The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/10 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/10 at 10:00 EDT

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I'm Joe Cummings. They are Canadian citizens of Afghan descent who carried out some of the most difficult and dangerous assignments of the war in Afghanistan. Now these former language and cultural advisors have launched a discrimination suit against the Canadian government. Murray Brewster reports. Abdul Hamidi served multiple tours in Afghanistan alongside Canadian troops. He wore the same uniform, dodged ambushes and rockets. Hamidi was a civilian contractor advising troops on Afghan

language and customs, but also eavesdropping on Taliban communications. When he returned home to Canada with post-traumatic stress as a civilian, he was ineligible for federal help. Now, he and his fellow advisors have launched a charter of rights discrimination case against the federal government. There's nothing different between us. If you brought me to this level, you have to answer me. CBC News has, for the last six years, documented the cases of Hamidi and dozens of other advisors. The suit, filed in Ontario Superior Court, argues the former Afghan advisors faced discrimination before, during, and after their wartime service, noting the men were not properly trained or prepared for combat.

The federal government has not responded to the claims in the suit. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. For a fourth straight night, demonstrators protesting the Trump administration's immigration raids took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles. There were clashes with police, who along with being supported by the National Guard will soon be joined by the Marines. Steve Futterman has more. The skirmishes, and they were sometimes sometimes violent again lasted into the night and actually past midnight after ordering the protesters to leave in the early evening. Police began moving in trying to disperse them using tear gas, rubber bullets.

Some of the protesters responded throwing items at the police, including industrial fireworks. Mayor Karen Bastow last night blasted the Trump administration. She says it triggered all this with the raids last Friday. We need to stop the raids. This was chaos that was started in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, the city was peaceful. On Friday, it was not because of the intervention of the federal government.

Now, we did see the National Guard last night protecting some of the buildings, establishing lines of defense, but they did not make any arrests. And of course, the new element in all this, around 700 Marines are being deployed from nearby Camp Pendleton. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. Now to the wildfire emergency, and as the number of people forced from their homes continues to grow, there are mounting concerns that many wildfire evacuees aren't getting the assistance they need.

Alexander Silberman has more. In northern Saskatchewan, growing wildfires are continuing to keep thousands out of their homes. The village of Ayrranj Mayor Julie Baschchuk says some residents are telling her they're hungry and sleeping in tents and don't know where to go for help. We've set up people to basically fall into the depths of poverty the way that this is going. Baschchuk says the problems stem from confusion over who is running the emergency response,

with the Red Cross, province and First Nations all involved. In Manitoba, wildfires have now pushed about 21,000 people out of their homes. The province received some desperately needed rain in recent days, but not enough, officials say. Fire crews are hoping for a heavy downpour amid an above average start to fire season. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Regina. Activist Greta Thunberg is now in France after being deported from Israel. I did not recognize that I entered the country legally.

I made it very clear in my testimony that we were kidnapped on international waters and brought there against our own will into Israel. Toomburg and 11 others aboard the humanitarian aid ship Madeline were intercepted earlier this week by Israeli forces. They were attempting to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. Israel says it expects the other activists to be deported as well. And that is the World This Hour.