The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/11 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/11 at 20:00 EDT

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When debts got you, you've got us. Give Credit Counseling Society a call today. Visit NoMoreDets.org. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. Ukraine's president says he'll be in Turkey waiting for Russia's leader to begin peace talks this week. As Dominic Volaitis reports, Moscow proposed the talks after Ukraine called for a ceasefire.

Posting on social media, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky said it was a positive step. Russia had begun to consider ending the war with an offer of peace talks in the coming days. But Zelensky said the first step must be to agree to the US-backed unconditional ceasefire from tomorrow, as announced yesterday by European leaders, including those of Britain, France, Germany and Poland. The demand wasn't addressed directly by Vladimir Putin during his late-night press conference. The Russian leader instead called for direct talks with Ukraine in Turkey this coming Thursday. A proposal applauded by US President Donald Trump, but one Ukraine and its European allies

say will only happen if Russia agrees to a ceasefire first. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga Latvia. India says attacks this past week on Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and Pakistan killed more than 100 militants. A ceasefire that started yesterday remains in place, with each side accusing the other of violating the truce. India's head of military operations, Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai. It took only a couple of hours for the Pakistan army to violate these arrangements by cross border and across the line of control firing, followed by drone intrusions across the expanse

of the Western Front. These violations were responded to robustly and dealt with as they must be." Pakistan confirms it sent armed drones to hover over several major Indian cities, including New Delhi, adding it hit more than two dozen military targets. Top military officials from both sides are expected to talk tomorrow. Hamas says it will release the last living American hostage in Gaza. Israeli American soldier Edan Alexander was abducted from his military base during the October 7 attacks. In a statement, the militant group says the 21-year-old will be released as part of efforts to establish a ceasefire and resume the delivery

of humanitarian aid to Gaza. The White House calls the release a positive step forward in ceasefire negotiations and is calling for the remains of four other Americans to be released as well. Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet will be sworn in this week. It's happening under the shadow of the tariff dispute with the U.S. This morning on Rosemary Barton Live, International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc talked about the goal for the ongoing talks. Our overwhelming priority is to, as quickly as we can, get to a circumstance where the

tariffs that have applied to Canada are lifted. And obviously then our retaliatory tariffs would also be lifted, but they remain in place while this circumstance persists. LeBlanc was also asked what role he would play in the new cabinet. All he would say is he hopes to be of service. RCMP say at least five people are dead after a two-vehicle collision in Nova Scotia. It happened late Saturday night on Highway 101, about 60 kilometres north of Halifax. The lone survivor, a 29-year-old British Columbia man, is in critical condition. Investigators are asking any witnesses

to provide dashcam video they may have. RCMP in Nova Scotia scaled back the extensive search for two missing children in Pictou County earlier this week. The search operation has been called off with no sign of either 4-year-old Jack or 6-year-old Lily Sullivan. Robert Kester is an expert on searching for missing people. Kester explains some of the difficulties in finding a missing person. Robert Kester Another reason is while they're conducting the search, a split occurs in the area, so they didn't cover that particular chunk of territory. And the final reason is it can just be darn hard to spot people out in the woods.

Especially with children, they can crawl into small, tight places that are obscured from view. They can be very difficult to find. Police believe it's unlikely the children are alive, but a missing person's investigation continues. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.