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

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

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

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From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Rob Reiner's 32-year-old son, Nick, is in police custody following the death of his father and mother. Rob Reiner, the acclaimed Hollywood director and actor, was found dead yesterday with his wife Michelle at their home in Los Angeles. Steve Futterman has the latest. Nick Reiner, the son of... Rob Reiner was arrested actually last night at around 9.15 p.m. We've only learned about this today here in Los Angeles. Now, bail for him has been said at a very high bail, four million

dollars. That suggests that he's being held for suspicion of a committing of very, very serious crime. But all we can say for sure, according to the documents we have seen, is that he is being held for a felony. Now, one could make a, an assumption, I would say a logical assumption that this is likely for the murders of Rob Reiner and his wife, but we can't say that officially. We do know that Nick Reiner in the past has suffered from mental health challenges and spoke very openly over the years about his addiction to substances. Steve Futterman, CBC News, Los Angeles. Details are emerging about some of the victims of yesterday's attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. 15 people were killed.

when two gunmen opened fire at a holiday gathering in Sydney's Bondi Beach. Phil Mercer reports. We know that the 15 victims include a 10-year-old girl called Matilda and an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor. We know that there was a British-born rabbi, a father of five, who worked in a Jewish center in Sydney, a man who was a former police detective who was working as a photographer. And also, we heard details of another man who died, apparently protecting his wife from gunfire.

So throughout the day, we've learned more about the victims of this atrocity. And we've also learned more about the people who police believe perpetrated it. Unbelievably, a father and son, 50 and 24 years of age. The older man was shot dead by the police at the scene. The younger man is critically ill in hospital. Phil Mercer for CBC News at Bondi Beach in Sydney. The latest inflation figures are out today and they're showing the national inflation rate was unchanged last month,

coming in at 2.2%. Peter Armstrong has more. This falls right about where economists were expecting to see inflation land this month. The biggest driver up was food prices, groceries were up 4.7% year over year. Frozen beef, for example, up 17.7%. The biggest driver down was in a category of travel tours and accommodation. And this, it turns out, was that we're still working our way through the Taylor Swift impact on economic data. In November of last year, of course, Swift came through Canada and we saw hotel and travel costs shot up as demand

surged. Well, now here we are a year later, an accommodation without Taylor Swift in town has come back down 6.9%. Rents at the same time are also rising, but they're rising at a slower pace. And all of this together keeps the rate of inflation right at that target range the Bank of Canada likes to see. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. A Hong Kong court today has convicted media mogul Jimmy Lai under China's national security law. A three judge panel has found lie guilty of conspiracy to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. Here is Lai's son, Sebastian. What we've seen today and actually have lost past five years is a complete breakdown

with Hong Kong legal system. Lai, an outspoken critic of Beijing, was the founder of the now defunct Daily Apple newspaper. The 78-year-old is facing life in prison. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.