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Global stories from the BBC’s 40 Language Services, with Faranak Amidi

Faranak Amidi presents global stories from the Fifth Floor, home to the BBC’s 40 Language Services.

Faranak Amidi presents global stories from the Fifth Floor, home to the BBC’s 40 Language Services

The Fifth Floor: 16/06/2012

16/06/2012

BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, 16/06/2012

Russia's conspiracy cookies and does Putin really control the wind and rain?

Spotlight on Russia and cooking up protest cuisine in Cairo and Moscow; reporting Rwanda's Gacaca; and in Delhi, a quick jaunt to get a spot of biometric testing

A fresh look at the week's global news from the World Service's 27 language sections, with David Amanor.

MONITORING: SPOTLIGHT ON RUSSIA
This week saw another round of protests in Russia - thousands of people on the streets of Moscow with flags, banners and posters condemning the re-election of President Vladimir Putin earlier this year. But some of the demonstrators also held up fake bus tickets. Kyrill Disayanake of BBC Monitoring has been looking at some of the creativity and comedy coming out of the Russian protests.

RWANDA REPORTING GENOCIDE
"My father was ill. He was 1.95 metres tall so they wouldn't treat him at the hospital because they thought he was a Tutsi." What is it like to experience a genocide as a child and then be reporting on its aftermath 18 years later? Prudent Nsengiyumva, the Kigali correspondent for our African English and Great Lakes services, is currently reporting the official end of Rwanda's Gacaca community-based courts set up in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide.

INDIA'S AMBITIOUS IDENTITY SCHEME
Since it launched two years ago, 200 million Indians have already signed up to India's biometric identity exercise. Our man in Delhi, Suhail Haleem joins the queue. 

PROTEST COOKBOOK
Is revolution a tasty affair or does protest put you off your pudding? Shaimaa Khallil in Cairo, and Maria Vasilieva in Moscow tell us about the Tahrir pots and pans and Russia's conspiratorial cookies.


(Image: A poster of Vladimir Putin. Credit: Getty)

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