The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 17:00 EDT

Canadians have plenty of reasons to pay attention right now, but not everyone has a daily news habit. So if you're hoping to build one, we're here to make that really easy. I'm Marcia Young. I'm John Northcott and we host World Report. Give us 10 minutes every morning and we'll give you the biggest stories happening in Canada and around the globe. Whether you're tracking Trump's latest tariff threats, election season in Canada, or how the war in Ukraine is changing, we'll help you understand what's going on. You can find and follow World Report wherever you get your podcasts.

From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. A judicial recount has changed the results of the election in the Newfoundland riding of Terra Nova at the Peninsulas. 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-Decumseh Lakeshore. Kathy Borelli won the southwestern Ontario riding by just four votes. European Union officials say Donald Trump's latest trade escalation would spell serious consequences for consumers in the US.

The president is preparing to hike tariffs on the economic block on June 1st. Aaron Collins is in Washington with the latest. It's time that we play the game the way I know how to play the game. Donald Trump talking tough in the Oval Office, his latest target, the European Union. The U.S. president lashing out on social media, threatening a 50% tariff, upset about a trade deficit with the EU. They haven't treated us properly. They haven't treated our country properly. A reaction from Europe came swiftly,

but with some skepticism. Gunter Wolff is a policy analyst based in Brussels. He says Trump doesn't always follow through on his tariff threats. We know that he's very volatile and we know also that he is 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% tariff on Apple products produced outside the U.S., saying the levy could also apply to other smartphone companies as well. 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 Vlaidis has the latest. Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes! 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 Vlaidis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. 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 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 enough. Nearly 9,000 trucks are ready and waiting. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.