The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/11 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/11 at 12:00 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. There's a festive air in St. Peter's Square, thousands of people packed in for Pope Leo's First Sunday address. Megan Williams is at the Vatican. Bona 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. Never again 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 Bhunia is in New Delhi. 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. U.S. President Donald Trump is praising the leaders

for agreeing to a ceasefire. He claims the U.S. helped broker the deal, although India says a third party was not involved. To the war in Ukraine, the Russian president says he's willing to have direct talks, but wants it done on his own timetable. The CBC's Anna Cunningham has the latest. This televised address from the Kremlin at 2am Moscow time took everyone by surprise.

President Vladimir Putin criticising European powers, saying they spoke in a boorish manner. Side-stepping the 30-day unconditional ceasefire plan proposed by Ukraine's allies with approval by US President Donald Trump due to start Monday, the Russian president put forward his own plan, calling for direct talks with Ukraine Thursday in Istanbul. Putin says he wants to address the root causes of the conflict that is likely to be his opposition to Ukraine moving closer to Europe and its desire to be a NATO member country. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London.

And finally on this Mother's Day, the birth of a baby boy is marking a milestone in northern Alberta's Kew and Cree Nation. He is the first child to be born there in decades. CBC's Ariel Fournier met with the new family. Kasoake Capuit, Everett Gadwa, entered the world last month surrounded by family. He's the first baby to be born in the Kiwin Cree Nation in nearly 65 years. His mother, Maylyn Simeganes-Sotok, knew she wanted him to be born here. The first language your baby hears is Cree. It just felt like I was doing the right thing.

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, Kihewin Cree Nation. And a happy Mother's Day to my mom. That is The World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.