World Report - July 08: Tuesday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

RCMP says members of the Canadian Armed Forces are among four arrested in alleged terror plot.Canada and Japan sign a new security agreement.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces pressure to end war in Gaza as Washington visit continues.US President Donald Trump is sending more weapons to Ukraine, just days after pausing shipments of some munitions.More than 100 confirmed deaths in Texas floods as hope of finding more survivors dims.New all-Inuit law firm, Tulugaq Law, on a mission to break down barriers in the justice system, wants to expand.Music from Netflix movie, "K-Pop Demon Hunters" topping Billboard, Spotify charts. 

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from CBC News. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC Podcast. This is World Report. Good morning, I'm Arsia Young. The RCMP says members of the Canadian Armed Forces are among four men arrested in an alleged terror plot. Police describe the case as ideologically motivated violent extremism. Kate McKenna is following the story. Three men in their twenties have been charged with facilitating terrorist activities. They're all from the Quebec City area. RCMP alleged they were planning to create an anti-government militia, and they were

intending to forcibly take possession of land in the Quebec City area. The Mounties say the men were taking part in military-style training, including shooting, ambush, survival, and navigation exercises. A fourth man faces charges including possession of firearms, prohibited devices and explosives, and possession of controlled items. RCMP have not confirmed which of the men are serving military members but this investigation has been ongoing for some time. In January 2024 the RCMP says officers seized 16 explosive devices, dozens of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Kate McKenna, CBC

News, Ottawa. Canada and Japan have signed a new security agreement. It allows both countries to share classified information relating to national security matters. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is in Tokyo for the signing ceremony. It is a critical step forward on all counts. It gives Canada and Japan the tools that we need to

strengthen our security partnership which is so very important in times of global challenge. Anand will also travel to Malaysia for meetings with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The trip to the Indo-Pacific region is part of the Carney government's strategy to shift trade relations away from the United States. Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to face more pressure today to end the war in Gaza. The Israeli Prime Minister is on a visit to Washington. He is scheduled to meet with members of Congress on Capitol Hill. Last night he was welcomed by US President Donald Trump at the White House. Tom Perry reports. Thank you very much everybody. It's an honor to have Mimi and Sarah

with us, friends of mine for a long time and we had a tremendous success together. US President Donald Trump heaping praise on the Israeli Prime Minister and his wife at a White House dinner. Benjamin Netanyahu returning the favour. I want to express the appreciation and admiration not only of all Israelis but of the Jewish people. Netanyahu presenting Trump with a letter nominating him for a Nobel Peace Prize. Along with the mutual flattery, this dinner and Netanyahu's visit are all about reaching at least a temporary peace in Gaza.

Trump is trying to press Israel and Hamas to agree to a 60-day ceasefire and begin talks on a permanent end to the war. So far, there's been no breakthrough, while in Gaza the fighting continues. The Israeli military says five of its soldiers were killed yesterday by a roadside bomb. The IDF says 888 troops have been killed since October 7th. Gaza's health ministry says the war has killed more than 57,000 Palestinians. Tom Perry, CBC News, Jerusalem. A Houthi attack has killed three crew members of a ship in the Red Sea. The bulk carrier is Greek operated.

It was attacked by drone and speedboats off the coast of Yemen. These are the first deaths and attacks on vessels in the Red Sea since June of last year. Houthis began attacking ships along the critical trade route in November of 2023. The rebel group says it is in solidarity with Palestinians caught in the Israel Hamas war in Gaza. US President Donald Trump is sending more weapons to Ukraine. This decision comes after pausing some critical munitions shipments to the war-torn

country. We're going to send some more weapons. We have to, they have to be able to defend themselves. They're getting hit very hard now. They're getting hit very hard. We're going to have to send more weapons. Your defensive weapons primarily, but they're getting hit very, very hard. So many people are dying in that mess. Last week, the Trump administration halted the shipment of some weapons to Ukraine, including air defense missiles. The White House said it was part of a review of U.S. military spending, but some reports suggest there are concerns over the state of the U.S. military's weapons stockpiles. The number of confirmed deaths from the floods in Texas has now surpassed 100. The number of missing is not clear. Search efforts are nonstop,

but there is little hope of finding more survivors. The CBC's Katie Nicholson has more from Kerrville, Texas. You have to be standing next to it to really get a perspective of how tall this is. It's maybe 40 feet high. Tom Carlson hits play on a video of an 18-wheel trailer swept up by the Guadalupe River, now deeply embedded in the muddy banks nearby of what remains of a Kerrville Park. I couldn't believe it. You just don't realize the power of rushing water. Carlson's elderly parents had their own close call when the waters rose.

We got a call from them at 445 in the morning and they were in their pickup moving up behind the house because the water was coming up so fast and they're 88 years old. There was no official flood warning at that hour but they were lucky. A neighbor knocked on their door and and I guess a tree had floated down on the neighbor's property and hit their front door and everything gushed in. Throughout the region sometimes called flash flood, backhoes and boats comb through the waters and mud for the missing, while those who have survived grapple with grief and the need for disaster assistance, like Auburn Gallagher and Sandy Creek, utterly

isolated by flood waters. I know we're not San Angelo or San Antonio, but hell, we're human beings. Help us. Give us what we need. We don't want to be the stepchildren anymore. Help is on the way. California, Florida and Mexico have sent professional search, rescue and recovery teams. But the true toll of this disaster is still weeks away from being fully understood. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Kerrville, Texas.

A helicopter rescues people stranded by the rushing waters of the Botokoshi River in Nepal. At least 18 people were swept away when torrential rains caused the river to breach its banks. Houses and vehicles were swept up in the flood waters. The Friendship Bridge connecting Nepal and China was also washed away. It is the major trade connection between the two countries. All direct trade through the route has been halted. The team behind a new all-new law firm is on a mission to break down barriers in the justice system. Tulogak Law was set up in Iqaluit seven months ago. As Samuel Watt tells us, it is now looking to expand its services.

I was like a really admittedly nerdy kid hanging out. Curtis Mesher knew he wanted to be a lawyer ever since he could read. Now he heads his own law firm, Tulguk Law. It deals with the day to day basics, from estates, wills, to cases in the criminal court. Mesha describes his practice as Nunavut's only or NUET's law firm. I don't know, I think it's like the future of law in Nunavut in some way. Mesha has brought on two law students to help out. Caitlin Adams, who worked with the United Nations, says she's choosing law now to help uplift Enuit

and be a warm, familiar face in a foreign system. Sometimes the justice system scares me too, and it does feel like it can be a cold place. Hope Carpenter doesn't see many Enuits in the legal profession. That leads to a lack of empathy and understanding of the realities in the North. You know how can that be justice for the people here to have outsiders come in and dictate what's right and wrong? Part of the problem, she says, is the fact there's no permanent law school in any of Canada's four Inuit regions. But by taking on more Inuk lawyers, Curtis Miesha hopes to make the justice system

more accessible and fairer. I definitely see a lot of it as just making sure people understand everything that's going on. And in the coming years, he hopes to have practices in every region of Inuk's nunanat, the Inuk homeland. Samuel Watt, CBC News, Ikaluit. news. Ika Luit. That is Golden. It is from the Netflix animated movie K-Pop Demon Hunters. The film tells the story of a K-Pop girl group called Huntrix that also hunts demons. They are after demons disguised as a K-pop boy band called the Saja Boys. The bands are fictional but the songs by Korean American musicians are topping real music

charts. This week, 7 Hun tricks and Saja Boys songs were on the Spotify Top 50 global list. Six of them were also on the Billboard 200. Billboard says K-Pop Demon Hunters is the highest charting soundtrack of an animated film since Disney's Encanto spent nine weeks at number one in 2022. That is World Report. I'm Marcia Young.