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The Fifth Floor: Protests against Colombia's police

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Colombian woman protests after death of Javier Ordóñez

18/09/2020 GMT

Protests against Colombia's police

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The lawyer's death that sparked anti-police riots

The lawyer's death that sparked anti-police riots.

A video showing the repeated tazering of a Colombian lawyer Javier Ordóñez by police as he begged for mercy, and his subsequent death from internal injuries, triggered riots in which several people died.  BBC Mundo's Daniel Pardo is based in Bogota, and explains what this story reveals about Colombians relationship with law enforcement.  

My Hometown: Hanoi
A return visit with Nga Pham to her hometown of Hanoi, Vietnam and a walk down the tree lined streets. 

Ghana Nigeria sibling rivalry 
The rivalry between Nigeria and Ghana is well known, but the two countries also share a close relationship despite not being neighbours. We bring together Nigeria’s Peter Okwoche and Mark Wilberforce from Ghana to explore how the countries see each other. 

Shot by an arrow by those he protected
Rieli Franciscato was one of Brazil’s best known advocates for the rights of the indigenous peoples who live cut off from mainstream Brazilian civilisation in the Amazon.  But last week he was killed by those same people he was trying to protect, as Brazilian Fernando Duarte explains.

Moscow Big Brother
Moscow prides itself on being a ‘smart city’.  Free wifi all around the city, facial recognition and traffic management systems all make life easy and safe for citizens. But surveillance during Covid-19 has highlighted a darker side to the technology.  Andrei Zakharov of BBC Russian explores if the smart city, can be turned into a Big Brother. 

PHOTO Colombian woman protests after death of Javier Ordóñez
PHOTO CREDIT: JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/AFP via Getty Images

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