The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 09:00 EDT

Ten years ago, I asked my partner Kelsey if she would marry me. I did that, despite the fact that every living member of my family who had ever been married had also gotten divorced. Forever is a Long Time is a five-part series in which I talk to those relatives about why they got divorced and why they got married. You can listen to it now on CBC's Personally. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Again overnight, Israeli warplanes pounded multiple targets across Tehran. It is the sixth consecutive night the Iranian capital has been bombarded, and Iran is advising the United Nations that it intends to respond, quote, without restraint.

This is U.S. President Donald Trump is calling for Iran's unconditional surrender. Meanwhile, Russia is closely monitoring the conflict, having recently signed a cooperation agreement with the Iranian government. Briar Stewart has more. It was just in January when Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a strategic cooperation pact with the President of Iran. The agreement outlined areas where the two countries would bolster ties, including defence. Tehran has already supplied Moscow with thousands of Shahed drones for its war in Ukraine, and

it helped Russia set up a factory to mass produce them. But Moscow has been reluctant to supply Iran with the weaponry it wants. The kinds of capabilities that the Iranians really want from Russia, Russia has not given Iran. Hananate is with the James Martin Center for Non-Proliferation Studies. She says there's no evidence that Russia has given Iran the fighter jets it's been asking for or additional air defense systems. She says Russia wants to keep all of its own weapons for its war on Ukraine. And it also doesn't want to damage its relationships with other Middle Eastern countries like the United Arab Emirates.

Briar Stewart, CBC News, London. Incidentally, the latest estimates are suggesting that more than 580 people have been killed in Iran over the past six days. In Israel, 24 fatalities have been reported. CSIS is outlining more details now about the way Canadians were affected by foreign interference last year. In its 2024 report, it's just been made public today.

It's saying that CSIS worked to warn private investigators across the country to be on the lookout for hostile state actors. In some cases these foreign actors were hiring private eyes and they may have pretended to be looking for information about marital infidelity or fraud but in reality they were using that information to harass people at the direction of an authoritarian government. More than six weeks after they were last seen, there is still no trace of two young children missing in rural Nova Scotia. And at this point, police officials can only say that there's no evidence to suggest that the children were abducted.

Kayla Hounsell has the latest. I know somebody out there knows where they're at. Belinda Gray is pleading for information about the whereabouts of her grandchildren, Lily and Jack Sullivan, six and four years old, missing from their rural Nova Scotia home since Friday, May 2nd. It's quite rare in my career I've never seen two missing children go at the same time. The RCMP's Corporal Guillaume Tromble maintains there is no evidence to suggest the children were abducted. More than 50 people have been interviewed.

Gray says her son, the children's biological father, has been questioned three times. A couple of days ago they had contact and I told them that they weren't looking his way anymore, that everything's fine. She says she doesn't have much hope the children will be found alive and even worries the mystery of what happened to them may never be solved. Kayla Hounsell, CBC News, Lansdowne Station, Nova Scotia. Now to Florida. The Florida Panthers back to back, Stanley Cup champions. That is the end of this year's hockey season with the Florida Panthers

again winning the Stanley Cup. They defeated the Edmunds-Neulers last night 5-1 to take the best of seven in six games. It's the second year in a row the Panthers have beaten Edmonton in the final and it's now 32 years since a Canadian team has won the cup. That was the Montreal Canadiens in 1993. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.