The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/14 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/14 at 07:00 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. First to Ottawa, where Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting today with his newly sworn-in cabinet. From every indication, it appears that affordability will be the Carney government's primary focus. David Thurton reports. But there are two elements to cost of things.

One is the actual cost of things, and the other is our people's salaries growing. Prime Minister Mark Carney listing some of the things he's promising Canadians. Carney just won an election dominated by Donald Trump's trade war, but many of Carney's remarks after presenting his new cabinet focused on helping Canadians make ends meet. Most immediately with the middle class tax cut we will act by Canada Day. Carney also committed to boosting Canada's housing supply, aggressively doubling the pace of building, leading that effort as the new Housing Minister, former Mayor of Vancouver,

Gregor Robertson. Conservative leader Pierre Pauliap wasted no time criticizing Robertson's record. Giving Vancouver, his city, the most expensive housing prices in all of North America. If this is the new blood that Mr. Carney is bringing into the cabinet, nothing is going to change. Carney defended Robertson, saying he is familiar with the solutions needed. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. U.S. President Donald Trump has announced he is lifting American sanctions on Syria. Trump is on a four-day visit to the Middle East and earlier today met with Syria's interim president,

Ahmad Al-Sharah. Chris Brown has more. In Syria's capital, Damascus, there were celebrations after Donald Trump announced an end to U.S. economic sanctions on the country, the most severe of which had been in place for 14 years. They were imposed in the repressive regime of Bashar al-Assad,

but allies of the insurgent leader Bashar al-Assad, but allies of the insurgent leader Ahmed al-Sharah urged the US to give Syria a chance to rebuild its crushed economy and stabilize the country at a fragile moment. Saudi officials released silent video of Trump shaking hands with Sharah and then sitting next to him and speaking through an interpreter. Later, Trump addressed the leaders of Gulf nations at a summit. We are currently exploring normalizing relations with Syria's new government, as you know. Trump will move on to Qatar, where this next portion of his trip has already been overshadowed by word that the Qataris intend to give Trump a $400 million 747 aircraft as a gift.

Chris Brown, CBC News, in Riyadh. Dozens of people have been killed in overnight airstrikes in northern Gaza, and health ministry officials are saying 22 children are among the dead. This follows a series of strikes yesterday on Hanunis. That's a scene at a hospital near Hanunis that was among the buildings hit. The Israeli military is saying it was targeting a Hamas command center operating in the basement of the hospital complex. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting last night on the humanitarian

crisis in Gaza. Rihad Mansour is the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations. Because Israel has been openly and brazenly blocking humanitarian aid for over two months now, this is engineered starvation. It is the most inhumane form of torture and killing. Israel has been blocking all aid shipments into Gaza since early March, and it's a move Israeli Ambassador

Danny Danon is defending, saying UN aid to the territory is routinely stolen by Palestinian militants. The aid you sent, the aid your taxpayers funded, the aid you believed would help civilians, the aid marked by UN and UNRWA emblems, it was used to feed terrorists, to massacred women and children. Israel will not allow that to continue.

Incidentally, the United States and Israel are proposing a new aid delivery system, one that would be operated by private companies. However, the head of the UN's aid agency is calling the idea unacceptable. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.