World Report - March 13: Friday's top stories in 10 minute

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

Israel renews attacks on Iran and Lebanon as Iran targets financial districts and key energy routes in Gulf region.U.S. officials confirm six airmen are dead after a refueling plane crash. Investigators have ruled out combat fire as the cause remains under review.Global oil prices fluctuate as the G7 releases record reserves and the U.S. considers waiving shipping laws to bypass the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.Canada’s economy unexpectedly sheds 84,000 jobs in February — a sharp reversal that pushes the unemployment rate to 6.7 per cent.The widow of an Edmonton man who died in the E-R slams a new provincial report, calling its 16 recommendations "a joke."March is one of the deadliest months for avalanches; predicting them is difficult.

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This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm John Northcott. In Tehran, thousands of people are taking part in an annual rally in support of the regime. It comes as Israel launches a new wave of airstrikes, some hitting near the crowd. With the war now about to enter its third week, the U.S. president tells Fox News this morning the strikes will intensify even more. We've already damaged them so badly. It would take years for them to ever rebuild. And we're going to be hitting them very hard over the next week.

Meanwhile, Iran continues its attacks in and around the Persian Gulf now, targeting cities and financial districts in the region. Megan Williams says more from Dubai. Two foreign nationals were killed and several others injured after a drone crashed into an industrial area in Sohar Oman, while a second drone came down nearby in an open area without causing injuries. Here in Dubai, debris struck the facade of a skyscraper in Dubai International Financial Center. After air defenses intercepted an Iranian drone about 60 stories up early this morning, followed by warnings of missile attacks after.

Banks and financial firms in Dubai and Abu Dhabi have sent staff home after Iran warned it would target economic interests linked to the U.S. and Israel, with Bloomberg News Agency telling staff they can leave the region. Experts say the UAE is especially in Iran's line of fire. likely due to close security ties with the United States. Its partnership with Israel and mounting financial pressure on Iranian money flows through the Emirates. Across the Gulf, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have all reported missile or drone attacks on energy infrastructure, U.S. bases, and diplomatic sites. After hitting six vessels in the past two days in the strait of

Hormuz, Iran says ships can still pass through if they coordinate with its navy, effectively claiming in control of the world's most critical oil corridor. Megan Williams, CBC News, Dubai. U.S. military officials confirm that all six airmen aboard a refueling plane are dead, following a crash in Iraq yesterday. While the investigation is ongoing, authorities have already ruled out both friendly and enemy fire as potential causes. With more on today's developments, we go to the CBC's chief correspondent.

Adrian Arsnow is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Adrian. Oil continues to be a critical part of this conversation. It really is an urgent part of the conversation. Over the last few days, we've looked at efforts to mitigate the damage being caused by that Iranian stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Usai G7 countries recommend the biggest release of emergency reserves in history. Prices still went up. The U.S. waived sanctions on the sale of Russian oil for a month. Prices still went up, about 10% this week so far.

Now there's this new effort from the U.S. It's considering waiving a 100-year-old rule called the Jones Act, which effectively insists that only American ships, crude, built, flagged, work at American ports. They may lift that rule just to keep essentials flowing in the United States, but even though that proposal's out there, the price pressure isn't lessening at all. We keep hearing that all of these solutions are Band-Aid solutions, unlikely to fix what worries the markets and everyone else. Keep an eye on what Saudi Arabia is doing, though.

it's been afraid of this precise scenario for decades. So it built a pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, so east to west, away from the Strait of Hormuz to another shipping route. So it's now trying to move much of its oil and tankers west to that new safer route. That could stabilize supply and price, but not quickly. CBC News chief correspondent Adrian R. Snow in Riyadh. Thanks, Adrian. Thank you.

Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, is in Paris this morning for high-level talks with French President Emmanuel Macron. The meeting comes at a tense moment as the US temporarily lifts sanctions on Russian oil to stabilize global energy prices. The CBC's Anna Cunningham reports. This visit to Paris is part of a quick tour of some European nations for Ukraine's President,

Vladimir Zelensky. He has already been to Germany and also Romania this week. In Bucharest, he signed a deal for them to start mass-producing drones there. This is all about ensuring that events in the Middle East do not mean that Russia's war on Ukraine is forgotten. So in Paris today, at the Alisei Palace, we have seen Zelensky given a warm welcome by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and at a news conference,

Macron warned that the war in the Middle East will not give Russia respite in its own conflict with Ukraine. He also said, it was strange to see Russia calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East when it had refused to do the same in Ukraine multiple times. And on the issue of the US temporarily lifting sanctions on the sale of Russian oil, well, Zelensky claimed that Russia would make some $10 billion for the war on his country. He said it was not helping to achieve peace. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. Statistics Canada is reporting the economy shed 84,000 jobs in February.

It's in sharp contrast to the 10,000 gain economists had predicted. That loss has pushed the unemployment rate up slightly to 6.7%. This is the final look at the job market before the Bank of Canada makes its next interest rate decision on Wednesday. CBC's senior business correspondent Peter Armstrong has the details. This is a crushing blow to the idea that Canada's jobs market had stabilized after the summer. We now lost 84,000 jobs in one month. biggest single month drop in four years, plus another 25,000 jobs lost in January. To make matters worse, these losses are concentrated in full-time, private sector work. It spreads out across

goods and services industry. It stretches out right across the country and drags the headline rate of employment all the way up to 6.7%. And, you know, I think a lot of experts had looked at the numbers over the last year or so and mused whether maybe, just maybe, can't was through the worst of the trade war storm. The labor market looked like it had started to find its footing in the fall. This report pushes back against that narrative and pushes back pretty hard. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. Acute Care, Alberta has released a report following the death of a man while waiting in an emergency room.

But the widow he left behind is not impressed. Julia Wong reports. This report is a joke of Cresham's debt. Anger radiates from Niharika Sri Kumar. The Edmonton widow remains devastated after the death of her husband, Prashant. In December, the 44-year-old went to ER with chest pains. He died roughly eight hours later, before he ever saw a doctor, his wife says. He collapsed right in my hands.

Provincial Health Agency Acute Care, Alberta, has now publicly released a report into Prashant's death. There are 16 recommendations, including increasing staffing in ERs, and using AI to help identify patients who may need to be seen more urgently. Miharaqa rejects them. Is this doing anything for Krishan? No. The report also recommends triage liaison physicians in ERs. The Alberta government announced that back in January, saying they would start right away.

They haven't. In a statement, hospital minister Matt Jones says acute care Alberta is working with other service providers to implement the recommendations, to strengthen patient safety, and prevents similar tragedies. Julia Wong, CBC News, Edmonton. For many of us, March weather brings the hope of warmer spring days. But the shift between seasons often makes this one of the deadliest months for avalanches. As CBC science reporter Anandaram explains, predicting exactly how a snowpack will behave remains a massive challenge.

A dozen shovels desperately hack at thick ice and snow. On this February night, the Alpine Rescue, team in northwestern Italy knows every second counts when searching for avalanche victims. Miraculously, they pull a quivering hiker out of a deep hole, a happy ending, considering the deadly season it's been in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. The third avalanche death here in BC in a week. With even experienced and well-equipped people getting caught and killed. Yeah, it's really a project to hear about these accidents.

Simon Horton is a forecaster with Avalanche Canada. while the dynamics may sound simple, a dense layer sliding on top of a weak layer predicting when avalanches happen is tricky. You can have a layered structure that has potential to be concerning depending on how the next weather pattern comes into play. And it could go different ways with how that evolves. Climate change driven by humans burning fossil fuels is affecting avalanches, but exactly how is harder to figure out. Ethan Green is director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. A lot of the stuff that we see, it's not because of one. weather event. It's because of a series of weather events. So there's all of these subtleties

in there that trying to connect all of those dots to something larger like climate change is really quite difficult. Still, experts recommend checking the forecast proper training and equipment and for any backcountry traveler to be ready to ask themselves, is it time to turn back now? Onondram, CBC News, Toronto. That is the latest national and international news from World Report. I'm John Northcott. This is is CBC News. For more CBC podcasts, go to cBC.ca.ca slash podcasts.