The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 at 07:00 EDT

Other People's Problems was the first podcast to take you inside real-life therapy sessions. I'm Dr. Hilary McBride, and again, we're doing something new. The ketamine really broke down a lot of my barriers. This work has this sort of immediate transformational effect. Therapy Using Psychedelics is the new frontier in mental health. Come along for the trip. Other People's Problems Season 5, available now. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Prime Minister Mark Carney introduces his cabinet this morning at a gala swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall.

We're being told Carney's front bench will be smaller than what we've seen in recent years, and there'll be something different. Carney is also adding secretaries of state or junior ministers. Rafi Boujikhanian has more. Are you in cabinet? Newly-minted Liberal MP for Toronto Centre Evan Solomon picking up his luggage at Ottawa International Airport, not quite issuing a denial about whether he's getting into cabinet. Nothing to say, just here to find some place to live. The Prime Minister's office has said Mark Carney is adding 10 junior roles to the cabinet. Some of the ministers will be the new faces that got elected along with Carney, such as

former Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who will take on housing, and former chair of Hydro One Timothy Hodgson, who becomes natural resources and energy minister, replacing Jonathan Wilkinson, who is out of cabinet. Carney's office says there will be fewer than 30 full-time cabinet ministers, and he's committing to gender parity. Carney is keeping some old ministers. Christoph Freeland will stay on. So will Stephen Gilbo, as well as Sean Fraser, who is moving to justice.

Rafil Buggicani on CBC News, Ottawa. Ottawa's top diplomat in Washington is saying negotiations with the Trump White House won't immediately address the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement on trade. Canada's ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman, says initial talks with the administration will focus on lifting tariffs and specific issues between America and Canada. Hillman says talks specific to the Continental Trade Pact will take place separately at a later date. Now to Saudi Arabia.

That is US President Donald Trump arriving in Rihadh and being greeted by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. This is Trump's first stop on his three-country Middle Eastern tour that is expected to include billions of dollars in deals announced on a range of fronts, from artificial intelligence and arms sales to real estate. Also on the agenda is Iran's nuclear program and the war in Gaza.

Israeli negotiators are expected to meet with Trump administration officials later this week when the president flies into Qatar. The leading global authority on hunger, the IPC, has released its latest snapshot on the state of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. And the details are disturbing, with an estimated 500,000 people believed to be in danger of starvation. Crystal Gamancing reports.

Old children I'm seeing here in Gaza are really desperate and living in the most awful conditions. Jonathan Cricks is with UNICEF. He describes seeing 10 babies in Nasser Hospital wasting away, too exhausted from hunger to cry out. The IPC, the body that tracks and reports on hunger, says nearly a half a million people in Gaza are experiencing catastrophic levels of hunger. Bushra Khalid is with Oxfam and based in Ramallah. Gaza is literally two hours away from where I am right now. There's an abundance of food meters away from children literally crying at the soup kitchens.

On March 2nd, Israel shut all border crossings into Gaza. At the time, Israeli officials said they were imposing maximum pressure on Hamas so they'd return the hostages and relinquish power. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. The 78th Cannes Film Festival opens today in the south of France. And the highlight this year is Tom Cruise. He's on hand promoting the latest Mission Impossible movie, Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning. Spike Lee is also premiering his latest film.

It's called Highest to Lowest. It's all happening at a time when the global film industry is under threat, what with Donald Trump calling for tariffs on all movies made outside the United States. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.