The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 18:00 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. U.S. President Donald Trump has announced he intends to speak with Russian counterpart

Vladimir Putin next week. Trump's statement came hours after a drone strike killed at least nine people in Ukraine aboard a bus evacuating a battle zone. Dominic Vilekas reports. Posting on social media, US President Donald Trump said he'll call Russia's Vladimir Putin Monday morning. The main subject for discussion, Trump said, would be the war in Ukraine, a conflict he described as a bloodbath and one he claimed was killing thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers every week. Trump is hoping Monday will be a productive day, saying

he also plans to speak with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and various members of NATO. The news comes just hours after a Russian drone strike killed nine bus passengers in Ukraine's Sumi region. Although Russia claims it had struck a military target, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky described the strike as a war crime and called for stronger sanctions on Moscow in response. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. Prime Minister Mark Carney has met with several European leaders today in Rome. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. We are always there for each other. This is our experience with you and joining forces. I want to thank you, I want to thank Canada for being from day one on staunch supporter of Ukraine in Russia's post-war against the country. The meetings come ahead of next month's G7 summit in Cananascus, Alberta. Carney is in Rome for tomorrow's inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV. The mayor of Palm Springs, California says at least one person is dead after a bomb exploded

near a fertility clinic in the city. It happened in the late morning and the blast extended for blocks. Witness Carl Schreier describes the scene. You could see the wall had blown out. It wasn't even a door. It even looked like a door or something had been there. But it was the wall and everything was strewn out. Even a copier machine that was in the building was clear across the street. The tiles were off on other buildings. The glass almost a block circumference.

All the windows were broken. The owner of the clinic told the Associated Press that all the staff are safe and accounted for. No patients were inside the clinic at the time. He also says all stored embryos were unharmed. At least 25 people are dead after a series of storms tore through the US and as searchers go through the wreckage, officials warn they're expecting the death count will continue to rise. Steve Futterman reports. Across the Midwest and in parts of the South they are assessing the damage. We've had a lot of houses destroyed.

Those who survived are thankful. Derek Perkins is a pastor in St. Louis. His church suffered significant damage. I'm a resident here in St. Louis. I was born and raised here. I've never seen anything like this. In Somerset, Kentucky, Marshall Todd was a bit in shock. Roofs are gone, windows are gone, people are outside.

Luckily no injuries, I don't know how we survived. But others are not as fortunate. The death count is rising in Kentucky alone. More than a dozen people have died. In Missouri, there was this brief moment of joy. Cheers when a man trapped in the rubble of a collapsed house was rescued. His sister thankful. Blessed.

We feel blessed. The National Weather Service says the severe weather is likely to continue into early next week. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. Elections Canada has validated the results in Nunavut and confirmed NEP incumbent Lori Idlout as the winner. The validation was delayed because the final ballot box was stuck at an airline cargo facility by blizzard. Idlout won the riding by just 41 votes, but that isn't slim enough of a margin to trigger a judicial recount. The validation doesn't

change the seat count in Parliament. And that is Your World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your doesn't change the seat count in Parliament. And that is your World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Juliane Hazelwood.