The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 08:00 EST

You know that feeling when you reach the end of a really good true crime series? You want to know more, more about the people involved, where the case is now, and what it's like behind the scenes. I get that. I'm Kathleen Goldhar and on my podcast, Crime Story, I speak with the leading storytellers of true crime to dig deeper into the cases we all just can't stop thinking about. Find crime story wherever you get your podcasts. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings the confirmed number of dead from this week's devastating high-rise fire in hong kong has now reached 55 but the final number of fatalities is expected to be significantly higher considering that close to 300 people are still officially listed as missing the fire at the apartment complex engulfed seven apartment towers, spread out over eight city blocks. And some smaller blazes are still burning, even as investigators,

are looking to establish a cause. John Northcott has more. Very early in the investigation, to be sure. But a wide range of potential causes exist. The buildings built in the 1980s with materials that would not be allowed today. But they were being renovated, and some are pointing to the towering bamboo scaffolding, While commonly used throughout the building industry in Hong Kong, they were due to be phased out because of safety concerns.

Residents reported seeing scrap cardboard, paint thinner, and cigarette butts on the scaffolding, as well as foam that could also catch fire. They also report that fire alarms were turned off during the renovations, and then the weather, hot and dry, with high winds. Add to that, when you consider 40% of the building's residents were elderly, many of whom could have had mobility issues making escape difficult. Perhaps in the end, it may not be a single cause, but a deadly domino effect that triggered this tragedy. Nonetheless, authorities have raided the offices of the contractor

and have arrested two senior executives of the prestige construction as well as an engineering consultant. John Northcott, CBC News, Toronto. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Calgary today for a signing ceremony with Alberta Premier Daniel Smith. What's being signed is in an agreement that will allow Alberta to begin looking at developing an oil pipeline. to BC's northwest coast. But standing in the way of any pipeline project is the tanker ban off the BC coast, which BC Premier David Eby is demanding

that Ottawa keep in place, and the president of the coastal first nations in BC, who is insisting an oil pipeline to the province's north coast will, quote, never happen. U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to send more U.S. National Guard troops into Washington. This following a shooting yesterday

just blocks from the White House that sent two National Guard troops to hospital. 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 High Street Northwest. when a suspect came around the corner, raised his arm with a firearm, and discharged it 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. And in the hours immediately following the shooting, Trump issued a video statement calling for an investigation into every Afghan refugee currently living in the United States. 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 U.S. government says it is now stopping the process of all immigration requests from Afghan nationals indefinitely. And that is the World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcast. The World This Hour is updated every hour seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.