As It Happens

As It Happens: Friday Edition

Friday, July 14, 2017

Full episode transcript

Part One

London acid attacks
Five times, they pulled up next to people on mopeds. And five times, they sprayed those people with acid. Two teenagers are in custody in London after a series of acid attacks last night -- and tonight, a witness tells us what he saw. 

CSIS lawsuit
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is hit with a thirty-five-million-dollar lawsuit by five employees who say they were subjected to racist, sexist, and homophobic discrimination. 

Texas ATM rescue 
Patrons at a Texas ATM were surprised when, along with their transaction receipt, they got desperate notes from a man who'd somehow got stuck inside the machine. 

Part Two

David Mitchell on "Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice From The Silence of Autism"
The novelist David Mitchell talks about his latest work, a translation of a book by a young Japanese man with autism -- and how it helped him understand his own child.