Global National: May 11

Ukraine says it has reclaimed some villages from Russian forces. Where the progress is being made; the pleas for Pope Francis to intervene in the war; Dr. Elena Bulakhtina, a forensic pathologist from Ontario, on the “unnecessary suffering” she’s witnessed while helping the wounded in Ukraine; and the struggles patients at a Ukrainian hospital are facing. The rising threat of rising waters from climate change: how Canadian communities will be forced to adapt. Plus, the pressure Ottawa is facing to provide free access to all types of birth control, while the future of abortion rights in the U.S. grows bleaker. And the rap that became a rallying cry: how Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra has put its country’s resolve on centre stage in the Eurovision Song Contest.