As It Happens

As It Happens: The Wednesday Edition

March 16, 2022

Episode Transcript

Part One

Mariupol under siege
Ukrainian officials say Russian forces bombed a Mariupol theater harbouring civilians today. And the city's deputy mayor tells us more than a thousand people may have been inside. 

No fly zone: Andrew Leslie
Some Canadian generals say NATO should reconsider its opposition to a no-fly zone in Ukraine — but our guest says that would be a move the West couldn't take back. 

US daylight saving time permanent
After the U.S. Senate passes a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, we'll pay a visit to a B.C. community that hasn't sprung forward or fallen back in over a century. 

Part Two 

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released
Finally, she'll be held by the right people. An Iranian-British charity worker who was held in Iran for six years has been released at last — and her sister-in-law says her family can't wait to be one again. 

Russia Ukraine talks
Amid reports that Russia and Ukraine may have sketched out the beginnings of a deal, a former deputy secretary general of NATO sketches out her opinion of the prospects for peace. 

Part Three

Christchurch survivor
Three years after he was shot nine times, a survivor of the Christchurch mosque shooting tells us why he sees walking the path the gunman took as part of a journey towards peace. 

Archive: Murder hornets
Scientists in California are luring so-called murder hornets to their deaths with a cocktail of synthetic sex pheromones.