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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: Living with war: Ukraine's new normal

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A mural in Kyiv's Podil neighbourhood

23/02/2024 GMT

Living with war: Ukraine's new normal

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How Ukrainians have adapted to everyday life in wartime

How Ukrainians have adapted to everyday life in wartime.

Two years after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, we hear from colleagues in BBC Ukrainian about life in Kyiv. How different is the new normal from their old lives, and how have they adapted? Daria Taradai and Halyna Korba share their stories.

Sri Lanka's cashew village 
Kajugama is famous for its cashew nuts, in fact its name means "cashew village" in Sinhala.  Many local women depend on selling cashews to make a living, but the business is in decline and they're struggling to earn enough. BBC Sinhala's Shirly Upul Kumara finds out why.

Searching for an identity – Chinese or Indonesian?
BBC journalist Trisha Husada has been investigating her own identity as an Indonesian of Chinese descent.  In the past, there was pressure on Chinese Indonesians to assimilate, changing their names and abandoning their culture.  Trisha tells us what she discovered from talking to friends, relatives and experts about what it means now to be Chinese Indonesian.

The women carpenters of the Hunza valley
In the Hunza valley in northern Pakistan, there is an all female carpentry workshop.  The work they've undertaken includes the renovation of two of Gilgit Baltistan's ancient forts. Nazish Faiz of BBC Urdu met the women to find out how they got into carpentry. 

(Photo: A mural in Kyiv's Podil neighbourhood. Credit: Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images)

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