The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/15 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/15 at 07:00 EDT

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between Israel and Iran. Tehran launched multiple wave of attacks overnight targeting northern and central Israel, with a number of missiles making it through Israeli air defence systems. There have been at least 10 deaths and dozens of injuries. The CBC's Crystal Gomancing is on site there. Sixty-one buildings were affected in strikes overnight. At some point there were more than 30 people who were missing. That number has been reduced greatly. However, six people were killed here. We're being told that people who stayed in safer areas and staircases and other points of shelter were safe. They made it out of the buildings three Three kilometers away in Rehovot was also hit. A market area was

hit there as well as a science research institute. Plus there were strikes in the north around Haifa. The IDF also saying this morning that seven UAVs were launched towards Israel. The Navy took part to intercept those. There is still a state of emergency. People are here trying to clean up a little bit. Shop owners are sweeping up broken glass. We see people leaving apartments carrying a few photo albums and a couple of personal items. The CBC's Crystal Gamansing and Bat Yam Israel. Inspections of Air India's Boeing 787 aircraft are underway.

Checks have already been done on nine of the fleet airplanes. This is on the orders of the Indian aviation regulator after last week's deadly crash. At least 270 people were killed when the London-bound plane went down into a medical college shortly after takeoff. The CBC's South Asia correspondent Salima Shivji is in India with the latest. Outside Ahemdabad's hospital morgue, it's a painful wait for answers for dozens of families tucked in a large tent as the bodies of victims are slowly released once DNA testing is complete. More than 40 samples have been matched out of a death toll of more than 270 people.

I've been trying to forget what I saw for the last two days, says Narendar Singh Chauhan. He was one of the first rescuers to reach the devastating scene of the crash. We did what we could to save people, but it was impossible for so many. As investigators continue to sift through the wreckage for clues into what went wrong, India's entire fleet of Boeing 787s is being inspected to make sure they are safe. And the final words from the pilots distress call are circulating in local media. Thrust not achieved, falling. Mayday, mayday, mayday, he reportedly said, before communication

was lost. Salima Shivji, CBC News, Ahmedabad, India. Meanwhile, seven people are dead after a helicopter crash in northern India. It happened early today in the state of Uttarakhand as the chopper was heading to a prominent Hindu pilgrimage site in the Himalayas. Officials say the crash happened within minutes of takeoff on what was supposed to be a 10-minute flight. The crash is believed to have been caused by poor weather conditions.

Officials say a wildfire near Squamish, BC is now classified as being held after help from cool, cloudy weather. The BC Wildfire Service says the the Blaze is expected to remain within its current perimeter based on fuel, weather and resource availability. The district of Squamish says the Dryden Creek wildfire has been held steady since Friday. Many nearby properties are still under an evacuation alert and those alerts will be reevaluated today. To Edmonton now in the Stanley Cup final. There's Marsha back in with the middle to the mat. Scores! What a spectacular goal for Brad Marsha. As seen on hockey night in Canada, Brad Marsha and the Halifax native scored his

second goal of the game to put the game out of reach for the Florida Panthers who beat the Oilers 5-2 to grab a two, a three-2 series lead with Game 6 back in Florida on Tuesday. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.