The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/09 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/09 at 06:00 EDT

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From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We start with the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan, where today the two countries continue to exchange heavy volleys of gunfire across the Kashmir region. At least five civilians have been killed, while the global community watches on with concern. Salima Shivji has the latest. There's been an exodus along the contested border as the conflict has rapidly spiraled.

India and Pakistan are each blaming the other for ramping up attacks. New Delhi says Pakistani armed forces launched widespread drone attacks Thursday night along the entire western border but that the strikes were repelled. Islamabad denies the claims. Pakistani police say at least five people were killed in heavy shelling that continued into mourning And fears of the tensions escalating further into an all-out war are deepening. We can't control these countries though. These comments from U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance aren't helping. What we can do is try to encourage these folks to de-escalate a little bit, but we're not

going to get involved in the middle of a war that's fundamentally none of our business. It's a shift away from the role of mediator the US has played in the past to dial down tensions, a role that's sorely empty now with the two nuclear powers locked in a military conflict that's already their most serious in decades. Salima Shabji, CBC News, Mumbai. Russia today is marking 80 years since its defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War. A large military parade was held in Moscow's Red Square with President Vladimir Putin joined by a number

of foreign dignitaries, including, among others, the President of China and the President of Brazil. Here in this country, the governing liberals and the opposition conservatives have both recently embraced the idea of giving the Royal Canadian Navy armed icebreakers to defend the Arctic. But it's a position a former top naval commander and several defense experts are questioning. Murray Brewster explains. The notion of arming an icebreaker is overly simplistic. Former Vice Admiral Mark Norman, who looks at the proposals of both the liberals and the

conservatives with a raised eyebrow. I'm puzzled because I don't know what it is we're trying to achieve other than the political objective of demonstrating a commitment to Arctic sovereignty. Other defense experts say icebreakers are slow and noisy. Submarines, they say, are better. The Conservatives in 2006 proposed heavy military icebreakers only to back away because of the enormous cost and limited utility. The Coast Guard is usually the home of Canada's unarmed ice-breaking fleet. The Liberals, however, have promised to rewrite the Service's mandate to conduct maritime surveillance and integrate them into Canada's NATO defense capabilities. Whether that means arming them is unclear.

Murray Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. The new pope is holding his first mass. Deus qui reinium Christi ubique terrarum di la tarde. The Sistine Chapel, that is Leo XIV, just one day after taking over from the late Pope Francis. Leo is Chicago-born Robert Francis Privos, the first ever American to be named Pope. For many Americans, it's being welcomed as a happy surprise. Steve Futterman reports.

In many parts of the U.S., the announcement was met with shock and elation. At Villanova University, where the Pope went to college, bells rang. In Pennsylvania, the Sisters of Mercy were watching on a church TV when they learned where the pope was from. First American War. In the pope's hometown Chicago, his brother John said almost from the start, Pope Leo had a fascination with the church. You know how some kids like to play war and be soldiers and he wanted to play priest. Here in Los Angeles, at the midday mass at the downtown cathedral, they said prayers for the new pope. And Father John Ochoa feels Pope Leo, even though he is American, has an international

mindset. A lot of his life he lived in Peru, so he's not just a pope of the United States, but he's a pope of the Americas. Here and in many other US cities, the faithful are hoping for future visits from the American pope. Steve Fetterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.