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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: China surveillance system unpicked

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Detailing Chinese surveillance

03/12/2021 GMT

China surveillance system unpicked

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The new Chinese surveillance system targeting international students and journalists

A document published by authorities in Henan, China, has caused quite a stir. It sets a traffic light system to monitor targets like international students and journalists.

The use of surveillance systems in China is not new, but a recent document published by local authorities in the province of Henan gave explicit details of a traffic light system, targeting international students and journalists, among others. Howard Zhang, from BBC Chinese tells us more.

Siberian husky or Andean fox?
A Peruvian family in Lima bought a puppy they believed was a Siberian Husky.  But when Run Run began eating the neighbours' chickens and guinea pigs they realised something was wrong, as BBC Mundo contributor Martin Riepl explains. 

Why it's hard to recruit women to Liberia's army 
Liberia is trying to recruit 200 women to join the army. There are no shortage of takers - 7,000 turned out for a training event - but historically it's proved hard to find women who make the grade, as BBC Africa stringer Jonathan Paye-Leyleh in Monrovia reports. 

Luxor's Avenue of the Sphinxes 
Pharaonic chariots and massed ranks of performers featured in the lavish ceremony to mark the reopening of the 3,000 year old Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor, Egypt. Reda Al Mawy of BBC Arabic explains the history, and modern day relevance, of the site.  

Deportivo Palestino's going home 
In 1920 Palestinian immigrants in Chile founded the 'Deportivo Palestino' football club in Santiago.  A century later the club has opened its first training academy in Ramallah, in the Palestinian Territories.  BBC Arabic reporter Alaa Deraghme and BBC Mundo contributor Paula Molina tells us more about the club’s history and new venture.

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