World Report - July 31: Thursday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: July 31, 2025

US President Donald Trump says Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's plan to recognize a Palestinian state, could make it difficult to do a trade deal. South Korea beats Donald Trump's tariff deadline but the deal is unpopular. Hundreds of people in BC's Okanagan region are on evacuation alert due to a wildfire.  Environment Canada warns prairie wildfire smoke could affect air quality from Saskatchewan to Ontario and parts of Quebec. Ukraine's parliament restores independence to two anti-corruption agencies, after demonstrations in Kyiv. Fight attendant suing Delta Air Lines over the fiery crash at Toronto's Pearson Airport in February. Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spotted at Katy Perry concert in Montreal, days after they were seen dining together. 

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This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Marcia Young. U.S. President Donald Trump says he is not happy with Canada's plan to recognize Palestinian statehood, and it could make it more difficult for Canada and the U.S. to reach a trade deal. Canada has until tomorrow to negotiate an agreement, or the U.S. will impose a 35 percent tariff on all. non-Kusma goods. Let's bring in Janice McGregor from our Washington Bureau.

And Janice, is this decision to recognize a Palestinian state really what is standing in the way of a trade deal? Well, let's note right out the gate, Marcia, that European countries, notably France, also the UK, they were out ahead of Canada on Palestinian recognition. And yet Trump hasn't chucked deals reached with them over this issue. Instead, it appears to be his latest play to crank up new, kinds of tension and isolate Canada, which, remember, remains the only major trading partner apart from China that has retaliated. It all whiffs of another attempt to negotiate in public, cajole, intimidate, bully.

Just yesterday afternoon, Trump was out destabilizing Canada's economic harm calculations by piling on new national security tariffs on copper, changing de minimis rules for the customs duties that are payable on small incoming packages. There are legal efforts to stop these U.S. tariffs, including a case being heard today at a U.S. Federal Appeals Court, walk us through the arguments. There are some Americans who understand their president is massively overstepping his office in his trade strategy. Tariff taxation should fall under the authority of the House. International treaty making is the Senate's job.

Congressional authority is undermined when the man at the top rules arbitrarily. Eight court cases so far have been launched to stop this. Two have now reached the Federal Circuit Court appeal stage with arguments starting the state. morning in D.C. Here's the plaintiff in one of them, David Leva. He runs a small business in Charlottesville, Virginia that makes science kits for kids, but most of the parts for those

kits are imported. It's just very hard to plan a business when the tariffs can change in a few weeks, and it takes months for parts to come in, and it takes a year or more to design a new product, set up the supply chain, and get everything dialed in.

Trump, the businessman, is somehow deaf to these arguments from his own citizens about what tariffs do to their livelihoods. We'll see if the courts and the Constitution can stop what economic arguments so far anyway haven't. Thank you, Janice. You're welcome. Janice McGregor, reporting from Washington. South Korea's new trade deal with the United States is proving to be unpopular. Dozens of people are protesting near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul. They say, they don't think a 15% tariff on South Korean products is a good deal,

even though U.S. President Donald Trump had been threatening 25%. Currently, the United States does not have any blanket tariff on South Korean goods, but the government in Seoul says agreeing to this deal now ensures a stable trading relationship. Some relief may be on the way for hundreds of people in B.C.'s Okanagan region, Peachtland District Mayor Patrick Van Mansell, says, crews are making progress fighting a wildfire there. I just spoke with my fire chief situation has calmed down, much as smoke visible, and there's still a few visible hotspots here and there, but fire crews are working on them.

As Yasmin René reports, the fire threatened buildings and major highways overnight. I'm going to be able to go fight the fire. Trapped in West Colonna, local firefighter Brianna Williams hopped on a boat towards Peachland to help put out of fire burning just a few kilometers from the Okanagan City as she's done in the past. I was in West Colona in 2023, Carameas, and a few other places. Ground crews, air tankers, and helicopters were all dispatched to fight the current Drought Hill Wildfire, which grew five times in size within hours. Taylor Coleman is with the BC Wildfire service. Thankfully, the air tankers and skimmers that are responding have been.

really helps cool fire behavior and slow the spread. People living in about 400 properties were ordered to flee their homes yesterday afternoon. Among them, Rene DeWeron and his family. Got packed up, started watering the house, watering, you know, surrounding bushes, stuff like that, trying to help knock it down if it comes as close as, you know, we could potentially see. Hundreds more properties were put on evacuation alert last night, with people being told to be prepared to leave at a moment's notice if needed. Evacuation centers have been set up in Peachtland and West Colonna.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but videos show a truck burning along the side of a nearby highway. Yasmil Ganea, CBC News, Vancouver. Environment Canada is warning wildfire smoke is spreading across much of the country today. There are air quality warnings for Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Western Ontario. and the prairie smoke could blow even farther east to Toronto. Ukraine's parliament is restoring independence to two anti-corruption agencies. It is a reversal of a law that was approved just last week and drew public backlash.

It's not normal for Ukrainians to protest while their country as at war, but overnight protesters rallied near the parliament buildings. They urged politicians to restore the watchdog's powers, and it seems they were heard. Today's vote, though, comes as Kiev residents recover from a brutal overnight airstrike focused on the capital. At least eight people are dead and more than 80 others are injured. Christo Glaman Singh has the latest. Standing in front of a smoldering high-rise, Ukrainian interior minister Ihor Klamenko says the building was directly hit by a

missile. In the search for the dead and missing, rescue teams managed to locate one individual in the rubble. We had just come back to the apartment, back from the bomb shelter, says this resident. The air raid alert had just been cancelled, and then we were doomed. Kiev was the main location targeted overnight and into this morning. Ukraine's Air Force says the Russian attack consisted of more than. than 300 drones and eight cruise missiles. The attacks are the first since U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was shortening the ultimatum timeline on Russia from 50 to 10 days.

The threat of sanctions, a new move by the U.S. president who has grown increasingly frustrated with Russia over its unwillingness to end the war. In the Ukrainian capital, more air raid sirens blared Thursday morning and cruise, cruise probed the ruins of homes. Crystal Gamanssing, CBC News, London. A flight attendant to suing Delta Airlines over that fiery plane crash at Toronto's Pearson Airport in February. The plaintiff says she was severely injured in the incident, and she blames her employer for allegedly cutting corners and assigning an inexperienced pilot. The CBC's Thomas DeGla has our exclusive story.

Oh my God! After the passenger jet flipped upside down and skidded across the runway, flight attendants scrambled to rush everyone out. Come on. One flight attendant who was on that plane but off-duty is now suing Delta Airlines and its subsidiary Endeavour Air, alleging they knowingly placed profits over safety, leading to that hard landing that sent 21 people to hospital.

This plane was going in way, way too fast. That makes them negligent. Michael Morse is a Michigan-based lawyer working with the plaintiff, Vanessa Miles, who filed the lawsuit this week in U.S. federal court. She was dangling upside down after the crash, soaked in fuel. The woman says she suffered a broken shoulder and a traumatic brain injury. Her case is one of at least 19 such lawsuits filed against the airlines in connection with the Toronto incident last February. Keith Mackey is a flight safety expert. In this case, we had a very high-rated descent, which actually snapped the landing year off the airplane.

It's a very unusual circumstance. Delta hasn't yet responded to the new lawsuit, but says its flight crew was qualified and certified. The Transportation Safety Board is expected next year to release a full report into what went wrong. Thomas Daggle, CBC News, Toronto. You are listening to part of Katie Perry's performance last night in Montreal, and you will never guess who was in the crowd. Okay, you might. Justin Trudeau was there, and it looks like he brought his daughter Ella Grace.

It's more grist for the rumor mill that has been in overdrive this week ever since the former Prime Minister was seen dining with the newly single pop star. That is World Report. I'm Marcia Young.