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

Episode Date: May 10, 2025

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

How did the internet go from this? You could actually find what you were looking for right away, bound to this. I feel like I'm in hell. Spoiler alert, it was not an accident. I'm Cory Doctorow, host of Who Broke the Internet from CBC's Understood. In this four-part series, I'm going to tell you

why the internet sucks now, whose fault it is, and my plan to fix it. Find who broke the internet on whatever terrible app you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. It was agreed between them that both sides would stop all firing and military action. That's India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri announcing an end at least for now to a serious military escalation between India and Pakistan. Salima Shivji has more on the ceasefire and why it came at an unexpected time.

A ceasefire comes as a bit of a surprise, considering how seriously the military confrontation escalated even just last night with both India and Pakistan accusing the other of firing missiles at army bases and other military installations in a tit for tat. Pakistan earlier was even naming their military counter-attack, calling it Operation Banyan-ul-Marsus, a phrase from the Quran basically translating to wall of lead. And then we see a tweet from US President Donald Trump,

who was the first to confirm a ceasefire had been agreed upon. He wrote of, quote, a long night of talks mediated by the United States, that he says helped India and Pakistan agree to a full and immediate ceasefire, and he congratulated both for using common sense. Pakistan's foreign minister Ishaq Dar also confirmed it on social media. Currently, of course,

there are questions of whether the ceasefire will hold. This was a very angry conflict, one of the worst, basically the worst escalation in several decades. Salima Shivji, CBC News, Mumbai. And Ukraine says it's ready for a full and unconditional ceasefire. The leaders of the UK, France, Poland and Germany are in Ukraine meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a show of support. Anna Cunningham has more on that. Arriving together in Kiev where they were greeted by President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenskaya, is symbolic.

A visible response to the welcome Russia's President Vladimir Putin gave Friday in Moscow's Red Square parade. There, he greeted the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, as well as leaders from Brazil, Venezuela, Serbia and Slovakia. We are clear the bloodshed must end, the European leaders say in a joint statement adding Russia must stop its illegal invasion. This Kiev summit is all about tightening pressure on Russia

to agree to a 30-day ceasefire, something Moscow rejected in March. President Macron telling French media they will seek direct talks if a truce is agreed. On Friday, the UK announced further sanctions on Russia, upping the economic pressure. Other allied countries are warning the same. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. 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 that 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. Chéry 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.

And that is your World This Hour. Remember you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts, updated every hour, seven days a week. You can also listen to us anytime on voice-activated devices like Google Home. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.