World Report - June 26: Thursday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth holds morning newser, insisting strikes dealt a severe blow to Iranian nuclear sites. Iran's Supreme leader congratulates nation for victory over Israel in first public appearance since ceasefire. 3 Palestinian men killed by Israeli settlers who attacked and set fire to their community near Ramallah. Mexico's top court orders release of case file on 43 missing Ayotzinapa students. Prime Minister Mark Carney's major projects bill C5 could pass in the Senate as early as today. Americans reflect on 10 years since the United States legalized same-sex marriage. Buskers in Quebec City slam a new rule requiring they sing in French only.

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There's been a lot of discussion about what happened and what didn't happen. Step back for a second. Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions to end the war, decimating, choose your word, obliterating, destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities. Hegseth also refutes the findings of a leaked US intelligence report earlier this week. It indicated the damage to the sites could be repaired within a few months. Trump calls those reports fake news, something Hegseth doubled down on today. There are so many aspects of what our brave men and women did that by

because of the hatred of this press corps are undermined because people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible. Hegseth, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe are expected to brief US lawmakers about the strikes later today. Iran's supreme leader is also speaking this morning. Ali Khamenei gave his first statement since the ceasefire was announced. Tom

Perry is following this from London. Tom, what is Khamenei saying? Well, we've now heard from Iran's supreme leader. He's not been seen or heard from in days. He surfaced this morning and he put out a series of statements on social media and they read, I offer my congratulations on the victory over the fallacious Zionist regime. The Zionist regime, he says, was practically knocked out and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic. He goes on to say that the US regime entered the war in an effort to save Israel but achieved nothing. The Islamic Republic, he says, delivered a heavy slap to the US's face and attacked

and inflicted damage on the US air base, one of the key US air bases in the region. So Iran's supreme leader there claiming victory in his country's fight with Israel and the U.S. probably aimed mostly there at a domestic audience for the people of Iran, but also putting on a brave face, I think, to the international community after this fight. Thank you, Tom. Thank you. The CBC's Tom Perry reporting in London. There is anguish and outrage in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinians buried three men there overnight. They were killed by Israeli settlers who attacked and set fire to their community near Ramallah. Rights groups say extremist settler violence has surged in the West Bank. Chris Brown reports from Jerusalem. Cars were left smoldering and homes scorched by fire. After a rampage by extremist Jewish settlers says Talat Sami, an eyewitness from the town of Kafir Malik. They attacked women and children and when the young man went out

to defend his family they shot him in the head without reason. The bodies of three Palestinians were later taken to hospitals in nearby Ramallah accompanied by angry chanting crowds. Most of the world including Canada considers Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank to be illegal under international law. Over the long years of Israel's military occupation settlers have deliberately encroached on Palestinian communities and violence is now a near daily occurrence say Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups but the war in Gaza has inflamed tensions even more leading to military

raids and crackdowns by Israel. Earlier in the day its troops shot and killed a 15 year old boy near Jenin and a 13 year-year-old was killed in Kafir Malik on Monday. Many of the settlers are part of the Israeli military and armed with automatic weapons. Abdul Ghani Mohammed Sayel from Kafir Malik says the soldiers opened up fire on us and people started falling. Canada recently sanctioned two of Israel's most senior cabinet ministers for contributing to a more permissive environment for subtler attacks.

Chris Brown, CBC News, Jerusalem. Mexico's top court is ordering the case file on 43 missing students to be publicly released. The students disappeared from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College in 2014. It's considered one of the country's worst human rights violations. Since then, the case has been fraught with missteps and interference from officials. Mexico's former top prosecutor was arrested in 2022 in relation to the disappearances. The court has not given a deadline for the file's release. Prime Minister Mark Carney's major projects bill could pass in the Senate as early as today. Bill C-5 passed quickly through Parliament, but senators are raising some concerns about the legislation.

For more, let's go to Rafi Boudjian-Kanian in our Parliamentary Bureau. Rafi, why is this bill so controversial? Well, essentially it gives cabinet the ability to pick a winner among major nation-building projects to have them pass quickly through any regulations. The government has not specifically outlined what projects it has in mind, but it's spoken of national energy corridors, and that's a really broad term. It could include pipelines, mining or port facilities or electricity grids. For critics though, the how is the issue. Once the government decides a project is in the national interest, ministers can skirt some laws to make it easier to build. Laws like say the Liberal Zone Environmental Protection Legislation, the Impact Assessment Act. Now C5 passed

quickly through the House of Commons with the help of the Conservatives, but the smaller NDP and Le Quebecois caucuses have shown a lot of opposition and beyond Parliament Hill so have indigenous groups, the Assembly of First Nations among others, raising concerns the government won't adequately consult them before approving projects going through their lands. So how likely is it to pass the Senate today? Well, it's being debated. There is a certain amount of pressure on the upper body to pass this legislation by Friday at the latest. At least that's what the government is hoping for. It wants the bill passed before Canada Day. Now one Senator, Paul Prosper, has told CBC News the intends to introduce an amendment that would reinforce and protect free, prior and informed consent by Indigenous

people into C5. We haven't seen that amendment introduced yet, but that could potentially delay the bill's final approval. If the amendment passes, MPs would then have to debate in the House of Commons, and they've already left for the summer. Thank you, Rafi. You're welcome. Rafi Boudjikianian reporting from Ottawa. The United States legalized same-sex marriage 10 years ago today. Now many Americans are reflecting on what the landmark Supreme Court ruling means to them.

But as Steve Futterman reports, others are worried a changing political climate could harm the future of the law. It is very hard to overestimate what this decision meant to same-sex couples who for years wanted the right to marry. In my lifetime, our government, the United States of America, decided that I was a full citizen. John D'Amico was part of the movement that fought to legalize same-sex marriage.

He is the former mayor of West Hollywood, which has one of the largest percentages of gay and lesbian residents in the U.S. James Campbell says the ruling literally changed his life. Sure, I got married. So, yeah, see? A decade later, a significant majority of Americans now support same-sex marriage. Kim Jimenez is 20. She doesn't remember when same-sex marriage was illegal.

Ten years is something to celebrate. So to finally be able to, you know, see people be in love and be married legally, I think is beautiful. Paul Katami was a plaintiff in one of the major same-sex marriage cases prior to the Supreme Court ruling. His case made gay marriage legal in California. Two years later it was legal in every state. The 10th anniversary is so important because it's a milestone of our rights becoming true. While many are celebrating today, others are concerned that in the current U.S. political climate,

there could be rulings in the future that might threaten same-sex marriage. Steve Futterman for CBC News, West Hollywood, California. This is Bosco Baker, a street performer in Quebec City, one of many slamming a new rule for buskers. It requires them to only perform in French, but Baker says that will take away from the cultural diversity of the streets. It's like extra restrictions on artists. Even I know people from here, from Quebec City, that were born and raised, like to sing

in other languages, and now they're not able to. For now the new rule only applies to two designated busking spots. Anyone performing there must sing in French or perform instrumental pieces. Quebec City says the rules are put in place to respect people and shopkeepers near the sites. That is the latest national and international news from World Report. I'm Marcia Young.