World Report - June 28: Saturday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: June 28, 2025

Businesses across Canada brace for more U-S tariffs.  Canada orders China's Hikvision to close Canadian operationsThe CEO of B-C's Interior Health Authority stepping aside. Iran holds mass funeral for military personnel, secientists, killed in Israeli attacks. UN Secretary Antonio Guterres criticizes system of aid delivery in Gaza, calling it 'unsafe.'  The world's fourth richest man, Jeff Bezos, and former TV host, Lauren Sánchez tied the knot in extravagant ceremony in Venice. Canada Day celebrations take place in London's Trafalgar Square.

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and threatening to impose a blanket duty. Alexander Silberman has more. It's concerning specifically because of the uncertainty. Saskatchewan farmer Jeremy Welter says he's facing yet another political threat to his livelihood. Welter's canola crops are already impacted by Chinese tariffs. And now there's the prospect of a blanket tariff from the United States. A sense of powerlessness is, you know, maybe a little bit accurate, I think. Canada and the United States had been locked in negotiations for weeks

to try and lift punishing tariffs. But US President Donald Trump ended talks Friday because Canada plans to move ahead with its digital services tax. The new levy set to take effect Monday will cost billions of dollars for tech giants like Amazon and Google. William Pellerin is an international trade lawyer in Ottawa. He says both the digital services tax and supply management have been longstanding issues for the U.S.

It's actually quite surprising that it took them this long to make a really big stink about this issue. Flavio Volpe is president of the Auto Parts Manufacturers Association. He's also a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Canada-U.S. relations. There are common values and objectives here that are workable. The federal government says it will push ahead in trying to broker a deal but Trump is threatening to further escalate the trade war planning to announce a new tariff in the next seven days. Alexander Silberman, CBC News,

Regina. The Canadian government is ordering a Chinese company to close its Canadian operations over national security concerns. The directive to Hikvision comes from industry minister Melanie Jolie. Hikvision manufactures video surveillance and telecommunications equipment. Jolie's statement says the government has determined the company's operations are injurious to Canada's security. But it doesn't give any details. Ottawa is also banning the purchase or use of Hikvision products within federal departments, agencies, and Crown corporations. The CEO of BC's Interior Health Authority is stepping aside.

It comes as the largest hospital in the province's interior struggles with a healthcare crisis. The pediatric ward at Kelowna's General Hospital has been closed since May and officials aren't able to say when it will reopen. Brady Strachan reports. Interior Health says Chief Executive Officer Susan Brown will transition into a supportive role at the health authority. Brown was set to retire at the end of the year. This move hastens her departure.

Dr. Robert Halpenny is the board chair. And these are unbelievably complex positions. I really want to stress how difficult it is to be a CEO in this environment. The news comes as the health authority confirms it doesn't know when it will be able to safely reopen the pediatric ward at Kelowna General Hospital. It closed the 10-bed unit in late May, citing a shortage of physicians. But multiple doctors have come forward with a different narrative, systemic issues

at the pediatric department with unmanageable caseloads. Dr. Alicia McKenzie-Feder is one of several pediatricians who left the hospital two years ago. I didn't feel like it was a safe, clinical working environment for me to cover all the services I was being asked to cover. The closure of the pediatric ward means some child patients have been transferred to other cities for ongoing care.

Interior Health says it's working to rebuild relationships with medical staff, something Dr. Mackenzie Fedder says is vital. Bringing back elements of trust takes time, and so looking for leadership to really listen generously. The health authority says it's still trying to get enough doctors in place to reopen the pediatric ward. The agency says four new physicians have signed on to join the hospital. One is starting this summer and two others in the fall.

Brady Strachan, CBC News, Kelowna. Now to Tehran. Thousands were out on the streets for a mass funeral for dozens of officials killed in Israel's recent attacks. Around 60 flag-draped coffins formed a procession. Among those killed are top military commanders, nuclear scientists, and some civilians. The 12-day war ended after the U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear sites last weekend. Donald Trump says he believes a ceasefire in Gaza is imminent.

The U.S. president doesn't give details, only saying he's been speaking with some of the people involved. We think within the next week we're going to get a ceasefire. And we're supplying, as you know, a lot of money and a lot of food to that area because we have to, I mean you have to, we're in theory not involved in it but we're involved because people are dying. The UN says hundreds of those recent deaths have been at Gaza food distribution sites. That has Secretary General Antonio Gucerres calling the current system for delivering aid to Gaza inherently unsafe. Tom Perry has more from Jerusalem.

In Gaza, yet more scenes of Palestinian civilians fleeing for their lives after an Israeli strike. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says it's long past time for the violence to stop. So it is time to find the political courage for a ceasefire in Gaza. Along with a ceasefire, the UN Secretary General is urging Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian aid entering Gaza. Israel has tasked the newly formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation with distributing food to Palestinians, but since the group began operating a month ago, there have been frequent incidents of Palestinians coming under fire from Israeli troops as they gathered seeking aid. More than 400 have died, according

to the UN. People are being killed simply trying to feed themselves and their families. The search for food must never be a death sentence. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz yesterday published an explosive story, quoting unnamed Israeli soldiers who say troops have been ordered to fire on Palestinians waiting for aid even when they pose no threat. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls the article blood libel while the Israeli military denies, as it has before, that its troops deliberately target civilians vowing any allegation of wrongdoing will be investigated. Tom Perry, CBC News, Jerusalem. The world's fourth richest man, Jeff Bezos, is also a married man for the second time this morning. Bezos and former TV host

Lauren Sanchez tied the knot last night in an opulent ceremony in Venice. Some 250 guests, including fellow billionaires and celebrities, turned out for the wedding. But as Megan Williams tells us, so did the protesters. The Bezos Sanchez nuptials took place last night on the island of San Giorgio across the Venice Lagoon and safely beyond the reach of the paparazzi lenses. Consequently the main spectacle was celebrities in formal wear awkwardly stepping into jostling water taxis and the photographers overheard comments as they did. Who's that? one asked when Kardashian mom Kris Jenner appeared. Old Jenner came the answer.

Oprah and her gal pal Gail, Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio, his face shielded by a baseball cap with a beak as long as a gondola. The wedding and festivities costing about $70 million, culminate this evening with a party in the district known as the Arsenale, the shipyard. It was once the industrial core of a powerful maritime republic, but now used for luxury events and art fairs. An emblem of a city whose social fabric and real industry have been replaced by mass tourism. Dozens of activists from the No Space for Bezos movement have been protesting the event.

They say the wedding is the latest symbol of an Italian city selling itself to the under-taxed global elite, while residents are forced out by soaring costs. Police cleared protesters from St. Mark's Square after they staged a mock wedding, and unfurled a banner reading, The 1% Ruins the World. Yes! Yes! Megan Williams, CBC News, Rome. And finally... Tell me what you want and I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.

I'm not giving up, come on, we got nothing left to lose. I beat it from the start, you know I'm not going anywhere. I don't give a f***, tell me what you want, you can get it. Well, you can sure get a taste of Hamilton, Ontario's Arkells performing live today, but you'll have to get yourself to central London first. The band is headlining Canada Day in London celebrations there, capping off a day of activities in the Music and Food Festival. A surprise attack, you and me together coming at you like a hurricane And what good is talking about Canada without a mention of its national sport?

Soccer, well rather football-obsessed British, can try their hand at a hockey slap shot or two, all while chowing down on a lobster roll or an enamel bar. And that's the latest national and international news from World Report. I'm Peter Cowan. This is CBC News.