The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/07/18 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: July 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/07/18 at 20:00 EDT

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It also takes the strength and determination of the communities around us, whether it's through disease awareness, fighting stigmas and loneliness, education, or empowering people to become more active. Novo Nordisk is supporting local changemakers because it takes more than medicine to live a healthy life. Leave your armor at the door. Watch this paid content on CBC Gem. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. One day after a bombshell report in the Wall Street Journal about US President Donald Trump's

friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the paper. Katie Nicholson reports. Mr. President, why not go further than just unsealing their... US President Donald Trump took no questions one day after the Wall Street Journal published a story about a letter he's alleged to have sent Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, choosing instead to do his talking on truth social and the courts. He filed a $10 billion lawsuit in Florida against the Wall Street Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, alleging they acted with malicious intent.

At the same time, his Department of Justice has officially filed a request in a Manhattan court to unseal grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, this after he ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to make the request last night. Trump supporters have long asked him to release the so-called Epstein files, though the grand jury transcript would be just a small subset of larger investigation files, which many of Trump supporters have demanded be made public. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Washington. Federal officials say the 2025 wildfire season is one of the worst on record.

More than 5.5 million hectares of land have burned so far this year across the country. That's more than double the 10-year average for mid-July. 561 fires are currently burning. 69 are out of control. Most of those are in the prairies. Minister of Natural Resources Tim Hodgson says as wildfires become more severe and frequent, a coordinated response is essential. Today we are announcing an investment of nearly $12 million over four years to establish the

Wildfire Resilience Consortium of Canada. It will connect domestic, international governments, the private sector, wildfire scientists and experts and affected communities to share knowledge, science and technology so we can fight fires better. Officials are predicting higher than normal temperatures and below normal rainfall levels for most of the country next month. That increases the fire risk throughout August. Alberta Premier Daniel Smith wants the town of Jasper to

apologize after it released a report about last year's wildfire. It says the provincial involvement created political challenges that disrupted the focus of emergency workers. Smith says the report is deflecting blame from the other issues. We were not asked for support until after the town burned down. So whatever it is that they are trying to do to deflect blame, I'm not impressed with it and I would ask for an apology from the city as a result. We want to work collaboratively with our municipal and federal partners, but pointing fingers at others when they should be looking at what they can do to improve their own response

would have been a far better outcome. Smith says a unified command approach involving the province should have been initiated sooner. A court in Brazil is slapping an ankle monitor and a nighttime curfew on its former president. Jair Bolsonaro is standing trial for allegedly plotting a coup to prevent current president Lula da Silva from taking office. Constance Malaré reports from Rio de Janeiro. Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro denying he planned to leave Brazil. Police raided his home on Friday and placed a monitor on him. Prosecutors say the former president is a flight risk as his trial for an attempted

government overthrow draws nearer to a verdict. He's banned from social media and has to respect a curfew. This comes after Donald Trump jumped to Bolsonaro's defence. The US president wrote a letter saying the trial should end immediately and threatened Brazil with 50% tariffs. Bolsonaro and his son had been lobbying Washington to pressure Brazilian authorities to suspend the court proceedings. But in the court filing ordering Bolsonaro be put under surveillance on Friday, the judge says Bolsonaro tried to obstruct justice and his actions

ablate an attack on national sovereignty. Constance Malaré for CBC News, Rio de Janeiro. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Thanks for listening.