World Report - September12: Friday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: September 12, 2025

Police arrest 22-year-old man suspected of shooting Charlie Kirk in Utah. US President Donald Trump says he hopes the suspect is convicted and receives the death penalty. Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is introducing bill to protect people entering mosques, synagogues, and other cultural buildings. Hundreds of South Korean workers detained in Georgia ICE immigration raid return to Seoul. US government data shows most immigrant detained by ICE have no criminal convictions. Trump calls Jair Bolsonaro's conviction a terrible thing, but some Brazilians are celebrating. BC Judge to decide the fate of environmental protest blockade trying to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island. 

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We got him. That's Governor Spence Cox announcing an arrest in the shooting death of Charlie Kirk. On the evening of September 11th, a family member of Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend who contacted the Washington County Sheriff's Office with information. information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident. Cox was joined by state public security officials and the FBI giving their update just minutes ago. The CBC's Willie Lowry following this morning's developments for us and he joins me live from Washington. Willie, good to have you back. So what's the latest? Well, Angie, we learned a significant amount of information from Spencer Cox there.

Essentially that the suspect Tyler Robinson 22 was taken into. custody. Actually last night at around 10 p.m. He said that authorities had actually been able to track his arrival around 8 in the morning the day of the killing and a gray dodged challenger. He also referenced the bullet casings and there had been rumors that there was writing on them. He elaborated a little bit on that. He said that one of the bullet casings said, hey, fascist, another one, Oh, Bella Chow Chow, a reference to an Italian song that was in support of resistance fighters who fought the Nazis in the Second World War. Although, again, it's really important to note here that he didn't elaborate on a motive and he wouldn't really go there. The closest he got was letting reporters know what was written on those bullet casings.

He also made a plea to Americans. He believes that the country is at a turning point and that the youth particularly have a decision to make which path to go on. And he really appealed to the youth to choose a path of peace and painted a pretty stark picture of where the country currently is. The CBC's Willie Lorry for us reporting from Washington. Thanks for the update, Willie.

My pleasure. Meantime, U.S. President Donald Trump broke the news that the suspect was apprehended. earlier on Fox. Trump says he hopes the suspect is found guilty and is executed. Well, I hope he was going to be found guilty, I would imagine. And I hope he gets a death penalty. What he did, Charlie Kirk, was the finest person that he didn't deserve this. Utah governor, Spencer Cox, confirmed yesterday prosecutors will be pursuing the death penalty. Utah has put seven people to death since 1977. It is the only state to use firing squads as a method of

execution in modern times. Shifting to other news now, CBC has learned new details about Prime Minister Mark Carney's plan to address anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. In recent years, Canada has seen shots fired at religious institutions. Mosques and synagogues have received bomb threats. And people say they're being harassed at their places of worship.

The government is introducing new legislation to crack down on those crimes as early as next week. Ashley Burke has the exclusive details. When our laws repeatedly fail to protect those basic rights, we need new laws. While addressing MPs this week, Prime Minister Mark Carney signaled new legislation is coming to combat a rise in hate. All Canadians must be able to get up, go to work, go to their church, temple, mosque, community center, and then come home and sleep soundly at night. A source says as early as Tuesday the government could propose new intimidation and obstruction offenses under the criminal code. That could make it illegal to intentionally and willfully obstruct people from accessing places of worship, schools, or community centers.

Justice Minister and Attorney General Sean Fraser hinted at it yesterday. Think of a synagogue, a mosque, a church, but also community centers, schools, or specific places that are designed specifically for a given community. We want to add criminal provisions that would prohibit the obstruction of those facilities and the intimidation of the people seeking to use. use them. A source says the government also plans to propose a separate offense for anyone breaking the law while motivated by hatred. Ashley Burke, CBC News, Ottawa. Hundreds of South Korean workers who had been detained in a U.S. immigration raid are now back home. Their charter plane landed in Seoul where they were greeted by officials, including the South Korean president's chief of staff. More than 300 Koreans were working at a Hyundai plant

In Georgia, when it was raided by ICE last week, U.S. immigration officials claimed they had violated the terms of their visitor's visa. Meantime, U.S. President Donald Trump says ICE operations are aimed at deporting those people he calls, quote, the worst of the worst. But as Mike Crawley reports, the data tells a different story. They've become a familiar site on social media in the U.S. Videos like this showing masked, armed officers grabbing suspected illegal immigrants off the street. streets. Stop! Stop it! They're agents of immigration and customs enforcement, or ICE. Since Donald Trump's inauguration, the federal agency has ramped up arrests at an unprecedented rate. Trump campaigned on mass deportations, and he's really trying to execute that.

Kathleen Bush-Joseph is an attorney at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington. She says ICE's tactics appear less about targeting violent criminals than about boosting arrest numbers. They're going to places where they think there will be lots of unauthorized immigrants and trying to arrest as many people as they can there. Federal data from May through July show ICE made roughly triple the arrests of the same period last year. The data also show half of those detained have no criminal record or charges. It's about numbers. It's never been about public safety. Mike Fox is a legal fellow with the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington.

The numbers are going to be a lot lower if you're actually focusing on the violent people that you should be focusing on, it's a lot easier to just stand outside of Home Depot and round people up. White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt. This administration is focused on the detention and deportation of illegal alien criminals. Trump's team had floated the goal of deporting one million people each year. It's currently on pace for less than one-third of that number in 2025. Mike Crawley, CBC News, Toronto. In other news, some Brazilians are celebrating the conviction of their former president.

People in the capital, Brasilia cheering, singing, and setting off fireworks. Jaya Bolsonaro has been convicted of plotting a coup and has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison. In Washington, a different reaction. U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is calling this verdict a witch hunt. He says the United States will respond accordingly. Earlier this year, Trump imposed 50% tariffs on Brazil in retaliation for Bolsonaro's prosecution. today, a judge will decide the fate of a blockade in the woods on southern Vancouver Island. It's the latest in a long history of environmental demonstrations in those forests.

Protesters say they want to prevent old growth logging, but local First Nations want them out. Liz MacArthur has more. Cougar camp was set up nearly three weeks ago in the Walburne Valley. It's about three hours drive from Victoria, more than half of that on rough logging roads. Will O'Connell is one of about a dozen activists entrenched there who want to protect old-growth trees from being cut down. It's known as the best of what's left. It's the most intact valley on the South Island

and one of the most intact valleys on the whole island. It's in this crazy limbo where a lot of it isn't protected and yet it's also not logged. The area set to be logged is on Pachidat territory and the nation wants the protesters out, something five other nearby First Nation support.

That includes the Huit. They own a 35% stake in the country. the logging company, Sahuacan Forestry. Michelle Corfield speaks for the group of First Nations. The Pachydod have asked the protesters to leave in a very respectful manner, and they've chosen to disrespect the decisions of Pachydod by staying. That's the underlying fundamental principle here. We have to respect the decisions of the Pachydot.

A judge is said to decide whether to grant the logging company an injunction that would order the protesters to clear the way for logging activity to resume. The problem is it feels like the whole world is crazy right now, and in the background, this is happening right in our backyards, and we're missing this, and it's going to be gone forever. Liz McArthur, CBC News, Walburn Valley, B.C. Recapping our top story, authorities in Utah say they have arrested a man suspected of killing Charlie Kirk. 22-year-old Tyler Robinson is in police custody. Officials describe him as someone who had become more political recently. They say he revealed his role in Kirk's death to a family friend.

Officials also say they found bullets inscribed with phrases, including hey fascist and catch with the alleged murder weapon. The suspect is believed to have acted alone. The investigation is ongoing. So far, no charges have been laid. And for news any time and further updates, you can go to cbcnews.ca. That's the latest national and international news from what Report. I'm Angie Seth. This is CBC News.