The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/10 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/10 at 08:00 EDT

What's because news, eh? What's because news, bros? It's Canada's funniest news quiz. It's on every week. You can get it on Spotify. Yes, we need them. Follow us. If they're not chickenses. Wow, you're really putting threats in there. Stupid news quiz. Okay, thanks. That was all me. Ha ha ha. Just kidding. It was real Gollum. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. We begin with the heightening conflict between India and Pakistan.

An eyewitness captures an airstrike in Pakistan. Both sides carried out more missile and drone attacks today. Pakistan says it hit an Indian air base in retaliation for Indian attacks on three of its bases. Lieutenant General Ahmed Chaudhry is with the Pakistani military. Majority of missiles have been intercepted by the alert air defense system of the Pakistan armed forces. The few that have been able to sneak in have not been able to cause any damage to the flying assets of Pakistan Air Force. There are also reports of explosions in several places along the line of control in Kashmir,

the de facto border between the two countries. Both India and Pakistan say going forward they will not escalate hostilities if the other reciprocates. And just now on social media in a post, US President Donald Trump says both sides have agreed to a full ceasefire and we will have more of that next hour. European leaders say they are ready for a 30-day ceasefire in the war in Ukraine, and they want it to start on Monday. The leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Poland and Germany are in the country today meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a show of support. The Ukrainian Foreign Minister says they held a phone call with US President Donald Trump and discussed peace efforts. He described it as productive. So far, Moscow has refused to agree to the terms. After the prime

minister's high-stakes meeting with Donald Trump this week, is Canada any closer to ending the trade war with the United States? CBC radio's The House is taking a closer look at this question. Host Catherine Cullen has more. We're probably looking at what some would describe as a grand bargain. Former Quebec Premier Jean Charest is optimistic a deal can be reached. Charest is on the Prime Minister's Canada-US Council. He says a new agreement with the United States would go beyond the Kuzma trade deal including issues like security, specifically the Arctic, something Charest

says that would allow Trump to say he won and got something new for the US. Canada's ambassador to the US, Kirsten Hillman, says in the wake of the Carney Trump meeting there is work being done to strike a deal. The early focus right now seems to be primarily on tariffs. The U.S. is interested in having a bilateral conversation with Canada. They're having a bilateral conversation with Mexico and many other countries. Charret says big picture. There's room for Canada to wind up better off. You know maybe in 20 years from now we will thank Donald Trump for having

forced us to have a hard look at our economy or federation. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Ottawa. Prime Minister Mark Carney's decision to invite King Charles to read the government's throne speech isn't going over well with all Canadians. He says the move is meant to highlight Canada's sovereignty, but as Thomas Dagla reports, critics say the plan casts this country as anything but independent. Shouldn't a qualified, distinguished Canadian be doing that? Canada's anti-monarchy advocates consider the invitation extended to King Charles an

embarrassing contradiction, hosting a British-based monarch to open this country's sovereign parliament. Ashok Charles leads the not-for-profit group Republic Now, which campaigns for Canada to cut ties with the Crown. Mr. Carney is sending a message that a British king can perform this act of nationhood with more authority than any Canadian could. It's the first time in half a century the monarch will deliver the throne speech, filling a role usually reserved for the governor general. If past royal tours are any indication, that upcoming two-day visit by the king and queen

could cost Canadian taxpayers a million dollars or more. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto. And that is The World This Hour. Remember, listen to us wherever you get your podcasts, updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Thanks for listening.