The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/30 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/30 at 22:00 EDT

In this acclaimed new production of Anna Karenina, the National Ballet of Canada asks, what is fair in love and society? Renowned choreographer Christian Spook adapts Tolstoy's epic novel to dance in a spectacular work complete with lush costumes, cinematic projections, and a glorious curated score, featuring the music of Rachmaninoff. On stage June 13th to 21st, tickets on sale now at national.ballet.ca sponsored by IG private wealth management. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fague. Canada's steel industry has been hit

tonight by a Donald Trump tariff whammy. The US president announced he's doubling import levies to 50%. And tonight Trump also announced that aluminum was being hit with 50% levies. Ottawa has yet to respond. Aaron Collins is following the latest Trump tariff threat. He was just in Pennsylvania. It was a campaign style rally at a US steel plant. He drops another tariff bombshell, right? We're used to hearing this now, at least sort of off the cuff announcements, and he announces that he's going to be doubling tariffs on steel imported to the US. We are going to be imposing a 25% increase.

We're going to bring it from 25% to 50% the tariffs on steel into the United States of America. Nobody's going to get around that. Last year Canada exported more than $7 billion of steel to the U.S. so doubling tariffs on steel, an industry that's already feeling it, this is going to have a serious impact. If these proposed tariffs happen, they're here to stay, at least for now. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Washington. At least 17,000 people have been evacuated from wildfires ravaging Manitoba and hundreds more waiting to be moved out. 2,500 in Matias Colombre Nation alone, according to its vice chief, isolated because planes

can't land on its airstrip. Kyra Wilson is Grand Chief of the Association of Manitoba Chiefs and says action is needed quickly. We have people that are waiting to be evacuated. Please take this seriously. When we're talking about all levels of government, you have the resources. Take this seriously. We need to get these people out. We can't wait for jurisdictional issues or debates on who's paying for what and who's doing what. Wilson says the Canadian Armed Forces is offered to move people out on helicopters, which can

only take six at a time. Prime Minister Mark Carney convened the Incident Response Group today with the increased threat of the wildfires, particularly in Western Canada. The group was briefed on the government's support, including the mobilization of Canadian Armed Forces personnel to support air evacuations in Manitoba. The Prime Minister has also been in close contact with the Premiers of both Manitoba and Saskatchewan and says his government will partner with the Canadian Red Cross to match all donations and will also provide essential services such

as temporary lodging, clothing and food to those impacted along with any additional federal support needed. While barely a month into the wildfire season, crews are already stretched to the limit. Canada is now asking for international help and some experts say a shortfall in firefighting resources will only get worse. Kate Kyle explains. A helicopter plunges water onto a wildfire by Churchill Falls, Labrador. From the air and on the ground wildland firefighting crews are working at full capacity right across the country. And so there's a lot of competing demands out there.

Alexandria Jones is with the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. Our current available firefighting resources within Canada are all fully committed to response right now. Some say Canada's wildfire fighting capacity isn't growing fast enough to meet the demand. CBC reached out to the federal government about how it plans to address concerns about capacity and the idea of creating a national firefighting force. Officials have not responded.

Kate Kyle, CBC News, Yellowknife. Israel's government has reportedly blocked the foreign ministers from several Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey, from entering the occupied West Bank for a meeting in the city of Ramallah. They were due to meet the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday. Israel said the Palestinian Authority was planning to use the visit to promote the establishment of a Palestinian state. And that is your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Claude Fay.