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The Fifth Floor Episodes

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    Reporting India’s Covid-19 crisis

    Meet the team living and reporting in the eye of India’s coronavirus storm

  2. Iran's #MeToo

    Allegations against a popular singer have divided Iran's #MeToo movement

  3. HRH Prince Philip: the world remembers

    How 3 language services covered the Prince's death; and Myanmar’s festival protests

  4. Chile's Covid-19 paradox

    Why Chile's high vaccine rollout has not meant the end of the Covid-19 pandemic

  5. The men making money from migrants

    The people smuggler and the migrant: two stories from Afghanistan

  6. Remembering a Zulu king

    The life and legacy of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini

  7. Syria: Two women, ten years on

    When civil war breaks out, how do you decide whether to leave or stay?

  8. Two to tango

    Remembering Astor Piazzolla, the man who revolutionised tango

  9. Life in a Kurdish military camp

    The Iranian Kurds risking death to train as Peshmerga fighters with Komala

  10. Somalia's election impasse

    Clans, protests and a constitutional crisis after the President’s term expires

  11. Six years on: the murder of Avijit Roy

    As five men are sentenced to be hanged, BBC Bangla’s Akbar Hossain reflects on the case

  12. Ethiopia's missing refugees

    Why thousands of Eritrean refugees from camps in Tigray are still unaccounted for

  13. Myanmar: Reporting the coup

    Protests, civil disobedience and fear as Myanmar's new military rulers take control

  14. Nigeria's 'Stingy Men Association'

    Why are some Nigerian men proud to go public about being stingy?

  15. Ten years after Tahrir Square

    How do the people involved in Egypt's 2011 revolution feel about it now?

  16. Beirut port blast: Five months on

    A search for truth and repairing the blast's physical, political and psychological damage

  17. The abandoned Iraqi interpreters

    Iraqi interpreters feel under threat from local militias as coalition forces withdraw

  18. Vaccines, violence and forests

    Looking ahead to 2021 in Brazil, China and the Democratic Republic of Congo

  19. Memorable journeys of 2020

    Stories from Indian-administered Kashmir, Trump’s America and frontline Nagorno Karabakh

  20. 'Milk siblings' and Islam

    Breastfeeding other women’s babies in Islam, and the bond between those children

  21. A small election in North Macedonia

    “Yugo-stories”: why a BBC Serbian reporter went to Stip to meet one candidate

  22. China’s provocative political artist

    Who is the self-proclaimed “wolf warrior” Wuheqilin?

  23. The self-styled prophet of Siberia

    Why did Russia’s FSB arrest a religious leader in the remote Siberian forests?

  24. Explaining Tigray

    What is behind the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region?

  25. Young, French and Muslim

    Exploring the dilemmas facing young Muslims in France today

  26. Turkey’s Armenians under pressure

    Nagorno Karabakh triggers tension between Turks and Turkish Armenians in Istanbul

  27. Inside the schools that chain boys

    How BBC Arabic uncovered widespread abuse of children in Islamic schools in Sudan

  28. The battle for Florida’s Latino voters

    Florida’s Spanish language ad campaigns target Latino voters in the US election

  29. How an election kicked off a Kyrgyz crisis

    The leaderless protests that brought down government, prime minister and president

  30. India's secret soldiers

    The funeral that revealed India’s covert force of Tibetan refugee fighters

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