As It Happens

As It Happens: Monday Edition

July 8, 2019

Episode transcript

Part One

Epstein Latest
U.S. federal prosecutors charge multi-millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein with sex trafficking involving dozens of minors — 11 years after he received a shockingly mild punishment for similar charges. 

CSIS Documents
Environmental groups share hundreds of pages of heavily redacted documents they say prove Canada's spy agency infiltrated pipeline protests. 

Rijksmuseum Restoration
Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" is a crowded canvas — and now, staff at the Rijksmuseum hope their public restoration of that intimidatingly huge painting will attract crowds as well. 

Part Two

Congo Rebel ICC
Hundreds of victims with one man in common. At the ICC, a Congolese rebel commander known as "The Terminator" is found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity in that country's bloody conflict. 

Hong Kong UNHRC 
A Hong Kong based singer and pro-democracy activist asks the U.N. to intervene in the fight over the city's proposed extradition law — and remove China from the Human Rights Council.