The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/15 at 03:00 EST

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/15 at 03:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Hurland. Rob Reiner is dead. The body of the legendary director and actor was found inside his home Sunday afternoon, along with the body of his wife, Michelle Singer, victims of an apparent murder. Steve Futterman reports. Police will not confirm it, but we have had the governor of California and the mayor of Los Angeles confirm that Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle, were indeed found dead inside their home.

Local media quoting family sources say the suspect is Rob Reiner's son, Nick, who did have mental health challenges. This has just sent shockwaves throughout Southern California, Rob Reiner, such a respected actor and director. Many people remember him as a performer in the classic 1970s, show all in the family, but as a director, he directed such films as When Harry Met Sally and Stand By Me. So right now the investigation goes on. Police are saying very little, but we have a Hollywood legend who is dead. Steve Futterman, CBC News, Los Angeles.

Now to Sydney, Australia, where harrowing stories are emerging from the deadly attack on a Hanukkah ceremony at Bondi Beach. 15 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 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 opened 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 suspect is now in hospital. Anthony Albanese is the Prime Minister of Australia. What we saw yesterday was an act of pure evil, an act 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. An update now on the shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island,

authorities are releasing a man who is being held as a person of interest in the shooting that killed two students and left nine injured. A conservative candidate has been elected president in Chile. Jose Antonio Caste won 58% of the vote. Marie Armeil Laforie reports from Santiago. Thousands of people celebrated the victory of Jose Antonio Caste outside his party's headquarters. The far-right candidate focused his campaign on crime and immigration.

He plans to give police more powers, impose harsher sentences on. criminals and build walls and trenches on the country's borders to keep migrants out. In his victory speech, Kass said Chile needs order and real change. He said without security, there is no peace, and without peace, there is no democracy. Kast founded his current party because his previous party wasn't far enough to the right for him. Both of these parties defended the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. But Kast announced he would renounce his party membership in order to be the

president of all Chileans. He will take office in three months. Marie Hermann Laforie for CBC News, Santiago. We're following a major story in Hong Kong today. 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 sedition and foreign collusion. He pleaded not guilty. And that is your world this hour. For C.E. ABC News. I'm Neil Hurland.