World Report - May 12: Monday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

US President Donald Trump is praising new deal with China that pauses some recent tariffs for 90 days. CBC News is in Saudi Arabia, where Trump is about to kick off his tour of the middle east. The Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) promises to disarm and disband in Turkey.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses his country about the recent military conflict with Pakistan. Pope Leo calls on media to keep shining a light on poverty and injustice. Janyce McGregor tells us what to watch for when Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet is sworn in. Ontario's car dealership regulator warns odometer fraud is on the rise. 

In 1977, the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club opened up a chapter in Montreal. Their enforcer was a man named Yves Trudeau. And over the course of his criminal career, Trudeau would murder no fewer than 43 people. And he would only spend seven years in prison. I'm Kathleen Gholtar, and this week on Crime Story, the soared tale of Canada's deadliest assassin. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Marcia Young. U.S. President Donald Trump takes off for the Middle East

today. He is arriving at a precarious time with the ongoing war in Gaza and nuclear talks with Iran. Last night, Hamas agreed to release U.S. hostage, Idan Alexander. The group says it's a measure of goodwill towards the U.S. Chris Brown is in Riyadh with more on the expectations for the president's visit. The Saudi capital is getting ready to throw a big party for Donald Trump with fancy dinners and lots of extravagant ceremonies. The country's de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman or MBS as he's known, has held out the prospect of a deal-making bonanza for the US president. Neil Quilliam is a

Saudi analyst with Chatham House in London. I mean, already the UAE has pledged 1.4 trillion over the next decades. We heard MBS come out a few months ago, 600 billion over the four years, then he said make it a trillion. So he wants to be able to come away with something that kind of says those aren't empty pledges. At Riyadh's coffee shops, people seem pleased with Trump coming here on his first big international trip, but were skeptical about his intentions.

Salmaj Sharani said Trump is inconsistent and often acts on arbitrary opinions. Once ultra-conservative, Trump is arriving in a country in the midst of significant changes. You can see women and men mixing together, and women can now hold decent jobs. Saudi Arabia essentially broke off diplomatic and trade relations with Canada in 2018 over Canadian criticism of the country's human rights record, and full contact only resumed two years ago. Trump had once hoped for a grand deal for Saudi Arabia to normalize its relationship with Israel, but the war in Gaza stopped that process in its tracks.

Now he'll try to push Israel for a ceasefire as a precondition for better relations. Hamas agreeing to release U.S. hostage Eden Alexander gives the U.S. president an early win and maybe some momentum as this trip begins. Chris Brown, CBC News in Riyadh. We made a great deal with China, great trade deal. US President Donald Trump speaking at the White House this morning. He is praising a new deal to tackle tariffs with China. It includes a 90-day pause and a rollback of

tariffs to the tune of 115%. Top officials from both countries hammered out the deal during a meeting today in Geneva. Trump says the biggest part of this deal is getting China to agree to let in more U.S. business. I think it would be fantastic for our businesses if we could go in and compete and compete with China. It would be a lot of jobs for China. It would be, I think, at a time when they can frankly use the jobs. And that's what we're talking about. So that's a very, very important element to add. US goods are still being hit with 10 percent tariffs in China, and Chinese imports into the US will have a tariff of 30%. Trump says he hopes to speak with China's president Xi Jinping at the end of the week.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party, also known as the PKK, says it is ready to lay down its weapons. That could put an end to more than four decades of conflict in Turkey, and there is hope it could lead to more cultural and educational rights for Kurds. Freelance reporter Dorian Jones has more from Istanbul. In a statement released this morning, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, declared the end of its armed struggle against a Turkish state.

The group has been fighting for an independent Kurdish state for nearly 50 years and is designated as a terrorist organization in Turkey, Canada and most western countries. The PKK leadership now says it will disarm and disband as an armed organization transitioning to a democratic political struggle, something its imprisoned leader and founder Abdullah Erdogan called for back in February. A Turkish government spokesman is calling the PKK announcement a positive first step. How the disarmament will be achieved and the fate of tens of thousands of imprisoned people, including Öcalan himself, remains unclear. And there are still questions about whether Turkey will heed the PKK calls for

democratic reforms. But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said good things will follow if the PKK disarms. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing his country for the first time about the recent military conflict with Pakistan. He says he gave India's army a free hand and more than a hundred terrorists were killed. India has blamed Pakistan for being behind an attack on Indian-administered Kashmir. Islamabad denies this allegation. A ceasefire between the two countries is holding for now, but Modi says he is watching Pakistan's behavior closely. Pope Leo XIV is calling free speech and

freedom of the press a precious gift and this morning at the Vatican he told reporters journalists have a responsibility to bring attention to poverty and injustice in the world. Here he is speaking through an interpreter. You are at the forefront of reporting on conflicts and aspirations of peace, situations of injustice and poverty. This is why I ask you to choose consciously and courageously a path of communication of peace.

Leo says only informed people can make free choices. Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet will be sworn in tomorrow morning and it could give us some clues about how Carney plans to run his government. For more, let's go to Janice McGregor in our Parliamentary Bureau. And Janice, what do we know so far? Marcia, if you were to add up all the experienced ministers who supported Mark Carney during the leadership race or ran against him, but in a collegial way, and who arguably feel entitled to a significant role going forward, and then you add to that the new faces just elected who are known to be close to Carney, also highly qualified, experienced outside government perhaps.

Taken together, everyone on that list wouldn't fit around the smaller cabinet table that the Prime Minister appears to be setting. The Intel CBC News reported late last week to expect two tiers of ministers, an inner circle of senior players, but a second tier of ministers of state. That is a way of recognizing more skills, accommodating more egos. But even then, this is an exercise in managing expectations for the newly expanded Liberal caucus. If there is a need for continuity with the previous government, it could be around the relationships that a handful of senior ministers have already built with key players in Washington.

On Rosemary Barton Live yesterday, international trade and intergovernmental affairs minister Dominic LeBlanc played coy about whether he'd be staying on that basis. I'm certainly not going to offer any views on the Prime Minister's decision with respect to the cabinet next week. I hope I can continue to make a contribution and I'm enthusiastic about the work ahead. The 24 hours before a cabinet swearing in often leads to a bit of a parlor game in this town. Pundits weigh in on what they do.

The fact is only a very small group of people know what the Prime Minister is doing and frankly we'll all find out soon enough. Alright, thank you Janice. You're welcome. The CBC's Janice McGregor in Ottawa. US tariffs imposed on new vehicles are expected to lead to a boom in the used car business, but with that could come a potential problem. Ontario's car dealership regulator warns odometer fraud is on the rise. One BC man says he experienced

the problem firsthand. The CBC's Erica Johnson has his story in this go public investigation. Everything seemed to be right about it. Steve Andrews thought he'd found the perfect car for his growing family, a 2012 Subaru Outback. The price was right and the mileage low for the car's age just under 98,000 K. But shortly after buying the car he discovered recall records that showed five years ago the odometer was 15,000 kilometers higher than today. Yeah, I was definitely angry at them. But that was just the start. Go Public figured out who sold that Subaru, called her up. She said the odometer was about 50,000 clicks higher than advertised.

So who committed odometer fraud? In a game of hot potato, neither the seller, the dealership she sold to, or the dealership that took the car on consignment and sold to Andrews, said they had anything to do with altering the mileage. No one keeps stats on odometer fraud in Canada, but Ontario's regulator for car dealers says the problem's on the rise. It is a click of a button. Mechanic Josh Engel says it's easy to tweak the mileage

using a device sold online for a few hundred bucks that plugs into a vehicle's computer port. You don't have to have any know-how, you just need to know how to select a vehicle on a screen. Steve Andrews got his money back. The dealership that sold him the car says the vehicle will now be rented, likely to a company. The dealership that originally bought the car from the seller said the employee responsible for the transaction has gone back to her home country,

so can't answer any questions. Erica Johnson, CBC News, Vancouver. And that is World Report. I'm Marcia Young. For more CBC podcasts, go to cbc.ca slash podcasts.