The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/11 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/11 at 10:00 EDT

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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. There's a festive air in St. Peter's Square today. Thousands of people packed in for Pope Leo's first Sunday address. Megan Williams is at the Vatican. Buona Domenica! Smiling, waving, and blessing the roaring crowd below. The new pope, originally from Chicago,

called on Catholics to support young people in joining the priesthood and religious life. A long-time crisis in the church, with fewer and fewer Westerners making that choice. He also turned to global conflict, calling for an end to all war. And urging an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all Israeli hostages and a peace deal for Ukraine. Pope Leo welcomed the recent ceasefire between India and Pakistan

and ended with a plea for what he called the miracle of peace. Megan Williams, CBC News, The Vatican. The fragile ceasefire between India and Pakistan appears to be holding. This following days of cross-border attacks in and around the Kashmir region. Reporter Neha Punia is in New Delhi. It's going to be nearly 24 hours since that surprise ceasefire was announced on Saturday evening local time. And, you know, all through Sunday, there's been this tense expectation that the ceasefire,

which seems very fragile right now, will break. But for now, we've not had any drones going off, any missiles being fired, no air raid sirens going off. So, there is this tense calm that prevails across both the Indian and Pakistan border regions. But we did see on Saturday evening, soon after that ceasefire was announced, India accusing Pakistan of repeated violations, firing drones into India. Pakistan in turn accused India of violating the ceasefire but said its forces were handling the situation with responsibility and restraint.

Both sides now, you know, still flexing their muscles, but for now the weapons seem to be down. US President Donald Trump is praising the leaders of Pakistan and India for agreeing to a ceasefire. He says the U.S. helped broker the deal. Russian President Vladimir Putin says he'll restart direct talks with Ukraine next week. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is calling this a positive sign as is British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who was there in person Saturday.

You saw five leaders here standing alongside the Ukrainian president and then many other world leaders on the virtual meeting that we had aligned with the U.S. position, saying this should be an unconditional 30-day ceasefire without conditions because Putin has responded by putting in conditions. We've rejected those. The Kremlin is denying any suggestion that Moscow is dragging out the conflict. And finally on this Mother's Day, the birth of a baby boy is marking a milestone in northern Alberta's Kuin-Kree Nation. He is the first child to be born there in decades. After 65 years, the community now has a midwife to help women deliver.

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After decades without one, there's now a Cree midwife working in the community thanks to a federally funded program to revitalize births in Indigenous communities across Canada. Midwives weren't recognized legally in Canada until the 1990s. By that time many indigenous communities were stripped of those traditional roles. And now many indigenous families have to travel to give birth. Like Charity Wenger, a midwife in training who helped deliver the baby.

She's from Big Stone Cree Nation where the standard policy is to fly pregnant women weeks out before their due date to Edmonton. Bringing birth back to their community, that's such an honor. Ariel Fornier, CBC News, Kihiwin Cree Nation. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.