Top 5 videos of the week: From amazing 'sky ladder' fireworks to Hong Kong's all-female video game warriors

Every Saturday, the South China Morning Post presents its top video picks from SCMP.tv and the web, highlighting news, features, mini-documentaries and more.

This week, we highlight the Hong Kong teen girls who are rocking the video game world, along with stunning or shocking visuals from the news including footage from the deadly and tragic Tianjin warehouse explosion in China.

Huge explosions rock Tianjin in northeast China

Dozens of people were killed and up to 700 were injured from a warehouse explosion late on Wednesday in the northeastern Chinese port of Tianjin. The amateur footage shows huge fireballs and thick smoke forming a mushroom cloud in the night sky. The fire was caused by exploding cargo, and was so strong that it blew doors off buildings and shattered windows up to several kilometers away.

Benedict Cumberbatch tells his fans to stop filming him during Hamlet

We live in a technology-fuelled world, but that doesn't mean we should do away with theatre etiquette. After a live performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet, English actor Benedict Cumberbatch gave an impromptu speech to fans outside of the Barbican Theatre in London, asking them to stop filming him during the show and offering a good lesson on living in the moment.