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

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

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

You know that feeling when you reach the end of a really good true crime series? You want to know more, more about the people involved, where the case is now, and what it's like behind the scenes. I get that. I'm Kathleen Goldhar and on my podcast, Crime Story, I speak with the leading storytellers of true crime to dig deeper into the cases we all just can't stop thinking about. Find crime story wherever you get your podcasts. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings employees at the cbs news program 60 minutes are threatening to hand in their resignation after the network pulled a story that was scheduled to go to air last night the story deals with an immigration policy carried out by the trump administration steve fuderman 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. Newly released police documents are detailing the days and the hours leading up to last week's mass shooting in Australia. 15 people were killed in the attack that saw two gunmen open fire on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney's Bondi Beach. Phil 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 for improvisers. 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. Film us up for CBC News at Bondi Beach in Sydney. Meanwhile, the surviving 24-year-old suspect in the massacre has now been transferred from hospital to. a prison facility.

Complete with a $15 million reward, the search is on for a former Canadian Olympian now believed to be a cocaine kingpin. Ryan Wedding is said to be in hiding in Mexico, with the FBI saying he's being protected by the powerful Sinaloa cartel. But the CBC's Jorge Barrera has spoken with a member of that cartel

who's insisting wedding isn't the drug lord the FBI says he is. We meet the cartel member in a safe house in Kulia the capital of the northwestern state of Sinaloa. For security reasons, we are not revealing his identity, and his voice has been distorted. He says he's heard wedding's name in the news and on social media,

but he doesn't believe his cartel is protecting wedding. He says U.S. authorities have made wedding out to be a bigger deal than he actually is, to make a big splash when they take him down. Wedding is also not top of mind for the Mexican military. Major General Julises Gonzales Calzada leads the National Guard in Sinaloa. He says he has also heard of wedding. But the alleged Canadian narco is not on his radar in Sinaloa.

Jorge Barrera, CBC News, Gulliacan, Sinaloa. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.