The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/01 at 05:00 EST

Episode Date: December 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/01 at 05:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. U.S. officials are flying to Moscow today to meet with Russian leaders about the war in Ukraine. The U.S. is pushing for a peace deal to end the fighting. U.S. special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will lead the delegation. Over the weekend, the U.S. held talks with Ukraine in Florida.

and Donald Trump gave an update on Air Force One. Well, they're going along, and they're going along well. We want to stop people from being killed. It doesn't have much to do with us, but I'd like to see if we could save a lot of souls. A lot of people are being killed. Last month, we had 27,000 people killed in that ridiculous war that should have never happened.

Trump's team has pressured Ukraine to make significant concessions, including giving up territory to Russia. A court in Bangladesh has issued another sentence to the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Heik, Hasina. This time the case involved corruption, and a judge sentenced her in absentia to five years in prison for corruption involving a government land project. Last month, another tribunal in Bangladesh convicted her for crimes against humanity and sentenced her to death. That trial involved ordering the use of lethal force against protesters. Hasina has been in exile in India

since she was ousted by a mass uprising last year. The UN Refugee Agency is warning of a sharp rise of sexual violence against women and girls, displaced by conflict in war-torn African countries. They include the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. In the DRC alone, more than 67,000 women and girls were sexually assaulted in the first four months of this year. Chris Ochamringa reports from Kinshasa. Women with children strapped on their backs run for their lives as fighting erupts in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The fighting between government forces and M23 rebels has killed thousands and displaced millions of people since late 2021.

It has also led to a surge in sexual violence against women and girls. The UN Refugee Agency says the situation is alarming in Sudan as well. Salma, whose name we have changed to protect her identity, is one of the victims of the horrific act. The armed men using rape as a weapon of war have shuttered the lives of thousands of women who face the risk of contracting HIV and unwanted pregnancies. Chris Ochoamringa for CBC News, Kinshasa.

The death told from that apartment complex fire in Hong Kong has now risen to 151, and that number is expected to grow. 104 people are still unaccounted for. Investigators also say the nets that covered the scaffold for renovations was not up to fire safety codes. Well, you've heard of smash-and-grab robberies, but what if the smashing was done by an excavator? It's a tool of choice for thieves

in a string of bank robberies in the Toronto area. Nama Wine Garden has more. I think my brain just stopped there for maybe a minute. It's been nearly six months since Amy Wong watched her convenience store in Toronto's east end turn into rubble. It was the unintended victim of an excavator that smashed into their plaza to steal an ATM from the Scotia Bank next door. Or not, it's gone, nothing. I was so sad.

It's not the only time thieves use excavators to steal a bank machine. There's been at least six cases around Toronto this past year. No charges were laid in any of them. Constable Tyler Bell is with Peel Regional Police. It's usually a network of people. When we get them identified, we get really large amounts of occurrences solved. Stealing an excavator isn't exactly mission-impart. possible. You can power most of them with the same universal key. And you can buy these by the

dozen. You can buy them on Amazon. Tim Allen teaches at Centennial College's heavy duty equipment program. He says although excavators are easier to steal than a car, they're hard to escape with. Nama Wine Garden, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.