Global National: August 4

The Ontario Nurses’ Association is demanding all levels of government address the deepening crisis in understaffed and overwhelmed Canada’s health-care system. Where the most serious challenges are, and why there are no simple solutions. The Canadian military is about to go on a new mission to help train Ukrainian civilians to battle Russian forces. The details of another mission Ottawa is staying tight-lipped on. Crystal Goomansingh heads to Ukraine’s northern Kharkiv region to meet the doctors and nurses saving lives in a once sprawling medical complex that Russia’s war has reduced to a single, damaged building. A Russian court has sentenced WNBA star Brittney Griner on drug charges. What her legal team is planning now. Plus, judgment day for Alex Jones: the millions of dollars in damages the notorious right-wing conspiracy theorist now has to pay after spreading lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre. And survival at sea: how a French sailor managed to survive 16 hours trapped under a capsized boat in the frigid Atlantic Ocean.