The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 16:00 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, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. Police call it the best possible outcome. A missing three-year-old Quebec girl has been found alive. Claire Bell was last seen Sunday afternoon. A few hours later, her mother Rachel Todd ran into a store north of Montreal, saying she couldn't find her daughter. Sergeant Eloise Cossette of

the Serte du Quebec says a tip prompted them to contact police in Ontario. They've been able to locate the young girl on the side of the highway 417. She was speaking with the police officer. She was alive. We provided some first aid in water and food for now and she's been taken care by the paramedics. The girl was alone when she was found. Police arrested Rachel Todd on a charge of child abandonment. Police say they'll have more details later today. The US president says military intervention in Iran is currently on the table.

But Donald Trump says he's holding out on making a decision for now. Fighting broke out between Iran and Israel after Israel targeted what it considers a growing nuclear threat from Tehran. Sasha Petrusic reports. The United States may be sending a third aircraft carrier to the Mideast, the world's largest carrier, along with battleships and fighter jets. But President Donald Trump won't say

if that means war. I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do. He claims he's rejecting Iranian requests to talk. And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? But support for involving the U.S. is divided even among Trump's most loyal supporters and Republican lawmakers like Tim Burchett. We do not need a three-front war in our lifetime right now. And the U.S. plans are uncertain. Trump's secretary of defense also won't say if war with Iran is imminent, just that the Pentagon is ready for it. Sasha Petrusik,

CBC News, Washington. The U.S. Federal Reserve is leaving its key lending rate unchanged. It stays in the range of four and a quarter to four and a half percent for the fourth straight time. The Fed's officials say they expect inflation and unemployment to rise and growth to weaken in coming months, that they've held off from changes because of uncertainty around the impact of US tariffs. But they still expect to cut the key rate later this year. President Donald Trump has been demanding the Fed cut the rate immediately. Canada's spy agency is warning foreign interference and espionage in Canada is pervasive, sophisticated and persistent. In a report released today, CSIS warns that all levels of government, businesses and ethnic communities are targets. David Thurden has more. CSIS blames a handful of countries for

foreign interference. China, India, Russia, Iran, and Pakistan are mentioned. According to the spy agency's annual report, these foreign states are committed to harming Canada's national security and economy. This takes the form of a range of activities including cybercrime, coercion, and illicit and financial fraud. CSIS even warns Canadian private investigators are caught up in foreign meddling. Canadian PIs, it says, are hired deceptively by hostile state actors under the pretext of uncovering marital infidelity and financial fraud. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. In Toronto.

We have arrested 20 people, laid 111 charges, including 52 counts of conspiracy to commit murder. That's Chief Superintendent Joe Matthews talking about the results of a two-year investigation into violence in the tow truck industry. He says a group calling itself the Union was using murder, violence and arson in an attempt to get control of the tow truck industry in the eastern part of the Greater Toronto area. Guns and armoured vehicles were among items seized by police.

And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.