until it unfurls, emerald green flaps on its back that look just like a leaf. The sea slug steals the photosynthesizing organs of the algae adites, keeps them alive in its body, and uses them to get energy from the sun. Scientists say unlocking its mysteries could advance research on cancer, inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases, and more. Pat Krug is a professor at California State University.

For so long, it just seemed like nobody had seen them. Some researchers are now exploring ways to obtain samples from Nova Scotia to study. Francis Willick, CBC News, Dartmouth. And that is your world this hour.