World Report - April 30: Wednesday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney looks for parliamentary partners ahead of in-person meeting with US President Donald Trump.Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault resigns. Canada's Gross Domestic Product is down 0.2% in February. Ontario Premier Doug Ford tees off on what he calls "bleeding heart judges," and accuses some of being ideologically-driven. US official testifies in support of Israel at the International Court of Justice. Today marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam war.The Kremlin says Russia has a duty to win the war in Ukraine, as it intensifies attacks on Dnipro and Kharkiv.King Frederik of Denmark is visiting Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory US President Trump says he wants to annex.

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States is not. Prime Minister Mark Carney is supposed to meet with US President Donald Trump soon. And if Mark Carney is going to live up to his campaign promises, he will need to work with partners across party lines, provincial lines too. Janice McGregor is in our Parliamentary Bureau and Janice, we're still getting a picture of how this government is going to function. What do we know so far? Marcia, if you look at the priorities that Mark Carney laid out during this campaign, the need to strengthen Canada's hand by investing in energy, transportation, trade corridors,

meeting the military's needs, building housing, controlling inflation, there aren't vast differences of opinion about the importance of doing all these things urgently. So the negotiations ahead in this parliament and with the premiers are going to be about how, not what. Even Alberta's Danielle Smith, who started the day with a tough statement about fighting for her province, sounded pretty pragmatic on power and politics last night. Danielle Smith This would probably be the time right now to see all of the areas that we can find consensus on and move forward.

In-person talks with Donald Trump are coming up fast. That should focus minds. And there are essentially eight independent votes in the next House. MPs were elected as new Democrats or Greens. The option is always open to cut deals with them bill by bill even if nobody wants to sit with the Liberals permanently. And look, even voting together, the Conservative and the Bloc caucuses do not have enough votes to defeat the Liberals. So yes, this is a minority, but it's a big one and it seems durable, at least for a year

or two. And the Conservatives have their own problems to deal with. Tell us about that. Pierre Polyev won't be there when Parliament opens. So when the new Conservative caucus meets in the coming days, its first order of business will be figuring out what to do about that. MP Scott Aitchison, a former leadership contender himself, said this defeat should not spark more party infighting.

The idea of ousting a leader just because they didn't win government even after making incredible progress like he has is a dumb idea. We need to build on the progress that Piers already made. But first they're going to have to find him a seat. There will be a mandatory leadership review at the party's next convention. At least some of Poliev's attention now must focus on defending his own job, not challenging Carney's. All right. Thank you, Janice.

You're welcome. The CBC is Janice McGregor in Ottawa. Jonathan Pedneau says he will step aside as co-leader of the Green Party in a statement online. He says he failed twice to win a seat in the House of Commons. He also takes responsibility for not mobilizing the support the Greens needed to re-elect Ontario MP Mike Morse. Pedno says the party is fortunate to have Elizabeth May's leadership going forward. Canada's GDP has declined. The latest data from Statistics Canada shows the gross domestic product for February is down 0.2%.

Senior business correspondent Peter Armstrong puts that number into context. This report is like a snapshot in time. The economy was in a very different place back in February. Back then, tariff concerns were only truly starting to ramp up, but consumers were already scaling back their purchases. Business confidence was already low. And so this 0.2% contraction is about what we had been expecting.

Interestingly though, the preliminary estimate for March came with an increase of 0.1%. Meanwhile, the US economy actually shrank last quarter. Over January, February, and March, the U.S. economy slipped 0.3 percent. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. Ontario Premier Doug Ford is sharply criticizing judges in this province, especially the judge who ordered his government to halt plans to remove bike lanes in Toronto. The injunction was ordered while the court decides whether removing those bike lanes in Toronto. The injunction was ordered while the court decides whether removing those bike lanes is unconstitutional.

Because of ideology, they decided to put an injunction in. Why don't you listen to the people? Again, why do we have elections if every single decision we make you can get an injunction or throw it to the courts? In a news conference in Mississauga, the Ontario Premier make, you can get an injunction or throw it to the courts. In a news conference in Mississauga, the Ontario Premier also had strong words for what he calls bleeding heart judges. He says judges who do not send repeat offenders to jail should be named and held accountable.

Ford also says he would pay some of them to retire early. A top U.S. official says Israel has ample grounds to question the impartiality of the UN aid agency, UNRWA. Josh Simmons is with the U.S. State Department legal team. He's testifying before the International Court of Justice. The world's top court is looking into whether Israel is violating international law by banning UNRWA from delivering aid to Gaza. Lauren Kamito has more on today's hearings. Going against the view of most countries, US State Department legal advisor Josh Simmons

told judges that Israel has discretion when it comes to its security and that it is not obliged to that organizations including UNRWA operate freely if it sees it as a risk. There are serious concerns about UNRWA's impartiality, including information that Hamas has used UNRWA facilities and that UNRWA staff participated in the October 7 terrorist attack against Israel. UNRWA is the main provider of aid in Gaza, but Israel has barred it from operating in the Gaza Strip, claiming the agency has been infiltrated by Hamas.

UNRWA's head said this week that some 50 staff members in Gaza were abused or used as human shields while in Israeli custody. Israel halted all aid deliveries to Gaza early last month, where aid organizations say thousands of children are malnourished and the humanitarian aid system is facing total collapse. This week's hearings were requested by the UN General Assembly, which wants the court to give an advisory opinion on Israel's obligations regarding aid to Gaza. Although world court opinions are not legally binding and take months to hand down, they carry legal and moral weight.

Lauren Comito for CBC News, Amsterdam. Today marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War and in Ho Chi Minh City, thousands of people cheer on a grand military parade. Some three million Vietnamese people died in the Vietnam War. Most were civilians. North Vietnam reunified the country after their victory in Ho Chi Minh City. The American-backed Southern state fell alongside the capital city, once known as Saigon. 60,000 American soldiers were killed in the Vietnam War. It lasted 20 years. As it prepares for a three-day ceasefire to take effect next week, Russia is intensifying

its attacks on eastern Ukraine. There was a wave of drone strikes against the cities of Dnipro and Kharkiv overnight. Officials say one person was killed, 50 others were injured. Krista Gomancing is following developments from London. Emergency responders talk over a radio as they hold an elderly woman guiding her in the dark through debris. The city of Kharkiv once again came under attack. More than 100 drones hit overnight into Wednesday morning, according to Ukrainian President

Vladimir Zelenskyy. In an online post, he called for additional pressure, including sanctions, to force Russia into a ceasefire. France's foreign minister told the UN Security Council Tuesday the sole obstacle to peace in Ukraine is the Russian president Vladimir Putin. The U.S., meanwhile, is getting ready to walk away from talks. This statement was read on behalf of Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday. We are now at a time where concrete proposals need to be delivered by the two parties on

how to end this conflict. How we proceed from here is a decision that belongs now to the president. If there is not progress, we will step back as mediators. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov says the president remains open to political and diplomatic methods of resolving the conflict. He says Putin is open to direct talks with Ukraine, but it is Russia's duty to win the conflict. He says Putin is open to direct talks with Ukraine, but it is Russia's duty to win the conflict. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. King Frederick of Denmark is visiting Greenland this week. It is part of Denmark. But US President

Donald Trump says he wants to annex the semi-autonomous territory. King Frederik told reporters yesterday he is not on a mission during this visit, but he was greeted on the tarmac by some flag-waving supporters. They say this is an important time to show Denmark and Greenland stand together. And that is the latest national and international news from World Report for News Anytime. Go to cbcnews.ca. If you like the World Report podcast, follow us and tell a friend. It helps us spread the word. I'm Marcia Young. For more CBC podcasts go to cbc.ca slash podcasts.