Fifth Floor

Faranak Amidi takes a fresh look at the stories of the week with journalists from our 40 language sections.

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A love story between former enemies

A love story between former enemies

It’s 10 years since Sri Lanka’s civil war ended. The war pitted the country's two main ethnic groups, Tamils and Sinhalese, against each other, and divisions remain. But BBC Sinhala journalist Sunet...

14 Kesä 20199min

‘Are we wrong to miss our children?’

‘Are we wrong to miss our children?’

In 2014, so-called Islamic State attacked the Yazidi religious group in northern Iraq, killing hundreds of men and capturing around 6,000 women and children. The women were used as sex slaves and alt...

7 Kesä 201910min

What price scaling Everest?

What price scaling Everest?

Mount Everest in Nepal draws hundreds of climbers every year keen to scale the world's highest peak. But the effort comes at a high price, both in lives lost, and the cost to the environment. BBC ...

31 Touko 20199min

Orangutan, elephants, and dams

Orangutan, elephants, and dams

Indonesia's Leuser rainforest in Sumatra is a unique ecosystem where elephants, orangutan, tigers and rhinos still live together. But this biodiverse forest is now threatened by development, as BBC I...

24 Touko 201910min

A Rohingya drama for Cox’s Bazar

A Rohingya drama for Cox’s Bazar

Aa'rar Kissa, or Our Story, is a radio drama made specifically for the Rohingya refugees now living in Bangladesh, having fled their homes in Myanmar. The radio drama was created by the BBC Media Act...

17 Touko 201911min

'Time for the guns to be silent'

'Time for the guns to be silent'

BBC Africa’s Mohanad Hashim shares his impressions of a Sudan without President Omar al-Bashir, and the historic protests which toppled him from power.Image: Sudanese protesters gather to break their ...

10 Touko 201913min

Healing Iraq's mental wounds

Healing Iraq's mental wounds

Namak Knoshnaw spent a year making the BBC Arabic documentary Iraq: A State of Mind. It follows the stories of three people dealing with the psychological impact of half a century of war, invasion, se...

3 Touko 201912min

Reporting Sri Lankan bomb attacks

Reporting Sri Lankan bomb attacks

Ayeshea Perera is based in the BBC's Delhi office, but flew home to Sri Lanka immediately after Easter Sunday's bomb attacks. She shares her experiences of reporting from Colombo and Negombo, and her...

26 Huhti 201914min

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