The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/18 at 23:00 EST

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/18 at 23:00 EST

This ascent isn't for everyone. You need grit to climb this high this often. You've got to be an underdog that always over-delivers. You've got to be 6,500 hospital staff, 1,000 doctors, all doing so much with so little. You've got to be Scarborough. Defined by our uphill battle and always striving towards new heights. And you can help us keep climbing.

Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from cbc news the world this hour i'm mike miles we begin with breaking news after nearly a week the manhunt in the brown university shooting is over the suspect found dead hours ago with a self-inflicted gunshot wound authorities believe he acted alone stea feuderman now with the latest on the investigation law enforcement officials say they are certain the brown gunman is dead we are 100% confident that this is our target. The person identified as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a Portuguese national, was tracked down at a storage unit in New Hampshire, where his body was found.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Nirona says an eyewitness was able to identify a car driven by the suspect. That was the key break in the case. He ran in a car in Boston. He drove it. We were able to find that car in New Hampshire. We were able to find evidence in the car from looking at it from the outside that connected this individual to our crime scene. Valenti is a former Brown student.

He is also believed responsible for the murder on Monday of an MIT physics professor. The professor and Valenti are believed to have been fellow students in Portugal. Steve Futterman, CBC News, Los Angeles. Australia's government is making changes after Sunday's deadly terror attack on a Hanukkah celebration. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announcing a national firearms buyback program. We expect hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected and destroyed through this scheme. Albanese also introducing new laws to combat anti-Semitism and hate speech. But as Sasha Petrissik reports, Australian Jews say the measures are coming too late

and the government should have listened to earlier warnings. The memorials continue on Bondi Beach for those shot on Sunday, a rabbi, in a 10-year-old girl, among others. Sydney's Jewish community is furious over what it sees as inaction by the Australian government to tackle anti-Semitism. It is clear we need to do more

to combat this evil scourge. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is now promising a quick response, including laws against hate speech. A package of legislative reforms to crack down on those who spread hate, division and radicalization. The government is also proposing tougher gun control laws

to prevent people like the two accused gunmen from legally owning multiple guns. Australia enacted sweeping legislation limiting firearms 30 years ago in the wake of another mass shooting. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Toronto. Albanese has also announced the federal and New South Wales governments have declared

this coming Sunday a national day of morning to honor the Bondi shooting victims. Prime Minister Mark Carney says there likely won't be relief on U.S. tariffs until next year at the soonest when the free trade agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. comes up for review. Right now, goods and services covered by Kuzma are not subject to tariffs, but everything else, things like car parts, steel and lumber, are. Carney says he thinks those sectors will be incorporated into Kuzma talks. My judgment is that that is now going to roll into the broader Kuzma negotiation, so we're less likely, we're unlikely, given the time horizons coming together to have a sectoral agreement, although if the United States wants to come back on that in those areas, we're always ready there, we're very ready.

Conservative leader Pierre Polyev has criticized Karni for failing to get a faster deal removing sectoral tariffs. When those trade talks do begin in the new year, Canada has a better idea of what the U.S. wants to discuss. The U.S. trade representative laid out a series of conditions Wednesday, including more access for American dairy products in Canadian markets. The Prime Minister has said he's not willing to budge on that, saying he stands by the supply management system, which limits imports. That is the world this hour. For news anytime, visit our website, CBCNews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.