The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/14 at 19:00 EST

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/14 at 19:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from cbc news the world this hour i'm gina louise phillips we begin in sydney australian officials are calling a shooting on bondi beach a terrorist attack specifically targeting jewish people at a honica celebration a pair of gunmen shot and killed fifteen people and forty-two others were wounded including two police officers and a child police say the suspects were father and son the father a fifty-year-old was killed and the a 24-year-old is in hospital in critical condition. Jennifer Yoon has more. A Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Australia turned into a nightmare. Two gunmen opened fire at hundreds of Jewish people Sunday evening gathered to light the menorah and share donuts

next to a children's playground. Catherine Merchant was there. Everyone was just running and there were bullets and there were so many of them and we were really scared. We didn't know where they were coming from. The Australian government calls the attack an act of terrorism. Anthony Albanese is the Prime Minister.

This is a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah, which should be a celebration of faith, an act of evil anti-Semitism, terrorism. One gunman was shot and killed by police. The other arrest. and in critical condition. Jaddafer Yun, CBC News, Toronto.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he warned Australia's Prime Minister about growing anti-Semitism in that country. On August 17th, I sent Prime Minister Albanese a letter warning that the Australian government's policy was promoting and encouraging anti-Semitism in Australia. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.

Netanyahu said Australia's calls for a Palestinian state poured fuel on the anti-Semitic fires. A Canadian man staying in Sydney was hanging out with friends on Bondi Beach when he heard the gunshots and fled. Riley Stranahan says the worst part was making the calls to see if his friends had managed to escape. Pretty traumatizing, just having to make that call, though, trying to make sure everyone's okay.

I had a buddy didn't answer for a while, had me pretty shicken up. But, yeah, luckily everyone's okay that I know at least. And those for the people that aren't, my heart definitely goes out to them because, yeah, it's terrible. Stranahan says a stranger invited him to take shelter in their apartment, and he stayed there for about two hours. Prime Minister Mark Carney attended a ceremony marking the beginning of Hanukkah in Ottawa today. he used the occasion to address the fight against anti-Semitism. Canada is not Canada, unless all members of the Jewish community can fully participate in all aspects of Canadian life.

This is about thriving, and I will not rest until we've moved from protection to true thriving. Global Affairs Canada says it's not aware of any Canadian. caught in the incident. To the U.S. The investigation continues to progress extremely fast. We're in the process of collecting evidence and seizing items that we need to see, search locations that we need to search.

That's Providence Police Chief, Oscar Perez, talking about the investigation of yesterday's shooting at Brown's University. Two people were killed and nine others were wounded after a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall. Police have a suspect in custody, a man in his 20s. A far-right candidate has won Chile's presidential election. Ultra-conservative Jose Antonio Cast will become the country's new president,

pushing Chile sharply to the right for the first time since 1990. The communist party leader, Jeanette Harrah, has conceded defeat. With over 95% of the vote counted, Cassed has won more than 58% of the votes, winning Chileans over with a campaign focused on crime and immigration. And that is the world this hour. I'm Gina Louise Phillips.