The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 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. Mark Carney's cabinet is being sworn in this hour. Good morning everybody. My name is Ken McKillip and I'm the secretary to the governor general and I'd like to welcome everybody to Rideau Hall for the swearing in of the 30th Canadian ministry.

We have yet to receive the full list of MPs who have made the prime minister's front bench but we do know it includes a number of new names including former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson, former Olympian Adam Vancouverdin, and former broadcaster Evan Solomon. Included among those returning to cabinet, among others, are Christia Freeland, Francois-Philippe Champagne, and Sean Fraser. Parliament sits in two weeks' time, with King Charles delivering the throne speech on May 27th. Honda Canada has announced it is postponing its $15 billion Ontario electric vehicle project. The automaker says due to a slowdown in the EV market,

it's delaying its Ontario plans for two years. The plans involve the establishment of an entire EV supply chain. It was first announced last spring and has the support of both the federal and Ontario governments. Honda says today's announcement will have no impact on its current manufacturing facility in Aliston, Ontario. U.S. President Donald Trump is in Saudi Arabia. It's the first of three stops Trump will be making this week on his tour of the Middle

East, and Trump has brought with him a number of executives looking to secure trillions of dollars in new business. Chris Brown has more. Donald Trump's visit here feels like an enormous trade fair. I'm at the Saudi U.S. investment forum in Riyadh. It's the centerpiece of this deal signing bonanza that Trump has been touting. The Saudis are trying to transition their country from one largely focused on producing oil to an economy that's much more diverse. Trump stepped off Air Force One and was met by Saudi Crown

Prince Mohammed bin Salman whose vision is driving this transition. While Trump seems very comfortable in this part of the world there are key issues that he and his Saudi hosts disagree on namely the war in Gaza. Saudi officials want Trump to put more pressure on Israel to end its attacks on Gaza and to let humanitarian aid and food into the besieged territory. Negotiators for Israel, along with mediators, are meeting next door today in Qatar.

And Trump's team is hoping that there will be some momentum after Hamas's release yesterday of an American Israeli hostage. Chris Brown, CBC News in Riyadh. 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 now in danger of starvation. Crystal Gamansing 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 Gamansing, CBC News, London. The UN's aviation agency has ruled Russia was responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. It was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July of 2014. A team of investigators concluded a Russian-made missile brought the plane down, but the Kremlin has always denied responsibility. So the Dutch and Australian governments have brought the case before the Aviation Agency Board which is based in Montreal and it ruled today that Moscow is responsible. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.