The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/14 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/14 at 18:00 EDT

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You can find and follow The Current on your favorite podcast app. We'll talk to you soon. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. We begin in Minnesota and what state authorities call the targeted shootings of two Democratic lawmakers. Speaker Melissa and her husband Mark were shot and killed early this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination. Governor Tim Walt says Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed early this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination. Governor Tim Walt says Hortman and her husband were shot in their home. Both died from their injuries. Another Democratic state lawmaker and his wife were shot and wounded.

They're recovering in hospital. The suspect was wearing what looked like a police uniform and driving a replica of a police car. Mark Bruhle is the chief of the Brooklyn Park Police Department. When we did a search of the vehicle, there wasn't a manifesto that identified many lawmakers and other officials. We immediately made alerts to the state who took action on alerting them and providing security where necessary. Officers encountered the gunman outside the second location exchanging gunfire, but he escaped and a massive search is now underway.

Local media say the suspect is 57-year-old Vance Bolter, who works for a security company. Two suburbs of Minneapolis remain under shelter-in-place orders. Across America, anti-Trump protests are being held today. Under no-Kings banners, the demonstrators are denouncing what they see as the U.S. president's authoritarian actions. Jennifer Glass reports. We don't need Donald Trump in the White House, that's for sure. 77-year-old Marsha Richmond is holding a sign saying no kings, no dictators. She says the U.S. president is taking away long fought for freedoms. Especially, you

know, for women and for blacks and for gays. This demonstration along a main road in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, is one of more than 2,000 no-kings protests scheduled across America. National Guard veteran Darren Linebaugh. I didn't fight for our country to have a dictator. A smaller pro-Trump rally organized by the local Republican club is on the same road. Shane, who declined to give his last name, is holding a large Trump flag. They're saying Trump is a king, which is totally not true.

That's why he got elected. You don't elect kings. In one street, in one town in America, the political divide is laid bare. For CBC News, I'm Jennifer Glass in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. In Israel, over the skies of Jerusalem this evening, Iranian state television said it would fire 100 missiles at Israel. Israel continued its airstrikes on Iran today and Anna Cunningham has more on that. Iranian air defenses activated above the skies in Tehran in response to fresh Israeli air

strikes. Israel has already struck Iranian nuclear and military facilities with a barrage of missiles Friday, killing several top officials and leading scientists. Iran's ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeed Irvani, said 78 people had been killed and 320 wounded in the first wave of Israeli air strikes. Israel has hit the Netan's uranium enrichment site and the nuclear facility at Isfahan, raising concerns from the International Atomic Energy Agency about safety at the sites. On Iranian state TV Saturday claims that an Israeli attack on a housing complex in Tehran

killed 60 people, including 20 children. CBC is unable to verify the figures. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. A tornado warning has been issued for south-central Saskatchewan. Environment Canada is urging people to take cover in and around Halford, Blaine Lake, Radisson and Borden. A severe thunderstorm capable of producing tornadoes is moving through the area. About 1800 wildfire evacuees from northern Manitoba were given the green light to return

home today. Mandatory evacuations were lifted for Sheridan, Herb Lake Landing, Cranberry Portage and Snow Lake this morning. And about 10,000 evacuees in Saskatchewan are also heading home. Five communities still remain under evacuation. While in BC, cooler weather appears to have dampened the wildfire, burning near Squamish BC. Firefighters are holding it steady at about 600 hectares. And that is all for the World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website cbcnews.ca.

For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.