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it must be for the voters. I'm in delhi where things are slightly better organized where we have shade and trees. In the rural areas a lot of these things are not available. The election commission has organized things like mist fans, coolers and things like that to ensure that more and more people are coming out to vote and to exercise their democratic right to vote. Prime minister narendra modi's alleged comments and opposition parties say he made these elections very polarizing in the sense there has been an increasing rhetoric against the muslim communities. But the prime minister is says he's not attacking the minority communities and only quoting what the parties have said. One of the statements got a lot of backlashes when there was a referral to india's muslim population as intill traitfiltrateorinfiltrators. Later they fired back saying the prime minister was quoting someone else. This led the opposition party to point out that it is a possibility that these statements rile up the voter base and ensure they are coming out and voting in large numbers in his favour and they're also saying it is probably one of the reasons along with the massive developmental agenda the modi party promoted. >> Linda: that was reporter ishan garg on you wouldn't's general election. >>> The pope, who is a keen soccer fan, provided a symbolic kickoff to a children's soccer match. The game was part of celebrations for the vatican-hosted festival. Francis appeared in high spirits greeting children from more than 100 countries. Earlier he met with children from war-torn countries spreading a message of hope. Celebrations of the festival continue tomorrow with a special mass. We're back in just a moment. Rosemary:Every week the issues that matter to Canadians. -These are acts of desperation. Rosemary:Connecting politics to people. -We will always protect and defend all nato allies. -Some people have lost everything. Rosemary:Sundays, join me for Rosemary Barton live. There's a new Tims run in town with new Flatbread Pizza. Served hot out of the oven and freshly prepared in Chicken Parmesan, Pepperoni, Simply Cheese, and Bacon Everything. Try Tims new Flatbread Pizza. It's time for Tims This is our future, ma. GoDaddy airo. Creates a logo, website, even social posts in minutes! -How? -a.i. Ay I like it! Who wants to come see the future?! Get your business online in minutes with godaddy airo. Let's go for a skate, and a little chat. Because retirement today is not what it used to be. The good news is we're living longer and more active lives, but planning for that longevitycan come with some challenges. Thankfully as a Canadian homeowner aged 55 and better, you have options. The chip Program allows you to access the value of your home without selling it. So you can live retirement on your terms. If you're 55 or older call now for your free no obligation chip Reverse Mortgage Guide. With chip you get up to 55% of your home's value in tax free cash take only what you need in a lump sum or over time with no monthly mortgage payments required. Call (number on screen) Maybe it's time for you to consider chip too! Call now for your free no obligation guide. Call (number on screen) or visit chip dot ca. Call chip today and live retirement your way. Ego, the #1 rated brand in cordless outdoor power, brings you the ego power+ string trimmer with powerload technology. Feed the line, push the button and get back to work. Find an ego retailer near you. Inside every Splenda product is a mission... to make it easier for people to cut sugar from their diet. With a delicious, sweet taste, and quality you can trust, we take pride that every day millions say "i use Splenda." ( ) I am pumped! Yes! Announcer:The finish line is finally in sight. Maestro: One team will be crowned Race Against the Tidechampions. Announcer:On this beach anything can happen. Mm. -Oh, It makes your heart pound, it's going to be really exciting, no matter what. [ ] >> Linda: it's a day many have waited a very long time for. The remains of an unknown soldier who served in the royal newfoundland regiment during the first world war are now returning home.

[ ] >> Linda: these are some of the scenes from a ceremony this morning in beaumont-hamel, france. A party of canadian armed forces personnel accepted the casket. Premier andrew furey was also in attendance. Our cbc team in st. John's spoke to people today to hear their thoughts on the soldier's return. >> I think that's amazing. I can't believe I'm here when it's happening. I'm from saskatchewan and just happened to be here at the same time this is happening. I had no idea. That's pretty cool. >> I think it is absolutely amazing that this is taking place today. I'm quite moved by it today. >> Certainly a very proud moment for the province. As the premier has mentioned, newfoundland and now newfoundland and labrador, was not part of canada at that time. So it's a very distinct, very important time for the province. >> I think it's a really good idea, knowing that he's back home and buried in a spot where even if he didn't have direct descendents or relatives of his can now and go and see where he is and pay respects. >> I just had a moment as you asked me that question. It means so much. I have a great-uncle who died during world war I and he is buried in france. >> Linda: wildfire evacuees from fort nelson, b.c., are being told not to return home early. Around 4700 residents have been out of their homes for two weeks now. The mayor is asking residents to stay put until the evacuation order has officially been lifted. >> There are still a lot of other safety concerns we need to be looking at. To have a sustainable community of our size, 3500 to 4,000, you know, you need to make sure you've got public safety, you need to make sure you've got medical services, you need to make sure you have education in order to make sure the community is sustainable for the long term. >> Linda: officials say they're working hard to let residents return early next week. Some passes were first provided to people who needed to return to feed livestock and then to essential workers. The mayor says the final hurdle is re-establishing emergency operations at the hospital. The parker lake wildfire which led to the initial evacuation of flels sits at 4600 square kilometres in size. The B.C. wildfire service is telling the municipality that the fire currently is not posing an imminent threat to the community.

>>> The town of cumberland house, a remote community in the northeastern of saskatchewan has declared a state of emergency and people who live there are unable to leave. Heavy rains have washed out the only road to and from the village. Highway 123 is the only access route for transporting food, fuel, and emergency services. The mayor says essentials like milk, bread, baby formula and prescription medications are in short supply. Community leaders are calling for emergency meetings with the provincial and federal government. This is cbc news network. Top stories are straight ahead. But first, we want to show you this. A pair of pink river dolphins in bolivia rescued yesterday after a long ordeal. Take a look. The mother and her 7-month-old calf had been left stranded in a stream for 40 days. Severe flooding in the region had swept them there and they couldn't get back to the main river. Rescuers and environmentalists worked together to secure the pair. A health check was carried out and then the dolphins were taken to the river and released. We'll be back in just a moment. [ ] [dramatic] Announcer:What's new? What's breaking? What's really going on? Cbc News Network. When choosing a location, amenities matter. Like private outdoor space, natural light, and most importantly, temperature control. Come find your Island. Prince Edward Island Okay, and root beer to drink? No. [gasping] What? He didn't get root beer? I'm getting frozen root beer. Oh! Try frozen a&w root beer with sweet cream. [Ambient Sounds] [Ambient Sounds] [Ambient Sounds] [Ambient Sounds] [Silence] This is his why. What's yours? Discover the science behind managing weight at truthaboutweight.ca. The Jeep No Limits Eventis here.Which means more trailsto blaze. More challenges to meet. And right now enjoyno payments for 90 days. Get into a Jeep Compass. With best-in-class horsepower. Or Jeep Grand Cherokee,the most awarded suv ever. ( ) Jeep No Limits is here. Time to test your limits. Get up to 10% off msrp for up to eighty sevenhundred dollars in discounts. And no payments for 90 days. Nice Dress! -You too. The best part? It has pockets! - It has pockets! I know! I know, right! Oh my gosh! Well that, and the Cash Back. -What? With Rakuten. It's a shopping app. I saved a ton on our dress. This is unbelievable. - This is unbelievable... I know, right! You're going to get so much Cash Back. Okay, I'm going to go change 'cause... [rock] go hard go wild Woman: And the crowd goes wild! you fear the blood the sweat the tears We fight the best we can. Man: We build our own legacy. Arena announcer: She scores! [ ] >> Linda: hello. You're watching cbc news network. I'm linda ward. We begin with the latest on the war in gaza and there are strong hints that new ceasefire talks are on the horizon. Mediators say they could happen as ely next week, but a hamas official is raising some doubt about that, claiming no date has been set. Word of the new diplomatic push began to leak out even as israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu said his country's military would openly defy a U.N. court order issued yesterday and press on with its offensive against hamas in gaza's southern-most city, rafah. With the conflict now into its 34th week, pressure to reach a truce and get the last remaining hostages home is growing on the netanyahu government domestically. This is the scene in tel-aviv this hour, as thousands of protesters, including families of many of those in captivity, call for a deal and fresh

government elections. Journalist irris makler is in jerusalem tracking developments around any new talks and she says there's optimistic negotiations will go ahead next week, despite the doubt cast today by hamas. >> Irris: well, at the moment it's just talks about talks but it is significant, linda. What we've seen in the last few hours and there were these meetings in paris between the C.I.A. chief, the israeli ssad chief, the qatari prime minister and they say that talks will resume. Next week there will be talks between the same three parties and then also egypt and then hamas will be brought in. So I suppose it is optimistic because we haven't seen any talks on this issue for more than two weeks. It's significant also because of the i.c.j., the international court of justice's order to israel to stop fighting and particularly to protect the civilians in gaza. That order was some 24 hours ago and in that time we have seen continued fighting. Israel says it is finding more tunnels and weapons of militants. And the hamas-run health ministry in gaza says in that period there's been dozens more casualties and dozens more deaths of palestinians. So if there were to be talks and if there was another way to solve this issue, this deadlock, it would be very welcome. >> Linda: irris, providing aid was central to the world court's ruling against israel. What can you tell us about any advances there? >> Irris: there has been a breakthrough brought about after a conversation between U.S. president joe biden and the egyptian president el-sisi. They had a conversation and it has now been agreed that aid will be able to enter from egypt via the israeli crossing point of karem shalom. That is significant because usually it goes in through rafah, but in the last days 19 days, since israel entered rafah, no aid is going in. Israel and egypt blame each other for that. In a way it's not significant who is to blame. What is important is there are hundreds of trucks lining up on that border at the moment. Aid is not getting in. Fresh food especially is rotting there. So this is a huge advance. The important thing will be once the aid gets in, will it be able to be distributed and will it be able to be distributed to some 900,000 people estimated moving out of rafah to tents in an area al-mawasi on the coast. Very small area, very cramped. They really do need that humanitarian aid and I guess that's the aim right now. >> Linda: that's journalist irris makler in jerusalem.

>>> Now to the ongoing tensions on some of this country's leading university campuses. School officials at the university of toronto are waiting for a response after issuing a trespass notice to pro-palestinian protesters. The students set up an encampment more than three weeks ago protesting the war in gaza. The cbc's albert delitala has the latest. >> Albert: well, linda, we're now counting down toward 8:00 A.M. local time on monday. That's the new deadline that protesters have to leave campus or potentially face a five-year suspension or even expulsion from the university. And that comes after more than three weeks of an encampment set up there and that was in solidarity to the protests we've seen across north america, pro-palestinian protests that seek to see the war between israel and hamas end. That offer, though, that they were considering, they did decline that offer and in it the university said they would not end partnerships with israeli universities. That was one of their demands. Also, they invited students to attend a board of governing council meetings to make their demands then and also offered a working group around disclosure and increasing transparency of their investments, another demand those students were making. They were to accept that by 4:00 P.M. yesterday, that was the deadline, but they rejected that offer. They said the university was essentially offering them a process that already existed and they want commitments instead around their demands. Here is one protester who said they remain resolute around all of this. >> We do not plan to leave any time soon. I also want to come back to the reason they issued us this notice. They put out their first offer to us yesterday, more of an ultimatum that they are framing as the final offer. U. Of t. Knows how to bargain. They bargain with unions on campus all the time. The first written offer cannot be the final offer. We are currently preparing our counter offer and hopefully we're able to discuss that at the 5:00 P.M. meeting on sunday. >> Albert: one representative with hillel ontario spoke with cbc news. That group advocate for jewish students. He didn't answer as to whether he wanted to see police go into the encampment, but he did say it has to end. >> Ultimately what we want is peace, coexistence and we want to be able to study and learn and live and work on a campus with everybody. Unfortunately, these unlawful occupations have brought intimidation and hatred to campuses and it is time that university leaders across the province and across the country and our government leaders and well-meaning canadians stand up and say enough. >> Albert: meanwhile, at McMASTER university in hamilton west of toronto, a very different situation there. You can see some recent images of that encampment that's been going on there for three weeks. It's set to come down today after students reached an agreement with the university. That framework includes human rights considerations in their international agreements and also an annual disclosure of all of the direct investments they make. >> Linda: albert, in montreal, a university there has filed an injunction against protesters. What do we know about that? >> Albert: that's at the université du québec à montréal. That university did file an injunction as you said against the students who have been camping on their campus for just over a week now. I think we have some pictures of that situation. They're actually seeking for those tents and other objects they have set up to not to be closer than 3 metres away from buildings. They say that safety is a concern. They also allege that vandalism has taken place. A lot of those accusations the students do deny, but the judge in this case has yet to rule but says safety will be top of mind in that decision, linda. >> Linda: the cbc's albert delitala.

>>> U.S. president joe biden was in new york today to deliver the commencement address at the west point military academy. He touched on both the wars in gaza and ukraine. Biden said the U.S. continues working to secure an immediate ceasefire that brings hostages home and provide humanitarian aid to palestinians. He also talked about the efforts of american military personnel in supports ukraine in its war with russia. >> President Joe Biden: they're training ukrainians to use advanced weapons systems and they're sharing lessons in tactical combat and casualty care with ukrainian medics and surgeons. There are no american soldiers at war in ukraine. I'm determined to keep it that way, but we are standing strong with ukraine and we will stand with them. >> Linda: russia is keeping up its attacks on ukraine's second-largest city, prompting a fresh call by president volodymyr zelenskyy for international allies to send more air defence systems. At least two people are confirmed dead after russian forces bombed a hardware store in kharkiv. Officials say up to 200 customers and staff were inside and they fear the number of victims could rise because a large number of people remain unaccounted for. Kharkiv lies just 30 kilometres from the border with russia and has been a target for many weeks. Ukraine says despite the attacks, its military remains in control. >>> Finance ministers from some of the world's leading economies are currently meeting in northern italy. On the agenda is how the g7 might be able to use frozen russian assets to help ukraine. The cbc's megan williams is in paris with more. >> Megan: so the final g7 finance ministers' statement was cautious and lacking details when it addressed the issue of how it would use frozen russian assets, most of which are here in europe, to help ukraine. Now, the U.S. is pushing for that help to ukraine to be in the form of a loan. They would like to give ukraine a loan so ukraine should pay back that loan with the interest on these frozen russian assets. Now, russia of course is not happy with this. Last week or earlier this week the E.U. made a similar move. They said they're going to help ukraine using frozen russian assets here in europe. Russia says that it will retaliate. It has already taken over a number of western businesses in in russia. The other issue was china and the cheap products. The U.S. and other governments accused it of unfair trading practices. Now, the U.S. last week introduced a series of new tariffs against a lot of these products, but europe is less committed to it. There was a call for unity and in the final statement they said they are unified, but europe is not ready to get into a trade war with china, which it really fears. The other two issues, a billionaire tax, global billionaire tax which was pushed by france. And a global tax on corporations are in the final statement, but it's unclear whether or not those issues will go forward. They were sort of kicked forward to mid-june when the leaders of the g7 countries will meet in southern italy. Megan williams, cbc news, paris. >> Linda: a major landslide devastates villages in papua new guinea. Local media says dozens of people are missing and hundreds of homes have been damaged. Cbc's dominic valitis has more on this after the break. You're watching cbc news network. [ ] >> Announcer: News you can trust, delivered when you want, where you want, with localCBC Radio Onelive to connect us closer to home on theCBC Newsapp. Download for free. Let's go for a skate, and a little chat. Because retirement today is not what it used to be. The good news is we're living longer and more active lives, but planning for that longevitycan come with some challenges. Thankfully as a Canadian homeowner aged 55 and better, you have options. The chip Program allows you to access the value of your home without selling it. So you can live retirement on your terms. If you're 55 or older call now for your free no obligation chip Reverse Mortgage Guide. With chip you get up to 55% of your home's value in tax free cash

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