Global National: June 13, 2022 | Families deliver emotional words as Toronto van attacker sentenced

After using a rented van to kill 11 people in Toronto in April 2018, one who died from her injuries three years later, Alek Minassian has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. Eric Sorensen reports on the stories of the victims' loved ones whose lives were forever shattered by the massacre.

The Canadian government is under fire after Yasemine Heinebecker, deputy chief of protocol at Global Affairs Canada, attended Russian Independence Day celebrations at the country's embassy in Ottawa, even as the country's invasion of Ukraine continues. Abigail Bimman explains how Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is now responding, and what questions remain unanswered.

As the conflict in Ukraine continues, the eastern city of Sievierodonestk may be days away from falling to Russian forces, as the Luhansk province's last Ukrainian stronghold is bombarded with artillery while many civilians remain trapped. As Crystal Goomansingh reports, the assault echoes the same tactics used to devastate the city of Mariupol.

On the second day of the public hearings into the Jan. 6th siege on the U.S. Capitol, more evidence was presented that former president Donald Trump knew he lost the election, but was trying to orchestrate an attempted coup. Jennifer Johnson reports on the new testimony Trump refused to acknowledge his inner circle's warnings about making false claims about election fraud, and how that fueled rioters.

The United Kingdom is moving ahead with its controversial plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda, saying this will discourage human smuggling and illegal migrants from making the dangerous trek across the English Channel. As Redmond Shannon explains, critics say this will just put migrants in further danger.

And Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer with Google, is on paid leave after going public with claims the tech giant's artificial intelligence has consciousness and a soul. Mike Drolet looks at Lemoine's conversation with the chatbot Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, and whether humans are ready for another form of intelligence beyond our own.

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