The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/07 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/07 at 17:00 EDT

1942, Europe. Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. They make him a member of Hitler's army. But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. Could a story so unbelievable be true? I'm Dan Goldberg. I'm from CBC's personally, Toy Soldier. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. We begin in Manitoba, just one of the province's fighting wildfires. Right now there are 28 burning, many of them out of control and threatening homes and communities.

Caroline Bargu has the latest. This fire is a monster. The winds have shifted in northern Manitoba and that has town officials in Snow Lake concerned. A 300,000 hectare wildfire that started in Saskatchewan has been threatening a number of communities in this province. And now it's moving closer to Snow Lake.

On Friday the town declared a local state of emergency telling all 1,100 residents they had to leave. Jodie Cockle is the town's emergency coordinator. If you're looking at it from a map perspective it's coming in basically on three sides. Firefighters and municipal workers are staying behind to spray water on wooded areas in hopes of keeping them from becoming fuel for the fire if it gets this far. Caroline Bargout, CBC News, The Paw, Manitoba. In British Columbia, windy weather in the northeast is making firefighting conditions more challenging. Emily Peacock is a BC Fire Information Officer.

Some things that our crews are seeing, they're seeing things like danger trees, so trees that are weakened by drought or previous wildfires. There's areas that are experiencing blowdowns. This is where large numbers of trees are knocked over by wind. As well, a lot of the fires in our northeast have very large fire perimeters. One of those fires has crossed from BC into Alberta. An evacuation order was already in effect, but now that order is expanding as the out-of-control fire threatens small communities near the city of Grand Prairie.

Saskatchewan officials gave an update on that province's fire situation. They say 24 fires are burning, seven of them not contained. But rain is helping fire crews. Brian Chartrand runs land operations with the Saskatchewan Safety Agency. Things are kind of staying where they're at and now with this reprieve I hope that we do get rain on these things so that we can start establishing a line and go more on the offensive than the defensive that we have been protecting structures. But I'm just glad that we're

not getting more starts and we can concentrate on the ones that we're currently dealing with. The province has doubled the stipend it's giving evacuees from $20 to $40 a day. Officials say it's been several years since the rate was reviewed. Protests continue in Los Angeles over immigration and customs enforcement raids across the city. Federal agents raided multiple workplaces and dozens of people have been arrested on immigration violations. Steve Futterman reports from LA on what's happening right now. This latest action is taking place at another Home Depot around 15 miles from downtown Los

Angeles. Now you may recall a Home Depot was one of the targets on Friday. Often at these Home Depots there are day laborers looking for work and this seems to be perhaps the target of the ICE officers. We have heard flash bangs, there is tear gas or pepper spray or some irritant in the air which I have tried to avoid breathing in, but this is clearly another action by ICE. There are protesters here who are very much upset that this is taking place." Steve Futterman reporting from Los Angeles.

Washington is marking 50 years of pride celebrations. The parade marched within a block of the White House grounds. Donald Trump is expected to be the target of some protests over his administration's rollback of 2S LGBTQ plus rights. He's issued executive orders limiting transgender rights and has banned transgender people from serving in the US armed forces. He's also walked back some national diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Donald Trump is warning Elon Musk that he'll face serious consequences if he funds Democrat candidates. But Trump reportedly didn't explain what those consequences would be.

That's according to NBC News, which says it did a phone interview with Trump. The U.S. president said this week canceling Musk's government contracts would be a good way to save billions of dollars. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.