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

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/12 at 11:00 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, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Prompted by the White House, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky now says he is willing to hold face-to-face peace talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Crystal Gmansing has more. Donald Trump on Sunday posted online that he was starting to doubt Ukraine will reach

a ceasefire deal with Russia and urged Ukraine to meet with Russian officials to, quote, end the bloodbath. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, responded, saying he would fly to Turkey to meet his Russian counterpart, that a ceasefire was still on the table and was waiting for Moscow's response. It was the Russian president who invited Zelensky to talk, prompting Trump to make demands of Ukraine. Europe, on the other hand, is pushing Putin.

This is the time for Vladimir Putin to get serious about peace. David Lammy, the UK's foreign secretary, is leading talks with European officials in London today. Lammy says peace is the goal, but questions remain about Putin's intentions. Crystal Gaman Singh, CBC News, London. The United States and China are pausing at least some of their back and forth tariff fight. The two countries agreed today to a 90-day pause. For the most part, it involves Washington's 145% rate going down to 30, China's goes from 125 down to 10.

The latest figures are showing that for a fourth consecutive month, Canadian travel to the United States is down. Statistics Canada says the number of Canadian residents returning by air last month from the United States was up by nearly 20% compared to the same time last year, and the drop in return trips by car was even sharper, falling by 35 percent. After a nearly five-decade armed struggle, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or the PKK, says it is ready now to lay down its weapons. Dorian Jones has more from Istanbul.

In a statement released this morning, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, declared the end of its armed struggle against a Turkish state. The group has been fighting for an independent Kurdish state for nearly 50 years and is designated as a terrorist organization in Turkey, Canada and most western countries. The PKK leadership now says it will disarm and disband as an armed organization transitioning to a democratic political struggle. Something its imprisoned leader and founder Abdullah Öcalan called for back in February. A Turkish government spokesman is calling the PKK announcement a positive first step.

There are still questions about whether Turkey will heed the PKK calls for democratic reforms. But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said good things will follow if the PKK disarms. US tariffs on the auto industry are expected to lead to a boom in the used car business. But with that could come a problem, specifically odometer fraud. With more, here's Erica Johnson with our Go Public team. Steve Andrews thought he'd found the perfect car for his growing family, a 2012 Subaru Outback. The price was right and the mileage low for the car's age, just under 98,000 K.

But shortly after buying the car, he discovered recall records that showed five years ago the odometer was 15,000 kilometers higher than today. Yeah, I was definitely angry at them. So who committed odometer fraud? In a game of hot potato, neither the seller, the dealership she sold to, or the dealership that took the car on consignment and sold to Andrews, said they had anything to do with altering the mileage. No one keeps stats on odometer fraud in Canada, but Ontario's regulator for car dealers says the problem's on the rise. Mechanic Josh Engel says it's easy to tweak the mileage using a device sold online for a few hundred bucks that plugs into a vehicle's computer port. You don't

have to have any know-how, you just need to know how to select a vehicle on the screen. Erica Johnson, CBC News, Vancouver. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.