The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/24 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/24 at 12:00 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 Gina Louise Phillips. Ukrainian prisoners reunite with their loved ones after being released by Russia. They're part of an ongoing prisoner exchange between Kiev and Moscow. The first stage of the swap saw the sides release 390 prisoners each. And today, Russia said 307 more prisoners each were exchanged.

This happened just hours after Russia launched a mass strike on Ukraine's capital. Explosions lit up the sky over Kiev during a massive overnight attack. Ukrainian officials say at least 15 people were injured during the drone and missile strikes. U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to slap a 50 percent tariff on EU goods is generating a lot of reaction in Europe. At stake billions of dollars and potentially thousands of jobs. Dominic Vlaidis has more. The European Commission, which oversees trade for the EU's 27 member countries, is refusing to back down, with the bloc's trade chief Maros Szeciwicz calling on Washington to show Europeans respect, adding the EU is ready to defend its interests. Some on the continent are already calling for de-escalation.

Others, like Poland's deputy economy minister, Michal Baranowski, believe Trump's latest tariff threat is nothing more than a negotiating ploy. I'm sure we'll get a good deal. I see this as another step. The EU is one of America's largest trading partners, but talks between the two have stalled, with Trump complaining they were going nowhere. With both sides digging in, the risk of a costly trade conflict looms on the horizon.

Dominic Vellaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. Israel is now allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza, but at the same time it's continuing its intense military offensive there. Rachel Cummings is the humanitarian team leader in Gaza for Save the Children. It's a desperate situation and everywhere we look we will see children with empty bowls looking for food, children with empty bottles looking for water. The whole of Gaza is in need of humanitarian assistance. Now, whatever Save the Children can do, we will do, but we know also that is a drop in the ocean compared to what is needed for everybody here. Israel says about 300 trucks of aid have entered Gaza in the past few days, but the UN says

so far only about a third of those deliveries have reached warehouses for distribution. A man accused of killing an Ontario provincial police officer and wounding two others near Ottawa has been found guilty on all accounts. Alain Belfoy was charged with first degree murder and attempted murder. He opened fire on the officers just over two years ago at a house he was living in. He had pleaded not guilty, telling the court he acted in self-defense because he thought someone was trying to break into his home. But prosecutors argued successfully the shooter acted deliberately, knowing the men were police officers. Scientists studying the Great Lakes are calling for a

new approach to research. Bob Beckin reports. I find that the Great Lakes are treated like a second class science. Scientist Marguerite Zanopoulos from Trent University is one of the authors of the report. It addresses research gaps and urges enhancements for more winter monitoring and surveillance. Sinopolis says it wasn't until around 10 years ago the science community realized algae still grows under ice cover and that the Great Lakes ecosystems are teaming with life in the coldest months, affecting all seasons.

For the longest time, we actually thought lakes were dormant in the winter. So the ice would come on on life was still or sleeping almost all monitoring on the lakes is done during the spring summer and early fall when there's easier access to research vessels and equipment like buoys winter time is considered to be a more complicated time to study the great lakes because of their size and the danger they pose researchers the report has been two years in the making and has been forwarded to the U.S. and Canadian governments in hopes of securing additional and specific winter science funding. Bob Becken, CBC News, Windsor, Ontario.

And that's the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.