Nairobi: Reporting Terror
Reporting Nairobi's Terror; Ladakh Film Festival; UN Dos and Don'ts; and Niyamgiri Hills.
A fresh look at the week's global news from across the World Service's 27 language sections, with presenter David Amanor.
Reporting Terror
Dodging bullets on live TV: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa's Anne Soy on reporting from the Westgate shopping mall siege in Nairobi.
What is it like to interview Al Shabab right after you've covered a story about their victims? Journalistic dilemmas and difficult times for Frenny Jowi in Nairobi and Mohammed Moalimu in Mogadishu.
Tell a story first, deal with your emotions later: the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Serena Chaudhry on how she saw a familiar face among the victims in the Westgate mall, but had to continue editing the footage until the end of her shift.
UN Dos and Don'ts
Snubs, counter-snubs, gaffes and hasty diversions along the UN General Assembly corridors. And who has time to listen to an eight hour speech? We take the Fifth floor microphone to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Russian's Famil Ismailov, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Mundo Natalio Cosoy, South Asia editor Kumar Malhotra, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Persian's Mohammad Vaziri and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa's Rachael Akidi
Ladakh International Film Festival
How far would you go to watch a good movie, or how high? A unique international film festival in Ladakh welcomed guests almost 11,000 feet above sea level. Vandna Vijay from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hindi describes breathtaking movies and oxygen masks.
Mythology versus journalism
A big mining company wants to start digging in a place regarded as sacred by the inhabitants of India's Niyamgiri hills. Faisal Mohammed Ali from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hindi reports on his struggle to get anyone to speak to him thanks to a local superstition in Orissa State.
Online greatest hits
Fifi Haroon with some of the most quirky, salacious, seditious and seductive stories from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s language service websites.
Picture: Anne Soy, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Correspondent in Nairobi, reporting from the Westgate shopping mall attack
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