The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/16 at 03:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/16 at 03:00 EDT

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Donald Trump. They're expected to discuss issues like border security, tariffs and trade deals. Sunday night, Trump was asked if he's expecting any new agreements. Look, we have our trade deals. All we have to do is send a letter. This is what you're going to have to pay. But I think we'll have a few new trade deals. On his way to the summit, French President Emmanuel Macron used to stop over in Greenland to send Trump an unmistakable message. The visit to Nuuk was a major show of solidarity in the face of Trump's threats to annex the Natchez territory with military force if necessary. Murray Brewster tells us Macron's tough remarks could make for an uncomfortable leaders meeting.

Emmanuel Macron was given a hero's welcome in Nuuk, Greenland's capital. The island is a territory of Denmark which US President Donald Trump hopes to acquire one way or another. Ahead of his face-to-face meeting with Trump at the G7 in Cananascis, Macron pushed back forcefully. In a few words, everybody thinks in France, in the European Union, that Greenland is not to be sold, not to be taken. The French Navy has been exercising in waters off Greenland with the task force for the last several days.

Whether Macron's remarks will provoke Trump is an open question. The US president has also said he'd like to make Canada the 51st U.S. state. G7 leaders begin meeting today where issues, including the exchange of missile fire between Israel and Iran, is set to dominate the security discussion. Marie Brewster, CBC News, Banff, Alberta. Trump's been more occupied with immigration than Greenland. While flying to the G7 summit, Trump posted on social media ordering immigration officers to ramp up deportations of suspected illegal immigrants, telling them they hit major cities led by Democrats, including New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

Raids there led to more than a week of protests Trump used to justify sending in California's National Guard and hundreds of Marines. Israeli Army radio says this morning at least eight people are dead, a hundred others injured following the latest barrage of Iranian missiles. That sound early this morning in Haifa where several buildings were seriously damaged and fire broke out at a power plant. And in Tel Aviv, several residential buildings were destroyed in a densely populated neighborhood. A missile also fell near the U.S. consulate causing only minor damage. Israel's defense minister says Tehran residents will soon pay a price for Iran's actions. That country's health ministry says 90 percent of the at least 224 deaths are civilians.

The suspect in the fatal shootings of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband is now in custody. Vance Bolter was captured Saturday after a nearly two-day hunt. Officials are calling the largest in the state's history with more than 100 officers deployed. Brooklyn Park, Minnesota Police Chief Mark Bruhle tells how Bolter was taken down. An alert police officer believed that he may have seen the individual running into the woods and we started to deploy resources including the Brooklyn Park SWAT team and along with many other SWAT teams to contain an extremely large area knowing that this is a very dangerous individual. Bolter was armed when he was arrested. Several 8k47 assault rifles, a 9mm handgun, a list of names of

other public officials, and a police badge have been found. Bolter is now charged with two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder in the shootings of a state senator and his wife. The B.C. Wildfire Service says a major blaze in the province's northeast has stabilized because of a wet weekend. But multiple evacuation orders and alerts issued by the Peace River Regional District due to the Kiska Tana River wildfire remain in effect. Close to 22 millimeters of rain dropped in the area, helping reduce fire activity, but the roughly 266-km-square-km fire is still out of control. That is your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.