As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
US Iran Tensions
President Donald Trump has warned Iran that the U.S. military is "ready to go" — and a former Obama advisor says a lot could go wrong if both sides continue using such high-stakes negotiating tactics.
Rona Ambrose Judges
The bill she sponsored would have mandated sexual assault training for judges — but this week, it died, and former Conservative MP Rona Ambrose is blaming politics.
Phone Bone Update
After a study suggests a correlation between "skull horns" and phone use in young people, a physical therapist says the science isn't there — and he makes no bones about it.
Part Two
Organ Harvesting
An independent tribunal determines that Chinese authorities have been murdering members of Falun Gong for years, specifically to harvest their organs.
Curtis Flowers
A black man convicted of a 1996 quadruple murder in Mississippi may be going to trial for a seventh time — after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the prosecutor in his case excused jurors based on race.
Part Three
British Iranian Hunger Strike
Richard Ratcliffe is on hunger strike outside the Iranian embassy in London — because his wife is on hunger strike in an Iranian prison. She's been there since 2016. And Ratcliffe worries that if Boris Johnson becomes PM, her chances of release will be even worse.
Encore: The Lost Words
The book The Lost Words contains words removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary — most to do with nature — to make room for new words — most of them to do with technology. After its illustrator won a major award this week, we'll revisit Carol's interview with its author.
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Jeanne Armstrong
Kevin Ball
Sarah-Joyce Battersby
Alison Broverman
Chris Harbord
Katie Geleff
Sheena Goodyear
Sarah Jackson
Allie Jaynes
Ashley Mak
Morgan Passi
Kevin Robertson
and Kate Swoger.
Our technicians this week were Brittany Amodeo and Reynold Gonsalves. The show director this week is John McGill. The writer is Chris Howden.
John Perry is our Senior Producer. And the Executive Producer of As It Happens is Robin Smythe.
We'd also like to thank some other people who helped us out this week:
Mary-Catherine McIntosh in Halifax
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Max Paris in Ottawa
Keith Hart, Sophie Baron, Samantha Lui, Mandy Luk, Karin Marley, Samira Mohyeddin, Varad Mehta, Jonathan Ore, and Luke Williams — all in Toronto
Robin Brown in Windsor
Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
Danielle Nerman in Calgary
and Anne Penman in Vancouver.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.