The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/18 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/18 at 21:00 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 Neal Herland. Joe Biden's office says the former U.S. president has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which has now spread to his bones. The announcement coming late this afternoon, the CBC's Katie Simpson reports from Washington. Joe Biden has been diagnosed with what his office is calling an aggressive form of prostate cancer. The news being shared by the former president in a statement, it reads, last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone.

The president and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians. Biden will have access to some of the best medical care in the U.S., if not the world. The 82 year old left office earlier this year. He of course dropped his reelection bid months before the last election over concerns about his health and fitness. The US centers for disease control says among men, prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer with age being a key risk factor. Biden is reportedly spending the weekend at home with his family in Delaware as he figures out what to do next. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington.

We're following a tragic story in Toronto this holiday weekend. Three children are dead after a crash overnight. A teenager is now facing impaired driving charges. Mark Carcassol reports. It was just after 1230 Sunday morning when the crash occurred just off Highway 401 in the west end of Toronto near Pearson International Airport. Police allege it all started when a 19-year-old man speeding in a Dodge Caravan drove up the exit ramp and ran a red light. On the other side, another minivan carrying four children, a mother and an acquaintance. It's alleged the Dodge Caravan was traveling at a high rate of speed, lost control, collided with the minivan that was stopped.

Unfortunately, on scene, two of the children, 15-year-old and a 13-year-old, was pronounced deceased on scene. The third child was transported to a nearby trauma center and pronounced deceased at the hospital. Police say the third child involved is a six-year-old girl. Now, a ten-year-old child and two adults, one of them related to the children, were taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Police say they arrested Ethan Lihulye at the scene.

He's 19 years old from Georgetown, Ontario, about 54 kilometers west of Toronto. He faces multiple charges, including three counts of impaired operation of a vehicle causing death and three counts of dangerous driving causing death. Mark Carcassole, CBC News, Toronto. After a nearly three-month blockade, Israel now says it will allow a basic amount of food into Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says it wants to prevent a hunger crisis. There's no timeline on when that aid will start flowing. It comes as the army launches a major ground crisis. There's no timeline on when that aid will start flowing. It comes as the army launches a major ground operation. Here's Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani. Our troops

are operating deep in Gaza, eliminating threats, destroying terror infrastructure, and taking control of key areas. This is what we plan on doing. Give advanced warnings to uninvolved civilians to make sure they get out of harm's way, control the battlefield, protect Israeli civilians, and dismantle Hamas' leadership and capabilities. Hamas officials in Gaza say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 people overnight into Sunday. Meantime, informal peace talks are continuing in Qatar. A previous ceasefire ended in March. The Mounties say a two-day ground search for two missing children in Nova Scotia has ended, and search teams will not be back tomorrow. Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack vanished earlier this month.

There was a large-scale air and ground search that was scaled back five days later. But this weekend, more than 115 volunteers resumed the search around Lownsdown station northeast of Halifax They failed to find the children. In the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs, it's do or die tonight for the Toronto Maple Leafs They're facing the Florida Panthers in game seven of their second round series Right now Florida is ahead 3-0 in the second period. The winner will move on to the Eastern Conference final against the Carolina Hurricanes. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.