The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/21 at 22:00 EST

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/21 at 22:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Prime Minister Mark Carney is pulling away from the climate policies of the Trudeau era. In a year-end interview, Carney says the old plan had too much regulation and not enough investment in clean energy and technologies. Olivia Stefanovic has more. Carney faced pushback from some members of his caucus for rolling back environmental policies. But the agreement the Prime Minister signed with Alberta, paving the way for a potential new pipeline, pushed environmentalist Stephen Gilbeau over the edge.

Him and I have a different view of how we should go about fighting climate change. Prompting the Quebec MP to resign from Cabinet. I'm troubled by the discrepancies. Green Party leader Elizabeth May says Gilbo personally asked her for her vote on the federal budget in exchange for climate assurances. May says she didn't want to see any tax credits given for carbon capture technology, but those tax credits are included in the deal signed with Alberta. But I won't make the mistake ever again of thinking I can take Mark Carney on trust. Carney says Canada needs a new approach to fighting climate change.

He says his government will release a climate strategy in the new year. Olivia Estefanovich, CBC News, Ottawa. The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing another. sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. The U.S. has already seized two other tankers in less than two weeks. It's part of the Trump administration's effort to stop Venezuela from using what it says are false flagged chips meant to avoid sanctions on its oil sales. The interceptions come just days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced what he called a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers leaving and entering Venezuela, an escalation in his pressure campaign on Venezuela and

President Nicolas Maduro. Australia's Prime Minister was booed at a vigil held at Bondi Beach one week after the deadly attack on a Hanukkah celebration. But as Michelle Song reports, unity was a focus as the country observed a national day of reflection. More than 10,000 people gathered on Sydney's Bondi Beach for a vigil, lighting candles and observing a minute of silence. Exactly one week after two gunmen opened fire on a Jewish festival.

Killing 15 people. Australia was always the lucky country for Jews, but sadly no more. With snipers watching and police boats in the water, security was tight. Flowers laid out on the beach honor those killed, including 10-year-old Matilda, Rabbi Elie Schlanger and Holocaust survivor Alexander Klytman. But in the sadness, there is anger too. Australia's Prime Minister was booed at the event. say he hasn't done enough to curb anti-Semitism.

Our Prime Minister has not been great. He has since vowed to strengthen hate laws while new South Wales legislators are reconvening early to debate new gun limits. Michelle Song, CBC News, Toronto. We're following a tragic story in Indonesia tonight. A passenger bus has crashed, killing at least 15 people. It happened on Indonesia's main island of Java.

The bus was carrying 34 people. The U.S. Justice Department has reposted a photo of President Donald Trump that had been removed from the Jeffrey Epstein files. The photo showed Trump with various women and was flagged by prosecutors for a review to protect potential victims. Todd Blanche is the Deputy U.S. Attorney General. He's pushing back on criticism that the U.S. government was trying to hide Trump's connection to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

We learned after releasing that photograph that there were concerns about those women and the fact that we had put that photo up. So we pulled that photo down. It is nothing to do with President Trump. There are dozens of photos of President Trump already released to the public seeing him with Mr. Epstein. He has said that in the 90s, in early 2000s, he socialized with him. Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing in the Epstein case

and has denied knowing about Epstein's crimes. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.