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Snow, Slaves, Shoes and Gary Shteyngart

How climate change might make it harder to find future Winter Olympics host cities.

We look at the findings of a new report suggesting that climate change might make it increasingly difficult in the decades ahead to find a city suitable for hosting the Winter Olympics. We also hear how American evangelists and missionaries are whipping up anti-gay sentiment in Russia and elsewhere overseas. A young woman who escaped domestic servitude discusses America鈥檚 modern-day slavery problem. The story of how a photo-journalist got her editors in the US to pay attention to refugees from South Sudan by focusing her lens on the refugees鈥� shoes. And novelist Gary Shteyngart on growing up as an 茅migr茅 from Soviet Russia in 1980s America.

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27 minutes

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Sun 9 Feb 2014 15:32GMT

Chapters

  • Climate Change and the Olympics

    How warming weather patterns could make it difficult to stage future Winter Olympic Games

    Duration: 04:01

  • Anti-gay Campaigners

    American evangelists and missionaries play a role in anti-gay sentiment overseas

    Duration: 04:45

  • Modern-Day Slavery

    How one woman became the property of a family in Egypt at the age of eight

    Duration: 04:35

  • Refugee Shoes

    The photos of shoes that put the spotlight on the plight of South Sudan's refugees

    Duration: 03:25

  • Gary Shteyngart

    Russian-American satirist on his new memoir Little Failure

    Duration: 04:43

  • Made in the USA

    A TV ad by Italian-owned Chrylser reminds Americans that they are still an American icon

    Duration: 03:36

Shoes

Shoes
An American photographer drew attention to the plight of refugees from South Sudan only after focusing her camera on their shoes.

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  • Sat 8 Feb 2014 04:32GMT
  • Sun 9 Feb 2014 01:32GMT
  • Sun 9 Feb 2014 15:32GMT

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