The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 13:00 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, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. US President Donald Trump has announced he intends to speak with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, next week. Trump's statement came hours after a drone strike killed at least nine people in Ukraine, aboard a bus evacuating a battle zone. Dominic Vilaitis reports. Posting on social media, US President Donald Trump said he'll call Russia's Vladimir Putin

Monday morning. The main subject for discussion, Trump said, would be the war in Ukraine, a conflict he described as a bloodbath and one he claimed was killing thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers every week. Trump is hoping Monday will be a productive day, saying he also plans to speak with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and various members of NATO. The news comes just hours after a Russian drone strike killed nine bus passengers in Ukraine's Sumy region. Although Russia claims it had struck a military target, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky

described the strike as a war crime and called for stronger sanctions on Moscow in response. Dominic Volaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. In Rome, Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Italian President Sergio Mattarella. It is a great pleasure to meet you, Mr. Prime Minister. Mattarella congratulating Carney on his election victory and highlighting the two countries' close ties. The prime minister is in Rome to attend the inaugural mass for

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday. He'll also meet with world leaders, including Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Maloney. In Nova Scotia, the search is resuming for two children. Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack disappeared from their Pictou County home just over two weeks ago. Not only will crews be combing dense forest, there will also be air support. The latest search will continue into tomorrow. Dozens of wildfires are burning across Canada. One is near the Manitoba community of Lactobani.

The province estimates it spans more than 4,000 hectares. Nearly 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. Municipal Reef Lauren Schinkel says while progress is being made, the blaze isn't under control. We've got some very serious hot spots within that contained perimeter that still won't allow us to open up the other evacuation routes. There's several of the different areas and Mother Nature's cooperating with a little bit of moisture. We could certainly use more of that. You know, our hearts and souls are all grieving still because of the loss of our two residents here and our thoughts and prayers are certainly with the family members and the loved ones. Some are questioning whether residents were given enough warning to leave and why the province's

emergency notification system wasn't used. Shinkle says there were alerts on social media and people gave warnings door to door. Nearly two dozen people are dead after a series of severe storms tore through the US Midwest and South. People in Laurel County, Kentucky survey the damage to their neighborhood after several reported tornadoes. The state's governor says 14 people were killed and he expects that number to rise. In neighboring Missouri at least seven were killed. The storms ripped off roofs, uprooted trees, and left hundreds of thousands without power. And finally a story you can sink your teeth into. Students at Vancouver Island University's professional baking and pastry arts program are creating a record-breaking Nanaimo bar today. It's set to weigh nearly 500 kilograms, double the previous record held by an

Ontario chocolatier. The event is also a fundraiser so the program can replace their decades-old ovens. Kaylee Moulves is one of the students. It's a big thing because we haven't had it for a very very long time. Our oven is a little bit newer but even then it's like over 30 years old. But the one upstairs is really, really old, like much older. They need to perform well enough for us because they're on their last drinks. They'll be serving up slices this afternoon at the university's student bakery. And that is your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.