The Fifth Floor Episodes Episode guide
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Aid, politics and Syria’s earthquake
The challenges and opportunities posed by February’s earthquake in Syria
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The Belarusians fighting in Ukraine
Who are the Kalinowski Regiment, and why are they fighting Russia in Ukraine?
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Reporting Iran's school poisonings
The challenges of investigating what’s behind the wave of school poisonings in Iran
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91Èȱ¬ Russian: Meet the Riga team
A new life and a new way of working for 91Èȱ¬ Russian’s Moscow journalists, now in Latvia
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91Èȱ¬ Ukrainian: A year of war
Stories of displacement, separation and front line reporting from 91Èȱ¬ Ukrainian
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Reporting the earthquake
How 91Èȱ¬ Turkish and 91Èȱ¬ Arabic have been reporting the earthquake disaster
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The Myanmar coup, two years on
Protest, conflict and exile: we hear about Myanmar, two years after the military coup
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Ukraine’s corruption crackdown
How has the war affected Ukraine’s long-running efforts to deal with corruption?
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Belarus language crackdown
Why it's become dangerous to speak Belarusian in Belarus
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Why Kenyan pupils are burning schools
What is driving the phenomenon of Kenyan students burning their boarding schools?
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The decline of Ukraine’s oligarchs
How the war with Russia has impacted Ukraine’s super-rich businessmen
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Memorable interviews from 2022
The people and stories our journalists can't forget
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Can saying fool land you in jail?
Will Istanbul’s mayor be sent to jail for ‘insulting’ language about election officials?
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Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin?
Who is the man behind the Russian mercenary group Wagner?
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The Arab world and the war in Ukraine
Insights into how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has impacted the Arab region
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China protests
The creative ways Chinese protesters are using to get their voices heard
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Unmasking a Russian police torturer
How a group of Russian women exposed the identity of a police officer who terrorised them
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Kherson: A presidential visit
Why were Ukrainian social media users talking about a chicken in the bunker?
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Reporting COP27
Behind the scenes at Sharm el-Sheikh, and global stories on why COP27 matters
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Ethiopia: An end to the fighting
What next after the two sides in the Ethiopian civil war agree to a ceasefire?
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Ukraine's water wars
Russia is accused of cutting water supplies in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv
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Iran protests: The ripple effect
‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ - how a slogan chanted in Iran is echoing across the region
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TikTok begging in Syria
What happens to donations sent to displaced Syrian families who livestream on TikTok?
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Life in the Russian army
Debt, missing equipment and reports of extortion: life as a Russian soldier
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Russia's call up: What we know
How is Russia's partial military call up going on the ground?
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Mahsa Amini’s father speaks out
The father of Mahsa Amini contradicts the official narrative of her death
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Global perspectives on the death of Queen Elizabeth II
How the world reported the death of Queen Elizabeth II
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The forgotten protesters of Belarus
How Belarusians have been changed by protests, repression and the invasion of Ukraine
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Reporting Pakistan's floods
Houses destroyed, crops submerged: why this year’s monsoon is so destructive
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Russia’s colonial past, and present?
Russia ‘never stained itself with the bloody crimes of colonialism’: true or false?