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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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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
#video #NorthKorea
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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#video #NorthKorea
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
#photo #Bolivia
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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#photo #Bolivia
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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Mass bikini skiing festival in Russia
#video #Russia
If you see a bikini-clad skier or a snowboarder on a ski slope, it must be in Russia! The bikini ski festival is a major attraction at many Russian ski resorts, from Siberia’s Sheregesh to Rosa Khutor in Sochi. Thousands of sports enthusiasts hit the slopes in swimming suits for an annual event. The bikini ski days usually mark the end of the winter season. Despite being held in spring, the festival often sees revellers brave very low temperatures.
It must hurt if you fall over… Would you like to attend such a festival?
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#video #Russia
If you see a bikini-clad skier or a snowboarder on a ski slope, it must be in Russia! The bikini ski festival is a major attraction at many Russian ski resorts, from Siberia’s Sheregesh to Rosa Khutor in Sochi. Thousands of sports enthusiasts hit the slopes in swimming suits for an annual event. The bikini ski days usually mark the end of the winter season. Despite being held in spring, the festival often sees revellers brave very low temperatures.
It must hurt if you fall over… Would you like to attend such a festival?
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#video #USSR
Thirty years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation as Soviet president on state TV. The Soviet flag was lowered for the last time at the Kremlin, and the USSR was no more.
In the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev launched his flagship policies of Perestroika and Glasnost to transform the country and pull it out of stagnation. Instead, it only worsened the shortages and unleashed a wave of criticism. Gorbachev is widely revered in the West but is often criticised at home for ending the Soviet Union.
You can learn more about the dramatic events that unfolded in 1991 before Gorbachev’s resignation speech in our documentary here.
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Thirty years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation as Soviet president on state TV. The Soviet flag was lowered for the last time at the Kremlin, and the USSR was no more.
In the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev launched his flagship policies of Perestroika and Glasnost to transform the country and pull it out of stagnation. Instead, it only worsened the shortages and unleashed a wave of criticism. Gorbachev is widely revered in the West but is often criticised at home for ending the Soviet Union.
You can learn more about the dramatic events that unfolded in 1991 before Gorbachev’s resignation speech in our documentary here.
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#photo #USA
Devonia Inman walked out of prison this week having served 23 years for a murder he didn’t commit. Devonia was 20 when he was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Donna Brown, a Taco Bell night manager. She was killed in the restaurant’s parking lot and robbed of $1,732.
No physical evidence linked Devonia to the murder. Three of four witnesses in his trial eventually recounted their testimony. Devonia always maintained his innocence. Years after the trial, new DNA evidence in the case surfaced. This year Devonia was given a new trial.
His story is similar to that of Jerome Morgan who spent 20 years in the notorious Angola Prison after a false conviction. RT Documentary made a series about Americans who say they were wronged by the criminal justice system.
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Devonia Inman walked out of prison this week having served 23 years for a murder he didn’t commit. Devonia was 20 when he was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Donna Brown, a Taco Bell night manager. She was killed in the restaurant’s parking lot and robbed of $1,732.
No physical evidence linked Devonia to the murder. Three of four witnesses in his trial eventually recounted their testimony. Devonia always maintained his innocence. Years after the trial, new DNA evidence in the case surfaced. This year Devonia was given a new trial.
His story is similar to that of Jerome Morgan who spent 20 years in the notorious Angola Prison after a false conviction. RT Documentary made a series about Americans who say they were wronged by the criminal justice system.
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#video
Are there really that many hackers from Russia? Are they to blame for all cyberattacks?
In the new episode of the, I am Hacked series, cyber security experts and former hackers separate truth from fiction and explain how easy it is to assume any disguise in cyberspace.
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Are there really that many hackers from Russia? Are they to blame for all cyberattacks?
In the new episode of the, I am Hacked series, cyber security experts and former hackers separate truth from fiction and explain how easy it is to assume any disguise in cyberspace.
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War correspondents and journalists from Russia, the US and Yemen have won the Khaled Alkhateb International Memorial Awards 2021. This annual competition recognizes top-class journalism from conflict zones. It was established in honour of RT Arabic freelancer, Khaled Alkhateb, who died on July 30, 2017 while reporting from the frontlines in Syria.
This year, a new category has been added to the Best Written Journalism from a Conflict Zone and Best Video Journalism from a Conflict Zone awards. The Best Humanitarian Journalism: After the War category showcases both video and written reportage on post-conflict recovery.
Do you admire war journalists?
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This year, a new category has been added to the Best Written Journalism from a Conflict Zone and Best Video Journalism from a Conflict Zone awards. The Best Humanitarian Journalism: After the War category showcases both video and written reportage on post-conflict recovery.
Do you admire war journalists?
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Europe’s football hooligans
#video #Germany
Two walls of tough men stand on opposite sides, ready to clash in a brutal melee. The fight takes just a few minutes and members of the defeated side lie on the ground and cling to their wounds and bruises. It’s not a medieval fight, but a stand-off between rival gangs of football hooligans. For them ’it feels like being in a movie’.
Modern football hooliganism originated in England in the 1960s, when working-class football fans organised into gangs, known as ‘firms’. Now they are all over Europe, from Sweden to Greece. Hooligans are seen as the most fanatical followers of their football clubs, but the love of the fight often seems to outweigh the love of the game.
Many hooligans admit they like the sense of brotherhood and the buzz. They train, arrange fights with rival gangs and vent all their rage and violence on rivals. If you’d like to know more about the culture of football violence, check out our hit documentary.
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#video #Germany
Two walls of tough men stand on opposite sides, ready to clash in a brutal melee. The fight takes just a few minutes and members of the defeated side lie on the ground and cling to their wounds and bruises. It’s not a medieval fight, but a stand-off between rival gangs of football hooligans. For them ’it feels like being in a movie’.
Modern football hooliganism originated in England in the 1960s, when working-class football fans organised into gangs, known as ‘firms’. Now they are all over Europe, from Sweden to Greece. Hooligans are seen as the most fanatical followers of their football clubs, but the love of the fight often seems to outweigh the love of the game.
Many hooligans admit they like the sense of brotherhood and the buzz. They train, arrange fights with rival gangs and vent all their rage and violence on rivals. If you’d like to know more about the culture of football violence, check out our hit documentary.
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