The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 14:00 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.

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 on the border with Manitoba. And in Manitoba flames have scorched about 800,000 hectares of earth. 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 this 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.

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. Israel has ordered its military to block an aid flotilla headed toward Gaza. The Madeline convoy has responded by instituting a communications blackout, which with one of those aboard, German activist Yasmine Akkar,

delivering this ominous message to the flotilla's followers. If you don't hear from us in the coming hours, it means we have been cut off from the world. Remember, we are doing this for Gaza. We are doing this because our governments continue to send weapons to kill instead of sending aid to save lives. The blockade on Gaza must be lifted. We demand immediate access for humanitarian relief. We demand an end to the killings.

Also on board, climate activist Greta Thunberg, Israel's defense minister, had his own warning for her and others on the convoy. Crystal Gumansing explains. That Freedom Flotilla, the vessel is known as the Madeleine, they have some aid on board. They are saying that they want to be able to get to Gaza to offload those needed supplies. They launched from Sicily on June 6. They are nearing Gaza, but as we had anticipated, Israel's defense minister confirmed they will not be permitted to reach their destination. Israel Katz issuing a statement on his social media page.

He said, I have instructed the IDF to act so that the Madeleine does not reach Gaza He goes on to say that to the anti-semitic Greta and her Hamas propaganda spouting friends I clearly say you'd better turn back in response the activists on board that vessel very close to Gaza They wanted to reassure people that they are all right and that they will move forward saying they are peaceful and that they simply want to deliver their supplies. Crystal Gumancing reporting from Jerusalem. Thousands of soldiers with California's National Guard are arriving on the streets of Los Angeles. It's in response to two days of confrontations between protesters and federal agents attempting

to carry out US President Donald Trump's deportation orders. ICE OUT OF ALI! ICE OUT OF ALI! ICE OUT OF ALI! Those demonstrators are angry about raids by immigration and customs enforcement agents who have arrested more than a hundred undocumented migrants. California Governor Gavin Newsom says the National Guard will only escalate the tensions. There's a new labour dispute in Canada's parcel delivery industry.

2,100 workers at DHL Express Canada have been locked out. Their union, Unifor, says the courier wants to change the driver pay system and use replacement workers before they're banned later this month. The dispute could be a speed bump for next weekend's Formula One Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal. That's because DHL is responsible for delivering the racer's cars. And that's your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.