Sonntag im Ersten: Erstes TV-Interview mit Snowden | tagesschau.de

Sonntag im Ersten: Erstes TV-Interview mit Snowden | tagesschau.de

Sunday evening at 23.00 clock in the First

Snowden the first time in television interview

After six months of preparation, it is NDR-author Hubert Seipel managed
to lead the world's first television interview with Edward Snowden
after his flight from Hong Kong. The first sends a 30-minute version on Sunday at 23.00 clock. The longer talk has arisen in the context of NDR documentation that will show the first in the spring.
From 21.45 clock will be on Sunday the ARD talk show "Günther Jauch"
deal with the issue and show first excerpts from the exclusive
interview. Edward Snowden is the central figure of the NSA scandal.
The flight of the former intelligence employee over Hong Kong to Moscow
had led to diplomatic tensions between Russia and the United States.
The meeting with Snowden, who unveiled the all-encompassing activities
by the U.S. Secret Service NSA, was held in Moscow under clandestine
circumstances. Seipel came upon a "concerned, but also relaxed-sounding" Edward Snowden, who currently receive temporary asylum in Russia.

From the security guard to the Whistleblower

In the extensive interview, which is currently being cut for the
programs in the First, answered Snowden addition to current topics about
the consequences of his revelations that keep the world up to now in
breath, also questions about the person and his way from the security
guard to the most important whistleblowers of history.

At the end of December last year met NDR author Hubert Seipel with the
whistleblower in strict secrecy, to prepare for the filming of the NDR
documentation.

"Snowden exclusive - the interview" you see on Sunday, 26 January 2014 at 23.00 clock in the First

Exclusively on Sunday evening in the First: Edward Snowden interviewed by Hupert Seipel