The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/16 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/16 at 15:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. A judge alone will decide the guilt or innocence of five former World Junior Hockey players at their sexual assault trial in London, Ontario. Justice Maria Carasia has dismissed the jury in the case, which focuses on one incident in London, Ontario in 2018. Ali Chasson explains why. The concern here is about jury prejudice. It stems from a note that was

submitted Thursday to the judge written by a juror on behalf of other jurors It specifically called out to defense attorney saying they appeared to quote whisper to each other and laugh as if they were discussing our The jurors appearance quote. This is unprofessional and unacceptable The note said all of the defense teams felt this is now jury prejudice that needed to be resolved Justice Maria Carossia decided the only way forward is judge alone. In a statement, defense lawyer Dan Brown said this was an unfortunate misrepresentation of just two attorneys talking amongst themselves. Quote, the very idea of counsel making light of a juror is illogical and runs directly counter to our purpose and function. On Thursday, Carusia herself said she didn't observe any of this behavior from Brown and that she would have stepped in if she had. After one mistrial

already, here we have another jury being dismissed. Ali Chiesin, CBC News, London, Ontario. Some parts of southern Manitoba are seeing rain, but not all wildfire areas are finding relief. Meteorologists report the area around the Lactobani fire saw less than 15 millimeters of rain in the last day. Hundreds were forced to evacuate the community and two people have died. There have been some improvements. Rain stalled the fire in the rural municipality of Piney. More rain is in the forecast and officials hope it will be enough to put a damper on the fires. Vancouver officials are calling it the darkest day in Vancouver's history. The city has announced preliminary findings into last

month's Lapu Lapu tragedy. The report says the event was well organized and safety protocols were followed. Still, 11 people were killed in the incident at a crowded community festival. Here's Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim. We will not let fear define us. We will not let fear define us. We will not let it divide us. We will stand together. But we do owe it to everyone. We owe it to those who we've lost.

We owe it to every single person who calls Vancouver home to take every step possible to prevent a tragedy like this from ever happening again. Vancouver police have since bought 16 mobile vehicle barriers to be used for future events and will assess their use before deciding whether to buy more. They're also reviewing security arrangements ahead of the summer's pride celebrations. Palestinian authorities say nearly 100 people in northern Gaza are dead following stepped-up airstrikes by Israel. Aaron Collins has the details.

In Gaza City, residents call this latest attack a massacre. Israel says it's looking to locate and dismantle terrorist infrastructure, but the toll of that on Gaza City and its people growing. We're hungry. No one pays attention to us, this resident says. Flying home after touring the region, Donald Trump says he is paying attention. The U.S. President says he supports aid for residents of Gaza. We have to help also out in the Palestinians. You know, a lot of people are starving on Gaza, so we have to look at both sides.

But we're going to do a good job. We're very happy with what happened. Trump says he expects progress in the push for a ceasefire in the coming month. That as Israel says it plans to further ramp up its attacks on Gaza. Erin Collins, CBC News, Washington. Ukraine and Russia have agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each. That's the result of the first face-to-face talks the countries have held in years. But negotiations in Turkey fell short of reaching a ceasefire. Both sides

are accusing each other of setting unacceptable conditions. The head of the Ukrainian delegation says the next step is to arrange talks between the leaders of the two countries. A possible new round of talks could be announced soon. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood.