To the Point Syrian peace efforts fail and bombings intensify Hosted by Warren Olney Sep. 28, 2016 National Listen 52 min MORE People look at the sky fearing an airstrike in the rebel-held al-Myassar neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria, September 27, 2016. (Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters) From this Episode: Former Israeli leader Shimon Peres dies at age 93 Shimon Peres died today at age of 93, the last of Israel's founders. He was both a soldier and a peacemaker, as we hear from freelance journalist Joel Greenberg. Special... 7 min Syria: Where civilians are facing war without end The subject didn't come up in this week's first encounter between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but the nation of Syria is turning to rubble. Secretary of State John... 34 min Elon Musk's plan to make people an interplanetary species Futurist entrepreneur Elon Musk says humanity has only one alternative to inevitable extinction here on Earth: the colonization of outer space and other planets. He says we... 9 min Credits Host: Warren Olney Producers: Andrea Brody, Jenny Hamel