As It Happens

Plus: A Tory MP is fighting to have the classic Cockney dish “pie and mash” given protected status (but you can hold the eel). 

Also: A Canadian artist debuts his giant biodiversity jenga tower sculpture at the UN's COP16 climate conference.

Plus: A researcher was so frustrated by the lack of data on women that she scanned her own brain 75 times.

Also: Two years after a foiled attempt on Masih Alinejad’s life, US prosecutors charge a senior official in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in the plot. The activist tells us threats to her life won’t stop her from speaking out.

Plus: A Harvard scientist describes “S2”, which has a pretty boring name for an event that once boiled oceans and levelled mountains on earth. 

Also: More than a hundred women soccer players sign an open letter, calling on FIFA to drop its sponsorship deal with a Saudi company. Canadian captain Jessie Fleming says FIFA is choosing money over women’s safety and the safety of the planet. 

Plus: We check in with food writer Jonathan Bender, as Kansas City gets set to open its Museum of BBQ.  

Also: The father of a murdered woman discovers his late daughter's name and image used to create an AI-powered chatbot; and after a major cyberattack Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle tells us it's all part of a chilling set of attacks on library systems around the world.

Plus: We reach US attorney Martin Estrada for more on the case of Ryan Wedding, the Olympic snowboarder authorities allege became a drug kingpin.

Also: Italy's new law criminalizing surrogacy abroad is sparking outrage among LGBTQ+ advocates; and we head to Kansas City for the 40th annual Lineman’s Rodeo.

Plus: A conversation with Liberal MP Sean Casey, whose call for Justin Trudeau to step aside may be gaining steam. 

Also: Finnish conductor and composer Leif Segerstam was as well known for his musical creativity as he was for yelling alongside his orchestra. His agent tells us he was a true artist.

Plus: As the very last Kmart gets set to close, a superfan – tattoo and all – makes her final pilgrimage. 

And: As time starts to run out for Robert Roberson, we reach The Innocence Project’s Vanessa Potkin for more on a case many say science, law and medicine got wrong; and we check in on early voting in Georgia.

Plus: Scandal rocks the World Conker Championship, with the newly crowned King Conker accused of using steel chestnuts.

Also: A New York Times report casts China’s panda breeding program in a light that’s anything but black and white; and what a K Pop scandal means for some of the world’s most popular music.

Plus: Ratatouille – the movie – inspires a Tik Tok creator to do the "stupidest thing" she’s ever done with her engineering degree.

Also: UNICEF’s James Elder on Israel’s latest strikes in Gaza and an imperilled polio vaccine campaign; and we reach a relief worker in North Carolina dealing with storm damage…and misinformation.

Plus: What the Hubble telescope is revealing about Jupiter’s “crimson vortex”, a gargantuan 100-year-old storm.

Also: Tampa Bay Times reporter Ian Hodgson on covering the hurricane that toppled a crane onto his newsroom; and UnESCO recognizes Halifax’s historic Africville neighbourhood.