The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 21:00 EDT

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I'm Claude Fague. Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump are having talks out of the spotlight to reach a trade agreement and lift tariffs. This as industry leaders push the federal government to make a deal before it's too late. Raffy Boudjacanian has more. Are you any closer to reaching a deal? Industry Minister Melanie Jolie revealing little about ongoing trade negotiations with

the US. I won't answer that question. We won't negotiate in public. But a source with knowledge of the talks tells CBC News and Radio Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney and US President Donald Trump have been chatting on the phone and texting each other ever since their meeting in Washington about a month ago. How are they going with? Very well. Sources say there could be some sort of Canada- US trade deal by the time the two leaders meet at the

G7 in Alberta later in June. That could not come soon enough for steel and aluminum companies, bracing after Trump doubled tariffs on all imported products from those industries, now at 50%. Whatever the government does decide, the pressure to act is mounting. Rafi Boudjikan, YonCBC News, Ottawa. Canada posted its largest trade deficit ever in April. The more than $7 billion deficit is a huge increase from $2.3 billion in March. Statistics Canada says slowing trade with the US is behind the increase. The weather is a challenge in fighting wildfires in Saskatchewan.

There hasn't been any significant rain in some areas, but officials have lifted the evacuation order in one northern community. Alexander Silberman is there. In Wayaquin, Saskatchewan, helicopters are working around the clock to battle wildfires from the air, as crews race to put out hot spots. It used to be nice out here actually. There's a lot of green. There's nothing but black around here now.

Firefighter Jordan Lavallee helped save the hamlet from widespread damage. The forest around it charred. But homes, including the one he grew up in, are safe. It got pretty close actually. Just down the road, right down the road, it's right on the perimeter. It's maybe five feet in and it's all burned up there. So it stopped feet away from the edge of town? Yeah.

More than 10,000 people have now been forced to evacuate in Saskatchewan with 27 active wildfires. The area burned is nearly double the size of Prince Edward Island. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Wayaquin, Saskatchewan. A feud between the President of the United States and the richest man in the world is blowing up. It's taking place in Donald Trump's Oval Office and on Elon Musk's social media site. Steve Futterman has more on the flame out.

At one time it seemed like a political love match made in heaven. He's a great gentleman. He's done such an unbelievable job. That was last year. Now U.S. President Donald Trump is using much different language in talking about Elon Musk. Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we're well anymore. Their big disagreements focus on policies, deficitit spending and tax breaks for electric vehicles a political divorce is a possibility

Musk is lashing out at Trump with tweets on his social media site X in one musk accuses Trump of not telling the truth He says what an obvious lie so sad and musk says he was responsible for Trump's White House victory last year, saying, without me, Trump would have lost the election. This once adoring political coupling is on the rocks and facing possible irreconcilable differences. Steve Fetterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. The Trump administration is slapping sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court. The judges are involved in the tribunal's investigation into alleged war crimes by Israel

and Gaza. Washington calls the investigation an abuse of power and an infringement on the sovereignty of the U.S. and its ally Israel. The court says the sanctions are an attempt to undermine its independence. And that is your World This Hour. Remember for news anytime you can visit our website at cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.