The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 at 09:00 EDT

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Honda Canada has announced it is postponing its $15 billion Ontario electric vehicle project. DataMaker says due to a slowdown in the EV market, it's delaying its Ontario plans for two years. Those plans include a retooled assembly facility, an electric vehicle battery plant in close proximity, as well as two other battery facilities elsewhere in the province. It was first announced last spring and has the support of both the federal and Ontario governments. Prime Minister Mark Carney introduces his cabinet this morning at a gala swearing-in ceremony

at Rideau Hall. We're being told Carney's front bench will be smaller than what we've seen in recent years and there will be something new as well. Carney is adding secretaries of state or junior ministers. Rafi Bouchakian explains. Are you in cabinet? Newly minted Liberal MP for Toronto Centre, Evan Solomon, picking up his luggage

at Ottawa International Airport, not quite issuing a denial about whether he's getting into cabinet. Nothing to say, just here to find some place to live. The prime minister's office has said Mark Carney is adding 10 junior roles to the cabinet. Some of the ministers will be the new faces that got elected along with Carney, such as former Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who will take on housing,

and former chair of Hydro One Timothy Hodgson, who becomes natural resources and energy minister, replacing Jonathan Wilkinson, who is out of cabinet. Carney's office says there will be fewer than 30 full-time cabinet ministers, and he's committing to gender parity. Carney is keeping some old ministers. Christia Freeland will stay on. So will Stephen Gilbo, as well as Sean Fraser, who is moving to justice. Rafil Boudjikan, YonCBC News, Ottawa.

Now to Saudi Arabia. Jump back! Sla! Now there's US President Donald Trump arriving today in Rihadh and being greeted by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. This is Trump's first stop on a three country tour this week of the Middle East. It's expected to include billions of dollars in deals announced on a range of fronts, from artificial intelligence and arms sales to real estate. Also on the agenda is Iran's nuclear program and the war in Gaza.

Meanwhile, the leading global authority on hunger, the IPC, has released its latest snapshot on the state of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. And the details are disturbing with an estimated 500,000 people in danger of starvation. Crystal Gmancing reports. Old children I'm seeing here in Gaza are really desperate and living in the most awful conditions. Jonathan Cricks is with UNICEF. He describes seeing 10 babies in Nasser Hospital wasting away, too exhausted from hunger to cry out. The IPC, the body that tracks and reports on hunger, says nearly a half a million people in Gaza are experiencing catastrophic levels of hunger. Bushra Khalid

is with Oxfam and based in Ramallah. Gaza is literally two hours away from where I am right now. There's an abundance of food meters away from children literally crying at the soup kitchens. On March 2nd, Israel shut all border crossings into Gaza. At the time, Israeli officials said they were imposing maximum pressure on Hamas so they'd return the hostages and relinquish power. Crystal Gamancing, CBC News, London. This year's Cannes Film Festival opens today on the French Riviera.

And this year's highlight is Tom Cruise. He's on hand promoting the latest Mission Impossible movie, Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning. Spike Lee is also premiering his latest film, Highest to Lowest. It's all happening at a time when the global film industry is under threat, as Donald Trump threatens to impose tariffs on all movies made outside the United States. And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.