Julian Assange can be extradited to the US
#photo #UK
A UK court has ruled in favour of the US appeal to extradite Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder is wanted on 18 charges relating to the WikiLeaks release of classified documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If convicted, he faces a maximum 175-year sentence. In January, a district court refused the US extradition request due to concerns over his mental health.
Assange’s fiancee, Stella Moris, called the decision ‘a grave miscarriage of justice’.
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A UK court has ruled in favour of the US appeal to extradite Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder is wanted on 18 charges relating to the WikiLeaks release of classified documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If convicted, he faces a maximum 175-year sentence. In January, a district court refused the US extradition request due to concerns over his mental health.
Assange’s fiancee, Stella Moris, called the decision ‘a grave miscarriage of justice’.
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#video #Russia
For some bloggers, who gathered to collectively generate content in a TikTok House, it is a way to get more media attention — Timur sees the opportunity as a stepping stone in his singing career. Valentina, on the other hand, has completely changed her life thanks to TikTok House. She abandoned her economics background and reinvented herself as a photographer. Eva dropped out of school and has garnered the attention of thousands of followers.
They all had different reasons for joining TikTok House, but all of them are certain it was an invaluable experience and a chance to grow and creatively express themselves.
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For some bloggers, who gathered to collectively generate content in a TikTok House, it is a way to get more media attention — Timur sees the opportunity as a stepping stone in his singing career. Valentina, on the other hand, has completely changed her life thanks to TikTok House. She abandoned her economics background and reinvented herself as a photographer. Eva dropped out of school and has garnered the attention of thousands of followers.
They all had different reasons for joining TikTok House, but all of them are certain it was an invaluable experience and a chance to grow and creatively express themselves.
Tune in for the premiere of Inside TikTok House right now on RT Documentary
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#video #SouthAfrica
Exactly 25 years ago, Nelson Mandela signed South Africa’s new constitution guaranteeing equal rights to all people regardless of race. Mandela became the first black president of a country that once had white supremacy and racial segregation laws. Under apartheid, the black population had almost no civil rights.
Decades later, South Africa remains segregated. Land distribution is a stark example. White South Africans still own 72% of rural land, where black people are labourers. Much of that land was forcibly confiscated from the African population generations ago.
Next month, the South African government will discuss a bill to expropriate white-owned land without compensation. A law would permit the seizure of land which is not used or is held for speculation.
Here’s part of an interview with Zanele Lwana of the radical ‘Black First Land First’ party that vehemently defends the bill. For more, watch our documentary.
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Exactly 25 years ago, Nelson Mandela signed South Africa’s new constitution guaranteeing equal rights to all people regardless of race. Mandela became the first black president of a country that once had white supremacy and racial segregation laws. Under apartheid, the black population had almost no civil rights.
Decades later, South Africa remains segregated. Land distribution is a stark example. White South Africans still own 72% of rural land, where black people are labourers. Much of that land was forcibly confiscated from the African population generations ago.
Next month, the South African government will discuss a bill to expropriate white-owned land without compensation. A law would permit the seizure of land which is not used or is held for speculation.
Here’s part of an interview with Zanele Lwana of the radical ‘Black First Land First’ party that vehemently defends the bill. For more, watch our documentary.
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#video #Russia
Has your childhood dream come true?
Members of this Russian aero club dreamed of flying, but life got in a way. They pursued other careers like business and IT. They had never flown before coming to the airfield. Now they’re busy training to do loops, rolls, turns, and tail-slides.
Check out the whole story and tell us in the comments about your dream!
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Has your childhood dream come true?
Members of this Russian aero club dreamed of flying, but life got in a way. They pursued other careers like business and IT. They had never flown before coming to the airfield. Now they’re busy training to do loops, rolls, turns, and tail-slides.
Check out the whole story and tell us in the comments about your dream!
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Female bodyguards
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Chances are, if you picture a bodyguard, you’d think of a tall, burly man in a dark suit and glasses. But there are more and more women bodyguards who beat gender stereotypes and potential adversaries. They’re trained, fast and intelligent - but women bodyguards always have to prove they are fit for the job.
Many male sceptics say women are prone to mood swings and lack physical strength. However, female bodyguards have certain advantages - they are less likely to attract attention than a stereotypical male bodyguard and are more likely to resolve a conflict rather than escalate it.
Would you look into women for protection? Share your thoughts in comments and check out the documentary for an inside look at the life of female bodyguards.
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Chances are, if you picture a bodyguard, you’d think of a tall, burly man in a dark suit and glasses. But there are more and more women bodyguards who beat gender stereotypes and potential adversaries. They’re trained, fast and intelligent - but women bodyguards always have to prove they are fit for the job.
Many male sceptics say women are prone to mood swings and lack physical strength. However, female bodyguards have certain advantages - they are less likely to attract attention than a stereotypical male bodyguard and are more likely to resolve a conflict rather than escalate it.
Would you look into women for protection? Share your thoughts in comments and check out the documentary for an inside look at the life of female bodyguards.
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I want to believe 👽🛸
#video #Russia
Molyobka is a quiet village hidden in the Ural taiga that has drawn UFO enthusiasts since the 1980s. One of the most mysterious places in Russia is known as the Molyobka anomalous zone or the M Triangle. People report seeing bright glowing in the sky, shining spheres and Yetis. Ufologists come to explore the otherworldly activities and feel the energy of the place.
RT correspondent Konstantin Rozhkov @Spetscorr spent a fun weekend with a group of ufologists in Molyobka to see if there's anything weird about it.
Do you believe in aliens?
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#video #Russia
Molyobka is a quiet village hidden in the Ural taiga that has drawn UFO enthusiasts since the 1980s. One of the most mysterious places in Russia is known as the Molyobka anomalous zone or the M Triangle. People report seeing bright glowing in the sky, shining spheres and Yetis. Ufologists come to explore the otherworldly activities and feel the energy of the place.
RT correspondent Konstantin Rozhkov @Spetscorr spent a fun weekend with a group of ufologists in Molyobka to see if there's anything weird about it.
Do you believe in aliens?
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#video #Ukraine
On April 26 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl power station. Reactor #4 went up in toxic flames, spewing radiation into the air for many kilometres. Despite the fallout danger, the evacuation didn’t begin until 36 hours after the accident.
Thousands of people from the nearby town of Pripyat left their homes with less than four hours notice, leaving all their possessions behind. They were told they would be gone for a few days, but no one ever returned to Pripyat. As a result, the area will remain uninhabitable for thousands of years to come.
On this day, 21 years ago, the Chernobyl complex was finally shut down, as workers switched off the last remaining reactor, #3. It operated for 14 years after the disaster.
Watch our documentary, Pripyat Poste Restante, to find out more.
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On April 26 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl power station. Reactor #4 went up in toxic flames, spewing radiation into the air for many kilometres. Despite the fallout danger, the evacuation didn’t begin until 36 hours after the accident.
Thousands of people from the nearby town of Pripyat left their homes with less than four hours notice, leaving all their possessions behind. They were told they would be gone for a few days, but no one ever returned to Pripyat. As a result, the area will remain uninhabitable for thousands of years to come.
On this day, 21 years ago, the Chernobyl complex was finally shut down, as workers switched off the last remaining reactor, #3. It operated for 14 years after the disaster.
Watch our documentary, Pripyat Poste Restante, to find out more.
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The brother of North Korea founder dies at 101
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Kim Yong Ju, the youngest brother of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, has died aged 101. He was once seen as the likely successor to his brother but fell out of favour. Little is known about Kim Yong Ju’s personal life. North Korea is the world’s most isolated and secretive country. Access by foreign journalists is heavily restricted. An RT Documentary crew once visited the hermit kingdom.
Here’s a sneak peek from one of our films about North Korea.
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Kim Yong Ju, the youngest brother of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, has died aged 101. He was once seen as the likely successor to his brother but fell out of favour. Little is known about Kim Yong Ju’s personal life. North Korea is the world’s most isolated and secretive country. Access by foreign journalists is heavily restricted. An RT Documentary crew once visited the hermit kingdom.
Here’s a sneak peek from one of our films about North Korea.
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Where salt is a way of life
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Nico is 40, and for 30 of them, he’s been a salero or salt gatherer. Nico’s father and grandfather were saleros too. But the profession of salero is likely to disappear with Nico. It is becoming less popular in Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat.
Nico has a big family of five brothers and two sisters, and he’s one of the few who keep coming to the salt flats, gathering the raw mineral left behind by prehistoric lakes and selling it. But Nico is not just a salero; he’s also an artist. Nico makes sculptures with salt - flamingos, llamas and off-road vehicles.
An RT Documentary’s crew spent ten days with the Bolivian saleros to make a documentary about the people who gather salt 3,500 metres above sea level. It’s coming soon! Subscribe to our channel, and don’t miss our new videos!
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Nico is 40, and for 30 of them, he’s been a salero or salt gatherer. Nico’s father and grandfather were saleros too. But the profession of salero is likely to disappear with Nico. It is becoming less popular in Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat.
Nico has a big family of five brothers and two sisters, and he’s one of the few who keep coming to the salt flats, gathering the raw mineral left behind by prehistoric lakes and selling it. But Nico is not just a salero; he’s also an artist. Nico makes sculptures with salt - flamingos, llamas and off-road vehicles.
An RT Documentary’s crew spent ten days with the Bolivian saleros to make a documentary about the people who gather salt 3,500 metres above sea level. It’s coming soon! Subscribe to our channel, and don’t miss our new videos!
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#video #Thailand
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Kanittha ‘Cook’ Thongnaki from Thailand has come up with an unconventional way to fight clothing waste. She gives the clothes of dead peoples’ clothes new life. Cook sells items donated from relatives of the deceased or Buddhist monasteries in her online store.
But the main twist is that Cook dresses as a Zombie to add a shock value to her business. Surprisingly, her home town embraced the idea. ‘Don’t be scared,’ Cook urges. All her clothes go through a ritual cleansing ceremony. They are also very cheap.
Clothes that can’t be reused turn into custom ghost-like dolls.
Do you also hate when good clothes go to waste?
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Reduce, reuse, recycle. Kanittha ‘Cook’ Thongnaki from Thailand has come up with an unconventional way to fight clothing waste. She gives the clothes of dead peoples’ clothes new life. Cook sells items donated from relatives of the deceased or Buddhist monasteries in her online store.
But the main twist is that Cook dresses as a Zombie to add a shock value to her business. Surprisingly, her home town embraced the idea. ‘Don’t be scared,’ Cook urges. All her clothes go through a ritual cleansing ceremony. They are also very cheap.
Clothes that can’t be reused turn into custom ghost-like dolls.
Do you also hate when good clothes go to waste?
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Mysterious sleeping sickness
#video #Kazakhstan
In a small Kazakh village, people suddenly fall asleep and don’t wake up for days. Since 2013, residents have been complaining of sleepiness, hallucinations and memory loss. The inexplicable sleeping sickness epidemic has gripped the village, forcing locals to flee and scientists to scratch their heads.
If you try to wake up an affected person, it seems they can’t open their eyes. People sleep and sleep. Researchers are trying to work out what’s causing the sleeping sickness. From mass psychosis to food poisoning, they’ve put forward various theories. More recently, they were looking into groundwater contamination by the uranium mines.
If you like a mystery, check out the full documentary.
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#video #Kazakhstan
In a small Kazakh village, people suddenly fall asleep and don’t wake up for days. Since 2013, residents have been complaining of sleepiness, hallucinations and memory loss. The inexplicable sleeping sickness epidemic has gripped the village, forcing locals to flee and scientists to scratch their heads.
If you try to wake up an affected person, it seems they can’t open their eyes. People sleep and sleep. Researchers are trying to work out what’s causing the sleeping sickness. From mass psychosis to food poisoning, they’ve put forward various theories. More recently, they were looking into groundwater contamination by the uranium mines.
If you like a mystery, check out the full documentary.
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Life in the Shaolin Kung Fu school
#video #China
Kung fu, or wushu, is a popular sport and an essential part of Chinese culture. There are still dozens of kung fu boarding schools in the country.
The daily grind in the schools is harsh. Discipline is key in studying traditional martial arts, so children train from dawn till dusk and manage to squeeze in some studies too.
Parents don’t come often, and students learn to be self-reliant. Life in the kung fu school sounds hard, so why do parents send their children away? Find out in our documentary, Little Miss Kung Fu.
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#video #China
Kung fu, or wushu, is a popular sport and an essential part of Chinese culture. There are still dozens of kung fu boarding schools in the country.
The daily grind in the schools is harsh. Discipline is key in studying traditional martial arts, so children train from dawn till dusk and manage to squeeze in some studies too.
Parents don’t come often, and students learn to be self-reliant. Life in the kung fu school sounds hard, so why do parents send their children away? Find out in our documentary, Little Miss Kung Fu.
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Jungle doctor
#video #Brazil
Dr Erik Jennings is like Marvel’s Doctor Strange. He’s rich and a successful neurosurgeon in Brazil who flies aircraft and sails yachts. Dr Erik is also one of the few allowed to visit the isolated Zo’e tribe. The Zo’e came in contact with outsiders only in the late 1980s. They soon started to fall ill from diseases they had never been exposed to.
Dr Erik has been paying them visits deep in the Amazon rainforest to check their health for 20 years. Now it’s not just infectious viruses that threaten the Zo’e; pressure is mounting from mining companies, illegal logging and fires.
Click to watch the full documentary about Dr Jennings and the Zoe tribe.
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#video #Brazil
Dr Erik Jennings is like Marvel’s Doctor Strange. He’s rich and a successful neurosurgeon in Brazil who flies aircraft and sails yachts. Dr Erik is also one of the few allowed to visit the isolated Zo’e tribe. The Zo’e came in contact with outsiders only in the late 1980s. They soon started to fall ill from diseases they had never been exposed to.
Dr Erik has been paying them visits deep in the Amazon rainforest to check their health for 20 years. Now it’s not just infectious viruses that threaten the Zo’e; pressure is mounting from mining companies, illegal logging and fires.
Click to watch the full documentary about Dr Jennings and the Zoe tribe.
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Marijuana Victims
#video #USA
Marijuana legalisation has been making strides in the US since Colorado became the first state to legalise recreational pot in 2012. It’s become more socially acceptable. In 2020, an estimated 3.43 million used recreational cannabis in the US. But the cannabis they’re consuming is far more potent than joints passed around at Woodstock. Cannabis has become a lucrative business claiming lives.
Johnny Stack was only 19 when he took his own life. His parents blame recreational marijuana that flooded Colorado’s many marijuana shops in various forms. Johnny used marijuana since the age of 14, abusing high-THC concentrates, such as wax, oil and shatter.
‘It was the only way he knew how to end this pain,’ says Johnny’s mother, Laura. She and other opponents of marijuana legalisation speak out in our new documentary. Tune in for the premiere right now!
Let us know what’s your stance on recreational cannabis in the comments!
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#video #USA
Marijuana legalisation has been making strides in the US since Colorado became the first state to legalise recreational pot in 2012. It’s become more socially acceptable. In 2020, an estimated 3.43 million used recreational cannabis in the US. But the cannabis they’re consuming is far more potent than joints passed around at Woodstock. Cannabis has become a lucrative business claiming lives.
Johnny Stack was only 19 when he took his own life. His parents blame recreational marijuana that flooded Colorado’s many marijuana shops in various forms. Johnny used marijuana since the age of 14, abusing high-THC concentrates, such as wax, oil and shatter.
‘It was the only way he knew how to end this pain,’ says Johnny’s mother, Laura. She and other opponents of marijuana legalisation speak out in our new documentary. Tune in for the premiere right now!
Let us know what’s your stance on recreational cannabis in the comments!
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My two wives
#video #Kazakhstan
In Kazakhstan, some men take more than one wife. The second and subsequent wives are called ‘tokal’. They are usually younger than the first wife, known as ‘baibishe’. Even though polygamy is technically illegal in the country, it’s a widespread practice, and it’s gathering pace again.
‘It’s up to you whether to introduce your tokal to baibishe. But bring both on vacation’, says a commercial for a popular flights finder. For many men, polygamy is about status. Kanishbek is one of them. He’s 57 and has two wives - one lives in Almaty and the other in Nur-Sultan. Kanishbek is actively searching for more younger women who could give birth to more children.
Learn more about his story and polygamy in Kazakhstan in our documentary, Tokal. And let us know what you think of polygamy in the comments! Would you agree to a polygamous family?
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#video #Kazakhstan
In Kazakhstan, some men take more than one wife. The second and subsequent wives are called ‘tokal’. They are usually younger than the first wife, known as ‘baibishe’. Even though polygamy is technically illegal in the country, it’s a widespread practice, and it’s gathering pace again.
‘It’s up to you whether to introduce your tokal to baibishe. But bring both on vacation’, says a commercial for a popular flights finder. For many men, polygamy is about status. Kanishbek is one of them. He’s 57 and has two wives - one lives in Almaty and the other in Nur-Sultan. Kanishbek is actively searching for more younger women who could give birth to more children.
Learn more about his story and polygamy in Kazakhstan in our documentary, Tokal. And let us know what you think of polygamy in the comments! Would you agree to a polygamous family?
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