As It Happens: Thursday Full Episode

Part One

Israel - Iran tensions
After the U.S. withdraws from the Iranian nuclear deal, Israel and Iran exchange military strikes. Israel's Ambassador to Canada Nimrod Barkan addresses whether today's back-and-forth is a prelude to war. 

Kenya mudslide
In Kenya, a drought ends with rains so torrential that a dam bursts — and now, people downstream are struggling to escape from deadly mudslides that have already killed dozens. 

Grey squirrels
In the U.K., invasive grey squirrels are adorable, but incorrigible — and a new study shows they're fattening themselves on millions of kilos of bird seed, at the expense of the birds themselves.
 
Part Two

Pope apology
A Chilean abuse survivor recounts his emotional meeting with Pope Francis — and the apology the pontiff delivered for his previous dismissals and denials.

Solar panel law
The question is how to get more people to embrace solar power — and California's answer is to make solar panels mandatory on all new homes. 

Part Three

Lab brains
With advances in science, it may soon be possible to conduct research on brain tissue that's actually alive. And if it thinks, therefore it is, what does that mean for the ethics of that research?

Burpee record
A personal trainer in Australia shatters the world record for most burpees in an hour: fourteen hundred. There's only one problem — well, 1,400 really: critics say she wasn't doing proper burpees at all.