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World Service,31 May 2013,49 mins

Weapons and the media

The Fifth Floor

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A fresh look at the week's global news from across the World Service's 27 language sections, with presenter David Amanor. WEAPONS AND THE MEDIA What separates an M16 from an AK47? BBC Editor Olexiy Solohubenko and Rafid Jaboori of BBC Arabic unpick the language of weaponry FOOTBALL CHECHEN STYLE As Grozny stadium hosts the Russian Football Cup Final, the Fifth Floor's Natia Abramia looks into what the game means for Chechnya and its leader BEING AN ARAB JEW What does it mean to be a Mizrahim - an Arab Jew? BBC Arabic's Omar Abdel-Razek has been trying to unravel a tricky question of identity COLOMBIAN BURIAL Arturo Wallace of BBC Mundo meets a Colombian man who for the past ten years has been fishing bodies out of the river near his home, victims of the violent struggle waged upstream. NEW RIO GALLERY Conflict in art, an exhibition at Rio's newest gallery has had more than 24,000 visitors. BBC Africa's Manuel Toledo was one of them. Image: An assortment of AK 47s at a military base Credit: AP Photo/Richard Lewis

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