The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 14:00 EDT

We get it. Choosing a news podcast is hard. Some cover a lot of headlines. Others are a deep dive on just one story. Here at Your World Tonight, we're the best of both worlds, covering the biggest stories of the day, but with enough time for you to actually understand them. The full picture in under half an hour. I'm Susan Bonner, host of Your World Tonight. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. A Montreal area Bloc Québécois candidate has filed a challenge to Quebec's superior court to annul the election result in the riding of Terban.

Elections Canada says Nathalie Sinclair de Gagné lost by one vote to the Liberal candidate, but the body says there were issues with six mail-in ballots. The Bloc is looking to have a new election in the riding. We're also waiting for the results of a judicial recount in the Newfoundland riding of Terranova at the Peninsula. The recount had been ordered after a Liberal candidate won the riding by 12 votes. The final result is expected this afternoon. A U.S. judge is temporarily blocking Donald Trump's attempt to keep foreign students out of Harvard. It would have forced up to a quarter of the student body out of the university,

including the daughter of Prime Minister Mark Carney. Alexander Silberman reports. I am not sure how it's going to work when I try to re-enter the United States. Marco Avenia says the end of his studies at Harvard University is now up in the air after U.S. Homeland Security revoked the school's ability to enroll international students. Avenia, a Canadian PhD student from Montreal, says he's finished his in-person coursework but could miss out on opportunities to present his research due to the ban. For people who are at an earlier stage than I am,

those people would be in quite a bit of trouble right now. Harvard University sued the government and asked for a restraining order. The action from Homeland Security marks the latest escalation in a battle between the government and Harvard. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has accused the school of fostering anti-Semitism. Harvard calls the government's move unlawful and is pledging to continue supporting foreign students.

Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Regina. Donald Trump is threatening to hike U.S US tariffs on imports from the European Union. The president now recommends a 50% levy on EU goods set to kick in on June 1. I think such customs don't help anyone. German's foreign minister says such tariffs will only make both economies suffer. Johann Wadifoul says Europe will defend its market and continue to exert pressure on the US. Originally, the tariff for EU goods was set at 20%.

Trump proposed the steep hike, frustrated with a slow pace of trade negotiations. The president today also threatened a 25% import tax on iPhones not manufactured in the US. Russia and Ukraine have each released nearly 400 prisoners in what's expected to be the largest POW swap of the war. More will be freed in the coming days. Both sides agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners in all following peace talks in Turkey last week. The Ukraine's president says the swap is the only significant result of the first direct face-to-face negotiations held in years.

Volodymyr Zelensky accuses Russia of stalling all other efforts to reach a ceasefire. He calls Russia's delayed tactics a mockery of the entire world. Moscow's conditions for a ceasefire include Ukraine ceding territory to Russia and a ban on Kiev striking military alliances with the West. UN chief Antonio Guterres says Israel has not done enough to address the risk of famine in Gaza. Israel says about 300 trucks of aid have entered the area in the last week, but Kuterres says only about a third of them have made it from storage warehouses to civilians. All the aid authorized until now amounts to a teaspoon of aid when a flood of assistance

is required. The needs are massive and the obstacles are staggering. Israel says it's building distribution centers where Palestinians can safely access humanitarian aid. The UN secretary-general says 80 percent of Gaza is either a military zone or an area where people have been ordered to leave. He adds enough food and supplies to fill nearly 9,000 trucks already in waiting. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.