The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/14 at 23:00 EST

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/14 at 23:00 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 in Sydney, Australia, where it's already Monday afternoon, and harrowing stories are emerging from the deadly attack on a Hanukkah ceremony at Bondi Beach. Fifteen people were killed Sunday. Another 42 were wounded. Rabbi Yankee Berger is from Ottawa,

but now lives in Australia. His son survived the massacre. The shooters just didn't come with these guns. They were there for about 20, 25 minutes, and thank God he made it out alive. And the other children who were with him also made it out alive. But so many of my friends have another. a close friend. His name is Alon. He was shot. They missed his heart by literally one millimeter. He's just gone through, I think, his second surgery now, just trying to save his life. Investigators say the suspects are a father and son who allegedly open fire at a gathering of Jews celebrating the first night of Hanukkah. A 50-year-old suspect was killed at the

scene. A 24-year-old is now in hospital. Anthony Albanese is the Prime Minister of Australia. What we saw yesterday was an act of pure evil. of terror, an act of anti-Semitism, an attack on the first day of Hanukkah, targeted at the Jewish community, a dark day in Australia's history on what should have been a day of light. The weapons were legally purchased, but the Australian Prime Minister is now calling for tougher gun control laws in his country. Meantime, police and Providence, Rhode Island, have a suspect in custody, a man in his 20s, they believe, is the gunmen who opened fire on the campus of Brown University Saturday afternoon. Two people are dead, nine are wounded. Katie Simpson

has the story of a survivor. It honestly felt like an eternity. Joseph O'Duro had just finished leading a study session ahead of final exams around 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The Brown University teaching assistant says students were about to leave the lecture hall when they heard what sounded like gunshots coming from outside the room. And we heard screaming from very students. And then about five seconds later, you see a gunman into the room, then you just scream something and just started shooting. Oduro says he locked eyes with the gunman before he dropped to the ground, narrowly dodging bullets that ended up in the chalkboard behind him. There was a desk nearby, no more than three meters long. He says he and some students hid

behind it, including one young woman who was shot in the leg twice. There wasn't too much space, but we may do because at the end of the day, we just all wanted to survive. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. We've got some breaking news from Los Angeles. Two people have been found dead at the home of Rob Reiner. Reiner directed some of the biggest movies, including when Harry met Sally and the Princess Bride.

He also appeared as a television actor playing Meathead in the 1970s classic comedy, all in the family. The Los Angeles Fire Department says it responded to a medical aid request Sunday afternoon and found a 78-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman dead inside. Reiner turned 78 in March, although authorities have not confirmed the identities of the people found dead. Pierre Palliev says his party is united behind his message on affordability. The conservative leader gave his first TV interview after his latest member of parliament

cross the floor and joined the liberals. Here's the CBC's Rosemary Barton. Is this a problem of your leadership at this stage? No, it's a problem of Mark Carney's leadership. Ontario MP Michael Moss surprised Parliament Hill on Thursday and announced he was leaving the Tories for Mark Carney's liberal government. We're following a major story in Hong Kong tonight. The pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has just been convicted in a landmark national security trial.

Lai ran the Apple Daily newspaper. Three judges found him guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurlant.