The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/15 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/15 at 16:00 EDT

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Activists, says at least 406 people have been killed in Iran since the conflict began last Thursday, and several Iranian missiles have hit targets in Israel today. Trent Murray has more on the latest strike. Well the cell phone alerts and city sirens sounded just before 9pm local time, sending people into their shelters. It was a very wide area of warning with Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa all included in the potential impact zone.

Now here in Tel Aviv we certainly heard a number of interceptions from inside of our building's safe room but there are no immediate signs of a direct impact in our part of the city. Authorities though are saying there have been several injuries including in Haifa, Israel's second largest city located in the far north. Local media is showing fire crews working to extinguish flames in a residential street. The IDF is also saying that Home Front Command has sent search and rescue forces to several reported impact sites including in the far south.

Trent Murray for CBC News, Tel Aviv. Thousands of people took to the streets of cities in southern Europe today to demonstrate against tourism. They say too many homes and apartments are being turned into short-term rentals, and the influx of people is overwhelming the environment and diluting local culture. Dominic Vlaitis has more. Protests got underway in Barcelona with a bang. Smoke bombs were thrown.

Water pistols were fired at shop windows. This is just the latest protest against over-tourism, which demonstrators like Vania Arana say is raising living costs. It affects our housing, she says, because more and more we're being pushed out of our apartments so they can be turned into tourist rentals. Barcelona drew 26 million tourists last year alone. That number is expected to rise even further. Officials here have already pledged to phase out apartment rentals to tourists to make

the city more liveable for its residents. But people want more to be done and quicker. There were similar protests in other parts of Spain, including Málaga, Mallorca and Ibiza, and further afield too, with demos taking place in Italy and Portugal. Dominic Velazquez for CBC News, Riga Latvia. We want to get this guy. That's Minnesota's Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar talking about the search for suspect Vance Luther Bolter. Police say he disguised himself as a police officer and shot two state legislators and their spouses yesterday. Former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed. State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were wounded and are in hospital. A manifesto was

found in Bolter's vehicle, including a long list of targets, including politicians, abortion advocates and others. Klobuchar calls on all politicians to condemn political violence. People know that elected officials get threats, a lot of them you never hear about, judges, election workers. This has gotten totally out of hand. In 2016, there were like 1,700 of them. Last year, over 9,000 of them. Police initially thought Bolter was in the area of the two shootings, but have now expanded their search. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward, and Klobuchar says extra security has been provided to her and other Minnesota leaders.

Many children in Canada count on breakfast programs to ensure they have at least one solid meal a day. But those are normally run out of schools that close down in the summer. While a food bank in Ottawa is trying to bridge that gap. Rachel Wilson is CEO of the Ottawa Food Bank. There are many great breakfast programs through schools throughout the city. They're amazing programs. But unfortunately in the summer they all close up when the schools are done. Many of those children will be turning to their families to find breakfast, lunch and dinner.

And we know that families are really struggling right now. A summer food drive raised more than 40,000 kilograms of food. That Ottawa Food Bank will now distribute to kids in need and children living in community housing. And that's all for The World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. The World This Hour is updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.