As It Happens

As It Happens: Monday Edition

As It Happens: Monday Edition

Full Episode Transcript

Part One

San Juan mayor
Hurricane Maria is long gone but the mayor of Puerto Rico's capital city says some of the island's elderly and injured residents are suffering the most, as they try to recover without food, water, or electricity. 

Canadian Invictus athlete
Between heats at the Invictus Games, a former Canadian Forces captain describes both the thrill of the sport and post-traumatic stress injury that made her eligible to compete.

Charles Bradley obit 
A producer and former collaborator remembers Charles Bradley, the soul singer who worked his way from hard-luck James Brown impersonator to earn his own stardom at the age of 62.

Part Two

AfD Germany
Germans have elected their first far-right parliamentarians since the Nazis and a spokesman for the party says priority number 1 is to close his country's borders to immigrants.

John Carlos repeat 
Before they took a knee, he raised his fist. We revisit our 2014 interview with John Carlos, the African-American Olympian who delivered a Black Power salute from the medal podium at the 1968 Summer Games.

Part Three

Holocaust charges
After a Belgian ex-MP was found guilty of Holocaust denial in a Brussels court, a judge has ordered him to go to five concentration camps, and write publicly about what he learns.

Kurdish referendum 
A historic moment in the Middle East today as millions of Kurds voted on whether they want to separate from Iraq and form a new state.