The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/31 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/31 at 11:00 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, the world this hour, I'm Tricia Kindleman. Thousands of people on the prairies are fleeing rapidly spreading wildfires, waiting to see

just where the wind might blow the flames. Just this morning, officials have declared a mandatory evacuation for Cranberry Portage in Manitoba and surrounding areas due to wildfires. Evacuees are being asked to head to Winnipeg and must leave the area by 3 p.m. today. The military is on the ground in other parts of that province, and in Saskatchewan there are growing concerns over the spread of a large fire in the north. Both those provinces are under provincial states of emergency. Alexander Sibbulman reports.

Pray for rain. Manitoba Premier Wab Kanu urging residents to remain calm in the face of widespread fires. Upwards of 17,000 people in the province now evacuated from their homes. The past few days have been very challenging. That may continue. A wildfire is raging on the edge of Flynn Flawn and the fear is winds could push the flames inside the city. All 5,000 people who live there have been ordered out. Evacuations are also underway in several remote northern communities. The military helping to get

people out by plane. Across the border in Saskatchewan, fires are also threatening homes and forcing evacuations. The province's largest fire, burning 305,000 hectares. A situation wildfire officials warn could get worse. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The ground search for two children who went missing in rural Nova Scotia continues this weekend. Lily and Jack Sullivan have been missing since May 2nd. Their disappearance sparked extensive searches through the area. Nova Scotia RCMP say the search this weekend will focus on specific areas near where a boot print was previously located. Robert Parker is the warden for the municipality of the county of Pictou. He says the community remains

disappointed. It's hard to believe that that many people looked for that long, including search parties from all over this province. And the RCMP have been involved since day one and lots of others looking and trying and there's not one iota that I've heard of anyway as to a hint of where the two little ones went. Earlier this week RCMP confirmed the siblings were seen in public with family members on May 1st, one day before their disappearance. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says rallies are planned across the country today.

And these come after Canada Post presented its final offers to the union on Wednesday. It included concessions like an end to compulsory overtime and a signing bonus of up to $1,000. Canada Post said in a statement Friday that the parties are at an impasse. It would like a new collective agreement vote administered by the Canada Industrial Relations Board. In international news, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is calling on Indo-Pacific allies to raise defense spending to counter the threat from China. Hegseth was speaking at an annual gathering of defence leaders

in Singapore. Patrick Fock has more. As defence leaders from around the world gather in Singapore to discuss security in the Indo-Pacific, there's one notable absence. Chinese Defence Minister Dong Zheng. A strategic choice, says political analyst Victor Tio. They are confident that the Shangri-La dialogue will be used by the Americans and her allies to pressure China on a variety of issues. US defence secretary Pete Hegset is in attendance, hoping to reassure partners in the region of continued American support. French President Emmanuel Macron aims to capital capitalize on fears about the rivalry between Washington and Beijing. France, like the rest of the European Union, wants countries in Asia to hedge their bets,

neither leaning too far west nor too far east. It's a cautious balancing act most players in the region have learnt to maintain. But with China only sending a lower-level academic delegation to the forum, the Shangri-La dialogue could be in danger of becoming a monologue. Patrick Fock, for CBC News, Singapore. And that is your World This Hour for CBC News. I'm Tricia Kindleman.