The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/12 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/12 at 06:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Nuridine Khorane. The fire situation in Newfoundland and Labrador is getting worse. A new one has ignited near St. John's, and it has thousands of residents on alert preparing to evacuate. Heather Gillis has more. Nearly 14,000 people just outside St. John's in Conception Bay South and Paradise are on alert.

As a new fast-moving fire is gaining, ground, estimated at 200 hectares since igniting Monday, says Premier John Hogan. Everybody in this area must be prepared to receive an evacuation order on any moment's notice. The smoke is a stones throw away from homes and buildings. The Premier says it closed part of the Trans-Canada Highway and threatened a crucial power line into the province's largest communities. The Kingston fire on the Badover Peninsula, the province's largest, has grown slightly to about 5,200 hectares since Sunday. It's already destroyed more than nine homes. Monday, conditions so fierce, crews were pulled out for safety. It's a quickly changing and volatile situation.

More water bombers and helicopters are coming from other provinces, but what's really needed is rain. Heather Gillis, CBC News, St. John's. The United States and China have extended their tariff truce for another 90 days. Without the extension, triple-digit levies would have kicked in today. Some analysts say the uncertainty will see global businesses re-shore back to China. Han Shen Lin is China managing director at the Asia Group. If you're looking at it purely from a cost standpoint, looking at it from the ability to create new products rapidly at a cheaper cost, then the appeal of China is going to start looking stronger over time in a world where every country is facing

higher and higher tariffs and greater uncertainty. The pause is expected to give some relief to retailers ahead of the holiday season. This extension locks in a 30% tariff on Chinese imports, 10% for U.S. goods. A three-day trial is underway in California after Governor Gavin Newsom decided to sue the Trump administration. It's over the use of the U.S. National Guard during protests against migrant arrests. The trial comes as Trump is deploying the National Guard in Washington, D.C. Steve Futterman reports. Just days after this, Donald Trump, Trump decided to send National Guard troops to Los Angeles to assist law enforcement. He is a full-blown assault on peace, on public order.

Almost immediately, state and local officials said the troops were not needed and would only escalate tensions. Governor Gavin Newsom tried but failed to get it stopped. Police do policing. Military is for the battlefield. The trial, which is formally titled Newsom versus Trump, is to determine whether the president's action violates a law dating back to the 1800. which prevents the U.S. military, in most cases, from taking part in civilian law enforcement. Whatever the ruling is here in California, the case is very likely to find its way eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court, and it will have little effect on the latest actions in Washington, D.C., which is not a state,

and where the president has more power over the National Guard. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting with Russian President Vladimir. Putin in Alaska Friday, they'll discuss the war in Ukraine. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky isn't invited to the meeting, and that has European leaders concerned. 26 European heads of state released a statement today, saying that Ukrainians must have the freedom to decide their own future. The death toll has risen after a series of explosions at a steel plant in Pennsylvania. Matt Brown is Algeny County Chief of Emergency Services.

Crews have been working vigorously to find two unaccounted workers. They did successfully find one worker and rescued that worker. Unfortunately, as the rescue and the search continued here this evening, I'm here to report that we do have now a second deceased. From CBC News, I'm Nuderdin Korana. Thank you.