The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 09:00 EDT

How did the internet go from this? You could actually find what you were looking for right away, bound to this. I feel like I'm in hell. Spoiler alert, it was not an accident. I'm Cory Doctorow, host of Who Broke the Internet from CBC's Understood. In this four-part series, I'm going to tell you

why the internet sucks now, whose fault it is, and my plan to fix it. Find Who Broke the Internet on whatever terrible app you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Rome leading a Canadian delegation, also meeting with world leaders and attending tomorrow's inauguration mass for Pope Leo XIV. Also on Carney's schedule tomorrow are meetings with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. Tom Perry has more on the trip.

Touching down in Rome, Prime Minister Mark Carney leading a Canadian delegation that includes indigenous and religious leaders, along with senators and liberal MPs. Carney will attend tomorrow's inaugural mass for Pope Leo XIV. Today, he meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney as well as the country's president. Roland Paris is director of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. he says this trip is an opportunity for Carney to lay some of the groundwork for the G7 summit he'll host next month in Kananaskis, Alberta. I think first and foremost, this is a chance for him to build those relationships,

to get to know them a little bit better. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who Carney has invited to the G7 summit, is also set to attend the Pope's Inaugural Mass. Other guests include Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US Vice President JD Vance. Tom Perry, CBC News, Rome. In Ukraine, firefighters used the jaws of life to break through the twisted metal of a passenger bus. Ukrainian officials say at least nine people were killed when the bus was attacked by a Russian drone. Four other people were injured. The attack comes a day after brief talks between Russia and Ukrainian officials in Turkey. It failed to yield any progress towards a ceasefire.

Ukrainian officials say today's strike is a Russian war crime. Israel's military has launched a major offensive in Gaza, dubbing it Operation Gideon's Chariots. Officials say the goal is to seize control of parts of the territory. Anna Cunningham has more. Israel says its latest wave of airstrikes is a fresh effort to force Hamas to release hostages after a fragile ceasefire collapsed in March. The Israeli army has released a video showing what it says are targeted strikes on Hamas' military infrastructure. Any glimmer of hope that US President Donald Trump's visit to the region might result in renewed peace talks faded. Speaking to Fox

News, he expressed some sympathy with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I think I can say that Bibi, he's an angry man and he should be because of October 7th. The US President says he wants to turn Gaza into a freedom zone. They're starving. So I've already started working on that. The UN's Human Rights Chief Volker Turk in a statement Friday described the Israeli aid blockade, now into its third month, as tantamount to ethnic cleansing. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London.

In the US, severe storms are ripping through the Midwest. West. People in Laurel County, Kentucky surveyed the damage to their neighborhood after several tornadoes were reported in the area. At least 14 people are confirmed dead there. Officials say they expect that number to rise. In neighboring Missouri, at least seven were killed. The storms ripped the roofs off of buildings and uprooted trees. Hundreds of thousands of people have been left without power.

Search efforts for two young children who went missing in Nova Scotia will resume today. Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack disappeared from their home in Lansdowne Station on May 2nd. Robert Parker is the warden for the municipality of the county of Pictou. It's a mixed emotions certainly in this county I believe. It started out full of hope everybody trying so hard all the search parties and everything but after a week went by I think people knew the time was coming that the search was going to have to be wound down and at that point it changed to well certainly

disappointment sadness and now I think it's come to what did happen to our little ones. RCMP say there's no evidence to suggest the children were abducted. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Thanks for listening.