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

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

US President Donald Trump deploys more National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles amid ongoing immigration protests. Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner warns judicial independence is under attack around the world. Canada's Auditor General says F-35 procurement project now expected to cost 50% more than original estimate. Israel deporting Greta Thunberg and other "Freedom Flotilla" activists who attempted to break naval blockade of Gaza. Canada joins the UK, Australia, and New Zealand in announcing sanctions against 2 Israeli ministers."Don't panic, eat bannock." The motto of wildfire evacuees from Sandy Lake First Nation. A team of Australian firefighters deploys to help crews in Alberta. 

Ten years ago, I asked my partner Kelsey if she would marry me. I did that, despite the fact that every living member of my family who had ever been married had also gotten divorced. Forever is a Long Time is a five-part series in which I talk to those relatives about why they got divorced and why they got married. You can listen to it now on CBC's Personally. This is a CBC Podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Marcia Young. More National Guard members are being deployed to Los Angeles and now Marines are on the way. US President Donald Trump authorized the deployment after

four days of protests. People are angry over immigration raids and clashed with law enforcement again last night. Reporter Steve Futterman is in Los Angeles and Steve, what is the latest? Well, the skirmishes and they were sometimes violent again lasted into the night and actually past midnight. After ordering the protesters to leave in the early evening, police began moving in trying to disperse them using tear gas, rubber bullets. Some of the protesters responded throwing items at the police including industrial fireworks. The numbers were not that large.

It began with a few hundred and got smaller and smaller. As I mentioned, finally after midnight, it finally pretty much ended. Mayor Karen Bastow last night blasted the Trump administration. She says it triggered all this with the raids last Friday. We need to stop the raids. This was chaos that was started in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, the city was peaceful. On Friday, it was not because of the intervention of the federal government. And of course, the new element in all this, around 700 Marines are being deployed from nearby Camp Pendleton. What are we hearing from officials in California?

Well, Governor Gavin Newsom, who is very much opposed to the deployment of the National Guard and the state of California, has actually filed a lawsuit saying what Donald Trump has done is unconstitutional, that he does not have the power to do that. Even if they win, it's going to take a long time for this to get through the court. So it looks like the National Guard is here, at least for the foreseeable future, and the Marines are going to be here. There's not really much officials can do about that. How are they going to end this? Well I must say there is a lot of frustration that there doesn't seem to be an exit an end to all this especially this evening violence

which has gone on now for four straight nights and one way traditionally we've seen cities deal with civil unrest is to finally get things under control by establishing a Limited curfew that could be done just in the general downtown area in the early evening I would not be surprised if that's something that officials are at least discussing right now. All right. Thank you, Steve My pleasure reporter Steve Futterman in Los Angeles Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner says there is no doubt judicial independence is under attack in many regions of the world. Richard Wagner, Supreme Court Chief Justice, Los Angeles, USA

When you see governments attacking the media, attacking the judges, attacking the lawyers and universities, of course that means there's a good chance that you're in front of a dictatorship, autocratic government. There are many places in the world living through those events right now. Wagner says Canada's legal system has its challenges, but it has good, well-trained, impartial judges who are governed by ethical principles, and he says the rule of law still prevails. A contentious military procurement is the subject of a report tabled this past hour in the House of Commons. Canada's Auditor General has been looking into F-35 fighter jets and why purchasing new ones costs billions more than estimated. Janice McGregor is in our Parliamentary Bureau and has read through the details of the report. And Janice, what did the Auditor General find?

Stop me if you've heard this one before, Marcia. It's over budget. When this purchase was announced in 2023, the Trudeau government said that replacing Canada's quickly aging CF-18s with 88 new F-35 fighter jets was going to cost about $19 billion. The Auditor General today is projecting the actual cost to be well over $27 billion. We are approaching a situation where we're 50% higher than previously estimated. And that doesn't even capture the full cost because this new fleet requires infrastructure upgrades, new squadron

facilities in Cold Lake Alberta and Bagotville, Quebec. Plus, the new jets need advanced weapons systems. If they're ever actually going to be used in combat, these two additional costs are going to add another $5.5 billion to the overall price tag. The last time the Auditor General reported on the fighter jet program in 2018, that office warned that there was a looming shortage of qualified pilots in the Canadian Armed Forces. Six years on, apparently this is still a problem. So it's unclear whether there's even adequate personnel to fly these jets once the first small batch of planes

are delivered in 2028. So what does this mean now? Well earlier this year, in the wake of tariff actions from Donald Trump's administration, the Prime Minister ordered the Defence Minister to review whether to proceed with additional F-35 purchases. Canada is financially obligated under contract for its first delivery, but the department's now reconsidering whether different Canadian jobs could be created by working with perhaps a European ally, one that's prepared to manufacture fighter jets at a Canadian facility using technology that's not dependent on the U.S. for its software and spare parts.

All right. Thank you, Janice. You're welcome. Janice McGregor reporting from Ottawa. Activist Greta Thunberg is now in France after being deported from Israel. Thunberg and 11 others on board the Madeline were intercepted by Israeli forces yesterday. Their humanitarian aid ship was attempting to break a years-long naval blockade of Gaza. Israel says it expects the other activists will also be deported soon.

Kristal Goman Singh has more from Jerusalem. More than 24 hours after Israeli forces boarded their vessel, the pro-Palestinian crew members of the Madeline arrived at the airport in Tel Aviv. A picture of Swedish activist Greta Thunberg on board a plane was released by Israel's foreign ministry, saying she was heading home on a flight through France. Israeli officials dismissed her and her crewmates' efforts to reach Gaza as a publicity stunt. Meanwhile, France's foreign minister says not all French nationals are heading home.

Some who were on board the vessel, organized by the group the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, refused to sign deportation agreements. They are now subject to a forced expulsion process. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, Jerusalem. Canada is joining the UK, Australia and New Zealand in announcing sanctions against two Israeli ministers. In a statement, the country says Security Minister Itmar Ben-Gavir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have incited violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

The statement says, Extremist settler violence and settlement expansion threaten stability in the region. Canada's military has now evacuated more than 700 people from Sandy Lake First Nation, a wildfires threatening their community in Northern Ontario. And evacuees are being brought south in CC 130 Hercules aircrafts. As the CBC Sarah Law reports, people are doing what they can to keep their spirits high. Sleek grey Hercules aircraft have been in and out of Thunder Bay since Sunday, carrying hundreds of evacuees from Sandy Lake First Nation.

The remote Oji Cree community has been threatened by the region's largest wildfire, which is more than 156,000 hectares large. An evacuation hub has been set up at Thunder Bay's airport. There, food, drinks and toiletries are being given out before evacuees are sent to Cap-a-Skasing, Cornwall or Mississauga. Sandy Lakes Dakota Fiddler says it's been a tough few days. Because we're all scared that our community might burn down. Ontario's Ministry of Emergency Preparedness and Response says the province is working with the federal government, Indigenous leadership and Canadian Armed Forces to keep evacuees safe.

Members of Sandy Lake's Band Rep program are leading the way, from getting people supplies to having an elder offer interpretation services. Rachel Enishinabe is the program's manager. We know what they need, just having somebody that's familiar. Recent rainfall has offered some reprieve to fire rangers, but fire information officer Chris Marchand says dry conditions run deep. That moisture deficit in the ground is a concern as it makes the landscape very receptive to lightning fires. Still, evacuees have a motto to keep their spirits high. Don't panic, eat panic. Despite the difficulties, the evacuation hub is full of takeout cups, pizza and laughter.

Sarah Law, CBC News, Thunder Bay, Ontario. Don't panic, eat bannock could be a useful motto in Alberta too. There are still seven significant wildfires burning across that province and most of them are classified as out of control, but fire crews in Alberta are about to get some help from Australia. Vicki Campbell is with the New South Wales Rural Fire Service. She says 80 firefighters and a team of logistical experts have been deployed to Canada. Australia and Canada have long had agreements in place where we support each other during a significant fire season through our firefighting

resources. We share very similar incident management arrangements. So it's very easy for us to be able to transfer into their country and work with their people and vice versa. Canadian crews came to Australia's aid during widespread wildfires in 2019 and 2020. That is the latest from World Report. I'm Marcia Young.