The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 15:00 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 defences. 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. Quebec. Police say they've made some progress in the search for a missing three-year-old girl, but they still need the public's help. Claire Bell was last seen on Sunday morning.

That afternoon, her mother ran into a store saying she couldn't find her daughter. She has since been charged with child abandonment. Jala Bernstein has more. The latest in the case, a witness who police have been searching for has come forward. Quebec provincial police say they now know three-year-old Claire Bell was seen alive in Ontario with her mother at about two o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday. It was in the area of Castleman and St Albert. Later that afternoon, her mother ran into a store along Highway 20, west of Montreal. Rachel Ella Todd was alone and told employees that she had lost her child and didn't know what had happened.

That's when 911 was called. Her mother has since been charged with child abandonment. Police are asking anyone with information in Quebec or Ontario to come forward. Sources have told Radio Canada that Todd was not lucid when she spoke with detectives and that's complicating their investigation. Meanwhile police continue to search a number of areas for the girl. Jailor Bernstein, 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 study from the Canadian Automobile Association finds road users are having daily brushes with danger

and sometimes even death. Researchers used artificial intelligence to monitor near-misses involving pedestrians and cyclists. Colin Butler reports. Close calls and traffic are part of life but for the first time a Canadian study actually quantifies how common they really are. Using AI to help monitor cameras at 20 intersections in 20 Canadian cities there were 600,000 near misses in seven months. Christine Darbells is with the CAA. Based on the near misses that we collected, over one potentially fatal near miss per day, per intersection happens here in Canada. So these are near misses and potentially fatal near misses.

The study suggests more than half of near misses happen when vehicles make right turns while more than a third happen when vehicles turn left. These brushes with death may be part of life, but they don't have to be. To reduce the chances of an almost deadly incident, the CAA recommends dedicated left-hand turn lanes, advanced green lights, and allowing pedestrians to cross the street before vehicles move. Colin Butler, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood.