The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/07 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/07 at 10:00 EDT

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From CBC News, it's the world is our. I'm Joe Cummings. We start with Prime Minister Mark Carney, who later today will be updating the premiers on his visit to the White House. Carney says his trip to Washington yesterday is the start of a long process aimed at bringing trade stability back to the Canada-U.S. relationship. But here at home, it appears he may have another stability issue to deal with. Janice McGregor explains.

Premier Daniel Smith has focused her attention over the last week on a fresh round of demands for the federal government, acknowledging the frustration in her province over the election result and amplifying the minority of Albertans that want to channel that into a referendum on separation. That risks undermining the work of other premiers like Ontario's Doug Ford, who's been lobbying flat out for Team Canada. This is a time to unite the country, not people saying, oh, I'm leaving the country, I'm doing this, I'm doing that. I don't tell him how he should run his province and I would hope that he doesn't tell me how I should run mine.

Since the election, Carney's been asking premiers to identify their top priorities to strengthen Canada's economy, particularly infrastructure projects, which in the energy sector can be divisive. We'll see if the prime minister can do that while keeping a lid on these tensions. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. The United Nations and a growing number of countries are calling for restraint as tensions mount between India and Pakistan. Overnight, India launched a series of missile strikes on Pakistani territory in what Pakistan is

calling an act of war. Salima Shivji reports. The missiles were fired just after midnight. India's military hitting nine locations inside Pakistan and the part of contested Kashmir that Pakistan controls. Vikram Misri, India's foreign secretary, says the target was camps where militants are trained. Measured, non-escalatory, proportionate and responsible. Pakistan does not see it that way, calling this an act of war over the Kashmir region, which both countries claim in full, but only control in part.

Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary speaks for Pakistan's military. Pakistan only responded in self-defense. He says Pakistan is retaliating and claims it has already shot down several Indian fighter jets. The strikes come two weeks after a deadly militant attack that targeted tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir, which India blames on Pakistan, a claim Islamabad denies. Salima Shivji, CBC News, Mumbai. France and Germany are forming a joint defence committee.

It is French President Emmanuel Macron saying the committee is being established as the two countries are in the process of boosting their military spending. He says it will make it easier for them to work together in dealing with shared security threats. Newly elected German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was in Paris for today's joint announcement. He was sworn in just yesterday. Meanwhile, former U.S. President Joe Biden says global democracy is facing its greatest threat since the Second World War.

In his first interview since leaving the White House, Biden tells the BBC that in this moment in history, it's dangerous for the Trump administration to be undermining NATO. Imagine there being no NATO. Do you think Putin would have stopped Ukraine? I don't understand how they fail to understand that there's strength in alliances. There's benefits, the costs there. It saves us money overall. Biden was also asked about Donald Trump's treatment of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky at the White House back in February.

Biden says the interaction was was quote, beneath America. Now to the Vatican. In ilo tempore, dixit Jesus, discipuli sui. That's the Holy Mass from earlier today at St. Peter's Basilica. It was the last stop for 133 Cardinals who are now on their way to the Sistine Chapel to start the process of electing a new pope. A conclave gets underway later this hour. The new pontiff of course will be succeeding the late Pope Francis.

And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.