The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/21 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/21 at 13:00 EDT

In 1977, the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club opened up a chapter in Montreal. Their enforcer was a man named Yves Trudeau. And over the course of his criminal career, Trudeau would murder no fewer than 43 people. And he would only spend seven years in prison. I'm Kathleen Gholtar, and this week on Crime Story, the soared tale of Canada's deadliest assassin. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood. Canada Post has presented new offers to postal workers ahead of a looming strike. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says it will review the offers

after bargaining talks fell through last week. Canada Post and the union are in disagreement about the hiring of part-time workers for weekend deliveries and worker pay and benefits. Unless a new collective agreement is reached, the union says postal workers will walk off the job on Friday. Humanitarian groups insist they don't have access to the nearly 100 aid trucks that made it into Gaza. Israel says the vehicles containing baby food and medicine are now on the Palestinian side

of the crossing, but the Israeli military has not commented on the reported delays in aid distribution. Crystal Gomancing has the latest. We are in a famine, yells Jihad Khadr. In a soup kitchen in Han Yunis, only Khadr's anger is being fueled. As you can see, all of their pots are empty, all of them. Israel allowed aid trucks to enter as of Monday, but humanitarian groups say the Israeli military hasn't granted them access to the holding areas. Antoine Renard is with the World Food Programme. None of these aid, that is very limited number of trucks, have reached the Gaza population. The Pope appealed to Israel Wednesday. The situation in the Gaza Strip, he said, is increasingly worrying and painful. He called for the end of hostilities, saying children, the elderly and the sick are paying

the highest price. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. Italy, Turkey and other European countries are condemning the Israeli military for firing on foreign diplomats in the West Bank. Representatives of several countries were on a pre-arranged visit to the city of Jenin. Israel says the delegation deviated from an approved route and troops fired warning shots as a result. The European Union calls the incident a threat on diplomats' lives and is demanding an investigation.

To Washington now and another uncomfortable meeting at the White House. We are essentially here to reset the relationship between the United States and South Africa. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is meeting with US President Donald Trump for high stakes talks on the country's relations. The visit comes as Trump accuses the South For instance, Surreal Ramaphosa is meeting with US President Donald Trump for high-stakes talks on the country's relations. The visit comes as Trump accuses the South African government of genocide against the country's white Afrikaner farmers. A video purporting to prove that claim was played during the meeting.

The US has expelled the South African ambassador and frozen all aid to the country. Ramaphosa has repeatedly denied those claims. He hopes the meeting will turn into an opportunity to improve trade between the US and South Africa. Finally, it's a housing crunch that's attracting the attention of bird watchers. A woman from St. Thomas, Ontario is watching a drama unfold in a bird's nest on her front porch. Kendra Segan has the story. It sounds like a story straight out of a soap opera. A big family, physical fighting, and

an unclear number of fathers. It's all happening in a robin's nest above Deborah Copeland's St. Thomas porch. They'd bite each other's beaks, they'd pat each other, they'd like kind of jump on top of each other to try to get the other one to fly away. Sometimes it would work, but honestly I think that these just might be the most stubborn and devoted robin mamas that have ever existed. After three days of fighting, two female robins started raising their babies in the shared nest together.

They take turns watching and feeding the now hatched fledglings. On On Copeland's porch there's also a dad or two in the picture. She says she's seen mail robins drop off food to the mothers. Copeland's daily nest updates have gone viral in bird-watching Facebook groups. She says there's something special about watching such an unconventional family succeed. Kendra Segan, CBC News, London. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hasell Wood.