As It Happens: Tuesday Full Episode
Part One
Myanmar: Bob Rae
In his final report as the special envoy to Myanmar, Bob Rae says that Canada should take a leadership role in the Rohingya crisis — and that, with monsoon season approaching, time is of the essence.
Sewer rescue
A 13-year-old boy spends nearly 12 hours lost in the sewers under Los Angeles — and a city firefighter explains how Jesse Hernandez emerged alive from his ordeal.
Smartphone-predicting Star Trek writer
In 1999, David Gerrold — best known for writing the Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" — was asked about his predictions for computing. And he prophesied something called the Personal Information Telecommunications Agent — or PITA.
Part Two
Waterslide designer arrest
In 2015, Brittany Dice was injured on the world's tallest waterslide, at a Kansas City waterpark. A year later, a 10-year-old boy died on that slide. Now, its designer has been arrested — and Ms. Dice says he had ample evidence his creation could kill someone.
Parkland security
Giuliana Matamoros survived the school shooting in Florida. Now, the 15-year-old student is fighting for stricter gun control. And she's not impressed by the high school's new security measures — one of which makes transparent backpacks mandatory.
Part Three
Israel migrants: Likud Party member
Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had reached a deal that would see 16-thousand of them re-settled to Western countries like Canada. Others would be allowed to stay in Isreal. But a few hours later, he abruptly put the plan on hold.
Russian trolls hacked
In a cache of hacked emails, investigators find details of an influence campaign run by Russia in Ukraine in 2014. And our guest says there's every reason to think it's doing the same thing in different countries today.