The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/03 at 03:00 EST

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/03 at 03:00 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. CBC News has learned new exclusive details about the FBI's recent seizure of a Mercedes-Benz supercar. The vehicle is estimated to be worth $13 million U.S. An investigator say it's linked to Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding. Thomas Degler reports.

Reaching a top speed of 335 kilometers an hour, the 2002 Mercedes CLK GTR Roadster really flies. And only six have ever been made. I haven't heard of one this valuable. It's no wonder dealers of exotic cars like Tim Kwok's sister were taken aback. The FBI recently announced it had seized one of those Mercedes amid the hunt for alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding. FBI director Cash Patel. Ryan Wedding is a modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar. Now, CBC News has obtained the purchase agreement for the car, signed last year by Roland Sokolowski,

a Toronto jeweler identified by investigators as one of Wedding's chief money launderers. Sokolovsky and a former Italian Special Forces member are said to have worked together to procure wedding luxury vehicles, motorcycles, and properties around the world, all to hide the profits from his criminal empire. Wedding is thought to be hiding in Mexico. Thomas Daggle, CBC News, Toronto. In Saskatchewan, there are growing calls for the government to do more to fight wildfires. The provincial NDP is proposing a bill to compel the government to formalize a wildfire strategy. Helena Mahalek has more. We knew what to do. Nobody listened.

Carrie Lentwich says she's lost everything. after wildfires destroyed her home, along with 200 others in Deneer Beach. She wants to see Bill 609, or the Saskatchewan Wildfire Strategy Act, implemented. Legislation proposed by the province's opposition that would require the SAS government to create a provincial wildfire strategy. Jordan McPhail, the NDP's critic for Northern Affairs, says that the findings need to be shared with the public, especially for those living up north. The second part is that accountability piece. The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency says it does consult locals and experts in their wildfire decision-making,

but that it's possible they need to talk to more people to make informed decisions. The SPSA says if improvements need to be made, it will come out of the third-party review of the province's wildfire response. Helena Mahalik, CBC News, Saskatoon. The U.N. Secretary General is sounding the alarm over his budget. Antonio Guterres says if more countries don't pay their annual dues to the United Nations, he'll have to cut 18% of his workforce next year. I've repeatedly appealed to member states to pay their assessed contributions in full and on time. The UN chief says he now has a deficit of $1.5 billion from shortfalls in the last two years.

The U.S. is the biggest contributor to the U.N. budget, but President Donald Trump is threatening to slash that funding. Voters in Honduras have been waiting three days for the results of their country's hotly contested presidential election. The nation's elections agency says a software problem has drastically slowed down the counting of ballots. The latest results give opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla a slight lead. Manuel Rueda reports. Richie Moncara was the candidate for Honduras's ruling party in this election. She came in third place with about 20% of the vote. and says President Trump is partly to blame for that.

He told the people of Honduras that he would not cooperate with a communist, Moncada said in a press conference. The candidate was referring to a post on true social in which President Trump urged Honduras to vote against her left-win party, the Libre Movement. In the post, Trump endorsed conservative candidate Nasri Asfura and threatened to pull aid from Honduras if Asfura did not win the election. As vows continued to be counted, Asfura is in a tight race with Salvador Nasralla, a TV host who is making his fourth run at the presidency.

Manuel Rueda for CBC News, Bogota. And that is your world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland.