As It Happens: Wednesday Edition

Part One

MH-17 report: victim's mother
Investigators say it's definitive: a Russian missile launcher shot down a Malaysian Airlines flight, killing nearly three hundred people -- among them, Silene Fredriksz's son. 

BC Minister on LNG
BC has Ottawa's support for a liquefied natural gas pipeline, but a couple of obstacles remain: frustrated First Nations, and a glut of the gas itself.  

Detroit amusement park
A Detroit man loved a now-defunct amusement park so much that he's spent years gathering souvenirs -- which now include the actual boat he took to get there. 

Part Two

Murdered Sri Lankan journalist exhumed 
A Sri Lankan journalist correctly predicted his own murder, and  the failed inquiry that followed -- but now, a development he didn't see coming: a new investigation into his death. 

Dutch C02 vote
The Dutch parliament says it's willing to bring the country's coal industry to a standstill to reach its ambitious climate goals -- but critics say that long view is short-sighted. 

Part Three

Shimon Peres obit: former minister
Two weeks after suffering a stroke, former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres has died at the age of 93. Yossi Beilin was his deputy minister.

Shimon Peres obit: Palestinian activist
Mustafa Barghouti is a Palestinian politician and activist who met with Mr. Peres on more than one occasion. 

Greenland nuclear base
Global warming is changing Greenland -- and a Toronto researcher says that means the toxic remnants of a Cold War-era U.S. military base won't stay buried forever.