Memorable interviews from 2022

The people and stories our journalists can't forget

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The decline of Ukraine’s oligarchs

How the war with Russia has impacted Ukraine’s super-rich businessmen

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Why Kenyan pupils are burning schools

What is driving the phenomenon of Kenyan students burning their boarding schools?

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Belarus language crackdown

Why it's become dangerous to speak Belarusian in Belarus

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Ukraine’s corruption crackdown

How has the war affected Ukraine’s long-running efforts to deal with corruption?

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The Myanmar coup, two years on

Protest, conflict and exile: we hear about Myanmar, two years after the military coup

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Reporting the earthquake

How BBC Turkish and BBC Arabic have been reporting the earthquake disaster

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BBC Ukrainian: A year of war

Stories of displacement, separation and front line reporting from BBC Ukrainian

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BBC Russian: Meet the Riga team

A new life and a new way of working for BBC Russian’s Moscow journalists, now in Latvia

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Reporting Iran's school poisonings

The challenges of investigating what’s behind the wave of school poisonings in Iran

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The Belarusians fighting in Ukraine

Who are the Kalinowski Regiment, and why are they fighting Russia in Ukraine?

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Aid, politics and Syria’s earthquake

The challenges and opportunities posed by February’s earthquake in Syria

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The Fifth Floor in São Paulo

BBC Brasil: reporting division and diversity at a time of change

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Exposing bogus blindness treatments

The story behind BBC Arabic’s investigation into bogus treatments for RP

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Indian students returning to Ukraine

Why medical students evacuated in 2022 are returning to Ukraine

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Defending against the death penalty

The independent lawyers in Iran trying to save protesters

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Uganda's child pregnancy problem

Why did child pregnancies rise 300% post Covid?

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Artists targeted by the state

How artists and celebrities in Iran and Russia are facing pressure from the state

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A lifeline for Sudan

BBC Arabic's new emergency radio service for Sudan

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Leaving Sudan

Harassed and unable to report: why BBC Arabic’s Mohamed Osman fled Sudan

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Reporting Cyclone Mocha

Reporting from the heart of the cyclone in Myanmar and Bangladesh

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Manipur’s deadly tribal clashes

BBC Delhi’s Raghvendra Rao reports on the deadly ethnic clashes in India’s Manipur state

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India's women-led households

The numbers of women-led households is rising, so what impact will this have on India?

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Afghanistan’s opium problem

How Afghanistan became the world's biggest producer of opium

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Jungle craft and childhood games

How four children survived 40 days in the Colombian jungle

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Two villages that lost their sons

Why did so many young men from two small villages drown on the migrant ship?

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Who's behind Syria's Captagon trade?

How the multi-billion dollar Captagon drug trade is controlled by Syrian elites

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Tracking Pakistan’s petrol smugglers

Following in the tracks of the drivers smuggling Iranian petrol into Pakistan

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Prigozhin and the President

Reading behind the headlines of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin's failed mutiny

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Stories from Sudan Lifeline radio

BBC Arabic shares stories of tragedy and hope from Lifeline radio

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India shamed: Manipur women speak up

Why women in India’s Manipur state are speaking out about sexual violence

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Beirut port explosion: 3 years on

BBC Arabic’s Carine Torbey meets the people living without answers or justice

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Reporting the global heatwave

Wildfires in Tunisia, South Korean ‘fox-rain’ and enduring a Baghdad bakery

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Peshawar's school for Afghans

The teacher offering free schooling for Afghan children in Peshawar

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Families facing starvation in Tigray

Thousands in Ethiopia's Tigray region have to beg for food to survive

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Reporting Pakistan's cable car rescue

Stories from survivors of the cable car accident and insights into their lives

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Anti-government protests in Syria

How anger at living conditions has become direct criticism of President Bashar al-Assad

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Mahsa Amini: The woman behind the icon

Mahsa's mother Mojgan Eftekhari gives her first interview

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Helping Libya’s flood survivors

Saving lives in Derna: insights into BBC Media Action’s lifeline programming

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Venezuela's extraordinary prison raid

Retaking control of gang-run Tocorón jail, which had a nightclub, pool even a mini-zoo

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Pakistan and Iran: Expelling Afghans

The growing pressure on undocumented Afghans in Pakistan and Iran to return home

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Reporting the Israel Gaza conflict

How the BBC’s language services are reporting Israel's war with Hamas

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Israel Gaza conflict: the war of words

How BBC Monitoring is reporting and analysing news from the heart of the conflict

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Meet the BBC Korean team in Seoul

The Fifth Floor meets the team reporting news for audiences in North and South Korea

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What's happening in Ukraine?

The latest on the war from BBC Ukrainian and BBC Monitoring

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A lifeline for Gaza

BBC Arabic's new emergency radio service for Gaza

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Eagles helping locate Israel's dead

Rare bird tracking data helps locate missing bodies from 7th October attacks

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Sudan's IDP crisis

Sudan has five million internally displaced people forced from their homes by the war

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Breathless: The human cost of flaring

How the oil industry’s gas flaring habit is putting health at risk

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Somalia after the floods

The impact of Somalia's flood crisis, following years of drought

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Ukraine: Ancient and modern

Diplomatic and military challenges, but victory on the return of ancient treasures

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Myanmar: the world's top opium producer

Why cultivation of the opium poppy in Myanmar is expanding

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Stories of hope and joy

Seagull neighbours, forest regeneration and a visit home: hopeful stories from 2023

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Rushdi Abualouf: family, work and war

The BBC’s Rushdi Abualouf on reporting the war in Gaza, and now watching from outside

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Discovering the real TB Joshua

The dark secrets behind the success of the late TB Joshua, Nigerian megachurch founder

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Bring them home: Israel's hostages

The families of Israel’s hostages trying to get them home

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Balochistan: Iran-Pakistan conflict

Why are allies Iran and Pakistan firing missiles at each other’s Baloch provinces?

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Election symbols in Pakistan

Arrows, tigers and cricket bats: why party symbols matter in Pakistan elections

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What is happening at Zaporizhzhia?

Investigating safety concerns at Ukraine’s huge nuclear power plant, occupied by Russia

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Medicines and cinema: Gaza Lifeline

BBC Arabic’s Gaza Lifeline features everything from life-saving tips to cinema camps

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Living with war: Ukraine's new normal

How Ukrainians have adapted to everyday life in wartime

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Searching for missing migrants

The volunteers looking for migrants missing in the Sonoran Desert

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The gangs of Haiti

Lawlessness and chaos: how Haiti's gangs became so powerful

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Israel’s Orthodox Jews and the army

Protests in Israel over the army exemption for ultra-Orthodox Jews

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Women's radio in Afghanistan

The women making ‘lifeline’ radio for their sisters confined at home

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From prison to president

The extraordinary rise of Senegal's Bassirou Diomaye Faye

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My Ramadan

How are people observing Ramadan around the world, and why is it different this year?

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A journalist’s life in Israel

What is it like to live and work as a journalist in Israel right now?

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My emergency kit list

How do you prepare for the worst-case scenario?

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The disinformation wars

How is disinformation created and spread? Stories from Latin America, Russia and Nigeria

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