The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 15:00 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. We begin with breaking news from Newfoundland and Labrador. A judicial recount has changed the result of the election in the riding of Terra Nova, the peninsula. Elections Canada has handed the victory to Conservative candidate Jonathan Rowe. He wins by just 12 votes. The recount was ordered two weeks ago after initial results gave Liberal Anthony Germain the victory, also by 12 votes. And another recount earlier

today confirmed the Conservative victory in Windsor-Decumsey Lakeshore. Kathy Borelli won the Southwestern Ontario riding by just four votes. They haven't treated us properly. They haven't treated our country properly. The U.S. president's trade war is ramping up again. Donald Trump is threatening to hike tariffs on the European Union and smartphone companies. Our Erin Collins has the latest from Washington. I'm not going to negotiate on TV.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant on Fox News speaking about trade talks with the European Union, responding to Donald Trump's latest negotiations on social media. The president posting he wants a 50 percent tariff on EU imports. The president believes that the EU proposals have not been of the same quality that we've seen from our other important trading partners. Reaction from Europe, swift but skeptical. Gunter M. Wolf, a policy analyst based in Brussels, says Trump doesn't always follow through on his tariff threats.

We know that he's very volatile and we know also that he's blinking once he sees the consequences. Donald Trump also put pressure on one of the world's largest companies, the president threatening to slap a 25 percent tariff on Apple products produced outside the U.S. in another early morning post. Erin Collins, CBC News, Washington. A U.S. judge has blocked for now an attempt by Donald Trump's administration to keep foreign students out of Harvard. The ruling comes hours after the university challenged the policy that was announced yesterday. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Harvard of fostering violence, anti-Semitism,

and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party. The ban would have affected as much as a quarter of the school's student body, including the daughter of Prime Minister Mark Carney. Russia and Ukraine have each released hundreds of prisoners of war as part of the largest exchange since the invasion began, and the swap is expected to continue this weekend. Dominic Velaitis has the latest. Ukraine, we are the Slavs! Ukrainian prisoners celebrating their release.

In all, Russia and Ukraine each handed over 390 soldiers and civilians in an exchange that took place on Ukraine's border with Belarus. This is, Ukraine's defence minister said, just the beginning of the largest prisoner exchange of the war so far. The two countries agreed to exchange a total of 1,000 prisoners each following two hours of talks in Turkey last week. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it the only concrete result during Russia and Ukraine's first face-to-face meeting in three

years. He accused Russians of blocking all other efforts at moving closer to a ceasefire. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga Labvia. 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 Guterres says only about 300 trucks of aid have entered the area in the last week, but Guterres 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 are ready and waiting. and supplies to fill nearly 9,000 trucks are ready and waiting. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.