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The Fifth Floor: Orangutan, elephants, and dams

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Baby orangutan in Indonesia

24/05/2019 GMT

Orangutan, elephants, and dams

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Animals under threat in Indonesia’s Leuser rainforest and the people trying to save them

Indonesian Rainforest; Hair in Myanmar, My Hometown Masvingo; Ukraine's Comedian President; India's highest polling station.  With Zuhura Yunus.

Indonesia's Leuser rainforest in Sumatra is a unique ecosystem where elephants, orangutan, tigers and rhinos still live together.  But this biodiverse forest is now threatened by development, as BBC Indonesia's Mehulika Sitepu found out.  

A hairstyle for every age
In a small village in Myanmar children and young women have hairstyles for every stage of life. Yee Yee Aung of BBC Burmese explains this ancient tradition.

My Hometown Masvingo
Memories of new schools, stone age monuments, and shared drinks on the bridge with BBC Africa's Stanley Kwenda from his hometown of Masvingo, Zimbabwe.

Ukraine's Comedian President
Ukraine’s new president is the comedian Volodimyr Zelensky.   BBC Mundo’s Arturo Wallace and BBC Africa’s Jonathan Paye-Layleh advice BBC Ukrainian’s Syatoslav Khomenko on what to expect from a celebrity president, based on their experiences reporting on former comedian now President Jimmy Morales in Guatemala, and former footballing star President George Weah in Liberia.  

Voting in the Himalayas
BBC India's intrepid reporter Aamir Peerzada heads high into the Indian Himalayas with Indian election officials in search of elusive nomadic voters.  


Photo: A baby orangutan peeks out from behind a leaf
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