The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 22:00 EDT

In this acclaimed new production of Anna Karenina, the National Ballet of Canada asks, what is fair in love and society? Renowned choreographer, Christian Spook adapts Tolstoy's epic novel to dance in a spectacular work complete with lush costumes, cinematic projections, and a glorious curated score, featuring the music of Rachmaninoff. On stage June 13th to 21st, tickets on sale now at national.ballet.ca

sponsored by IG private wealth management. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Faye. We begin in Rome where Prime Minister Mark Carney has met with several European leaders today, Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Malone, 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 support of Ukraine in Russia's ferocious war against the country. Carney is in Rome for tomorrow's inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV. An explosion outside a fertility clinic in California is being called intentional. One person was killed and four others injured from the explosion that rocked the upscale city of Palm Springs. Several buildings were damaged, some severely. Akil Davis is with the FBI. Make no mistake.

This is an intentional act of terrorism. The FBI is investigating it as such. Our joint terrorism task force is here working in lockstep with the Palm Springs Police Department, the ATF, and a whole host of agencies that I've already mentioned. Authorities say they have a person of interest and that the fertility clinic was the target. No one inside the clinic was injured.

Israel has launched a major operation in Gaza. Officials say the military is ramping up attacks to pressure Hamas to release remaining hostages. The new offensive comes as Israel faces growing international pressure to lift its humanitarian aid blockade. And as the ceasefire talk resumes, Philipp Lee Schenick reports. Code-named Gideon's Chariots, Israel's defense forces say its military operation is aimed at seizing strategic areas in the Gaza Strip. And again, the United Nations Secretary

General Antonio Gattarez, who is at the Arab League summit, called for an end to the Israeli blockade of aid into Gaza. The situation of Palestinians is beyond description, beyond the thresholds. The policy of siege and starvation makes a mockery of international law. U.S. President Donald Trump just returned from the Gulf region where he suggested Gaza be declared a freedom zone. Former Israeli government adviser, Alam Pinkes, says Trump appears to be putting pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Benjamin Netanyahu needs to end the war. The only person that can make him end the war is Donald Trump. But he worries Trump will get distracted by other issues and allow a ceasefire to slip away. Philip P. Shannock, CBC News, Toronto. At least 27 people are now confirmed dead after a series of storms tore through the U.S. Most of the deaths occurring in Kentucky. Steve Futterman has this update. 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. 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. years 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. Now for the song that won the tune Wasted Love. Israel's Juval Rafael came second. The competition set in Basel, Switzerland this year featured acts from 26 countries. They performed to some 160 million viewers. And that is your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Claude Pig.