US whistleblower Edward Snowden has given a wide-range interview to US television saying he was trained as a spy and operator overseas. He's told ABC he worked under cover for both CIA and the National Security Agency.

 

 

When they're saying a lot of level systems of administrator that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's someone misleading.

 

 

Finance Minister Mathias Cormann the parliament free committee that the ABC must have had a lot of fat in its budget to be able to set up its 24-hour news channel in 2010. The government has cut the ABC's budget by 1% over 4 years. Senator Cormann says other taxpayer-funded agencies have to file efficiencies in recent years and the ABC should do the same.

 

 

And American poet, author and activist Maya Angelou has died. She was 86. Ms. Angelo made her name with her memoir I know why the caged bird sings which chartered a childhood of oppression and abuse in the Big South in the US in the 1930s.