The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/14 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/14 at 12:00 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. On Parliament Hill, Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting this hour for the first time with his newly sworn in cabinet. And going into the meeting, Junior Minister Wayne Long told reporters he's already seeing the difference between Carney and his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. Oh my gosh, I think so, yeah. I mean, I think Mark Carney is exactly what the country is needed and needs. He's well-spoken, he's thoughtful, he's focused,

and I think we're going to see our government run like a corporation, which I think is long overdue. Late last year, Long was among the first members of the Liberal Caucus to publicly question Trudeau's leadership. As for Mark Carney, he says he wants his cabinet to be a balance of new perspectives and experience. He has named 28 full cabinet ministers and 10 secretaries of state. The Manitoba and Ontario governments have signed an agreement to expand the flow of

goods and services between the two provinces. Premiers Wab Kanu and Doug Ford have signed a memorandum of understanding that signals the two provinces will be working together to eliminate inter-provincial trade barriers on everything from alcohol sales to improved labor mobility. Now to the Middle East and U.S. President Donald Trump. We are currently exploring normalizing relations with Syria's new government, as you know. As President Trump, after a meeting today with Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharah, Trump says the U.S. is now lifting all economic sanctions on Syria.

They were imposed 14 years ago during the regime of Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown earlier this year. After opening his visit to the Middle East with a stop in Saudi Arabia this week, Trump has now moved on to Doha, the capital of Qatar. Dozens of people have been killed in a series of overnight airstrikes in northern Gaza, and health ministry officials are saying more than 20 children are among the dead. This follows a series of strikes yesterday in Hanunas that included a hospital being targeted. Crystal Gamansing has more.

Hamas are deliberately embedding its commanders underneath hospitals. David Mansour, an Israeli government spokesperson, says Israel's war goals remain laser-focused and non-negotiable. It ends when Hamas ends. It's unclear if a strike on the grounds of the European hospital near Hanunas Tuesday killed Mohammed Sinwar, the Hamas leader. Dozens did die in the attack. So for those killed and those whose voices are sil silence, what more evidence do you need now? Will you act decisively to prevent genocide and to

ensure respect for international humanitarian law? Questions to the Security Council from the U. N's humanitarian aid chief Tom Fletcher. He says in order to save lives, Israel must be forced to allow aid to enter the country. No aid of any kind has entered Gaza in over 10 weeks. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. A report from the International Energy Agency is suggesting that electric vehicles are on their way to becoming the first choice for millions of car buyers around the world. However, there are factors at play

that could slow that momentum. And Ayat Singh explains. We're not going back. Daniel Breton is the president of Electric Mobility Canada, an association representing the EV industry, and is encouraged by the latest numbers on battery-powered cars around the world. One in four cars sold worldwide,

being electric or plug-in hybrid. I think it says it all. And in some countries, it's even more. In China, 11 million EVs were sold, half of all new cars. According to the latest global EV outlook from the International Energy Agency, that's in part because EVs in China are the same price or even cheaper than gasoline cars. But while the report said Asia and Latin America are leading on adopting EVs, North America is lagging behind.

EV manufacturing went down in the US and Canada's nascent EV sector remains pretty small. The report said EV sales are projected to continue growing, driven by falling prices, rules to cut carbon emissions from transportation and incentives for buying electric. Inayat Singh, CBC News, Toronto. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.