The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 12:00 EDT

The ocean is vast, beautiful, and lawless. I'm Ian Urbina back with an all new season of The Outlaw Ocean. The stories we bring you this season are literally life or death. We look into the shocking prevalence of forced labor, mine boggling overfishing, migrants hunted and captured. The Outlaw Ocean takes you where others won't. Available on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Gina Louise Phillips. We begin with the wildfires ravaging the country. Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa has deployed military aircraft and personnel to support emergency airlift evacuations around Sandy Lake, First

Nation in Ontario. Meanwhile flames have destroyed about 800,000 hectares of land in Manitoba. Caroline Bargout has more on the efforts to fight the spread. It's really dry. Gary Lejean has never seen the forest this dry. He says normally there's a lot more moisture in the ground in the spring. Lejean is a heavy equipment operator on the front lines of the Manitoba wildfire fight. What happens is you go on the outside of the fire and you try and take the fuel away from the fire. His job is to use a dozer or front-end loader to knock down trees and try to create a fire break to stop flames from spreading.

He says most of the time it does the trick. The only time the fire goes over that is if there's big heavy winds. Manitoba remains under a province-wide state of emergency. There are 28 wildfires burning here. Those fires have forced more than 18,000 people from their homes. Peter Thibodeau is one of them. Give us some answers. The province says adults registered with the Red Cross will receive $238 a week, but Thibodeau has gotten nothing. A spokesperson for the Red Cross says some evacuees may need to verify their identity in person. Caroline Bargout, CBC News in the Paw, Manitoba.

In the U.S., in Los Angeles specifically, the National Guard troops have begun arriving in response to two days of confrontations between protesters and federal agents attempting to carry out U.S. President Donald Trump's deportation orders. ICE OUTTA VALLEY! Demonstrators are angry about raids by immigration and customs enforcement agents who have arrested more than 100 undocumented migrants. California Governor Gavin Newsom says the National Guard will only escalate the tensions. There's another growing resistance movement in the U.S. as President Trump moves to roll back measures aimed at fighting climate change while scientists

are at the forefront of fighting back. Laura Lynch, the host of What on Earth? has this report. Climate scientist Brandon Jones likens it to the civil rights movement. Jones is the president of the American Geophysical Union. The group is mobilized to ensure research into the effects of climate change will be made public. That's despite President Trump's firing of hundreds of scientists responsible for the work in the name of government efficiency. It's about ethics and morality now and humanity. Jones says those same people will keep working, some without pay, to have their studies published in the organization's journal.

Trump's actions are also reinvigorating climate activists like Aru Shaini-Aje. We are actually fighting deliberate destructive action. Shaini Adjei says people are ready to risk possible arrest or other sanctions in the name of peaceful protest. Laura Lynch, CBC News, Vancouver. The US and Israeli backed aid group Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it is once again distributing aid, but only one of its locations is operational, and there are growing fears for the safety of Palestinians there.

Crystal Guimansing reports. Huge crowds of people snake around a dirt road in central Gaza, leading to a food distribution point. Beyond the fences, men appearing to be in protective gear observing from a lookout. As people stream by hauling white boxes, gunfire can be heard in the distance, and the crowd starts to run. Injured people were seen being carried from the area.

CBC reached out to Israel Defense Forces given the images and sounds captured by CBC's freelance videographer near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site. The IDF says warning shots were fired into the area to keep people from going beyond the approved GHF location. Since it began operating its handful of aid sites, it's been overwhelmed by swarms of hungry people

and dozens have been shot or killed near the aid centers. Crystal Gamancing, CBC News, Jerusalem. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.