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

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

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

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. We begin in Australia where urgent gun reform is on the political agenda more than a week after the deadly shooting in Sydney. The New South Wales State Parliament is reconvening to debate changes to firearms laws and to restrict protests that promote hate. Phil Mercer has more. I think it's really important that we take action in relation to guns. New South Wales Premier Chris Minns is promising Australia's toughest gun laws that would restrict the number and types of firearms

that individuals can own. He also wants to give the police more powers to ban protests, which could affect large-scale marches. I know that there's a deep concern about international events and wars and that people's passions are heightened and there's genuine concern about it, and I'm not criticising them for holding those views. My responsibility is in Sydney right now.

We need to make sure that the community is not divided. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was geared as he arrived at a memorial to remember the victims of the Bondi Beach shootings. His critics have accused him of failing to curb rising anti-Semitism. In response, he's promising to crack down on extremism, Phil Mercer for CBC News, at Bondi Beach in Sydney. Prime Minister Mark Carney is pulling away from climate policies of the Trudeau era.

In a year-end interview, Carney says the old plan had too much regulation, not enough investment in clean energy and technology. 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.

Kearney says Canada needs a new approach to fighting climate change. He says his government will release a climate strategy in the new year. Olivia Stefanovic, 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, less than two weeks. It's part of the Trump administration's effort to stop Venezuela from using what it says are false flagged ships 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 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. 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 review to protect potential victims. Todd Blanche is the Deputy Attorney General of the United States. 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 finally, we're following a tragic story in Indonesia tonight. A passenger bus has crashed, killing at least 15 people. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.