World Report - June 24: Tuesday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: June 24, 2025

US President Donald Trump uses profanity while saying both Israel and Iran have violated ceasefire. Prime Minister Mark Carney confirms Canadian soldiers were stationed at the US base in Qatar targeted by Iran yesterday. Palestinian hospitals say Israeli forces kill 25 people by opening fire on a crowd waiting for aid. NATO leaders' summit appears more focused on spending than war in Ukraine. Environmental effects of a catastrophic failure at the Eagle Gold Mine in Yukon are still being felt downstream. Statistics Canada says the annual pace of inflation held steady at 1.7% in May. Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi wins a Legislature seat in one of three provincial byelections. 

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I'm Marcia Young. Donald Trump is lashing out at Israel and Iran for violating his fragile ceasefire. The US president proposed the truce to end fighting in the 12-day war, but within hours of it taking effect, Israel accused Iran of breaking it and launched an attack of its own. The CBC's Chris Brown is following developments from Jerusalem and a, you're about to hear some strong language from the US president. With his helicopter revving in the background, Donald Trump sounded incensed that the ceasefire between Israel and Iran he had only announced a few hours earlier might be about to implode.

I'm not happy that Israel is going out now. There was one rocket that I guess was fired overboard. It was after the time limit and it missed its target. And now Israel is going out. These guys got to calm down. Trump was presumably referring to immense airstrikes on Tehran that Israel executed just in advance of the deadline he set for the bombing to stop. Iran also fired rockets at Israel at the last minute, killing four people in Beersheba. Iran also fired rockets at Israel at the last minute, killing four people in Beersheba.

But in all fairness, Israel unloaded a lot. And now I hear Israel just went out because they felt it was violated by one rocket that didn't land anywhere. That's not what we want, I'll tell you. And I'm telling you, I'm not happy about that Israel. Trump then dropped his own bomb, an F-bomb. We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know

what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that? Israel's president Isaac Herzog toured the damage at the site of the latest and perhaps final Iranian attack. We have done successfully in this operation is to remove the Iranian nuclear threat looming above Israel. Iran's leadership is also framing the ceasefire as a win, claiming Israel was forced to accept defeat even though the regime suffered severe losses of its top generals, scientists and its nuclear facilities. Chris Brown, CBC News, Jerusalem. Prime Minister Mark Carney says

Iran's missile launch at a US base in Qatar last night was proportionate and de-escalatory, but it could have put Canadian soldiers in danger. Five members of the Air Force have now been relocated from that base in Qatar. Here's Mark Carney speaking to CNN's Christiane Amanpour. I mean, we never welcome, obviously, hostilities and reactions, but it appears to have been previewed, which allowed, and there are Canadian soldiers at the Qatari base as well. Did you get them out of harm's way? They were out of harm's way, yes. He says Iran's actions leave an opening for diplomacy, but it could lead to a broader

ceasefire in the Middle East, including in Gaza. Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces have again opened fire on hundreds of people waiting for aid. Video on social media show casualties being brought to hospital in Gaza City. The incident happened this morning at a food distribution site run by a US contractor. Witnesses say there was gunfire from tanks and drones onto the crowd. At least 25 people were killed. The Israeli military says it only fires warning shots to control crowd. At least 25 people were killed. The Israeli military says it only fires warning shots to control crowds. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is telling NATO leaders

their solidarity with Ukraine is the best way to disrupt Russia's war network. Russia is using not only its oil revenues for defense, but also the resources of regimes like North Korea and Iran and Russia's corrupt connections in other countries. Zolinski was speaking in The Hague at the annual NATO Leaders Summit, but unlike in previous years, the war in Ukraine does not appear to be the focus of these talks. Murray Brewster is there. As a founding member of NATO, we have always been consistent with our allies. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Onand doing a delicate dance around the question of whether Canada is fully in favor of NATO's planned new benchmark for defense spending of 5% of the gross domestic product. The question really is the timeline. What is the timeline that we would utilize to get to a heightened percentage?

The question of how long allies will take to reach that goal is a matter up for debate among leaders over the next two days. It's expected NATO members will adopt a 2035 date as the target. Spain and Slovakia have both publicly indicated they're not in favour of the new target, which the US has insisted upon. Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Wever is also unhappy, noting his country would have to triple defence spending to reach the new goal. We've jumped 2 percents. We're more or less in the same situation as Canada.

Canada arrives at the NATO summit fresh off Prime Minister Mark Carney's pledge to increase defence spending by $9.3 billion this year in order to meet the existing 2% goal. There's been a lot of concern the Trump administration is not as committed to NATO as past US governments. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says he's seen no sign of that and it will stay that way as long as allies meet their spending targets. Marie Brewster, CBC News, The Hague. The effects of a catastrophic failure at the Eagle Gold Mine in Yukon are still being felt downstream. It's been one year since part of the site collapsed. Cyanide spilled into waterways surrounding the mine. It caused environmental contamination and a downturn in Yukon's economy.

As Cheryl Kewaja reports, people in the nearby village of Mayo are still grieving. And these are the wild roses here. They just came out. Everything's kind of late this year. Gathering traditional medicine near her village of Mayo, Yukon, Crystal Prophet says it's all still very raw for her. We used to go up that way in Kalmoose, our hunting grounds, and with that whole spill, I mean, you know, it went into the underground water, right? The Eagle Gold Mine was the largest operating mine

in the Yukon. It produced gold by dousing a heap of crushed ore with cyanide solution, but the heap collapsed in a massive slide, cyanide flowing. It was close to shift change and no workers died, but hundreds of jobs were lost. For many citizens of the Nacho Nauk Dun First Nation, it's the environmental destruction that hurts most. It pissed me off because of their neglect, all the devastation. It's a catastrophe. John Stryker is the Yukon minister of mines.

There is now water treatment happening but he says it will be a long time before all the cyanide is gone. Stryker says new water storage helped prep for the spring freshette, the recent snowmelt. He says there were concerns for a second slide with the melt. Now we've just made it through Franchette. We did manage to not overwhelm the system. I always say knock on wood. An independent review is expected in the coming weeks but for many like profit in Mayo the what and why of the mine failure is of little consequence. A lot of people are grieving and for people to even want to talk to you about it right now is so fresh you

know. Cheryl Kowaja, CBC News, Whitehorse. Statistics Canada says the annual pace of inflation held steady at 1.7 percent in May. It says there were slower increases in rent and mortgages and Ontario in particular saw some rent relief from slower population growth and a jump in new housing supply. StatsCan says the removal of the consumer carbon price is also still tempering annual inflation at the gas pumps. Voters in three Alberta by-elections are keeping with the status quo. Separatist candidates failed to win seats in the provincial legislature, but Nihed Nenshi won a seat nearly a year after he became the new leader of the Alberta NDP. Karina Zapata has the details.

The MLA for Edmonton Strathcona, our leader, Nahed Nenshi. It didn't take long after polls closed for that results to come in. A vacant seat in Edmonton Strathcona will soon be Nahed Nenshi's. The leader of the Alberta NDP says he already has a goal in mind — to become the province's next premier. It was a three-step process. Win the leadership, get a seat in the House, and now we win the general election. In the southern suburbs of Edmonton, Gertrude Singh Brar won the by-election in Edmonton

Ellerslie, leaving Alberta's capital city as an NDP fortress. But in central Alberta, the United Conservative Party will keep its seat in the mostly rural riding of old Stidsbury Three Hills, where farmer and political newcomer Tara Sawyer has won. I think it sends a clear message to the federal government. Alberta's had enough, and it's time they take us seriously, and they start listening to us. While candidates backing separation were on the ballots, none were successful in their attempts to win.

Still, Cam Davies, leader of the Republican Party of Alberta, says he won't give up. David Davies, leader of the Republican Party of Alberta, says he won't give up. This is just the beginning. We're not going away. We've got a lot of work to do. We're rolling up our sleeves and the work starts now. Davies says he's working for a growing number of conservatives in Alberta who are frustrated with the status quo.

Karina Zapata, CBC News, Calgary. That is the latest national and international news from World Report. If you like the World Report podcast, please follow us and tell a friend. It helps spread the word. I'm Marcia Young.