The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 15:00 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 Julianne Hazelwood. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Rome meeting with European leaders. It's part of his weekend trip, centred around tomorrow's inaugural mass

of Pope Leo XIV. Tom Perry has more on Carney's chats. A musical welcome for Mark Carney as he meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Maloney. Carney will host the G7 Summit next month in Cananascus, Alberta, the group's last summit hosted by Maloney in Italy last year. To Canada for the presidency of the G7.

The Italian Prime Minister thanking Canada for taking over as G7 chair at what is, in her words, not an easy moment. Carney meeting later with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is set to attend the G7 summit in Alberta as a guest. Of course, we have to make pressure, more pressure on Russia, on Putin, to make peace as quick as possible. Carney also meeting with European Commission President

Ursula von der Leyen, all in the lead-up to Sunday's ceremony at the Vatican for Pope Leo XIV. Tom Perry, CBC News, Rome. Zelensky's meeting with Carney comes hours for Pope Leo XIV. Tom Perry, CBC News, Rome. Zelensky's meeting with Carney comes hours after a blast in Ukraine killed at least nine people. Firefighters used the jaws of life to break through the twisted metal of the passenger bus. Ukrainian officials say a Russian drone attacked that bus, calling it a war crime. The blast comes a day after brief talks between Russian

and Ukrainian officials in Turkey failed to yield any progress towards a ceasefire. U.S. President Donald Trump says he'll speak Monday with Russia's Vladimir Putin, then with Zelensky and NATO allies about ending the conflict. Arab leaders are demanding Israel end its latest offensive in Gaza. They're meeting in Baghdad as Israel steps up attacks. The Israeli military says it's an effort to force Hamas to release hostages. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. We need a permanent ceasefire now.

The unconditional release of our hostages now. And the free flow of humanitarian aid ending the blockade now. Guterres adds the UN rejects the forced relocation of Palestinians. Reports out of the USA Washington is looking to move as many as one million Palestinians to Libya. The State Department is denying that though. Arab leaders say they support a peace conference with the goal of achieving a two-state solution. The search for two missing children

in rural Nova Scotia has resumed. Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack disappeared from their home on May 2nd. Amy Hansen is the search manager for Colchester County Ground Search and Rescue. She says volunteers are well rested and committed to finding the kids. So we have five of the teams across the province here. We also have Civil Air Search and Rescue on site as well with one of their drones. We

have approximately about a hundred people on site right now. We haven't resolved the situation yet. We just want to find these children and bring them home. The search is set to continue until at least Sunday night. Nearly two dozen people are dead after a series of severe storms tore through the U.S. Midwest and South. People in Laurel County, Kentucky, survey the damage to their neighborhood after several reported tornadoes. The state's governor says 14 people were killed and he expects that number to rise. In neighboring Missouri, at least seven were killed. The storms ripped off roofs, uprooted trees, and left hundreds of thousands without power.

A BC-based brand specializing in outdoor equipment is back under Canadian ownership. Mountain Equipment Company, or MEC, was sold in 2020 to a U.S. private equity group after financial difficulties led to its dissolution as a consumer-owned cooperative. Thousands mounted a campaign to block that sale, saying it felt like a betrayal. The company's newest ownership is led by an investor with stakes in Canadian brands Tilly and Roots. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.