As It Happens: Tuesday Edition

Part One

WE testimony
WE Charity co-founders Craig and Marc Kielburger answered politicians' questions for hours today. Our guest describes the stand-off between the media-trained brothers and the opposition looking for a smoking gun.

Georgia school students
Students in Jefferson, Georgia, are heading back to class this week. We reach the high-school senior trying to make sure her classmates mask up.

Empty stadium baseball mascot
Baseball mascots are back at work and the original Phillie Phanatic tells us why — empty stadiums or not — he wants his costumed colleagues to keep their giant heads in the game.

Part Two

Encore: Behrouz Boochani
The Kurdish-Iranian writer who wrote a prize-winning book on his phone in an offshore detention facility is granted refugee status in New Zealand. We revisit his interview with Carol.

Vermont skydiver 
 A Vermont man tells us he's grateful to be mobile again after the prosthetic leg he lost skydiving turns up only slightly bruised in a farmer's field.