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Faranak Amidi presents global stories from the Fifth Floor, home to the BBC’s 40 Language Services.

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The Fifth Floor: HRH Prince Philip: the world remembers

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Tributes To Prince Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh

16/04/2021 GMT

HRH Prince Philip: the world remembers

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How 3 language services covered the Prince's death; and Myanmar’s festival protests

How three language services covered the news of the Prince's death.  Plus Myanmar’s new year's festival protests, with Faranak Amidi.

The death last Friday of Prince Philip was extensively covered on the BBC's language services. We hear from Peter Okwoche of BBC Africa, Janina Litvinova of BBC Russian and South Asia Diaspora reporter Gaggan Sabherwal about the challenges of the day, and tailoring their coverage for their audiences.  

Venezuela's million bolivar note  
BBC Mundo's Guillermo Olmo is based in Venezuela, where hyperinflation has left its currency, the bolivar, struggling to keep up. Prices rose so fast that people had to carry backpacks of notes to pay for their shopping. Now a one million bolivar note has been issued, but will it help? 

Rwanda's milk bars 
Milk bars are a unique feature of Rwandan towns and highlight the popularity of milk in the country. Prudent Nsengiyumva of BBC Great Lakes tells us what makes them so successful, and why milk is so important to Rwandans. 

Myanmar's New Year festival 
This week would usually see joyful celebrations in Myanmar for Thingyan, the Buddhist New Year festival. But many Burmese boycotted the festival, as part of continuing protests against February’s military coup, as BBC Burmese editor Soe Win Than explains.  

My journey to journalism: Dan Ikpoyi, BBC Pidgin 
As part of our series into our language service colleagues' routes into their jobs, we hear from Dan Ikpoyi, whose progress from the Lagos slum of Ketu to BBC Pidgin video journalist took a circuitous route through comedy, poetry and bottle top collection.  

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