The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 16:00 EDT

We learned about Leo Schofield's fight for innocence in season one of Bone Valley. Now, he and author Gilbert King are back with season two. This time, they dig deeper into the history of the man who confessed to killing Leo's wife. Do I want to talk to him? Do I really forgive him? This is the man that murdered my wife, and I've been through hell on earth because of it. I'm Kathleen Goltar, and this week on Crime Story, how Leo Schofield chose to forgive the man who destroyed his life.

Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. Canadian military planes and personnel are helping evacuate Sandy Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario. Prime Minister Mark Carney says the province requested help as it battles rapidly spreading wildfires. As Phil Blychanok reports, people in the area are sharing stories of survival. Everything else is going to die but we made it.

Neil Gillespie and his construction crew were responding to a call for help from the Sandy Lake First Nation to build some fire breaks around the fly-in community of about 2,500 people near the Ontario-Manitoba border. But his camp was quickly overrun by wildfire. In a video posted to social media, Gillespie showed the shipping container he and his crew sheltered in as the flame surrounded them. Seacans caught on fire. They were able to make it to Sandy Lake where they were airlifted to safety. Ottawa has deployed Hercules cargo planes and other military aircraft to get people out. Chief Dolores Kagigamik says about 500

community members, the old, young and vulnerable people, have been flown to safety. Prioritize who should go first but that list is still long. Many will be taken to host communities in southwestern Ontario and elsewhere until it's safe to return home. Philip LeShannach, CBC News, Toronto. Israel has ordered its military to block an aid flotilla headed toward Gaza. The Madeline convoy has responded to by instituting a communications blackout with one of those aboard, German activist Yasemin Akkar, delivering this message to the flotilla's followers.

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 Madeline does not reach Ghazi. 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, saying they are peaceful and that they simply

want to deliver their supplies. Crystal Gomancing reporting from Jerusalem. 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 Volaitis 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 Vleisves for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.