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The Fifth Floor: Bolsonaro: The Man Dividing Brazil

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Brazilian Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro (Credit: HEULER ANDREY/AFP/Getty Images)

05/10/2018 GMT

Bolsonaro: The Man Dividing Brazil

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Jair Bolsonaro: the controversial far-right candidate who may become president

Brazilian election; polygraphs in Ukraine; Teotihuacan's tunnels in Mexico; South African Indians; My Home Town Eldorat Kenya; BBC Pashto in Northern Ireland.  With David Amanor.

Brazilians vote this weekend for a new President and currently ahead in the polls is right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro.  To his supporters he’s the man to clean up politics and restore order, to his detractors he’s a misogynist who openly supports the former military dictatorship.  Camilla Costa of BBC Brasil has been following a campaign she describes as “quite a ride”.  

Truth and lies in Ukraine
Polygraphs, also known as lie detector tests, have long been popular in Ukraine for job interviews, but are now making their way into private life too, with suspicious spouses putting their partners to the test.  Oksana Piddubna of BBC Ukraine put the polygraph phenomenon under the spotlight. 

Where men become Gods
BBC Mundo's Ana Gabriela Rojas grew up in Mexico City, and frequently visited the pre-Aztec pyramid site of Teotihuacan.  It's a place that fascinates her, so when she got to chance to visit a tunnel complex underneath the site, not open to the public, she jumped at the chance.

South Africa’s Indian population
In the complex landscape of South African race relations one group is often overlooked; the descendants of the Indian labourers bought to work for the British Empire.  Zubair Ahmed from BBC Hindi recently visited and found a population of people still calling themselves Indian, with a very distinct and separate culture.  

My Home Town: Eldorat
Beryl Munoko of BBC Swahili takes us to her home in western Kenya.

An Afghan in Northern Ireland
BBC Pashto’s Inayatulhaq Yasini recently went to Northern Ireland to cover a cricket series between Afghanistan and the Republic of Ireland.  He was also interested in finding out what Northern Ireland might teach Afghanistan about how to achieve peace.  

Image: Brazilian Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro 
Credit: HEULER ANDREY/AFP/Getty Images

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