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The Fifth Floor: Reporting Pakistan's floods

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02/09/2022 GMT

Reporting Pakistan's floods

BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, Reporting Pakistan's floods

Houses destroyed, crops submerged: why this year’s monsoon is so destructive

Houses destroyed, crops submerged: why this year’s monsoon is so destructive.

BBC Urdu’s team of reporters has travelled across Pakistan to report on the impact of the recent floods, which have killed more than 1,200 people and displaced many more. Umer Draz Nangiana went to Rajanpur in southern Punjab to meet the farmers who’ve lost their homes and crops.  

Egypt gets serious about dominoes
In Egypt dominoes is mostly an old-fashioned game played by men in local cafes. But now the Minister of Youth and Sports wants to give it a new image and get Egyptians competing at international level.  BBC Arabic’s Aya Hashim, herself a player, attended the country's first national dominoes championship.

"Small eating" in South Korea
“Mukbang” videos became famous in South Korea with viewers watching hosts eat enormous quantities of food online. But now it's being challenged by “small eating," showing people apparently full after eating only a small bite. So what's behind the change, and is it any healthier?  BBC Korean's Yuna Ku finds out.

Watermelons in Ukraine
Why have watermelons become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance?  BBC Monitoring journalist Margaryta Maliukova remembers watermelons from Kherson, and unpicks the watermelon-based social media memes.  

Colombia's new anti-drugs proposals
The newly elected left-wing president of Colombia has proposed an overhaul of the country’s anti-drugs policy, ending the US-supported ‘war on drugs’.  Gustavo Petro wants to stop the eradication of coca crops and the extradition to the US of traffickers, as Luis Fajardo of BBC Monitoring explains. 

American Uzbeks and the American Dream
Ibrat Safo of BBC Uzbek has travelled across the United States to make a documentary series about Uzbeks who've made new lives in America. He tells us about the stories and dreams he discovered, from pursuing business success, to finding religious freedom, to becoming the person you want to be.

(Photo: Floods in South Punjab Pakistan. Credit: BBC)

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