The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/12 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/12 at 18:00 EDT

A lot of news podcasts give you information, the basic facts of a story. What's different about your world tonight is we actually take you there. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. Margaret Evans, CBC News, Aleppo. Jerusalem. Ottawa. Prince Albert. Susan Ormiston, CBC News in Admiralty Bay, Antarctica.

Correspondents around the world, on the ground, and at the source where news is happening. So don't just know, go. Your world tonight from CBC News. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Newfoundland and Labrador has issued a state of emergency for parts of the province as four wildfires burn out of control. More than 20,000 people living on the outskirts of St. John's have been told to prepare to evacuate their homes. A new wildfire erupted near the city on Monday. Premier John Hogan.

The Paddy's Pond Fire continues to be very active, and the incident management team are utilizing air assets, ground crews, and the St. John's Regional Fire Department, to respond continuously today. Hogan says more help is on the way, including two Black Hawk helicopters from Utah. Fires across Europe are proving to be deadly. At least two people were killed and thousands more forced to evacuate. Ross Cullen reports. August is traditionally the hottest month of the year in Europe. but this current heat wave is exceptional. Temperature records have been smashed in the south of the continent,

Bordeaux, France, hitting 41 degrees Celsius. Spain is also being impacted by this deadly heat wave, with evacuees rushing to safety after a fire tore through the town of Trescantos. Francisco Martina Gire, a representative of the Spanish government, says the weather forecast could make things worse, and he urges residents to exercise extremely. caution. Other European countries are suffering. Thousands of firefighters are tackling three major blazers in Portugal, and Italian authorities had to close Mount Vesuvius to tourists on Monday

after wildfires broke out on the famous volcano slopes. Ross Cullen for CBC News, Paris. Canada's canola farmers are bracing for steep losses after China imposed a new duty on seeds. That will take effect Thursday. The announcement follows an investigation. into whether Canada was undercutting China's own producers. And as Alexander Silberman reports, farmers say the move could be devastating for the fall harvest. We're caught in the middle of a trade war that we neither wanted or started or have any influence on. Saskatchewan farmer Bill Probilski says a new duty from China

is a devastating blow to his canola crop. China is hitting seed imports with a preliminary tariff of over 75%. a new escalation in a year-long trade dispute. Some producers are going to be forced to sell their canola and likely selling it at a loss. In March, China imposed 100% tariffs on Canadian canola oil and meal, a response to Canada's duties on electric vehicles, aluminum, and steel. Now all three canola products, meal, seed, and oil are facing tariffs. China is the largest market for canola seed, valued at first.

$4 billion in annual exports. With harvest just weeks away, producers say Canada will have to act fast. Alexander Silverman, CBC News, Regina. To the U.S., law enforcement officers in Washington have begun the Trump administration's crackdown on crime, arresting 23 people last night. That's after President Donald Trump declared a public safety emergency in the nation's capital. He put police force under federal control and deployed National Guard troops. Spokesperson Caroline Levitt says the White House also wants to remove encampments in D.C. Homeless individuals will be given the option to leave their encampment, to be taken to a homeless shelter, to be offered addiction or mental health services,

and if they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or to jail time. Trump has long claimed that violent crime is on the uptick in Washington, but police data shows crime is trending downwind. words. 93 Himalayan mountain peaks in Nepal will be free to climb for the next two years. It's a program aimed at boosting tourism in more remote areas and tackling over tourism at Mount Everest. In recent years, the world's highest peak has suffered overcrowding and environmental concerns. For the first time in nearly a decade, Nepal is also raising the price to summit Everest to a permit fee of $20,000. And that is the world this hour.

News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.