The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/21 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: December 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/21 at 11:00 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 claude fagg a manhunt is underway in south africa after gunmen opened fire in a tavern they killed at least nine people and wounded ten others it happened in a township in a gold mining area near johannisburg dominic volitus has the latest south african police say they are now hunting those responsible for the shooting investigators say around a dozen gunmen arrived in two cars at the bar in Bekestal near Johannesburg at about 1 a.m. According to witnesses, they entered the building and began shooting randomly at customers. Local deputy police commissioner Fred Kakana says the shooting did not end there. They shot other three on the street while running away. They were taken to the nearest clinic, which is few meters away.

They passed on. Another one passed on on the road. Those injured are now being treated in hospital as the police try to work out the motive for the attack. South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world at 45 people per 100,000, according to the latest figures from the United Nations. Dominic Volitus for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. In Australia. The country is marking one week since a deadly mass shooting at Bondi Beach. Fifteen people were killed, several others were injured, when two gunmen opened fire during a festival marking the first day of Hanukkah.

People in the community say they're still in shock. I feel very strongly about the fact that, especially being German, that this has happened in history before and that this cannot happen again. Every day we hear of somebody else that's connected. It's a small community, and we all know someone who knows someone who lost their life. It touches all of us very, very deeply. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was among those who attended the ceremony. He was met with booze from the crowd as pressure mounts on the government to tighten gun laws and clamp down on anti-Semitism.

Well, it may be winter, but when the summer sun returns to the Yukon, some residents will be fighting a ban on installing solar panels. It all comes down to balancing the sun's power with an electrical grid that can't handle it. Rachel Sanders from CBC's What on Earth has the story. Graham Key has been wanting to install solar panels on his roof for months now. The Whitehorse resident hopes to reduce emissions and save money. Now I'm retired and I'm on a fixed income. Everything is going up.

But right now, solar panels aren't an option. In 2023, the Yukon government paused a program that let people, stall rooftop solar. They can use the electricity they generate and sell some of it back to the Yukon's electrical grid. But for Yukon Energy, it was too popular. It was concerned that rooftop solar was making the electrical grid unstable. According to Phil McKay with the Canadian Renewable Energy Association, there are solutions that help keep the grid stable as more renewables are added. Some of the smaller utilities might get caught off guard because this happened so quickly to them. The Yukon's new territorial government says it's now looking to restart the program

after it's made sure the grid can handle it. Rachel Sanders, CBC News, Vancouver. And you can find out more on what on Earth on CBC Radio 1, CBC Listen, or wherever you get your podcast. Blue Origin has made history with the first spaceflight by a wheelchair user. That applause as space passenger Mishi Benthouse emerges from a capsule shortly after it landed in the Texas desert. Benhaus is a German engineer. She's been in a wheelchair since a mountain biking accident seven years ago and has become an advocate for accessible space travel. I think you should never give up on your dreams, right? But I mean, there's also sometimes just a low probability that it comes true. And it was the coolest experience ever, honestly. And that is your world this hour. For

ABC News. I'm Claude Fagg.