The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/14 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/14 at 11:00 EDT

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From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We start on Parliament Hill where Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting for the first time with his newly sworn-in cabinet. And among the most pressing issues on the cabinet agenda is the expansion of Canada's energy sector. But according to former Environment Minister Stephen Gui Bo, that will be easier said than done. As far as I know, there are no investors right now. There are no companies that are saying that they want to build an east-west pipeline. And as you know, these things are built by companies, not governments. Guy Baud is no longer the environment minister.

He's been moved to Canadian heritage. Heading up the pipeline issue will be Energy Minister Tim Hodgson. His experience in the private sector includes a three-year stint as a board member at a Calgary-based oil and gas producer. The search and rescue operation may be over, but Nova Scotia RCMP insists they are continuing to investigate the disappearance of two children from their home in Pictou County. The children were last seen nearly two weeks ago. Nicholas Sagan reports. Nicholas Sagan-RCMP says they've received more than 180 tips from the public and identified

35 people for formal interviews as they try to uncover what happened to 6-year-old Lily Sullivan and her 4-year-old brother Jack. The children disappeared from their home in Lansdowne Station, a community in northeastern Nova Scotia. Their mother called 911 on the morning of May 2nd, saying they'd wandered off. This launched a six-day search, hundreds of people scouring kilometers of dense woods around the family's trailer. The search and rescue operation was called off last week, police saying it's unlikely

Jack and Lily are alive. But RCMP say they continue to work. The children's stepfather has told CBC News he was interrogated by police. RCMP say the next interviews will be with community members and those closest to the children. Nikola Sagan, CBC News, Halifax. Now to the Middle East and US President Donald Trump. I am also ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria to give them a fresh start. It gives them a chance for greatness.

The sanctions were really crippling, very powerful. As President Trump, after a meeting today with Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharah, the economic sanctions on Syria were imposed by the United States 14 years ago during the regime of Bashar al-Assad. He was overthrown earlier this year. Dozens of people have been killed in overnight airstrikes in northern Gaza, and health ministry officials are saying 22 children are among the dead. This follows a series of strikes yesterday on Hanunis. That's a scene at a hospital near Hanunis that was among the buildings hit.

The Israeli military says it was targeting the Hamas command center that was operating in the basement of the hospital complex. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting last night on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Riyad Mansour is the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations. Riyad Mansour, Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Because Israel has been openly and brazenly blocking humanitarian aid for over two months

now, this is engineered starvation. It is the most inhumane form of torture and killing. Israel has blocked all aid shipments into Gaza since early March. It's a move Israeli Ambassador Danny Denon defends, saying the UN aid to the territory is routinely stolen by Palestinian militants. The aid you sent, the aid your taxpayers funded, the aid you believed would help civilians, the aid marked by UN and UNRWA emblems, it was used to feed terrorists, to massacre women and children. Israel will not allow that to continue. The United States and Israel, incidentally, are proposing a new aid delivery system, one

that would be operated by private companies. However, the head of the UN's aid agency is calling the idea unacceptable. And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.