The Current for April 12, 2022
Today on The Current:
In the midst of war, some Ukrainians are returning to Kyiv and other areas to try to get their country moving again. Matt Galloway talks to four people who are trying to help, from reopening businesses to co-ordinating aid and supplies.
Then, long before Russia faced sanctions for the war in Ukraine, financier Bill Browder found himself in the Kremlin's crosshairs for his work tracking corruption in the country. He tells us more about the danger he faced, and his new book Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath.
Plus, buyers are paying record prices for lobster, prompting fishers to brave rough seas to cash in. We talk to Gail Atkinson, the captain of the Nellie Row.
And amid a sixth wave of COVID-19 in Canada, could increased access to the antiviral pill Paxlovid help patients? We talk to family physician Dr. Tara Kiran about the pill.
