Fifth Floor

This episode of Fifth Floor explores the lives of Russian immigrants in Ukraine during the war, featuring interviews with Sergei, Andrei, and Sasha.

BBC language service journalists share their most memorable interviews from 2022, covering global conflicts and social issues.

This episode covers the impact of the devastating earthquake in Syria, highlighting the differing humanitarian responses in government-controlled and rebel-held areas.

A weekly roundup of global news stories from BBC language service journalists, featuring analysis of the Israel-Gaza war and an inquiry into Brazil's oldest bank and the slave trade.

A weekly podcast that takes a fresh look at the week's stories with journalists from BBC's 40 language sections.

"I do live in Israel" while monitoring West Bank raids and judicial overhaul protests.

Asif Farooqi says a samosa that cost 25 rupees last year is now 100 rupees.

["The Fifth Floor covers Senegal's election, a Banksy mural in London, Kashmir's Talim carpet code, Brazil's rubber tappers in Par\u00e1, and a stalled North-South Korean dictionary project.", "Firenac Amidi speaks with Hadijatou Siss\u00e9, Thomas Nadi, Carlos Serrano, Priti Gupta, Julia Carneiro, and Sanuk Lee, whose BBC Urdu, BBC Mundo, BBC Brazil, and BBC Korean reporting supplies the details.", "Senegal's Bassirou Jomai Fai is described as a 44-year-old former prisoner who won after 12 years of Macky Sall, while Brazil's tappers are being paid five times more for protecting Par\u00e1 forest.", "The episode ends on a 300,000-word Korean dictionary that was only about 40 percent complete by 2015, keeping the language split visible."]

["Fifth Floor moves from Afghanistan, where 330,000 girls are excluded from secondary school, to Ethiopia, where a bank glitch briefly let customers withdraw any amount of money from ATMs and mobile apps.", "The Afghanistan report follows Getty Sederi and BBC Media Action's Women's Voice Radio Project, which trains women to make lifeline programs on health, work, and education for women who often listen while cooking, studying, or breastfeeding.", "The episode also covers Julia Granke\u2019s report on Isabel, a 20-year-old giant armadillo in Brazil\u2019s Pantanal, and the camera-trap work that documented more than 400 species using her burrows.", "Later segments examine Sarbas Nazari\u2019s explanation of the Haji Firuz arrests in Tehran and So Nguyen Tan\u2019s account of the failed auction of Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s Yangon house."]

Farhana Amidi opens Fifth Floor with BBC Arabic’s Michael Shuval on Israel’s fight over the ultra-Orthodox army exemption, where about 50,000 eligible men are now at the center of a legal and wartime dispute that began with 400 religious students under David Ben-Gurion.

A weekly news roundup featuring stories from BBC's 40 language sections, offering a global perspective on current events.