The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 13:00 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 Julianne Hazelwood.

Wildfires are forcing a swift evacuation of Sandy Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario. Flames are burning less than 10 kilometres away from the community. Dolores Kakagamic is chief of Sandy Lake First Nation. She says there was a close call for workers trying to build a fire break. Just engulfed on them real fast. They were trying to help out by creating, what do you call, those barriers. And they didn't realize how fast fire would burn.

And then they got trapped, and they pretty much got trapped in a circle. But thankfully that's a big yard. So I think that's what helped them out too. 500 residents have been moved out so far. Prime Minister Mark Carney is sending military planes and personnel to help airlift more residents. Poor air quality from the wildfires is expected to improve by tomorrow, according to Environment Canada. Eight provinces

have been experiencing poor air quality and reduced visibility. Environment Canada meteorologist Jean Philippe Beguin says a low pressure system passing through the prairies by Monday is set to bring rain for areas hit by the blazes. Russia says its forces are advancing into central Ukraine for the first time. That claim comes amid a public row between Moscow and Kiev over peace negotiations and the return of thousands of dead soldiers. Dominic Vallaitis reports.

A Russian commander claiming the capture of Zoya in Ukraine's Dornetsk region. But Moscow says the advance has gone even further west, claiming Russian troops are now on the march in Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time in this three-year conflict. Ukraine has denied the claims. As President Volodymyr Zelensky told ABC News, more operations like last Sunday's audacious drone strike on Russia's strategic bomber fleet are in the pipeline. We have to prepare such plans and we are not stopping because we don't know if they will stop this war. They don't want to stop the war.

Meanwhile, Russian officials say the first convoy carrying the bodies of hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers had arrived at the designated site, but that Ukrainian officials failed to show up after the exchange was unexpectedly postponed Saturday. Dominic Vlases for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. In Gaza. Dominic Fleiss is for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. In Gaza, displaced people wait for food from a charity kitchen. Paramedics in Gaza say four were killed and others were injured by Israeli forces today outside a distribution site in Rafa. The Israeli military says troops opened fire but it first fired warning shots at the group

whose soldiers considered a threat. Dozens were killed in fatal shootings at aid centers last week. Soldiers with California's National Guard are being deployed in Los Angeles after days of protests over raids targeting alleged illegal immigrants. U.S. President Donald Trump issued the order last night. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Trump had to act. She's blaming Governor Gavin Newsom. Well, if he was doing his job,

then people wouldn't have gotten hurt the last couple of days. Governor Newsom has proven that he makes bad decisions. The president knows that he makes bad decisions, and that's why the president chose the safety of this community Over waiting for governor newsome to get some sanity newsome says trump only wants a spectacle events secretary Pete hagseth says he'll send in the marines if the unrest continues calling it deranged behavior Canadian swimmer summer mackintosh has set a new world record. She has not let up at all. She's actually picking it up as she comes to the wall. Keep your eye on the clock. 355.38. World record!

The 18-year-old Toronto native broke the record in the women's 400-metre freestyle at the Canadian swimming trials in Victoria last night. The time was more than a second faster than the previous record held by Australian swimmer Ariane Titmuss set in 2023. McIntosh lost out on the gold tetismus at last summer's Olympics in Paris. And that's your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood.