World Report - December 22: Monday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

Newly released police documents detail days and hours leading up to mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach. Officials in Moscow investigating car bombing that killed Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head Russia's armed forces' operational training department.  Employees at 60 Minutes accuse CBS News of corporate censorship after editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly shelved a story critical of Trump Administration's immigration policies. FBI says former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding is a cocaine kingpin, being protected by the Sinaloa Cartel. But the story in Mexico is very different. Medical experts say rare surgery performed at Ottawa Hospital could be gamechanger for women's health. 

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Marcia Young. Newly released police documents are detailing the days and hours leading up to the mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach. Police alleged the attack had been planned for months. And in addition to two shotguns and a rifle officers say the suspects also had several explosive

devices. Fifteen people were killed during a Jewish festival just over a week ago. Officials are calling it a terrorist attack. As Phil Mercer tells us, politicians are under pressure to do more to prevent this from happening again. I think it's really important that we take action in relation to guns, that we take action in relation to reducing the pressure in the community when it comes to the protests that we've seen. New South Wales Premier Chris Minns is promising Australia's toughest gun laws that would restrict the number and time. 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 and bring in strict federal firearms reforms, including a buyback program. Roland Brown is from Gun Control Australia and Advocacy Group. He wants certain handguns and high-powered rifles to be banned. The evidence is that taking these guns out of circulation and only allowing them to be available for people with a very specific need and limiting their availability works, there is no question about that.

Australia's gun lobby says tougher laws won't prevent future tragedies and would only punish law-abiding firearms owners. Phil Mercer for CBC News at Bondi Beach in Sydney. me. Officials in Moscow say they are investigating a car bombing with a high-profile target. Lieutenant General Fonil Sararov was head of the operational training department for the armed forces. He was killed this morning by an explosive device planted under a car. Russian officials say they are investigating a theory Ukrainian intelligence was involved

in the car bombing. Ukraine has not commented. Employees at 60 Minutes are accusing CBS news of corporate censorship. Some of them are threatening to quit. On Saturday, the new editor-in-chief, Barry Weiss, reportedly shelved a story focused on the Trump administration's immigration policies. For more, I'm joined by Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. And Steve, what happened with this story? Well, 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. This is a preview clip of the report that was sent out last week. The deportees thought they were headed from the U.S. back to Venezuela. But instead, they were shackled, paraded in front of cameras, and delivered to Seacot. The notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador. Now, the report had been heavily promoted. At some point yesterday, CBS News announced the report would not be broadcast last night. This has brought strong reaction.

An internal email sent by the correspondent Sharon Alfonzi says she believes it was pulled for political reasons. Corporate censorship is a serious allegation. Why is it coming up now? Well, this all has to do with CBS being murder. 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 got involved in the merger talks. He basically gave it his OK. And there have been many who believe that Trump did that because he felt he was going to get more sympathetic

treatment from this new CBS. Now, the new person brought in to CBS to have their new Department, Barry Weiss, she said last night that her job is to make sure that all stories are the best that they can be. She says, holding stories for whatever reason happens every day. Apparently, Barry Weiss has suggested that some members of the Trump administration be part of this story. Sharon Alfonzi says 60 minutes reached out to the Trump administration and everyone declined to comment. Thank you, Steve. My pleasure. Steve Futterman, reporting from Los Angeles.

The FBI says Ryan Wedding is still a wanted fugitive. The alleged drug kingpin is believed to be hiding out in Mexico under the protection of the Sinaloa cartel. But the CBC's Jorge Barrera traveled to one of the narco groups' strongholds, and people there said the former Canadian Olympian is not as notorious as U.S. officials claim. Our guy told me that he's going to let us know once he feels safe. Miguel Angel Vega, a journalist from Sinaloa, is driving CBC News to a meeting he's set up

with a member of the Sinaloa cartel. We meet the cartel member in a safe house in Kuliacan, 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. He says the cartel has had dealings in Canada for over two decades with people who move large quantities of drugs. He calls them capos, Canadian bosses. Wedding is also not top of mind for the Mexican military, constantly on patrol. Major General Julises Gonzalez 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, Kuliacan, Sinaloa. Jorge, we'll have a second report from Kulayakhan on your world tonight. Tune in to hear about the ongoing war inside the Sinaloa cartel and how it has plunged the region into one of its most violent eras ever. Medical experts say a rare surgery for endometriosis could be a game changer for women's health. One in 10 women in Canada suffer with endometriosis.

The surgery was recently performed in Ottawa, but the doctor who completed this particular procedure says it is not accessible. As Jody Applewit reports, doctors and patients want a national action plan to address endometriosis. For me, it became really debilitating and disabling. Danica Fleury has been living with endometriosis symptoms for more than a decade, including pelvic pain and muscle weakness. Her condition flared up about four years ago. Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease.

It happens when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus begins to grow outside of the organ. There's no cure. The endometriosis progressed and became unmanageable. Fleury was referred to the woman's health center at the Ottawa Hospital, where a medical team used radiology and virtual reality to create a model of the disease within her pelvis. Dr. Soni Singh is a gynecologic surgeon.

We realized this is not just another case of endometriosis, but a case of deep endometriosis involving the pelvic nerves. To treat it, Singh and his colleagues opted for a procedure never before performed at the Ottawa hospital. Pelvic neurosurgery. That is a scary surgery because the nerves are surrounded by blood vessels. One wrong move and you can have a severe and major complication. Dr. Nucelyo Lemos says the surgery isn't common

anywhere in the world. He's a neurogynaecologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, the leading center for neuropeliology in Canada. I am not aware of any center that is providing this kind of care outside of Ontario. Singh wants the federal government to create a national action plan for endometriosis, backed by funding that would increase access to complex care. The disease affects at least one in 10 women across the country, like Flurry. The best thing that's happened to me is just regaining the quality of life that I'd lost. Jodi Appalwaith, CBC News, Ottawa. That is the latest national and international news from World Report.

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