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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: Life With No Toilet in Rural India

Women going to fields

27/06/2014

Life With No Toilet in Rural India

BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, Life With No Toilet in Rural India

How a lack of private toilets in rural India has exposed women to sexual harassment.

How a lack of private toilets in rural India has exposed women to sexual harassment and an Iraqi journalist explains why Thursday in Baghdad is still a day to celebrate.

INDIAN TOILETS
A month ago two teenage girls disappeared from their homes in the small village of Katra in Uttar Pradesh. They were later found raped and hanged. They had gone out into the fields together to go to the toilet. For the Fifth Floor, Divya Arya travelled to Karmaali in Haryana State to find out more about life for women without a loo.

T IS THE WORD
Uzbek writer Temur Turaboy has published a novel only using words which begin with the letter 'T'. Hamid Ismailov the Central Asia service editor and the World Service's writer in residence has read it and tells us more. He rises to the challenge of describing The Fifth Floor using only the letter F. 

BRAZIL'S MUSIC SNOBBERY
There's a long running debate in musicology circles about what image the country exports through music. We've brought together Felipe Trotta, a music academic, with BBC Brasil's Bruno Garcez for a new understanding of Brazilian music.

ONLINE GREATEST HITS
Digital diva Fifi Haroon gives the low down on the top-hitting stories across the language service websites, including a missing Lynx in Moscow.  

THURSDAYS IN IRAQ
Thursday is normally the day for celebration in Iraq, it's the traditional day to get married and mark a special occasion.  And even despite the violence in Baghdad BBC Arabic's Omar Hekmat, says this Thursday will be the biggest in the wedding calendar.  

A SLOW BOAT TO THE WORLD CUP
People have come from far and wide to watch the World Cup in Brazil but Arturo Wallace's journey must be one of the longest. He took a slow boat along the Amazon to watch Honduras play Switzerland in Manaus. 

HINDI AND MODI
The Indian government are telling officials and ordinary folk to use Hindi over English when posting to social media, to promote national identity. BBC Hindi's Nitin Srivastava tells us why this push towards Hindi is easier said than done. We also hear from Famil Ismailov of BBC Russian who has been reporting that the State Duma's Culture Committee wants to ban 'foreign words'.

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