The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 00:00 EDT
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From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fague. We begin in Manitoba, just one of the
provinces 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 Cawkel
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. Sandy Lake First Nation has a total population of just over
3,100 with over 2,600 residing on the reserve. Saskatchewan officials gave an update on the
province's fire situation there. They say 24 wildfires are burning, Seven of them, 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 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 gives evacuees from 20 to 40 dollars 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.
U.S. President Donald Trump has now ordered the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops
into the city.
Federal agents raided multiple workplaces today, and dozens of people have been arrested
on immigration violations.
Reporter Steve Futterman is in Los Angeles.
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. In Columbia, people rush a senator into a waiting ambulance after he was shot.
Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbe was shot in Bogota as he hosted a campaign event at a
city park today. His condition is listed as serious. One of the suspected shooters was captured.
The 39-year-old Uribe Turbe is a member of the opposition conservative
Democratic Center Party and considered a possible candidate in the country's
presidential election next year. In a release statement, the Colombian
presidency condemned the shooting. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says his
country condemns the attempted assassination. Swimming sensation Summer
McIntosh has rewritten a world record at
the national trials in Vancouver. In Victoria, McIntosh, the 18 year old
Toronto native, broke the record in the women's 400 meter freestyle, clocking in
with a time of just over three minutes 54 seconds, the time more than two seconds
faster than the previous record held by Australian swimmer Ariane Tipmas, set in 2022, who, by the way,
beat out McIntosh for the gold medal last year
at the Summer Olympics.
And that is Your World This Hour.
For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.