The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 13:00 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, the world this hour, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood. Iran's supreme

leader warns the United States would face irreparable harm if it decides to join Israel's attacks on Iran. The U.S. president has hinted Washington could join the fight if Tehran did not give up its advancing nuclear capabilities. Chris Brown reports from Jerusalem. Israel said it struck more targets associated with Iran's nuclear program on Wednesday, including buildings that manufactured critical components such as centrifuges. Iran's Supreme Ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei categorically rejected a demand from Donald Trump to surrender, throwing the issue back to the US President about whether to intervene militarily

in the six-day-old war. Israel has decimated much of Iran's military leadership with assassination strikes and taken out much of the country's air defenses. But it lacks the giant bunker-busting bombs needed to deliver a final blow to nuclear sites that are embedded deep underground. I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do. Trump, meanwhile, said he has not made a decision yet on whether to attack Iran, but suggests

that he will in less than a week. Chris Brown, CBC News, Jerusalem. Hurricane Eric is rapidly advancing on southern Mexico. The US National Hurricane Center says the storm will bring life-threatening flash floods and mudslides. It's the second hurricane of the Pacific season. Forecasters say it could reach major hurricane strength when it hits the coast late tonight and into Thursday. The states of Oaxaca and Guerrero are expected to receive the brunt of the impact. Quebec provincial police are

looking for a potential witness as they search for a missing three-year-old girl. Claire Bell was last seen on Sunday morning in Montreal's La Salle neighborhood. Her mother Rachel Todd has since been charged with child abandonment. Lauren McCallum has the latest. Quebec provincial police are hoping to speak to a woman seen talking to Claire Bell's mother on Sunday before the three-year-old was reported missing. They say that woman was on a farm and wearing an apron with the word abondance on it. But Sulté du Québec spokesperson Eloise Cossette says it's not clear where the farm is located.

It could be in Monterey or in Ontario so we're asking if the lady hears that and she recognizes her and she remembers that call us. Police searched for the girl well into the night yesterday including at the waterfrontfront in Point Claire on Montreal's West Island, where Rachel Todd used to go with her daughter. They are still looking for clues along major highways in western Quebec. Cassette is also asking drivers to check their dash cam footage from Sunday to see if they can spot the mother's SUV, a Grey Ford Escape. Lauren McCallum, CBC News, Montreal. Population growth in Canada stalled in the first quarter of this year. Statistics Canada

says it rose by just over 20,000 people in the first three months of 2025. It's the sixth consecutive quarter of slowing population growth. It follows Ottawa's decision to lower levels of temporary and permanent immigration. However, the agency says immigration levels remain high compared to pre-pandemic levels. A New Brunswick couple has finally captured a piglet after two weeks on the lam. Tiffany Demins has a homestead in Cocan, just north of Moncton. She says the escape happened as they were unloading six piglets. The crafty animal has been coming out of the woods behind their home three times a day to eat the meals they put out, but had been impossible to catch. Demons has been blogging

about her effort to catch the runaway she named Porky Poppins. Well, he's consistently laughing in my face. He also usually has a black mask of mud on his face. Yesterday he was spotted wearing muddy drawers. And he's pink. And yeah, you'll definitely be able to denim him and buy his evil oink. But Devin's got the last laugh. Porky is now back in the pig pen with his five siblings. And that is your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.