The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/07 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/07 at 19:00 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 Juliane 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 Bargout 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. Jody 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. A fire in northwestern Ontario has prompted an evacuation order.

Sandy Lake First Nation is near the border with Manitoba. Officials say the fire is spreading close to the community and all residents are ordered to leave. 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 are burning, seven of them not contained, but rain is helping fire crews. Ryan 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 stipendicates of accuies from $20 to $40 a day. Officials say it's been several years since the rate was reviewed. Volodymyr Zelensky wants Russia held accountable for today's shelling in Kharkiv, an attack he says left dozens injured and at least four dead. The Ukrainian president also called on the U.S. and Europe for support in boosting his country's air defense systems and encouraged upcoming summits, including this month's G7 in Kananaskis, Alberta, to help bring peace to Ukraine. This comes as an exchange of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners failed today. Moscow accused Kyiv of postponing the swap at the last minute,

while Ukraine says the two sides did not agree to the reparation of soldiers' bodies. 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 2SLGBIIQQ-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 for some national diversity, equity and inclusion programs. In Paris.

Coco Goff has won the French Open for the first time. The 21-year-old American tennis star defeated top ranked Irina Sabalenka. The second ranked Goff claimed her second major trophy since the 2023 U.S. Open. And that is your World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.