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World Service,04 Nov 2014,55 mins

One World Trade Center Opens for Business

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One World Trade Center opens for business on the site of the original twin towers. Andrew Breslau from the Alliance for Downtown New York tells us about the new building and how Lower Manhattan has changed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The BBC's correspondent in Rome, David Willey tells us of controversial plans to give the ancient Colosseum a new floor, enabling it to host Roman style re-enactments and possibly music concerts. Debate is raging in the American states of Oregon and Colorado over whether genetically modified foods should be labelled in the shops - our reporter Marie Keyworth investigates. Presenter Jon Bithrey is joined by Jyoti Malhotra, senior writer at India Today magazine in Delhi and by viral video director Rob Bliss, from Chicago. His recent short film Hollaback featured a woman being cat-called over 100 times during one day of filming around the streets of New York. And the BBC's Rahul Tandon brings us a roundup of news from India, where there are growing calls for prostitution to be legalised.

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