The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2026/01/08 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

The World This Hour for 2026/01/08 at 08:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Vigils were held last night in Minneapolis and right across the United States in the wake of yesterday's fatal shooting of Renee Good. This 37-year-old woman was shot and killed in her vehicle. in an altercation with immigration enforcement agents. But in the hours that followed the shooting, two very different perspectives were put forward regarding what happened.

Willie Lowry reports. President Donald Trump posted about the incident at least twice on social media, calling the killing justified, and his Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem accused the woman, Renee Nicole Good, of weaponizing her car. This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to age an act of domestic terrorism. State and local officials, however, are incensed over the Trump administration's

characterization of events. Here's Minnesota's lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan. Renee Nicole Good should be alive. She was killed by an ICE agent and the video footage that we have seen with our own eyes was a very different story from what we're hearing from Christy Knoem and Donald Trump. The FBI is in. investigating the incident at the state level, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says it too will investigate ICE's use of force and whether any laws were broken.

Willie Lowry, CBC News, Washington. After encouraging the people of Colombia to demonstrate against U.S. military action in South America, Colombian President Gustavo Petro had a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump. As Paul Hunter reports, it appears that discussion may have eased some of the tension between the two countries. We spoke on the phone, said Colombian President Gustavo Petro, for an hour or more, describing his surprise call with U.S. President Donald Trump late yesterday. The same Donald Trump, Petro had recently described as having a senile brain, part of a verbal cage match between the two leaders in the days prior, but especially since the U.S. under Trump

moved in on Venezuela, arresting its president Nicolas Maduro. Trump later seeming to suggest the same could follow in Petro's Colombia. The issue there, said Trump, drug trafficking. Tensions escalated quickly. Now, maybe not so much. In a surprise post on his truth social platform, Trump himself wrote, It was a great honor to speak with the President of Columbia who called to explain the situation of drugs and other disagreements that we have had.

I appreciate his call and tone. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Cucata, Columbia. Meanwhile, Donald Trump says it is not clear at this point how long the United States will maintain its oversight of Venezuela. But in an interview with the New York Times, he says it could be longer than a year. Trump says his administration will be taking the country's oil, getting oil prices down, and giving money to Venezuela. He also says his officials are getting along well with the Venezuelan interim president, Delci Rodriguez. Ukraine says nearly 800,000 homes and businesses are in the dark after a series of Russian airstrikes overnight.

That's Ukraine's acting energy minister, saying the strikes targeted energy facilities in the country's southeast. And he says the region is in near total blackout. The minister says crews are in the process of working to restore power and heat. A royal commission has been called into last month's mass shooting in Australia. Fifteen people were killed when two gunmen opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration. Here is Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. I announced that I will be recommending to the Governor General in an executive council meeting that will be held tomorrow, that a Royal Commission on anti-Semitism and social cohesion be established. The Royal Commission will operate separate from the criminal trial.

24-year-old Navid Akram is charged with 15 counts of murder and committing a terrorist act. And that is the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings.