The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/20 at 20:00 EST

Episode Date: December 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/20 at 20:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Mike Miles. It's now Sunday morning in Australia, a day of reflection over last weekend's terror attack on Sydney's Bondi Beach. Thousands of flowers have been laid out, a memorial for the 15 people killed and dozens wounded in the shooting on the first night of Hanukkah. Carolina O'Hare is with victims of Terror Australia. She estimates that for each victim, as many as 100 other people, family, friends, colleagues are also directly touched by the trauma. We don't become victims of terrorism because of who we are,

but because of what we represent, our community and our way of life. We see our own vulnerability here today through the vulnerability of others. And terrorism is the only crime that unites us all and for which we are all, in some measure, victims. Flags across the country are at half-mast, and Australians are being asked to light a candle Sunday night as a quiet act of remembrance. The U.S. has intercepted another oil tanker off Venezuela, despite international calls to de-escalate tensions.

Earlier this week, President Trump announced the blockade of all oil vessels leaving Venezuelan ports part of a pressure campaign on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Mitch McCann has more. On Saturday afternoon, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem posted a video online of the operation which shows an American military helicopter landing on the vessel. She said the pre-dorn action saw the U.S. Coast Guard and Department of Defense apprehend the tanker which was last docked in Venezuela. She added that the U.S. will continue to pursue the illicit movement of sanctioned oil used to fund narco-terrorism.

President Trump announced a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers in recent days An analysts view the move as an effort to limit the options of President Nicholas Maduro, a man the U.S. believes is the head of a drug cartel and responsible for illegal narcotics entering the U.S. But within hours, the New York Times reported that the vessel seized was not listed on an American sanctions list and belonged to an established Chinese oil trader. Mitch McCann for CBC News, New York. In Miami today, Trump administration envoys met with Russian negotiators discussing the results of recent talks with Ukraine in Berlin, part of ongoing efforts to reach a negotiated truce. Meanwhile, at least eight people were killed, another 27 wounded in a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city, Vodessa, and Ukraine

says its drones hit a Russian warship, oil rig, and other facilities in the Black Sea. Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funeral of a popular youth leader in Bangladesh. Sharif Osman Hadi died in hospital this week of Gunshot, Gunshot, wins suffered December 12. It was one of the leaders of a protest that saw former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pushed out of office. Police say they know who the gunman is, but believe he's fled to India, where Hasina is now living in exile. In cities across Canada labor unions, widely to protest the use of Section 107 of the Canada Labor Code to end labor disruptions. From Canada Post to Railways, from ports and Air Canada flight attendants, unionized workers

say use of the code violates their charter rights. Philip Lee Shenock has more. Hundreds of unionized workers rallied in Toronto. They say that the federal government's repeated heavy-handed use of Section 107 of the Labor Code is eroding the constitutional rights of unionized workers. Marie Clark Walker is with the Canadian Labor Congress. Collective bargaining is extremely important, and continuously using Section 107 to force people back to work is wrong.

The section is used to end a strike and send the two sides to binding arbitration. Raphael Gomez is head of the Center for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto. He says using it undermines collective bargaining. When you think the strike threat is not real, you don't treat it as a deadline anymore. The federal liberals say they support free and fair collective bargaining. The Supreme Court is considering constitutional challenges to the use of Section 107, but rulings may be years away. Philip Lich-Sadok, CBC News, Toronto.

And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.