The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/14 at 01:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/14 at 01:00 EDT

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When debts got you, you've got us. Give Credit Counseling Society a call today. Visit NoMoreDets.org. From CBC News, the World This Hour, I'm Neil Herland. Prime Minister Mark Carney will hold his first cabinet meeting Wednesday. The new cabinet is a mix of newcomers and veterans with lots of political experience. Tom Parry has more. Mark Carney and his team welcome to Rideau Hall, a swearing-in ceremony for the Prime

Minister's new cabinet, one that Carney says is ready to get to work. It will operate with a commitment to true cabinet government with everyone expected and empowered to show leadership. Carney's team, a mixture of new and old voices from every province and the North, to Conservative leader Pierre Poilier familiar faces, prove Carney was never about offering real change. Canadians cannot afford more high spending, high taxing, over regulating, out of touch liberal policies that have priced young people out of homes. Poiliev says his party will hold the government to account and work with it when it can,

though the conservative leader first has to win a seat, having lost his in the election. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. A pillar of Carney's government will be U.S. relations and the ongoing threats to Canada's economy. Carney's cabinet features experience and some newer faces, as domestic issues will also need plenty of attention. Rafi Boujikanean has more.

This is a government that of course we have to address and come to a new arrangement with the Americans. The rows of ministers coming out to the cameras in front of Rideau Hall may be for Canadians to see, but a big part of Prime Minister Mark Carney's message is for the White House. There is continuity in the government too. The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc. Dominic LeBlanc no longer at international trade, but with a narrower focus on the U.S.-Canada

trade relationship, even further focused on ties to Washington. But another issue Carney will need to focus on is much closer to home, the bubbling national unity crisis in the West. He has named the minister from each of the three prairie provinces, hoping representation can help address what Alberta and Saskatchewan's in the West. He has named the minister from each of the three prairie provinces, hoping representation can help address what Alberta and Saskatchewan's premiers call feelings of alienation and growing frustration with Ottawa. Rafi Boudjikan, YonCBC News, Ottawa.

After nearly 30 years behind bars for murdering their parents, the Menendez brothers may be one step closer to freedom. On Tuesday, a California judge re-sentenced Eric and Lyle Menendez to 50 years to life. That means they're immediately eligible for parole. Mark Garagos is the brothers' lawyer. I want to do a hat tip to Judge Jessic, who was able to cancel out all the noise surrounding this, all of the grandstanding, all of the political back and forth. The brothers claim they were sexually abused by their father.

Both were originally sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have just signed a multi-billion dollar business deal, including what's being billed as the largest defense sales agreement in U.S. history. President Donald Trump is in Riyadh, the first stop on his four-day Middle East tour. The CBC's Chris Brown is there. The Saudis gave Donald Trump more than just a lavish welcome. It was a full-on, most important person in the entire world welcome, as he met the kingdom's de facto leader, 39-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,

or MBS as he's known. Is nobody like him? Trump was effusive in his praise for his host. MBS in turn praised Trump, not just for signing $600 billion in trade deals, but also for trying to bring security to the Middle East. But the biggest round of applause Trump got during his speech came not for a comment on Saudi Arabia, but on Syria.

I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness. That's a move the Saudis and some European countries have already done. Even though Syria's new president al-Sharah was once part of extremist groups, Trump may meet here with Shara Wednesday. Chris Brown, CBC News, in Riyadh. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Herland.