The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/16 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/16 at 08:00 EDT

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listeners get 10% off their first month at BetterHelp.com slashBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We'll get to the G7 Summit in Ganonaskis, Alberta in just a moment. First we go to the Middle East, and for a fourth straight day, Iran and Israel are exchanging missile and drone strikes. In the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa, at least eight people were killed overnight. And in Iran, Israel's four-day bombardment has claimed at least 220 lives, although human rights groups are saying the actual number of dead in Iran may be three times that.

Anna Cunningham has more. Tehran's night sky is lit up by a huge blaze at a fuel depot after Israel targeted the country's oil and gas sectors. Images released by the Iranian Red Crescent Society show rescue workers digging through rubble of what's said to be a bombed residential building. Photographs show people bloodied and injured, one woman carrying a baby with

its feet and clothes soaked in blood. Outside gas stations in Tehran there are long queues. People are worried, says this man. They're planning to get out of the city, he says. There are no shelters in the whole city, says another Tehran resident. Iranian President Massoud Pesachian has called on all Iranians to stand together and persevere, repeating his claim that Iran does not seek to possess nuclear weapons. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. Now to Alberta, and with Prime Minister Mark Carney serving as host, the G7 Leaders Summit is opening today. And an hour before the official proceedings get host, the G7 Leaders Summit is opening today. And an hour before the official proceedings get started,

Carney will be sitting down for a one-on-one meeting with US President Donald Trump. Janice McGregor has more. Mark Carney's opening conversation with Donald Trump here may well set the tone. As the US president boarded his plane yesterday, he spoke vaguely about making trade deals here. but frankly, it's unclear what he was referring to and the reality of the harm that Trump's trade policies are doing to the global economy

weighs heavily around the G7 table. Last week, for example, Bloomberg economics forecast that unless Trump reverses course by 2030, the total size of the global economy could be one trillion US dollars smaller than it would have been had he not set off down his protectionist trajectory. Canadian officials from Carney himself on down have been carefully managing expectations in the run-up to this morning, cautioning there may not be a major breakthrough to be had. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Banff. Meanwhile President Trump is saying he wants to step up his administration's immigration

raids and he wants federal agents to focus on democratic-run cities. Karen Pauls reports. President Donald Trump posted on social media that he has directed ICE agents to do everything in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest mass deportation program in history. The goal is at least 3,000 arrests a day. Agents must, quote, expand efforts to detain and deport illegal aliens in America's largest cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, where millions upon millions of illegal aliens reside.

Trump is trying to deal with the impact the mass deportations are having on key industries that rely on those workers, like farms, restaurants and hotels. Last week he posted on social media that he's heard concern from those sectors and he promised to make some changes. And there are reports arrests in those industries are now on hold. Karen Pauls, CBC News, Washington. A manhunt is over in Minnesota where the man suspected of killing a Democratic state lawmaker and wounding another has been taken into custody. Vance Bolter was arrested last night southwest of Minneapolis. He's charged with two counts each of murder and attempted murder. He's accused of posing

as a police officer and fatally shooting a Democratic House speaker and her husband in their home on Saturday. And then later injuring State Senator John Hoffman and his wife at their home some 15 kilometers away. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.