The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 21:00 EDT

I'm Joshua Jackson, and I'm returning for the Audible original series, Oracle, Season 3, Murder at the Grandview. Six forty-somethings took a boat out a few days ago. One of them was found dead. The hotel, the island, something wasn't right about it. Psychic agent Nate Russo is back on the case, and you know when Nate's killer instincts are required, anything's possible.

This world's gonna eat you alive. Listen to Oracle Season 3, Murder at the Grandview, now on Audible. From CBC News, the World This Hour, I'm Gavin Day. Intense fighting between Israel and Iran is about to enter its seventh day. The conflict's next stage is up to one man, Donald Trump, considering direct U.S. involvement that could provoke wider war in the Middle East. Paul Hunter reports. U.S. President Donald Trump on the question, will he or won't he involve U.S. forces in any strike against Iranian nuclear facilities?

I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do. This the day after Trump on his truth social platform demanded Iran surrender without conditions as the fighting between that country and Israel continues. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei countered Iran will not surrender to anyone, he said, adding if the US military intervenes, the damage America will suffer will be irreparable. Iran's deputy foreign minister showed up on CNN. They should not dare to threaten Iran. We will do whatever necessary.

Throughout the region, multiple signals something seems imminent. The biggest aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy reportedly set to be deployed to the Mediterranean. The U.S. and the European Union now organizing evacuations from Israel. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. Meantime, Canada's intelligence agency had a warning about Iran in its annual report. CSIS says it is already investigating threats coming from the country. The agency says Iran is using proxies, including organized crime networks, to target enemies in foreignies, including organized crime networks to target enemies

in foreign countries, including Canada. The report says those activities could increase depending on developments in Iran and the regime's perception of threats. A three-year-old Quebec girl missing since Sunday has been found alive. A drone was used to spot Claire Bell alone at the side of a highway in eastern Ontario. As Jala Bernstein tells us, police had been searching for days and many had begun to fear the worst. This all came after a break in the case on the fourth day of her being missing.

Quebec provincial police have been looking for this missing girl, the three-year-old. A witness came forward. They believe that this farmer had spoken to the girl's mom before she went missing. She saw the girl alive on Sunday afternoon, just about an hour or so before she went missing. Police expanded their search into Ontario. They asked the OPP to come in and help. Ontario Provincial Police used a drone and that's what they were able to use to spot the girl, the toddler along a highway near the Ontario-Québec border. She was found alone on a farm, and that's in St. Albert, Ontario, where she was found. Now, Quebec provincial police tell us that she was weak but alive.

She was talking, and police say they gave her first aid, food and water, and she was handed over to paramedics to take care of her. Jala Bernstein, CBC News, Montreal. Hundreds of residents of Badger, Newfoundland have been ordered to leave their homes as a wildfire threatens their town. The fire started Tuesday after a lightning storm. Premier John Hogan says nobody should refuse to leave. The officials are working on it through the Emergency Operations Center to make sure that they're aware and they have the resources to get out of the community. Of course, we

thought there might be a little window to make this decision a little bit later in the day, but we certainly felt it's better to be safe than sorry and make sure we move these people as soon as possible and that they know that we are there for them and that we'll provide any resources they need to get out. Firefighters are using water bombers and helicopters in a bid to contain the fire. We have arrested 20 people, laid 111 charges, including 52 counts of conspiracy to commit murder. Toronto Police 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 armored vehicles were among items seized by police. Population growth in Canada stalled in the first quarter of this year. Statistics Canada says it rose by just over 20,000 people. It is the sixth consecutive quarter of slowing population growth.

And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gavin Day.