The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/26 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/26 at 06:00 EDT

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I'm Joe Cummings. For the first time in either one of his two terms in office, US President Donald Trump is openly criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin. It comes as Russia launched an unprecedented aerial assault on Ukraine over the weekend. Dominic Volodya says more. We're in the middle of talking and he's shooting rockets into Kiev and other cities. I don't like it at all. US President Donald Trump's patience, it seems, is growing thin with Russia's Vladimir Putin following this weekend's uptick in violence in Ukraine.

I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him. But he's sending rockets into cities and killing people. And I don't like it at all. Trump told reporters he was now seriously considering hitting Russia with more sanctions and later on True Social he doubled down saying Putin had gone absolutely crazy and warned that any attempt to conquer all of Ukraine would lead to Russia's downfall. Last night Russia attacked Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles for the third night

in a row. Just the day after, Moscow launched its biggest aerial attack of the war so far, killing at least 12 people. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. Now to Gaza, where health officials say more than 50 people have been killed overnight in an Israeli airstrike. That's emergency workers pulling people out of the rubble of a school. It had been used, was being used as a shelter.

And it's being reported that more than 30 people were killed in the facility while they slept. The Israeli military says it was targeting militants who were operating in the facility while they slept. The Israeli military says it was targeting militants who were operating in the shelter. It also says three projectiles had been fired from Gaza towards southern Israel, one blocked by the missile defense system with the other two landing inside Gaza. With a new session of parliament set to begin today,

the liberals and conservatives are both arriving in the House of Commons today after holding caucus meetings yesterday. Rafi Boujikhanian has more. This government failed to table a budget pretty soon. Conservative Gérard Deltel ready with criticism before MPs return to the House of Commons, a theme for leader Pierre Polievre as well. We're going to be demanding a spring budget. But the opposition cannot force the government to do that.

Paul Lever also won't be in the Commons until he wins a by-election as he lost his seat. This is the room that won our party a strong mandate. Prime Minister Mark Carney was keen to highlight liberal electoral success. 169 member caucus that is the conscience of this party. MPs will also choose a new house speaker. Seven members have put their names forward. Rafi Mujikhan on CBC News, Ottawa. Hundreds of people in the Central Ontario community of Walkerton took part in a vigil

last night for a high school teacher and four students killed on Friday in a crash near London, Ontario. Philip Lee Schanek reports. They stood, listened and hugged, remembering their friends. Rowan McLeod had big plans for life. She always wanted to be a mom. And Cadence Ford was sweet and bubbly and lit up the room when she walked in. Fifteen-year-old Keegan Padfield says even though they were older, the girls made time for him. They're all really kind and when I first started out in grade 9, they were all really supportive. On their way home from a softball tournament in Dorchester, Ontario, their SUV collided with a transport truck. Ontario Provincial Police say the students and their 33-year-old coach, Matt Eckert, were killed.

The Blue Water District School Board said councillors will be at the school this week to assist students and staff. Middlesex OPP say they are still investigating and want anyone with information to come forward. Philip E. Shannok, CBC News, Toronto. And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.