The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/16 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/16 at 21:00 EDT

In this acclaimed new production of Anna Karenina, the National Ballet of Canada asks, what is fair in love and society? Renowned choreographer Christian Spook adapts Tolstoy's epic novel to dance in a spectacular work complete with lush costumes, cinematic projections, and a glorious curated score, featuring the music of Rachmaninoff. On stage June 13th to 21st, tickets on sale now at national.ballet.ca sponsored by IG private wealth management. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fague. Three weeks into the sexual assault

trial of five former Team Canada junior hockey players, the judge has discharged the entire jury. Katie Nicholson tells us what happened and where the trial goes from here. On Thursday, the jury sent a note to the judge, which accused Alex Fermenton's lawyers, Daniel Brown and Hilary Dudding, of judging and making fun of them. After arguments from the Crown and defense on what to do next, Justice Maria Carosia decided to discharge the jury. Formenton's legal team, Brown and Dudding, sent out a press release calling the incident an unfortunate misinterpretation.

No defense counsel would risk alienating a juror, the statement said. The defense teams argued the accusations threatened to tank the jury and the trial. Rishi Gill is a criminal defense lawyer and former crown in Vancouver. He has no involvement in this trial. And I think once that accusation is made, whether there's foundation or not, it's really going to put things in jeopardy and that's what's happened. The fates of the five accused now up to a judge alone.

Katie Nicholson, CBC News, London, Ontario. A report from the Industrial Inquiry Commission recommends phasing out daily door-to-door letter mail delivery for individual addresses. The report was commissioned after a labor dispute at Canada Post. It examines the state of the Crown Corporation and its finances with a view of reaching a new labor deal. The report calls for the lifting of moratoriums on rural post office closures and community mailbox conversions.

It also says Canada Post must be able to hire part-time employees for weekend deliveries. Prime Minister Mark Carney is on his way to Rome. He's heading up a Canadian delegation for Sunday's inauguration of Pope Leo XIV. Tom Perry has more on Carney's journey. Mark Carney is back on the road after traveling to Washington, D.C. last week to meet Donald Trump.

The Prime Minister is now off to the Vatican for the inauguration mass of Pope Leo XIV. Carney is leading a Canadian delegation that includes Indigenous leaders, members of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as a number of independent senators and Liberal MPs. The inaugural mass will take place on Sunday. Other leaders expected to attend include Australia's Prime Minister, as well as US Vice President JD Vance and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is hoping to attend. The new pope has offered the Vatican as a possible site for peace talks to end the war in Ukraine.

Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. Israel says it launched a new offensive in Gaza called Gideon's Chariots. Officials say the goal is, in their words, to conquer Gaza. It comes as Palestinian authorities say nearly 100 people in northern Gaza are dead following Israeli airstrikes. 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. But we're hungry and 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. Trump says he expects progress in the push for a ceasefire in the coming month.

Aaron Collins, CBC News, Washington. Ukraine and Russia have agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each. That is the result of the first face-to-face talks the countries have held in years. The negotiations in Turkey fell short of reaching a ceasefire. 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 sometime soon. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.