The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 01:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 01:00 EDT

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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. Formentin'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. It just contaminates everything. 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. 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 DC 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 J.D. 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 to, in their words, 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. We're hungry. No one pays attention to us, this resident says. Of 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. Trump says he expects progress in the push for a ceasefire in the coming month. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Washington. The Toronto Maple Leafs have forced a seventh and deciding game in their Stanley Cup playoff series with the Florida Panthers. Here comes Matthews. There he scores! Austin Matthews has scored for Toronto! As seen on CBC and Rogers Sportsnet, Austin Matthews snapped a scoreless game early in

the third period with his third goal of the postseason. Max Patoretti also scored and Joseph Wall made 22 saves for his first career playoff shutout as the Leafs beat the Panthers 2-0 forcing the series clinching game back in Toronto Sunday night. The Ottawa Chargers have clinched the spot in the finals of the PWHL playoffs. The Chargers beat the Montreal Victoire 2-1 Friday night to earn a berth in the final for the Walter Cup. They'll face the defending champion Minnesota Frost who knocked out the Toronto Scepters

and the series begins Tuesday night in Ottawa. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.