The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/30 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/30 at 10:00 EDT

I thought that I knew Amanda Knox's story. She was the girl accused of murder in Italy who spent four years in prison for a crime that she did not commit. But then she told me what her life has really been like. I had finally done something in my life that defined me more than this horrible thing that had happened to me. I'm Kathleen Goldtar and this week on Crime Story, Amanda Knox in her own words. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings.

Analysts are calling it the calm before the storm. Statistics Canada says the economy grew by 2.2% over the first quarter of the year, with most of that growth attributed to businesses racing to get ahead of the looming Trump tariffs. But with many of those tariffs now taking effect, some forecasters are predicting that Canada could be in a recession by mid-summer. As for interest rates, the Bank of Canada makes its June setting next Wednesday. Some forecasters are predicting that Canada could be in a recession by mid-summer. As for interest rates, the Bank of Canada makes its June setting next Wednesday. We're still three weeks away from the official start of summer, but already six provinces are dealing with out-of-control wildfires.

More than 17,000 people are under evacuation orders, and across the Prairie provinces alone, 600,000 hectares of land have been consumed. It has led to the Saskatchewan government now joining Manitoba in declaring a province-wide state of emergency. Alexander Silverman has the latest now from Prince Albert. Glad we made it on time. Lisa Highway says she barely made it out of Pelicanero, Saskatchewan, as wildfires raged closer and closer. The dangerous journey took her down the only road out of town with a wall of flames mere meters away. So my baby is four years old he was pretty scared seeing all that

because he keeps asking me every day are we gonna go home. The province's top wildfire officials warning it's expected to get worse. Marlo Pritchard is fire commissioner. All of us need to pull together to get through this over the next days, weeks. The province's largest fire, one of eight burning out of control, is more than 200,000 hectares, nearly 10 times the size of Saskatoon. It's now threatening the village of Candle Lake. Water bombers from Alaska and Quebec are now helping battle the fires. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Prince Albert. Meanwhile on the East Coast, emergency crews in Labrador are dealing with two major fires

that have merged into one and is now 170 hectares in size. It's burning just east of Churchill Falls. And in northern Ontario, a wildfire is threatening the remote Deer Lake First Nation. It means 1,100 people are in the process of being airlifted more than 1,000 kilometres south to Toronto. Health officials say Israeli airstrikes on Gaza today have killed at least 14 people. This, as Hamas says, it is now reviewing a new Israeli-approved ceasefire proposal. The agreement would see the Israeli military campaign come to an end

if Hamas agrees to release the 58 hostages still being held in the territory. Frustrated with Moscow, the United States is threatening to walk away from its efforts to get peace talks started to end the war in Ukraine. Anna Cunningham has the latest. If Russia makes the wrong decision to continue this catastrophic war, the United States will have to consider stepping back from our negotiation efforts. The acting deputy U.S. ambassador, John Kelly, speaking at the UN Security Council. Not for the first time, the U.S. expressing its deep level of frustration at this ongoing war.

Moscow and Kiev delegations are due to meet again in Istanbul Monday for direct talks. Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky accuses Russia of deception by failing to hand over its peace settlement proposal ahead of the meeting. U.S. President Donald Trump said this was promised by Russian President Vladimir Putin when they spoke last week. If talks proceed, Turkey says it's ready to host a leaders summit, which could see Zelensky, Putin and Trump meet. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London.

Former Sinn Fein leader Jerry Adams has won his libel suit against the BBC. Adams launched the legal action after the BBC claimed he authorized the murder of an informant inside the Irish Republican movement. The BBC argued that its reporting didn't harm Adams reputation because he is widely considered to have been an IRA commander. But the jury disagreed and awarded Adams more than $100,000 US in damages. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.