The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 18:00 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 Julie-Ann 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 readily spreading wildfires. As Phil Bleszanak reports, people in the area are sharing stories of survival. 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 flames surrounded them. Sea Cans 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 Kagigimic says about 500 community members,

the old, young and vulnerable people, have been flown to safety. Prioritize who should go first 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. Philliply Shannock, CBC News, Toronto. More than a hundred wildfires are burning across Canada forcing thousands of people to evacuate their communities.

Ken McMullen is president of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs. He's urging Ottawa to establish a national agency to coordinate firefighting efforts. A national fire administration is going to ensure better coordination, training and equipment for all firefighters across this country. There are many many other countries that have some sort of position of a fire administration within federal government. In fact, Canada will be the only country, G7, that does not have a national fire administration. McMullen says he has talks scheduled with the federal government next week about creating a national group. He says it's an important way to get resources from one part of the country to the other

when wildfires encroach on communities. In Los Angeles, about 300 members of the California National Guard have joined with the LAPD to control protests. Those shots being fired outside a detention center. Demonstrators are angry over raids targeting suspected undocumented migrants. US President Donald Trump spoke for the first time since ordering the California National Guard into Los Angeles. Trump says it's all about law and order. Well, we're going to have troops everywhere. We're not going to let this happen to our country.

We're not going to let our country be torn apart. Nobody's going to spit on our police officers. Nobody's going to spit on our military, which they do is a common thing. They get up to them this far away and then they start spitting in their face. That happens. They get hit very hard. This is the first time the Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack. The Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack.

The Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack. The Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack. The Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack. The Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack. The Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack. The Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack. The Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack. The Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack. The Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack. The Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack. The Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack. The Guard's been sent in since the Rodney King Ryan attack. They get up to them this far away and then they start spitting in their face. That happens, they get hit very hard.

This is the first time the guards have been sent in since the Rodney King riots in 1992. But this time it was done over Governor Gavin Newsom's objections, Newsom calling Trump's response an overreaction. Vladimir Zelensky says Ukraine used quote cheap drones to destroy just over a third of Russia's bombing fleet. We have our analytics that we destroyed 34 percent of their strategic air jets and especially those jets which they used to attack our civil infrastructure, people, children. They killed a lot of people.

It's not about hundreds, it's about thousands. In an ABC interview that aired today, the Ukrainian president estimated his country struck down 41 Russian jets in last Sunday's intelligence operation. But the US says that only about 20 were hit, while around 10 were destroyed. Ukraine's drone strikes were a blow to Russia, who thought throughout the war has frequently reminded the world of its nuclear might. In Paris, Carlos Alcaraz has won the French Open for a second straight year. The tennis player from Spain rallied from two sets down to defeat Yannick Sinner.

It is also the longest ever French Open final in the Open era. Five hours and 29 minutes. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.