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The Fifth Floor: Palu: Reporting The Earthquake

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Cars, trees, and collapsed houses in Palu, Indonesia

12/10/2018 GMT

Palu: Reporting The Earthquake

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On the scene in Palu, Indonesia after the devastating earthquake and tsunami

Inside Palu after the quake; Pakistan’s banyan tree; is spy-craft over in Russia; Morocco’s anti-harassment law; My Home Town Kolkata; Vietnam’s moon bears.  With David Amanor.

Two weeks ago an earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.  More than two thousand people died in the disaster, though the final figure may be much higher.  Oki Budhi was in the first BBC Indonesian team to reach the city of Palu where the tsunami struck.  

Under the banyan tree
In Pakistan's Punjab Province stands a banyan tree believed to be hundreds of years old.  Locals say it was planted by a Sufi saint, and local people revere it.  Asif Farooqi of BBC Urdu knows the tree well.

The decline of Russian spying 
The two Russian spies, or tourists, connected to the Salisbury poisoning have now been unmasked using little more than open source websites.  So is the golden age of Russian spycraft over? Famil Ismailov and Andrei Soshnikov of BBC Russian share insights. 

Morocco's harassment law
Morocco recently introduced a law banning the harassment of women.  BBC Arabic’s Mouna Ba grew up in Morocco, and has been gauging reaction, and sharing her own experiences.

My home town: Kolkata
Manoshi Barua of BBC Bengali takes us back to schooldays in Kolkata.

Saving the moon bears
Bear bile is a traditional remedy in Vietnam, obtained from moon bears kept in small cages.  The practice is now illegal, and remaining captive bears are being moved to rescue centres.  BBC Vietnamese reporter Hoang Nguyen visited one.  

Image: Cars, trees, and collapsed houses in Palu, Indonesia
Credit: BBC Oki Budhi

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