The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/16 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/16 at 10:00 EDT

The ocean is vast, beautiful, and lawless. I'm Ian Urbina back with an all new season of The Outlaw Ocean. The stories we bring you this season are literally life or death. We look into the shocking prevalence of forced labor, mine boggling overfishing, migrants hunted and captured. The Outlaw Ocean takes you where others won't. Available on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC 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 that actual number of dead may be three times that. And a 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 Pesekian 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 started, Carney will be sitting down for a one-on-one meeting with US President Donald Trump.

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Law enforcement have apprehended Vance Bolter. That's 48 hours that law enforcement involved in a complex and dangerous manhunt. Spent Father's Day away from their families to deliver justice for Melissa and Mark Hortman. Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were also shot inside their home early Saturday morning. They both survived. Police say they found a manifesto inside the suspect's vehicle. It includes the names of several politicians and government officials.

The town of St. Mary's, Newfoundland is celebrating some long-awaited good news. The province has announced it will be footing the bill to clean up a defunct and very smelly fish sauce factory. It's going to be a life change for my family and my kids will be able to come and will be able to sit down in the summertime, have a barbecue and enjoy our life. That is St. Mary's resident, Mariel Weeland. The factory containing hundreds of thousands of liters of rotting liquid was abandoned decades ago. The mayor of St. Mary's is saying he nearly broke down in tears when he got the good news.

The town has been told the cleanup should be complete by August. And that is The World This Hour. 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 Joe Cummings.