The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/15 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/15 at 09:00 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. It was hoped that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky would be taking part today in peace talks in Turkey with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But while Zelensky is there, Putin isn't, with Moscow instead sending a delegation of low-level officials. Crystal Gamansing reports.

NATO chief Mark Ruda says there should be no doubt anymore Ukraine is ready to negotiate and it is Russia that must take the next step. Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesperson says Vladimir Putin was the one who initiated direct talks adding the Russian delegation in Istanbul is ready for serious work. It's not a serious delegation. Alex Younger is the former head of the British intelligence agency MI6. The head of the delegation is a former culture minister and amateur historian. Vladimir Medensky is a Kremlin aide.

He's heading up the Russian delegation. He was involved in talks in 2022, which failed. The two leaders have not met face to face in six years. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. Hospital officials in southern Gaza say more than 60 people have been killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes on the city of Khan Younis. It's the second straight day the Palestinian territory has come under intense bombing. Trent Murray has the latest.

It is being reported that a lot of those strikes in Khan Younis are trying to prevent rescuers getting to the site of the European hospital. But we are also tracking several strikes around Gaza City where evacuation orders were issued overnight, an area with three schools were located as well as a hospital. Those areas where civilians were sheltering, seemingly because it was safe. But based on what we're hearing now, those people are being evacuated out as the IDF embarks on what it says is an intense air strikes program in order to try and target Hamas infrastructure.

We're, of course, witnessing the scenes on the ground where civilians are being caught in the crossfire, health facilities there are struggling to treat the injured and of course those health facilities are now being also targeted it is seen. Certainly the European hospital seems to be a site of continued attacks which we are tracking based on the IDF saying that underground Hamas bunkers were under the hospital. Trent Murray for CBC News, Tel Aviv. Its news is being met with concern and criticism on Parliament Hill. Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he'll be tabling an economic update this fall, but there will be no federal budget until next year.

Janice McGregor reports. The bond rating agencies, they're not going to like the fact that the government is not producing this type of financial document. Former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page, the government has been financing its operations using special warrants all spring. The Commons has to pass a series of votes to properly authorize ongoing spending before the summer. But without a budget, MPs are going to vote on those without critical context. Pierre Poliev was scathing in a social media post saying, Mark Carney had campaigned on

the slogan of plan beats no plan, but he's now confirmed that in fact he has no plan by not tabling a budget and abandonment of the leadership that the prime minister had promised. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. J.J. McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. J.J. McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. And Bridges agreed to sell a minority stake in its West Coast natural gas pipeline system to a group of 36 First Nations in British Columbia. The sale is worth more than $700 million and gives the First Nations group a 12 percent

stake. The pipeline runs close to 3,000 kilometers from Fort Nelson all the way south to the Canada-U.S. border. The federal government is supporting the deal with a $400 million loan guarantee. Enbridge says the agreement builds on its existing relationships with indigenous communities and helps to advance reconciliation. And that is The World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts.

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