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World Service,11 Jan 2014,26 mins

A Year of Living Dangerously

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Journalist Glenn Greenwald describes what life has been like for him since he accepted secret documents about US government spying from Edward Snowden. We also hear about a Spanish developer with big plans for rebuilding the bankrupt US city of Detroit. Japan gives the US military permission to relocate a controversial base in Okinawa. US veterans weigh in on the latest surge of violence in Iraq. And New York’s famed Apollo Theater attracts amateur performers to its weekly talent night from all corners of the globe. (Photo: Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who interviewed former CIA employee Edward Snowden. Credit: Associated Press)

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