The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/04 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/04 at 22:00 EDT

In this acclaimed new production of Anna Karenina, the National Ballet of Canada asks, what is fair in love and society? Renowned choreographer Christian Spook adapts Tolstoy's epic novel to dance in a spectacular work complete with lush costumes, cinematic projections, and a glorious curated score, featuring the music of Rachmaninoff. On stage June 13th to 21st, tickets on sale now at national.ballet.ca sponsored by IG Private Wealth Management. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Herland. Rain and foggy weather are hampering

efforts to find two missing children last seen outside a home in Pictou County, Nova Scotia on Friday morning. Search teams are looking for a six-year-old girl and her four-year-old brother. Josh Hoffman reports. I just spoke to RCMP Staff Sergeant Curtis McKinnon with the Pictou County Detachment. He told me searchers do believe they found a footprint yesterday. A grid has been set up in that area and some of these search efforts are focusing on that grid. Overall, the search area is growing as more time passes on,

but the conditions today are wetter and foggier than they were yesterday, which means the helicopters and the drones involved in the search were grounded. It also means that the conditions are worse for the searchers on the ground. More than 120 people once again today out in the wooded area, out in the area around where the children were last seen, trying desperately to find any sign of Lily and Jack and bring them home safe. Josh

Hoffman, CBC News, Lansdowne Station. Prime Minister Mark Carney is about to face his first big test since the election. He's flying to Washington this week to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House. Today Trump gave a long interview to NBC's Meet the Press and answered questions about Canada becoming the 51st state. Steve Futterman reports. In a lengthy interview to NBC's Meet the Press and answered questions about Canada becoming the 51st state. Steve Futterman reports. In a lengthy interview, Donald Trump continued to downplay fears of a significant economic downturn in the U.S. economy as a result of his tariffs, but he did not completely rule out a recession. Is it okay in the short term to have a recession?

Yes, everything's okay. I said this is a transition period. I think we're going to do fantastically. He said the tariffs may force Americans to change their buying habits and again use children's dolls as an example. I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls. He insisted tariffs are going to make the U.S. very rich. On a pair of issues that may concern U.S. constitutional experts,

Trump said he wasn't sure if everyone in the country is entitled to do process and legal matters. And when asked if he's required to uphold the constitution, he said, I don't know Steve Futterman for CBC News Los Angeles the Israeli military is calling up tens of thousands of reservists saying pressure is the only way to get the Palestinian militant group Hamas to release the remaining hostages it's holding part of that plan is a two-month long aid blockade agencies say there are now acute shortages of food, water and medicine. Mira Bains reports. Images of children showing signs of severe malnutrition are revealing the deepening effects of Israel's blockade on food and medication to Gaza.

The father of six-month-old Gazel says she was born weighing just two kilos and in six months has gained barely a kilo more. Israel imposed a full blockade on aid entering Gaza two months ago. Since then, the United Nations says aid has dwindled to a trickle, and food that was stockpiled at the start of the year has all but run out. At food distribution sites, tensions are boiling over. Olga Cheravko with the UN says people are scavenging through garbage to survive. There's a water truck that has just arrived and people are killing each other over water.

It's unclear whether Israel will allow more aid through a proposed humanitarian zone in Ra'afah. Mira Bains, CBC News, Vancouver. In the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs, it's do or die tonight for the Winnipeg Jets. They're facing the St. Louis Blues in Game 7 of their first-round series. The Jets scored a late goal in the third period to tie the game, 3-all, and force the Blues into overtime. So far, the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Edmonton Oilers are the only Canadian teams moving

on to round two. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.