The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

The image of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh went viral last week - drawing the world's attention, however fleetingly, to the horrors of the crisis in Syria. But doctors in Aleppo see dozens of desperate children like him - every week. We hear their stories.

Prison life isn't meant to be a five-star hotel but temperatures soar to nearly 40 degrees celsius in some prisons during summer. Critics say it's inhumane and some prisoners have even died from the extreme heat. Should air conditioning be a human right?

From the debate over access to air conditioning as a human right to New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova exploring the mind of con men and women to find out what makes them tick... This is The Current with Robyn Bresnahan.

Why is it that people who are otherwise smart and rational keep getting sucked in by the con artist's magic? From snake oil to email scams, writer Maria Konnikova gets inside the con artist's head in her book, The Confidence Game.

From the Montreal 1976 Olympics and a push to take away medals won by East German swimmers who were found doping to filmmaker John Aitchison on a career spent filming the glories of nature... This is The Current with Connie Walker.

Wildlife filmmaker John Aitchison has made his living watching predators stalk their prey. He joins The Current to talk about the beauty, brutality and inevitability of nature and shares what he's learned watching for the perfect shot.

At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Canada's women swimmers were gold medal favourites but it was East Germany that dominated. Their success was due to a state-sponsored doping program and some in the swimming community want the injustice to be rectified.

From a look at the recent Trump campaign staffing shuffle and its lasting impact to former NHLer Patrick O'Sullivan on the enduring physical and psychological abuse by his hockey-obsessed father... This is The Current with Connie Walker.

Patrick O'Sullivan spent an entire childhood in pursuit of an NHL career. In the end, he walked off the ice and away from the game. The former NHL player shares his story of parental expectations that turned into abuse, most of it hidden in plain sight.

If you thought the U.S. presidential election campaign couldn't get any darker, it just did with the shakeup of Trump's campaign. The appointment of the new Republican presidential campaign's CEO Steve Bannon suggests Trump could be getting meaner.

From abandoned Olympic venues and the push for one permanent location to host future Games to author Kamal Al-Solaylee on how cheap labour shapes brown racial identity... This is The Current with Connie Walker.

When Kamal Al-Solaylee travelled to 10 countries to capture the experience of being brown, he concluded that a brown racial identity has been shaped by the cheap labour movement. His book Brown explores what being brown in today's world means to everyone.

Despite some headaches, The Rio 2016 Olympic Games appear to be a success so far. But what will happen when the world moves on? Will Rio be dotted with abandoned venues like in Athens? Maybe it's time for a permanent Olympic Games site?

The killing of Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old Indigenous man shot dead on a farmyard near Biggar, Sask. has set off a firestorm of hate-filled response online. Many are not surprised saying the death exposes long-simmering racial tensions in Saskatchewan.

From the killing of Colten Boushie exposing what many say are long-simmering racial tensions in Saskatchewan to journalist Peggy Orenstein on the real-life sex lives of young women today... This is The Current with Connie Walker.