The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 18:00 EST
Episode Date: December 19, 2025The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 18:00 EST...
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I'm Kate McGilfrey.
The U.S. Justice Department has released several hundred thousand records
relating to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
They're the first documents to come to light under a new law compelling their release.
Karen Pauls has more.
In this new dump of files, lots of photos, many, sexual and graphic.
Naked or topless women with their faces blacked out.
Also some notes saying some images were not scanned,
because they contain child sexual abuse material.
There's also photos of notable people like former president Bill Clinton,
the late Michael Jackson, and Sarah Ferguson, the ex-wife of the former Prince Andrew,
and lots of documents related to the prosecutions against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Again, much of it redacted.
Eric Fudali is a lawyer representing 11 Epstein accusers.
They intend to sort of stretch this out, trickle documents throughout the next coming weeks.
that's really not acceptable for the survivors, and it shouldn't be acceptable under the law.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act does allow the department to withhold personal information of survivors
and information related to ongoing prosecutions.
Karen Paul's, CBC News, Washington.
The man suspected of a mass shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island
and in the death of an MIT professor had been dead for two days when police found him.
His body was found in a storage unit in New Hampshire, along with at least two firearms,
Police say he died of a self-inflicted gunshot.
They say he killed two students and injured nine at Brown.
The professor was shot in his home near Boston.
Three men in the Toronto area have been arrested and charged
after they allegedly attempted to kidnap women in two separate incidents.
Police say they were targeting members of the Jewish community.
Philip Lyshanik reports.
Nishandarapa is the chief of Peel Region of Police near Toronto.
He says it started with an attempted abduction.
Three mass men armed with four.
firearms and knives tried to force two young women into a vehicle. We were able to link that
incident to one that happened in May where the armed suspects attempted to kidnap a woman in
Toronto. Noah Shag is with the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs. He says these arrests coming
after the attacks on Jews in Australia show a growing trend in extremist violence. There's a serious
problem in this country of radicalization, of extremism, of the glorification and promotion of
terrorism and violence.
18-year-old Osman Azizov and 19-year-old for Hat Sadat
face weapons assault and kidnapping charges,
while 26-year-old Walid Khan also faces multiple
terrorism-related charges.
Phil Bishanak, CBC News, Toronto.
It's turning out to be a difficult holiday season for many
Canadian charities, with Canadians donating less.
Jamie Strasshan tells us more.
It's a familiar sound of the holiday season.
The Salvation Army kettle in malls and on street corners.
Donations are down this year, says John Murray.
This year, we've raised $14.5 million to date in our national campaign,
which is about $2.5 million down from same time last year.
That's very concerning for us.
The dip is being felt by a number of charities, both big and small, that CBC spoke with.
Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank, which served one in 10 Trontonians last year,
is also feeling the crunch.
CEO Neil Hetherington says it's not uncommon to see former donors now in line at the food bank.
Food prices came out at three times the inflationary rate.
So it's no wonder that the bins at grocery stores all across the province are less full.
Heatherington says his group and others are trying to do more with less this holiday season.
Jamie Strash and CBC News, Toronto.
And police in Welland, Ontario continue to ask residents,
in one area to stay inside and away from their windows.
A suspect has been contained inside a building for hours after shots were fired earlier this morning.
An officer was hit, but she's now been released from hospital.
Police say the disturbance began as a by-law dispute about a fence that was blocking traffic sight lines.
That's the world this hour.
For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.
Thank you.