The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/25 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/25 at 19:00 EDT

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get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. On Parliament Hill, parties held caucus meetings today ahead of MPs returning to the House of Commons tomorrow. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev congratulated the party's newest member of parliament. Jonathan Rowe was declared the winner Friday in the Newfoundland riding of Terra Nova, the peninsula's, after a judicial recount. News of the recount in Newfoundland points to the fact that we've expanded our coalition to include union workers, young people, newcomers, and others who had never voted before.

They voted for hope, for a change. And while we narrowly missed forming government, we now have every duty to fulfill that hope and fight for that change. Paglia won't become opposition leader until he wins a seat in the Commons. For now, Andrew Scheer leads the Tories in the House. Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals were also meeting today, for the first time since being re-elected last month. You know the scale of responsibility that we have been given and it is enormous. Our government has been elected to do nothing less than define a new economic and security relationship with the United States and build the strongest economy that works

for everyone. Canadians also want their life to become more affordable. They want their communities safer. In their meeting, liberals voted down the Reform Act. That's legislation giving MPs a say in firing a leader they're unhappy with. The return to Parliament will be a brief four-week sitting of the Commons. It begins tomorrow with the selection of a new speaker.

George Floyd was murdered five years ago today. The black man died after a white Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death prompted protests around the world, demanding racial equality and police reform. Cornell Brooks is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, specializing in leadership and social justice.

Five years ago you had more than 50 percent of Americans saying that they thought that those protests then would lead to change. Five years later, 70 plus percent are pessimistic about the possibilities of change. So what that means is change does not happen. We have to be more determined to bring it about in order to be the country we claim to be. Anniversary tributes are taking place throughout the day for George Floyd. Russia and Ukraine have completed the exchange of a thousand prisoners each in the largest swap since the war began.

At the same time, Russia launched its largest air action of the conflict. U.S. President Donald Trump says he's not ruling out sanctions on Moscow, saying he's not happy with Vladimir Putin after Russia's air assault on Ukraine. Dominic Velaitis reports. A first taste of freedom for the 303 Ukrainians who were released Sunday, some already keen to return to the front line. We will return anyway and we will enlist again, he says. We will take weapons into our hands and defend mother Ukraine once again.

The same number of Russians were released by Ukraine in what was the final day of the largest prison swap of the war so far. Over the last three days, 1,000 soldiers and civilians from each side were exchanged. The violence though continued throughout and Russia has intensified its strikes on Ukraine. At least 14 people were killed and dozens more wounded overnight after Moscow launched its biggest ever drone and missile attack on the country. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. Pope Leo delivered his first address from the window of the papal apartments in Vatican

City. Cari fratelli e sorelli, buona domenica. The pontiff prayed for peace and courage for people suffering from war around the world and thanked the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square for their affection. The last time Sunday prayers were delivered from the iconic window overlooking St. Peter's Square, it was Pope Francis leading them. And that is Your World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts, updated every hour, seven days a

week. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.