The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 19:00 EDT

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Find an agent today at Desjardins.com slash business coverage. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Juliane 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. A three-year-old Quebec girl missing since Sunday has been found alive. Claire Bell was the subject of an intense search in two provinces.

This afternoon, she was spotted alone at the side of a highway in eastern Ontario. Jayla Bernstein has the latest. Police say three-year-old Claire Bell has been found, weak but talking and alive. She was spotted by an Ontario police drone along Highway 417 on a farm alone in St. Albert, Ontario. That was just after three o'clock this afternoon. Police gave her first aid, food and water, and now she's with paramedics. Eloise Cossette speaks for Quebec Provincial Police.

All I can tell you right now is we're happy that she's alive. It's the best scenario possible. Claire Bell went missing four days ago on Sunday. Police expanded their search today when a witness came forward, saying she saw the girl with her mom on Sunday afternoon near St. Albert in Eastern Ontario. Her mother, 34-year-old Rachel Ella Todd, was charged yesterday with child abandonment. Quebec Provincial Police are still piecing together exactly what happened, but for now,

they're relieved she's alive. Jala Bernstein, CBC News, Montreal. 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. 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. 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 Julianne Hazelwood.