The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/20 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/20 at 15:00 EDT

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The UK is suspending free trade talks with Israel over the war in Gaza, and the European Union says it will also review its own free trade deal with Israel over the war in Gaza, and the European Union says it will also review its own free trade deal with Israel. The moves come a day after Canada, the UK and France released a statement condemning Israel's military offensive. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls that response a huge prize for Hamas. Chris Reyes reports. There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them. That dire warning from UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher. Israel has allowed limited aid trucks to cross into Gaza in the last two days following weeks of a blockade that has pushed the territory

to the brink of famine. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has joined other leaders, including Canada, condemning Israel's recent bombardment of Gaza. Where the level of suffering, innocent children being bombed again, is utterly intolerable. Medics in Gaza say more than 500 Palestinians have been killed in the past eight days. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says international pressure will not divert Israel from its objectives. He called on Hamas to release hostages and lay down arms to end the war. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York.

The European Union is lifting sanctions on Syria. It follows the U.S. decision to remove economic restrictions imposed more than a decade ago. EU foreign policy chief Kaya Kalas warns its policy change could be reversed depending on progress. There can be no peace without the path to economic recovery and we all need a stable Syria. Is everything really ideal there? No, it is not. It's very clear. But I think we need to give the Syrian people a chance. Syria's foreign ministry welcomed the move as a step towards financial stability.

The autocratic regime of President Bashar al-Assad was toppled last December. Canada's inflation rate fell to 1.7 percent last month from 2.3 in March. Statistics Canada says the falling price of gasoline is the biggest factor. On average, gas prices are down by 18%. That's due mainly to the removal of the consumer carbon tax and the global drop in oil prices. But food prices continue to rise faster than any other consumer product. The sexual assault trial involving five former World Junior hockey players continues in London. Today the court is hearing from Brett Howden.

He was a member of the 2018 World Junior team and is a current forward for the NHL's Vegas Golden Knights. Howden was in the room when the alleged incident occurred but is not facing any charges. This story contains some graphic details. Karen Pauls reports. Brett Howden told the court there are many things he can't recall even after reading the statement he made to a Hockey Canada investigator in 2018. He does remember a woman coming out of the bathroom but doesn't remember she was naked. Howden does recall things escalated

quickly when the woman started taunting the guys, egging them on because he says nobody was taking her up on her offers of sexual acts. Finally, two of them did. He recalls Carter Hart and Michael McCloud getting oral sex from her, although he remembers not looking because it was uncomfortable and awkward. He also recalls it was the woman who took Alex Forman to the bathroom where it's alleged he had sex with her. But he can't remember Dylan Dubay spanking the woman even though he recalls hearing the sound and he told the investigator about it

in 2018. Karen Pauls, CBC News, London, Ontario. Canada's largest private sector union wants the federal government to penalize Canadian companies who outsource production. Unifor says Ottawa could use the existing Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act or FEMA, which was passed in 1984 but has rarely been used since. The union says the act could help prevent further job losses from U.S. tariffs. It says FEMA could make it a federal offense for companies to move production out of Canada. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scanderis.