This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Friday the 9th of June, these are our main

stories.

Countries around the world are sending emergency crews to help put out wildfires in Canada

that are spreading toxic smoke as far south as Florida.

Britain and the US announced a new economic deal that falls short of the post-Brexit trade

deal the UK had hoped for.

Global toddlers severely wounded in a knife attack in France are in stable condition

in hospital after undergoing surgery.

Also in this podcast, the dramatic moment a humpback whale trapped by a shark net is freed

by Australian conservationists.

More international firefighters are being sent to Canada to help tackle huge wildfires

which have created a toxic blanket of smoke.

The European Union has offered to send nearly 300 fighters to add to the hundreds deployed

by the US as well as those sent by Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.

The haze that's drifted across the Canadian border to much of the east coast of the United

States has temporarily made some American cities the most polluted on earth.

Poor visibility has led to delay and cancellation of flights into cities along the east coast,

including New York and Philadelphia.

These New York residents described their experience.

Right around lunchtime, one or two o'clock, all of a sudden the entire office really turns

yellow and in just like deep orange.

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