Original version

BBC World Service

BBC World Service Radio

World Service Radio

The Fifth Floor

Factual: Life Stories

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

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service News Internet

BBC World Service East Asia

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

The Fifth Floor: The Academy That Made Bolsonaro

President Bolosonaro saluting (credit: EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images)

25/01/2019 GMT

The Academy That Made Bolsonaro

BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, The Academy That Made Bolsonaro

Insights into the military academy attended by nearly a third of Bolsonaro’s cabinet

Bolsonaro's military academy; bats in Belarus; intersex in Kenya; South Korean DMZ village; My Home Town Chaah-E Anjir; Meet to Sleep in India.  With Feranak Amidi.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro took office at the beginning of the year with a promise to bring military values to a country weary of political corruption scandals.  Nearly a third of his cabinet are from the armed forces, all graduates from the Agulhas Negras Military Academy that Bolsonaro also attended.  BBC Brasil’s Julia Carniero took a tour. 

Bats in Belarus 
Bats in Belarus are being rudely awoken from hibernation by their freaked out human neighbours.  But a bat friendly organisation in Minsk has come up with a solution to save them: tiny bat sleeping bags in fridges.  Over to Tatiana Yanutsevich of BBC Russian.  
 
Changing attitudes to intersex people in Kenya 
Intersex people are those born with a combination of male and female biological characteristics.  There is a cultural stigma attached to intersex children, and many undergo surgery to assign their sex after birth, though this can also be problematic in later life.  But culture and the law is changing, as Judith Wambare of BBC Swahili reports. 

DMZ village 
Deaseong-dong is a village in the southern region of Korea’s de-militarized zone.   It’s a volatile region, with villagers just a kilometre away from North-Korea, but still has a well attended primary school.   Hyung-Eun Kim of BBC Korean spoke to two women who grew up there. 

My Home Town:  Chaah-E Anjir
Auliya Atrafi from BBC Afghan takes us to his hometown, named after the well by the fig tree.  

Meet to sleep in India
Once a year women all over India defiantly sleep in public places.  The ‘Meet to Sleep’ movement is protest against the sexual harassment and abuse that women experience, as Pooja Chhabria in the BBC’s Delhi Bureau found out.

Image: President Bolosonaro 
Credit: EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images

Accessibility links

Programme Index

The Fifth Floor

The Academy That Made Bolsonaro

Genres

Brand

BBC World Service

About BBC World Service