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The Fifth Floor: Goodbye Aleppo

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Eastern Aleppo evacuation

23/06/2017 GMT

Goodbye Aleppo

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Aleppo through the lens of citizen journalists

Goodbye Aleppo; Argentina's Nazi find; world bedtimes; Kashmir pen pals; Uzbeks and Pushkin. With David Amanor.

Six years into the Syrian civil war pictures from the northern city of Aleppo tell their own story.  Much of it lies in ruins.  Eastern Aleppo was besieged for many months and came under a barrage of attacks from Syrian government forces and their Russian allies in December 2016.  It's the subject of a documentary film Goodbye Aleppo by BBC Arabic and what makes this so unique and powerful is that it's filmed on smart phones and cameras by four citizen journalists living in East Aleppo. The producers are Christine Garabedian and Mahmoud Ali Hamad.

Argentina's Nazi artefact find
Earlier this week, Argentinian authorities found a huge stash of Nazi artefacts hidden in a Buenos Aires house. It's the biggest discovery of its kind in Argentina, and is rumoured to have belonged to a senior Nazi figure. Myths abound about the presence of Nazi war criminals in South America after World War II, so what does this new haul reveal? Argentinian Valeria Perasso has been following the story.

And so to bed...  
Long summer nights in the northern hemisphere tempt everyone to stay up late and enjoy the cool of the evening. How much do sleep patterns vary around the world?  Bedtime stories from Somali Osman Hassan, Russian Alexander Kan, Carol Yarwood of BBC Chinese, Bhagirath Yogi of BBC Nepali, Mundo's Stefania Gozzer and Ghazanfar Hyder of BBC Urdu.

Kashmir: Letters across the Divide
BBC Hindi recently brought together two schoolgirls, one from Delhi and one from Indian-administered Kashmir, to became penfriends.  What they have in common is music and youth, but they're divided by regional loyalties and religion in the long-running dispute over Kashmir.  So the question is can the two teenagers find common ground? The reporter behind the project is Divya Arya.

Pushkin and the Uzbeks 
An off-the-cuff remark by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has ruffled feathers in Uzbekistan.  He quipped that Uzbeks don't know Pushkin.  But it turns out that the one thing you never ever do is question an Uzbek's knowledge of poetry.  Over to Rustam Qobil of BBC Uzbek.

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Image: Buses lining up to take population of east Aleppo out
Credit: Aleppo Media Centre

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