The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 11:00 EDT

Other People's Problems was the first podcast to take you inside real-life therapy sessions. I'm Dr. Hilary McBride, and again, we're doing something new. The ketamine really broke down a lot of my barriers. This work has this sort of immediate transformational effect. Therapy Using Psychedelics is the new frontier in mental health. Come along for the trip. Other People's Problems Season 5, available now. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Mark Carney is in Rome to attend his first major international gathering as Canada's Prime Minister. That's tomorrow's

inauguration mass for Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. As Tom Perry reports, it's an opportunity for Carney to meet other world leaders. Touching down in Rome, Prime Minister Mark Carney, accompanied by his wife and daughter, leading a Canadian delegation that includes indigenous and religious leaders along with senators and liberal MPs. Carney, who is a practicing Catholic, will attend tomorrow's inaugural mass for Pope Leo XIV. Today, he meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, as well as the country's

president. Carney also scheduled to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. 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 Cananaskis, Alberta. I think first and foremost this is a chance for the Prime Minister to build relationships with some of these other leaders. Tom Perry, CBC News, Rome.

And now to Ukraine. Firefighters use 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 Russian and Ukrainian officials in Turkey when they 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. Officials say the goal is to seize control of parts of the territory. It comes as Israel is facing growing international pressure to lift its humanitarian aid blockade. Anna Cunningham has more. Israel says its latest wave of air strikes 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 7. 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 United States, severe storms are ripping through the Midwest. In the United States, severe storms are ripping through the Midwest. People in Laurel County, Kentucky survey the damage to their neighborhood after several tornadoes were reported in the area. At least 14 people are confirmed dead.

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 are resuming for two young children who went missing in Nova Scotia. Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack disappeared from their home on May 2nd. Robert Parker is the warden for the municipality of the county of Pictow. It's a mixed emotion 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 have been saying there is no evidence to suggest the children were abducted. And that's the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.