The Fifth Floor: Inside the Taliban's surveillance network

第五层:塔利班监控网络的内部视角

The Documentary Podcast

社会与文化

2025-04-19

26 分钟
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There are over 90,000 hi-definition CCTV cameras in Kabul, watching everyone’s movements. What are the Taliban using this footage for? BBC Afghan Services' journalist Mahjooba Nowrouzi was granted exclusive access into the country’s top security control room. Plus, BBC Mundo's William Márquez on the history of Charles Darwin's house, and Mayuresh Gopal reports for BBC Marathi on the geological and historical relevance of India's Lonar Crater Lake. Presented by Faranak Amidi Produced by Alice Gioia, Caroline Ferguson and Hannah Dean (Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich.)
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  • Right now, over 90,000 high definition CCTV cameras are switched on in the centre of Kabul.

  • They are watching everyone's movements.

  • BBC Afghan Services journalist Mahjuba was recently granted exclusive access to the Taliban's surveillance network,

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  • In this clip, Mahjuba is talking to a police spokesman.

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  • you can see lots of details, including people's faces and number plates.

  • What are the Taliban using this Serbian lens footage for?