Your World Tonight - FIFA red card spat, Canada picks German subs, Prince Harry palace snub, and more

Episode Date: July 6, 2026

Critics are crying foul after FIFA reverses a decision to ban U.S. player Folarin Balogun from the next game. But why did FIFA change the ref’s call? President Donald Trump admits he made a call himself.Also: Prime Minister Mark Carney is on his way to Turkey for a NATO summit. Before leaving, he made a multi-billion-dollar military announcement that could reshape Canada's naval capabilities.And: A fresh dispute inside a fractured royal family leaves Prince Harry looking for a place to stay.Plus: Rogers sports acquisitions, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei funeral, Alberta-to-Ontario pipeline proposal, and more.

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because I didn't think it was a foul. And, you know, again, I'm good at this stuff. I didn't think it was a foul. Seeing red, U.S. President Donald Trump admits he called the head of FIFA about a referee's red card call. And suddenly, the U.S. soccer star in question is reinstated for the next game. Critics are crying foul, claiming political interference. Welcome to Your World Tonight. I'm Tanya Fletcher in Vancouver.

It's Monday, July 6th, coming up on 6 p.m. Eastern, also on the podcast. The German sub is probably slightly better. in terms of meeting the Russian threat? The last time the Canadian Navy got a new submarine, the Soviet Union was a global superpower. The USSR is gone, but Russia's shadow remains over Canada's north. And now Ottawa has chosen a German company to build up to a dozen new subs.

The price take is in the billions, the delivery date nearly a decade away. There has been no shortage of controversy in this edition of the FIFA World Cup. Sky high ticket prices, new hydration breaks that add extra time for commercials. And now a new firestorm. FIFA has delayed the suspension of a star American player.

A red card last match left him sidelined for tonight's U.S. knockout game against Belgium. But then Donald Trump stepped in. Our Peter Armstrong has more on the controversy and the fallout. The American fans and the American team have been a highlight of this World Cup. One revelation to the world is that the Americans might just be good at men's soccer, but never lose sight of the fact that the Americans are also very good at politics. But all I did, all I did, I asked for a review because I didn't think it was a foul.

Donald Trump asked FIFA to overturn the suspension of Star American forward, Fuller and Balligan. And FIFA did, finding a little-known loophole that doesn't lift his red card, but delays the automatic suspension for a year. But this isn't about a red card. It's not about a foul. It's not even really about soccer. This is a story about power. I understand sports really well, really well.

And that wasn't a foul. That, of course, is not how any of this is supposed to work. But Donald Trump has made a career out of bending the rules. And FIFA? For decades, FIFA's critics have called it one of the most corrupt organizations in sport. Consider a tweet from FIFA's former president, Sep Blatter. Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls, he wrote. Football, he said, must never become a playground for political power.

Blatter was driven out as head of FIFA after a decades-long investigation led by U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who was best known for taking down the gangsters portrayed in the film Goodfellas. They corrupted the business of worldwide soccer to serve their interests and to enrich themselves. In the wake of that scandal, Johnny Infantino took over as they, head of FIFA. And until now, his highest profile move was to award Trump with the hitherto unknown FIFA Peace Prize. Even UEFA, the second biggest football federation in the world, said it was baffled. We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision, wrote the Football Association. So Roger Bennett, a British American broadcaster, says it's a very

little surprise that this whole episode sparked such deep-seated skepticism. In the eyes of the world, no matter what happened, every goal, every game they win, maybe tonight and afterwards, we'll have a stigma, we'll have an asterisk, by the way, which will last beyond the World Cup. For decades, fans

have shrugged off FIFA's myriad scandals, but most of those have been about league officials getting rich. What sets this apart is the accusations of unfairness have spilled over onto the field of play. Peter Armstrong's. CBC News, Washington.

Offence and defense will also be up for debate in Turkey over the next few days, but with far more serious consequences. Prime Minister Mark Carney is on his way there now for a NATO summit. Before leaving the country, though, he made a multi-billion dollar military announcement that could reshape Canada's naval capabilities. Olivia Stefanovic explains. Canada stands at a decisive crossroads. After a high-stakes battle to secure the large,

military procurement contract in the country's history. Joining the TKMS user group means joining a powerful network. A competition fought between Germany's Tisenkrupe Marine Systems and South Korea's Hanwa Ocean, which hired former CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge to voice one of its ads. The Hanwa Canadian Patrol submarine can be delivered first. Prime Minister Mark Carney made a stop in Halifax today to declare the winner. The TKMS platform is optimized for Arctic waters, and it's fully NATO interoperable.

Carney says the joint bid by Germany and Norway is also the better choice for Canadian workers. It will directly create and sustain an ecosystem of well over 100,000 well-paying jobs across Canada. The Royal Canadian Navy is looking for a dozen new subs. The last time Canada purchased brand new ones was back in the 1960s during the Cold War. buying these things just because they're pretty or they're sort of like we want to join the submarine club. That's not the reason. We're buying them to deter our enemies. Rob Hubert is the director for the Center of Military Security and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. He says the German sub has a slight advantage over the Korean sub

into deterring threats from the Russians. And so I think we can read through the tea leaves a little bit and then saying, okay, so we want a submarine that is very quiet, has the ability to wait in ambush for the Russian subs coming forward. The decision also pulls Canada closer into Europe's orbit. David Perry is the president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. This is going to cement for Canada a really strong partnership with some core NATO allies on the North Atlantic. But Perry says it could also push Canada further away from Asia. I'm sure there's going to be massive disappointment, though.

Carney says the Europeans can make their first. delivery of four new subs by 2036. The purchase could cost up to $24 billion, but more than $100 billion with lifetime maintenance. The exact figures to be sorted out in contract negotiations. And if those talks go sour, Carney says Canada can enter negotiations with runner-up, Hanwa. This decision was about choosing the absolute best platform and partnership to meet Canada's combined strategic security and economic interests. It also gives Carney something substantial to present at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. Olivia Estefanovich, CBC News, Ottawa.

The submarine purchase is just one item on the agenda at that NATO summit in Turkey. Leaders of the military alliance are meeting as Russia steps up attacks on Ukraine. Earlier today, at least 22 people were killed in Kiev. As Cameron McIntosh reports, Ukraine is looking for help now with its air defenses. Another round of Russian strikes on Kiev overnight. A barrage of bombs hitting the Ukrainian capitals. There was no way to go down. We were simply blocked there, says Alexandra Capitina, pointing up at the blasted out upper side of an apartment building that used to be her flat.

She waited out the attack in a hallway. We just had bare walls here. nowhere to hide. Ukraine hit back at Russia's largest oil refinery. As President, Vlomir Zelensky says Ukraine's air defenses are getting depleted. He's asking NATO for more interceptor missiles. It's simply absurd that in the modern world, production has not been scaled up to the level to protect people from ballistic terror, he said.

Leaders of 32 NATO countries are arriving in Turkey for two days of meetings. To chart the future of the alliance. Ukraine will be a key issue. Zelensky will meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Before leaving, Trump told reporters in Washington he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend about ending the war in Ukraine. I think we're getting much closer than people realize, and President Putin wants it to end. I will tell you that very strongly.

Meanwhile, most eyes will be on Trump's relationship with NATO. Long, a critic of the alliance, Trump again questioning NATO's value. calling it one-sided last week after NATO refused to get involved in the Iran conflict. Trump, long insisting NATO allies become less dependent on the U.S. Errol Mendez is an expert on NATO at the University of Ottawa. I think it's going to be essentially a very sensitive time

on the part of Europe, the European members of NATO, but also Mark Connie, our prime minister, as to how to deal with his constant threats in terms of NATO. One way is to meet Trump's insistence NATO members spend 5% of GDP on defense. NATO Secretary General Mark Ruda expecting billions in defense spending to be announced,

including Canada's submarine deal. After years of underinvestment, we are producing real capabilities. European allies and Canada are now on a trajectory to equalize the defense spending with the United States. The meeting also comes amid warnings from Poland, a NATO member, that it has intelligence, Russia may be planning a future attack on its border.

As for Russia. Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov, saying Putin and Trump agreed to keep talking, saying nothing about Russia letting up on its current assault of Ukraine, provocation seemingly timed to Tess Nido's resolve. Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Winnipeg. Hamas says it has dissolved its government in Gaza. The militant group says it will now transfer power to a UN-backed committee. The move is part of a U.S. brokered ceasefire deal with Israel.

Hamas did not clarify if it would disarm or hand over security responsibilities. Israel has dismissed the announcement as a ploy by Hamas to avoid disarmament. It's coming right up. Rogers is paying billions for full control of some of Canada's biggest sports teams, setting off a potential economic impact far outreaching the games themselves. Plus, part memorial, part protest, part theater. Iran's government holds a days-long funeral for its former leader killed months ago in U.S.-Israeli attacks. And later, we'll have this story.

I'm Chris Brown in London. With 52 royal bedrooms, you'd think Buckingham Palace would be able to accommodate an estranged prince and maybe his family. But it seems not. First, Prince Harry said yes, he'd be staying on his upcoming visit to London and then the palace said he won't be. Everything seems really quite chaotic now about this trip. The bitter feud between Prince Harry and Meghan

and the rest of Britain's royals has taken another sad twist. I'll have the story coming up on Your World Tonight. Rogers is already a heavyweight in the telecom industry and it's about to become a super heavyweight in the sports world. The Canadian company is buying the remaining shares in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. As Thomas Dagglet tells us, it puts Rogers in full control of every major sports franchise in Toronto.

In person or on screen, however fans take in men's pro sports in Toronto, they'll soon be supporting one franchise or another that's fully owned by Rogers. With the telecom giant now set to buy the remaining 25% of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment that it didn't. already own, Rogers is on track to soon have full control over the Raptors, Blue Jays, and Maple Leafs, as well as the CFL's Argonauts and the city's Major League Soccer Team. I never imagined a number like this. There's so many moving parts here. I don't know how it's going to come off for fans. Former MLSC president Richard Petty says he was surprised to see the sale price of more than $4.3 billion, putting the portfolio of sports property's total value at over 17 billion. And it's not just the teams themselves. Rogers already owns broadcaster

Sportsnet and will now oversee the facilities used by the WNBA's Toronto Tempo and the women's hockey franchise The SEPters, not to mention every other major venue in town. We're going to control all the pregame and the post game and they're going to have access to the players in a way that, say, TSN would not. Moshe Lander is a sports economist at Concordia University. He says advertisers should soon expect to pay more. Rogers now controls Toronto sports. And so if you want to associate yourself with Toronto sports, you have one option and one option only. And so that's going to give them a tremendous amount of power in extracting maximum prices from advertisers. Rogers already bought out

the MLSC stake that once belonged to its rival Bell. Last year, it significantly raised the price of its premium sports streaming service and recently announced hockey night in Canada would no longer air for free on CBC. More Canadians tune into SportsNet than any other specialty channel in Canada. Last year, when Rogers extended its NHL broadcast contract, the company's

chief executive Tony Staffieri underlined how the games push viewers to other Rogers products. Together, this scale means we can connect fans to the best live sports and more content on Rogers Xfinity, SportsNet Plus, or their platform

of choice. In a statement today, Staff Fierry described the industry as a very crowded marketplace. Soon, Rogers will be the only game in town. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto. Alberta already has Ottawa's support for an oil pipeline heading west. Now the province is setting its sights on one heading in the other direction. Premier Daniel Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford showed off the proposed route for a 3,300-kilometer pipeline. As Ruxar Ali reports, it would move Alberta oil to

Ontario refineries. Pipelines have gone from impossible to a national imperative. In Calgary, Alberta Premier Daniel Smith making the case for what the province and Ontario are calling the Northern Shield Energy Corridor, a pipeline from Hardesty in central Alberta to southern Ontario refineries in Sarnia. The Alberta's oil sands have gone from a target to a national treasure. The announcement follows the Alberta West Coast Pipeline proposal, which was submitted to the major projects office just last week. And we're launching the great expansion of oil and gas infrastructure and production in decades. The project doesn't have a private partner or a price tag.

But that's not stopping Ontario Premier Doug Ford from saying he's not opposed to taxpayers footing the bill. We're going to do that feasibility study. Then we'll be able to go from there. But I think it's a great investment. But not everyone is as sold on the project. There is no private sector proponent for this pipeline because there's no business case for it. Keith Stewart is a senior energy strategist with Greenpeace Canada.

We're living in a world where electric vehicles, Powered by wind and solar energy are cheaper, cleaner and faster to deploy than the fossil fuel mega projects. For Ford, the pipeline is a project of national importance. We're talking to the major projects office and had a meeting yesterday. Heather Exner-Piro is a senior fellow with the McDonald-Loree Institute. She says while Ontario and Quebec do get Alberta's oil, they get it through the U.S., which she says poses a security issue. This is meant to carry that oil above the Great Lakes through Canada,

instead of again going through the United States through what could be a hostile or adversarial neighbor. Enbridge runs a pipeline through Michigan. That state's governor has previously threatened to shut it down. The Trump election just kind of reinforced that sense that we should be able to be self-sufficient. The proposed pipeline would transport about 500,000 barrels of oil per day to start. But Exner Perrault points out that's far more than what the eastern provinces can absorb. So you think some of it must be going into the American market as well. While the pipeline would run through Manitoba, its premier has previously said he wants indigenous communities consulted from the start. And the province hasn't signed on.

But Ford is optimistic Wab Canoe will get on board. He has to consult a little more with his folks in Manitoba, but we'll work something out. The premiers say they're starting indigenous consultations and are still working out timelines. Rooksar Ali, CBC News, Calgary. In British Columbia, more than 140 properties have been ordered to have been ordered to have, evacuate near Boston Bar, a few hours east of the lower mainland. About 250 guests have had to leave a local resort as a nearby wildfire quickly grew to more than 12 square kilometers. The Brunswick Creek Fire is burning out of control now for a fifth day. Environment Canada has issued an air quality

advisory for the area. Hundreds of thousands of mourners have flooded the streets of Tehran. They're honoring Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hamenei. The carefully choreographed funeral possession will last six days. The crowds will weave through Shia's strongholds in Iran and Iraq before reaching Hamenei's birthplace and final resting place in northeastern Iran. CBC's senior international correspondent Margaret Evans has more. Day three of Iran's long farewell to the slain supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Hamenei, killed in a...

a U.S.-Israeli attack over four months ago now. He is coffin and those of family members killed alongside him, born by vehicle through Tehran streets thronging with loyal supporters, anxious to get close to the body of their former spiritual leader, many overcome with grief. I didn't cry this much for my own father, 63-year-old Fatima Muhammad told Iraq. Iranian state television. I wasn't as upset then as I am for the leader.

Iranian authorities have framed the week-long funeral as a referendum on the Islamic Republic. A spectacle, they say, will draw millions in a show of unity. But Iran is anything but united, a country of more than 90 million people, where those opposed to the rule of the clerics will be staying home. Their options for open to extremely limited in the wake of brutal crackdowns on anti-government protesters. This Tehran resident who lost friends in those crackdowns accuses the government of coercing public employees to attend the funeral and bribing others by offering free food and drink. We've withheld his name and altered his voice for his protection.

The only thing that can be able to be able to. ease our pain, he says, is the complete overthrow of the Islamic Republic. That's unlikely any time soon. But Iran expert Ali Ansari from the University of St. Andrews says, while the opposition may be fractured, it's still there, because the problems bedeviling Iran are still there. The state is failing in Iran. And when the state fails, there will be openings for the opposition to come back again. Much will depend on the negotiations between Iran and the United States paused for the course of the funeral. Opposition to the talks was on display in the crowds amongst the hardest of hardline regime

supporters, some calling for revenge, not negotiations, and carrying placards that read Kill Trump. You know, it doesn't bode well, I think, for what's going to happen in the next few weeks. On Sunday, three of Hamaniye's sons appeared publicly at the funeral, throwing into sharp relief the ongoing absence of his fourth, Mostaba, Iran's new supreme leader, injured in the attack that killed his father and still yet to be seen in public. Amani will be buried in his hometown of Mashad on Thursday. Margaret Evans, CBC News, London.

The Cuban government says it's working to restore power after the country's aging electric grid collapsed again today. About 10 million people are now without electricity. The island has suffered several major blackouts over the past year. Cuba is in the midst of an energy crisis made worse by a U.S. imposed fuel blockade. The Canadian astronaut who flew around the moon earlier this year says he's now hanging up his space suit. Jeremy Hansen is leaving the Canadian Space Agency after 17 years. He was recruited from the Air Force in 2009.

As part of the Artemis II moon mission this April, he and his American crewmates flew further from Earth than anyone before. The agency says he's leaving to pursue new opportunities in September. Across the pond, yet another feud is brewing in Britain's fractured royal family. This time, it's over accommodation, or rather lack of it. Prince Harry is about to visit the UK. He was expected to stay at Buckingham Palace. but the palace now says that's no longer possible. And as Chris Brown tells us, a visit that had the potential to mend fences,

just isn't working out that way. Above the forecourt at Buckingham Palace, where the changing of the guard takes place, there are rows and rows of windows belonging to 52 royal bedrooms. So letting Prince Harry and possibly his family crash in some of them during a visit to London seem to make sense. Only everything fell apart Monday. says Royal Commentator Victoria Murphy.

We were told this morning that he'd accepted an offer to stay at Buckingham Palace and then it was very quickly made clear by the royal household that he wasn't going to stay there. The Palace's version of events is that Harry missed a Friday deadline to accept the invitation. Harry's side tells a different story that the invitation was actually withdrawn. The Palace statement emphasized it takes time to prepare for guests and Harry didn't accept in time. But Royal Watchers wonder if there could be another explanation.

On Tuesday, a UK judge will deliver a high-profile verdict in a case against the owners of the Daily Mail newspaper. Harry and others have long accused the paper of using illegal tactics like voicemail hacking and bugging to gather stories. And Murphy says it's possible the king decided having Harry stay at the palace during the verdict could be seen as royal interference. We're hearing that concerns over his constitutional position within the judiciary are potentially impacting having Harry's stay at the palace. Harry's relationships with the King and other senior royals, especially his brother William, have been in the deep freeze. It's really sad that it's got to this point.

Six years ago, he moved to California with Megan and wrote a book that dug up lots of dirt. The King hasn't seen Harry's kids in years. Outside the palace, Canadian tourist Ashley Fraser sees it all as a sad family tragedy, especially for Harry. You probably miss as his dad. I mean, I'm sure he'd want to see his father. This was a story that did on the face of it seem like it could maybe be quite a positive story about the king meeting two of his grandchildren for the first time in four years and sort of a moving towards reconciliation, but it's now sort of become the opposite of that.

Harry is the founder of the Invictus Games for Wounded War Vets. He's still coming to promote the games, but beyond that, not a lot is clear, including whether Megan and the children will be in the UK, not to mention where everyone will stay. Chris Brown, CBC News, London. Finally tonight, more than a century ago, Railway tycoon Andrew Carnegie set up an award for civilians who risks their own safety to help others. The Carnegie Medal for Acts of Extraordinary Terrorism is still handed out,

along with a little cash, and one of the latest recipients is a man from St. John New Brunswick, Matthew Baxter. He was working on a job near the Little River Reservoir last summer when he heard panicked voices, a group of teens going for a swim to celebrate the end of exams. Their friends were on the beach and pointing out and being like, oh, he needs help, and that's when it clicked.

So I went for a quick run down the hill and through the fence. And one of the folks from the city likes to put it that I kind of came through. the fence like the Kool-Aid man. Bear in mind that Baxter was still dressed head-to-toe in full construction gear. He managed to throw off his helmet and vest, but didn't stop to take off his steel-toed boots. Yes, that was a choice I realized about halfway. That wasn't the best, but it was one of those things I realized, you know, I just had to keep going. I couldn't stop.

It slowed him down, he says, but he was able to reach the drowning boy in deep, freezing cold water. Baxter wrapped the boy's arm around his shoulder and they headed back to shore. I mean, I was probably doing like 80% of the swimming for both of us. He was definitely, you know, very exhausted, but, you know, was still able to like kind of able to talk him through it and be like, hey, okay, this is what we're doing, you know, like don't give up on me here. Like, you know, we can see the beach, we can see everybody, we just got to get there, we just got to keep going.

And that worked. Baxter says he wasn't sure they would make it until they did. The thought that kept him going was that he needed to pick up his wife from work and couldn't be late. Baxter says he's since been in contact with the teen's family and the boy is doing well, now graduating from high school. The Carnegie Fund strikes a special medal for each recipient and Baxter will receive his once it's finished. This has been your role tonight for Monday, July 6th. I'm Tanya Fletcher. Thanks for being with us. Good night.