The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/10 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/10 at 17:00 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 Julie-Ann Hazelwood. While European leaders meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work out a ceasefire with Russia, the Kremlin's press secretary is demanding countries stop shipping weapons to Ukraine. Dmitry Peskov also tells ABC News Zelensky is avoiding talks with Moscow. Ceasefire was supported by President Putin, but he asked several questions.

He said that right now we have a certain dynamics on the front. Russian troops are advancing in quite a confident way. So if we speak about ceasefire, what are we going to do with shipments of weapons coming every day from the United States and from European countries? For its part, Ukraine says it's ready for an immediate ceasefire beginning Monday. Dominic Velaitis has more on the negotiations. Arriving in Kiev this morning, the so-called Coalition of the Willing. After meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland

agreed an unconditional 30-day ceasefire, backed by US President Donald Trump, should start on Monday. The leaders, which include Britain's Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, said Russia would face massive sanctions if it failed to comply. All of us here, together with the US, are calling Putin out. If he's serious about peace, then he has a chance to show it now. Russia, which believes it has the advantage on the battlefield, has responded. The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, today accused European countries of making contradictory and confrontational statements.

Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. India and Pakistan are accusing each other of breaching a ceasefire within hours of the truce being reached. Tensions over Kashmir have ramped up since the deaths of more than two dozen tourists last month. Several countries were involved in the ceasefire, but first word of the deal came from Washington. Aaron Collins explains. President Trump, as he often does, announcing this development on social media and not afraid to take credit for the deal either, writing in that social media post that the ceasefire came after a long night of talks

mediated by the United States. So it appears that they were fairly directly involved in this process. As far as what's motivating the administration to get involved now, we heard from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio today who said that he and J.D. Vance had been directly involved in negotiations. What it is safe to say is that nobody liked the trajectory of this conflict, that it was on, that it may still be on, especially when

two nuclear powers are involved. So there is a sense from some experts that the US didn't really have much of a choice here. The CBC's Erin Collins in Washington. India and Pakistan are expected to meet again on Monday. In Geneva, negotiations between the US and China to resolve a tariff dispute have ended for the day. There's no word what progress has been made. The two countries have been in a tit for tat tax off. The U.S. charging a 145% levy on Chinese products with Beijing responding with a 125%

surcharge on American goods. While a major breakthrough isn't expected, there's hope the two sides can reduce those tariffs. Measles continues to spread across Canada. Eastern Ontario has reported its first two cases. That's among the nearly 200 new cases across the province this week. While the number in Saskatchewan doubled in a week to more than two dozen. Saskatoon mother Shruti Kodad would like to see her province follow Ontario's lead and make it mandatory for students to get vaccinated. I think we should educate people and basically spread the correct information.

And if somebody has any questions, I think those questions should be answered. Ontario students can be suspended for failing to get vaccinated or not updating their records. Exemptions are made for medical or religious reasons. But Saskatchewan officials say they don't see the need or the benefits. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.