The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/17 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/17 at 07:00 EDT

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listeners get 10% off their first month at BetterHelp.com slash Canada Hour. That's hour. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. The final day of the G7 Summit in Alberta will proceed without Donald Trump at the table. The U.S. President has left early and is now back in Washington. Well, I have to be back. Very important. You probably see what I see Well, I have to be back. Very important that you probably see what I see and I have to be back. Reports Trump left the summit to help negotiate a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.

However, he told reporters that he's in no mood to negotiate with Iran. I think we're looking for better than a ceasefire. That's Trump on Air Force One saying he wants something better than a ceasefire. He says he wants Iran to stop exchanging missile and drone strikes with Israel. But there's no indication from either side that that's going to happen. Anna Cunningham has the latest. Air raid sirens and interceptions over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv this morning. Iran's Revolutionary Guards warning it will intensify attacks with missiles and drones

on Israel in the coming hours. Overnight, its attacks on Israel were less intense than previous nights. The Israeli military says it has killed another senior Iranian military commander in a targeted strike in central Tehran. Ali Shadmany, who was close to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was only appointed last week after Israel killed his predecessor. Iran is yet to confirm the death. Israel says overnight it launched extensive strikes on Iran, targeting missile and drone sites in the West.

In the capital Tehran, people are trying to leave, long lines of vehicles seen snaking out of the city. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. Meanwhile, back at the G7 summit, the leaders have released a joint statement on the Middle East, and Canadian officials say that Trump did sign it before leaving. It states that Iran is the principal source of instability and terror in the region, and it calls for a broad de-escalation of hostilities right across the Middle East, including a ceasefire in Gaza.

Now to Nasser Hospital in Hanyounas. Health officials in Gaza say Israeli tanks opened fire last night on a crowd waiting for emergency aid. At least 51 people were killed and as many as 200 are injured. Some are in critical condition. At this point, the Israeli military has yet to comment. At least 15 people have been killed overnight in Ukraine as Russia carried out another widespread missile and drone attack. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is saying the damage in Kiev is the worst the capital

has sustained since the war began. Briar Stewart reports. Russia launched 440 drones and attacks across the country and 32 missiles. One of them slammed into a nine-story apartment building where rescuers are still picking through the pile of ash-gray rubble. 57-year-old Victoria Vovchenko lives across the street. They were elderly and children who were wounded, she said. Innocent civilians. What do they want from us?

and children who were wounded, she said. Innocent civilians, what do they want from us? Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to meet with G7 leaders in Kenanaskis, Alberta, in an effort to shore up support for the country. But U.S. President Donald Trump won't be part of that discussion. He left the summit early, and while he was there, remarked that he thought it was a mistake to remove Russia from what once was the G8. Briar Stewart, CBC News, London.

Hurricane watch is in effect today for most of southern Mexico. Tropical storm Eric is expected to turn into a hurricane tomorrow. It's packing winds of about 60 kilometers per hour, and at this point it's 700 kilometers off the Mexican Southwest coast. Game six of the Stanley Cup final goes tonight in Sunrise, Florida with the Florida Panthers looking to repeat as Stanley Cup champions. They're up three games to two in this best of seven. Of course, Edmonton has other plans.

A win tonight for the Oilers and they'll be forcing a game seven Friday night back in Edmonton. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.