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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: Memorable interviews from 2022

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Damage of Russian bombing of Borodiansk

30/12/2022 GMT

Memorable interviews from 2022

BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, Memorable interviews from 2022

The people and stories our journalists can't forget

Who are the most memorable people and stories from 2022 for our colleagues in the language services? Faranak Amidi finds out.

In a year packed with big news stories, who are the interviewees whose stories have stayed with our language service colleagues?

BBC Ukrainian's Zhanna Bezpiatchuk tells the story of the teenager forced to flee his home in Borodianka, who now dreams of becoming a journalist.  
BBC Pashto's Shazia Haya shares the story of a mother of daughters now denied their secondary school education.  
Parham Ghobadi from BBC Persian led the coverage of the death in mysterious circumstances of 16-year-old Nika Shakarami during the Iranian protests.  
Olga Ivshina takes us on a trawl of the BBC Russian inbox where she discovered a plea for help, which she immediatley responded to. 
BBC Africa's Bella Sheegow explains why reporting on the assassination of female Somali politician Amina Mohamed Abdi had such an impact on her.
BBC Indian languages' Nitin Srivastava tells us about a tea picker in Assam whose livelihood is dwindling because of climate change.
And BBC Brasil's Nathalia Passarinho remembers her interviews at COP27 in Egypt, where Brazil announced a huge shift in environmental policy.


(Photo: Damage of Russian bombing of Borodiansk. Credit: Nicola Marfisi/AGF/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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