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The Fifth Floor: The reporter who gave away his shoes

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22/05/2020 GMT

The reporter who gave away his shoes

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The reporter who gave away his shoes live on air

The reporter who gave away his shoes live on air.

Salman Ravi was interviewing migrant workers in a Facebook live for BBC Hindi last week.  India's rapid  lockdown left hundreds of thousands without jobs or income, many left with no choice but to walk the hundreds of kilometres home.  While interviewing one family Salman saw the man had no shoes.   So he handed over his own.  The video’s been viewed more than 22 million times, but the story didn’t stop there.

In China, Wuhan-based writer FangFang has enraged many of her fellow citizens with her blog about daily life under lockdown.  They accuse her of providing opponents of China with more ammunition.  BBC Chinese editor Howard Zhang explains the background. 

And from Somalia how the grounding of international flights has left khat chewers without their favourite stimulant, as the leaf is usually flown in from Kenya.   But anti-khat campaigners hope the lockdown proves permanent.   Mohamed Harare of BBC Somali has been following the story. 

Arrest of Rwanda’s most wanted fugitives
Last weekend one of Rwanda’s most wanted men was arrested in France.  Felicien Kabuga is alleged to be the main financier of the ethnic Hutu extremists who slaughtered 800,000 people in the 1994 genocide.  Prudent Ngsengiyumva from BBC Kinyarwanda was following developments over the weekend.

Honeyland
The documentary film Honeyland is set in a small village in North Macedonia, and tells the story of one of Europe's last wild beekeepers.  It got two nominations at this year’s Oscars, a first for the country. Tijana Dusej of BBC Serbian tells us what makes the film so captivating. 

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
The head of the World Health Organisation is probably the world's most famous Ethiopian right now.  Dr Tedros Adhanom has been in the news almost continuously since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.  Hana Zeratsyon of BBC Tigrinya tells us how he's seen back home.

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