The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/30 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: December 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/30 at 10:00 EST

There are two kinds of Canadians, those who feel something when they hear this music. And those who've been missing out so far. I'm Chris Howden. And I'm Neil Kuksal. We are the co-hosts of As It Happens. And every day we speak with people at the center of the day's most hard-hitting, heartbreaking, and sometimes hilarious news stories. Also, we have puns.

Here Why As It Happens is one of Canada's longest running in most beloved shows. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fagg. The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume today, more than a decade after the plane vanished. A marine robotics company from Texas will search the seabed to try to find the aircraft. Michelle Song reports. Finding the plane, finding my loved ones, finding the truth.

I believe these are things I must do in my lifetime, says Zhang Hui. He remembers waving goodbye to his mother before she boarded the Malaysian Airlines flight that went missing and spent 11 years campaigning for answers. Now, the Malaysian government says the search continues with the help of U.S. and UK-based robotics company, Ocean Infinity. It's one of aviation's biggest mysteries. Flight MH370 disappeared in March of 2014, carrying 239 people, including a Canadian. couple, but most of whom were Chinese nationals. Ocean Infinity now aims to search over 15,000 square kilometers of the seabed, but a prior multinational search resulted in no answers. So all eyes will be on Ocean Infinity, and it will only be paid if the wreckage is found. Michelle Song,

CBC News, Toronto. The U.S. is escalating its so-called war on drugs, with U.S. President Donald Trump confirming what is believed to be the first U.S. operation inside Venezuela. There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. The U.S. targeted a dock on the Venezuelan coast. Trump says it's where alleged drug boats load up before shipping off for various parts of the world. The move follows months of strikes against what the White House calls narco-terrorist boats in the Pacific and Caribbean. The debate over immigration in the U.K. has been reignited by a dual Egyptian-British citizen.

Allah Abde al-Fada arrived in the UK after years in an Egyptian jail. But racist anti-Semitic comments he made years ago have surfaced, sparking calls for him to be stripped of his citizenship and deported. World Report co-host John Northcott has more from London. Allah Abdel-Fatah was imprisoned for years in Egypt and was granted UK citizenship in 2021. The day after Christmas this year, he was allowed to travel to the UK, but almost immediately afterwards,

tweets that he'd written more than a decade ago in which he appeared to attack supporters of Israel and saying he hated white people came to light. He has since apologized, but nonetheless, the damage appears to have been done. Reform UK's Nigel Farage is leading the charge, launching a petition calling for Allah Abdel Fattah to be deported and stripped of his British citizenship. Chris Philip is Shadow Home Secretary. People who express that kind of hatred, who seek to incite violence, have no place in the United Kingdom. Prime Minister Kirstarmer has said initially that he welcomed El Fattah's arrival in the UK. His government now says it will review what they're calling information

failures around the case. John Northcott, CBC News, London. Bangladesh is in mourning after the death of former Prime Minister Haleda Zia at age 80 following a long illness. Outside a DACA hospital, a woman mourns her laws. Zia, Bangladesh's first female prime minister first took office in 1991. She was known for her bitter rivalry with Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted as prime minister last August. Canada has moved in the first place in their pool at the AAHF World Junior Championship in Minnesota. The Canadians got a hat trick from Whitehorse native Gavin McKenna to route Denmark 9-1 last night. For McKenna, the consensus first overall pick at next summer's NHL entry draft, the big night in victory were especially

rewarding with loved ones in the building. It's a long ways from home wherever I usually play. So whenever you got some Eukoners in the building and especially my family, it's that little bit more motivation for me to play my heart out and do it for them. Canada's next game comes tomorrow night against Finland. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fagg.