The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/09 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/09 at 07:00 EDT

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From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Russia is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. That's Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belovtsov greeting the soldiers marching in today's Victory Day Parade. Sitting beside other invited international leaders, Russian President Vladimir Putin is honoring the past at this parade, but as Breyer Stewart reports, he's also sending a message about the current conflict in Ukraine. As the band played, thousands of soldiers and cadets marched in front of Red Square. On display in the parade, Russian drones currently being used in Ukraine.

Putin had declared a unilateral three-day ceasefire to mark the anniversary, a move which Ukrainian officials saw as a manipulative stunt. They say the fighting hasn't stopped on the front line. Sam Green is a professor in Russian politics at King's College London and says Victory Day in Russia has gone through a transformation. They have framed certainly the entirety of the conflict in Ukraine going back to 2014 in the language of World War II. It's an effort he says to try to convince the Russian public that the country is fighting a just war even as it refuses to agree to a 30-day proposed ceasefire.

Briar Stewart, CBC News, London. Again today and with the world watching on with concern, the Indian and Pakistani militaries are exchanging fire across the Kashmir region. 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 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 morning 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 U.S. 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 Shivji, CBC News, Mumbai. Over the course of the election, both the Liberals and the Conservatives embraced the idea of giving the Royal Canadian Navy armed icebreakers to defend the Arctic. But it's a position that's being questioned now by a former naval commander and several defense analysts. 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 icebreaking 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 Edmonton Oilers have taken a 2-0 lead in their second round playoff series with Las Vegas. It was a 5-4 overtime victory with Leon Dreisaitl scoring the game winner. The series now moves to Edmonton for games 3 and 4. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.