The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/08 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/08 at 07:00 EDT

1942, Europe. Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. They make him a member of Hitler's army. But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. Could a story so unbelievable be true? I'm Dan Goldberg. I'm from CBC's Personally, Toy Soldier. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. For a second straight day, India has fired multiple drones and missiles into Pakistan. Pakistani military is saying multiple cities were targeted along with a military installation in Lahore.

Hiram Mustafa has the latest. General Ahmad Sharif is Pakistan's military spokesperson. The international community can visibly see the path that India is treading through these extremely provocative military aggression. India is confirming it targeted air defence systems in Pakistan. It says this is in response to Pakistan trying to hit military targets in North and Western India. Here is Indian Foreign Minister S.J.Shankar.

It is not our intention to escalate the situation. However, if there are military attacks on us, it will be met with a very, very firm response. China and the United States have both offered to mediate, an offer that neither Pakistan or India have accepted. Hiram Mustafa, CBC News, Islamabad. The United States and Britain have come to terms on a trade deal. The details have yet to be released, but U.S. President Donald Trump is saying an announcement

will be made later this morning. It's believed the agreement involves a significant reduction in the tariffs imposed this year by both countries. Now to the Vatican, where black smoke drifted out of the chimney today at the Sistine Chapel. That's the sign that on the second day of voting, the sequestered cardinals have failed to reach the two-thirds majority needed to elect the next pope. There have been three ballots so far, with two more possible before the end of the day. An article published in an American medical journal is again casting doubt on claims that

hundreds of people in New Brunswick have fallen victim in recent years to a mystery brain illness. Bobbie Jean McKinnon has more. She's very sick. Stacey Quigley Cormier has watched her stepdaughter Gabrielle deteriorate for years. The 23-year-old needs a cane or wheelchair and suffers from memory and concentration issues. She's one of hundreds of people stricken by a so-called neurological syndrome of unknown cause, according to Moncton neurologist Dr. Alie Marrero. He was the first to sound the

alarm about a mystery disease cluster more than four years ago. Yesterday, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a report by 13 Canadian doctors and researchers who reassessed 25 of more than 200 of Marrero's patients and found each had an identifiable condition like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or cancer. Toronto neurologist Dr. Anthony Lang is one of the authors. When we did the statistics, the chances of any of those other individuals having a mystery disease was less than one in a million. In 2022, an oversight committee of six neurologists found potential alternative diagnoses for most of Marrero's patients. Bobbi G. McKinnon, CBC News, St. John. Canadian police officials are warning high school students about the dangers of a real-life

game known as Senior Assassin. It involves tracking down fellow players and shooting them with water guns. But as Ifel Moussa reports, police say the game can become dangerous when the toy guns are confused for the real thing. It's supposed to be all fun and games. Teens ambushing their classmates with toy guns. But police across the country are warning.

Replica firearms look an awful lot like real firearms. Constable James Dixon is with York Regional Police just north of Toronto. The service has recently received numerous reports of young people carrying what appear to be guns and Dixon says that kind of misunderstanding can lead to serious trouble. Whether it's a police-involved shooting, whether there's criminal charges of either assault with a weapon, whether there's mischief to property, there's a lot of different things that can come out of here that we're very concerned about. Last year in Kansas, a teen was paralyzed when the father of a target shot him. In February, an 18-year-old in Florida was shot by an off-duty police officer who mistook his water gun for a real one.

Police are urging teens to make sure their toy guns look nothing like the real thing. Ido Moussa, CBC News, Toronto. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.