The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/22 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/22 at 08:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. Bro.C.a. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Newly released police documents are detailing the days and hours leading up to last week's mass shooting in Australia. Fifteen people were killed in the attack that saw two gunmen open fire on a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach. Mercer reports. The police alleged that the gunman carried out surveillance of the sites at Bondi Beach two days before the attack. There's also an allegation that the gunman had training, firearms training in a regional area, quite possibly here in the state of New South Wales. There's also a claim from the police in these documents that Navid Akram, the youngest of the alleged gunman, recorded a video trying to justify the attack.

And the most startling of these allegations are claims from the police that the gunman threw four improvised explosive devices towards the crowd at that Jewish festival during the attack. None of those devices detonated, but the police say that they were viable and had to be made safer later. The police say that this was a meticulous attack that was planned months in advance. Phil Mercer for CBC News at Bondi Beach in Sydney. Meanwhile, the surviving suspect in the massacre, 24-year-old Navid Akram,

has now been transferred from hospital to a prison facility. Staff at the CBS News Program 60 Minutes are threatening to hand in their resignation after the network pulled a story that was scheduled to air last night. The story deals with an immigration policy carried out by the Trump administration. Steve Futterman has the details. This was supposed to be a report on the brutal treatment of some of the people the U.S. sent to El Salvador earlier this year. The people who the Trump administration said were in the U.S. illegally were flown by the Americans to El Salvador. The 60 Minutes report was to delve into their deportation and treatment.

At some point yesterday, CBS News announced the report would not be broadcast. This has brought strong reaction. An internal email sent by the correspondent Sharon Alfonzi says, she believes it was pulled for political reasons. This all has to do with CBS being merged earlier this year with Skydance, a company that's basically run by David Ellison. He and his father, Larry, who's a billionaire, high-tech executive, are very close to the Trump administration. President Trump basically gave it his okay, and there have been many who believe that Trump did that because he felt he was going to get more sympathetic treatment. Steve

Futterman, CBC News, Los Angeles. The U.S. Coast Guard continues to pursue an oil tanker in international waters off the coast of Venezuela. The Pentagon says it believes the vessel is attempting to evade American sanctions. Karen Pauls has the latest. Amid the growing U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean, officials had a third tanker in their sights Sunday. The Bello 1 spotted leaving Venezuela. This, after seizing a Panamanian-flagued oil tanker on Saturday and another earlier this month. Well, this is part of what President Trump has declared as a full naval blockade of Venezuela, which is an act of war.

Ben Rosewell is a former Canadian ambassador to Venezuela. He believes Trump's goal is to ultimately put the U.S. in control of the entire continent. I think they've chosen Venezuela because it's the weakest country that it could have this show of force to demonstrate to all the other countries of the Americas. Watch out, we can do this to Venezuela. We could potentially do this to you as well. Karen Paul's, CBC News, Washington. A Pillsbury Pizza Pop recall has been issued.

A Canadian Food Inspection Agency is saying it's possible there could be an E. coli contamination. The concern is with a number of pepperoni bacon combos with best before dates set for June of 2026. General Mills is calling this a voluntary recall. and other pizza pop products are not affected. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.