World Report - August 11: Monday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his country will recognize Palestinian statehood next month. 5 Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza. More structures destroyed in Newfoundland as Kingston fire grows to more than 5,000 hectares. Wildfire spreading rapidly on outskirts of Moncton. New article in Canadian Medical Association Journal warns about risks of cannabis psychosis. US President Donald Trump says he wants to crackdown on crime in Washington D.C. by moving people who are homeless out. A behind-the-scenes look at the shipwreck clean-up effort in Lark Harbour, Newfoundland. 

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This is World Report. Good morning, I'm Ethel Musa. Australia is joining a growing list of nations, planning to recognize a Palestinian state. A two-state solution is humanity's best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict suffering and starvation in Gaza.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese intends to make the recognition official at next month's UN General Assembly. He will be joining leaders from Canada, France, and the UK. But Albanese is making it clear. Conditions must be met, including a commitment that Hamas will have no involvement in any future state. A spokesperson for British Prime Minister Kier Starrmer says he is gravely concerned by,

the repeated targeting of journalists in Gaza. Five Al Jazeera journalists were killed yesterday in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City. The CBC's Susan Ormiston has more from Jerusalem. Funerals in Gaza this morning for journalists killed Sunday in an Israeli air strike. One of them, Anas al-Sharif, was a prominent reporter for Al-Jazeera. The IDF confirmed his death, claiming he was the head of a Hamas cell, advancing rocket attacks while posing as a journalist.

Al Jazeera strongly denies the claim. Managing editor Mohamed Mawad said the Israeli strike targeted a media tent outside Al-Shefa hospital, killing five of his team. Anast was killed and Mohamed Krakha were killed by the IDF in their tent. They weren't in a front line or in a military zone or something like that. After months of reporting through famine and rubble and the relentless bombardment,

they died with the slip between tasks. The UN has launched an investigation. The Committee to Protect journalists had warned two weeks ago that Al-Sharif was in grave danger. And the killing of Anadishif now is devastating. This is not the first time there's Israeli government and the IDF is targeting a journalist. At a news conference Sunday,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said he directed the Israeli army to allow more journalists to enter Gaza but offered no details. International media, including the CBC, are barred by Israel from entering the territory. Susan Ormiston, CBC News, Jerusalem. New Brunswick is asking for help from other provinces to battle the 12 wildfires burning there. John Heron is the Minister of Natural Resources. It is well known in this region in particular is that we're usually, the ones who actually send firefighters to other jurisdictions.

For the first time, unprecedented, we have actually asked for boots on the ground. Heron says the Irish town fire just outside of Moncton is still burning out of control. The province is telling residents, be ready to leave home on short notice. As the cannabis available in Canada becomes more and more potent, experts are warning using the drug comes with a risk of psychosis. research on the issue is being published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Alison Northcott has the details. I started experiencing just a couple days of no-sleep, sort of manic-associated symptoms.

After two years of frequent cannabis use, Bailey Peterson, who's now 26, started experiencing troubling symptoms. Like various beliefs and, like, delusions. It was very scary for my family to witness. She was hospitalized and later stopped using. In the Canadian medicine, Association journal, psychiatrist Nicholas Fabiano from the University of Ottawa and his co-authors point out cannabis has become five times more potent over the last two decades with higher concentrations of the psychoactive component, THC. With that jump and when we know that the associations with THC concentration and onset of psychosis or even schizophrenia is higher, it's pretty alarming. Fabiano says a recent Ontario study suggested those who've ended up in the ER from cannabis use

face higher risks of developing schizophrenia. He says physicians and the general public need to know who is at risk and how to manage that. Gibran Kolkar, an associate professor at Western University, says those most at risk of developing problems are people with a history of mental disorders and young men. The earlier the exposure to cannabis, the earlier the exposure to higher potency levels of cannabis, the greater the risk, the later the exposure, the lesser the risk. Kolkar and other experts say Canadians need to be aware that cannabis has changed and its potency can vary so they can make informed decisions around using it.

Alison Northcott, CBC News, Montreal. This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back. U.S. President Donald Trump announcing his plan to get tough on crime in the American capital. Trump says the situation in Washington, D.C. is out of control. plans to call in reinforcements to help lock up criminals and get those without homes off the street. The CBC's Lisa Sching has been following this story. Lisa, what are we hearing from Trump? Yeah, so Donald Trump just announced that he's placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police under federal

control and deploying the National Guard saying the U.S. Capitol has been, quote, overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals. in his view. Now, this has been a long-standing issue for Trump. He mused about it last week, about sending in federal law enforcement, and we saw some of this over the weekend. FBI agents on patrol in the streets, which is quite rare. Now, all of this comes after a former prominent member of Doge. The Department of Government Efficiency was assaulted during an attempted carjacking last week. And the White House also highlighted the key. killings of two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Jewish Museum in May as reasons for this move.

Do the statistics support this? Yeah, so D.C.'s mayor, Muriel Bowser, expressed concern over the move in a bit of a muted way, saying there's nothing happening in the city that would require this move and argues there's not been a spike in crime. So according to statistics from the U.S. Justice Department, violent crime is. in D.C. hit a 30-year low in 2024, and it was down another 26 percent so far this year, according to the D.C. Metropolitan Police. Now, the question about the authority of Donald Trump using federal resources to do this kind of police work, he does in D.C. have broad authority to use the National Guard for a variety of purposes more so than he has in other states,

like in California, where he deployed National Guard troops to quell immigration protests there several months ago. Ithel? The CBC's Lisa Sching in Washington. Thank you. You're welcome. It's one of the largest shipwrecked cleanups Canada has seen in decades, and it's happening right now in Western Newfoundland. A 200-meter container ship lost power and drifted onto a beach.

The cleanup has been ongoing for six months now, and as Peter Cowan reports, It's having an impact on the nearby town and not always in a bad way. This is an easy day for us. We have hamburgers and fries. Bruce Travers and the other women at the Anglican Church in Larkarbor are busy making lunch. Every day they feed dozens of hungry workers who are cleaning up the shipwreck. It was just supposed to be a few weeks, but now it's been six months. They couldn't move the ship, and so they had to work with it there on the site.

So that meant that we had to continue providing meals. which really has been a bonus for the church and good for us. Providing lunch has provided money for the church, enough to buy a new furnace and put in heat pumps, but it's not the only impact on the town. The ship is also attracting tourists. They hike 45 minutes in on a trail to Cedar Cove

to see the boat for themselves. They also stop in local restaurants or rent local homes. Jim Burton lives an hour away in Cornerbrook. It's amazing. It's a lot bigger in person than it is seeing it on TV or anything like that. The mayor of Lark Harbor has been happy to see all this economic activity, but Wade Park will also be happy when the ship is finally gone. Until the oil is removed, there's a chance the ship could rip apart

and contaminate one of the prime fishing areas. Our fishery is our main industry, is to back one of our town, and we'd want any way, shape, or form that's being jeopardized by any pollutant whatsoever, right? Crews are making good progress at removing the oil from the ship, but it's likely stuck in Cedar Cove until at least next year. Peter Cowan, CBC News, near Lark Harbor, Newfoundland. Peter got behind-the-scenes access to the work the cleanup crews are doing, and you can see it tonight on the National at 10 p.m. on CBC television

or on the National's YouTube page. And that's the latest national and international news from World Report. I'm Edel Musa. This is CBC News.