“We don’t have good dreams. Only nightmares,”
say residents of the city of Jharia in eastern India, the largest coal deposit in the country. An underground fire rages under a thin layer of soil. The flame burns houses. People are afraid to sleep.

Acrid smoke spreads over the terrain, and dust hangs in the air. Due to poor ecology, most residents suffer from chronic diseases. As a result, many died of cancer, tuberculosis and asthma. But the locals are more afraid of starvation than death. Therefore, they continue to work for a local coal mining company.

The government is relocating people to other areas. But it is harder to live there without a job and money than in their home villages. Watch the video about the city on coal. Then, learn more in the documentary Inferno Village.

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All the details of the conflict in Ukraine are on the Dig Deep Documentary YouTube channel! Watch videos and documentary films from reporters on the ground to get the full picture. Subscribe and share with your friends.

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‘People came, and they [Ukrainians] shot them with machine guns. They dispersed people, so they could not get even technical water,’

Alexey, a resident of Mariupol, described how Ukrainian snipers shot civilians when they went to fetch water from a well. Thus they restricted access to water. The residents had to drain it from water radiators. According to Alexey, these actions by the Ukrainian military took place even before the Russian army arrived.

Alexey is one of the characters in our film VolunTears, where Mariupol residents recount the horrors of those days when the Ukrainian army controlled the city.

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‘It’s a real NATO group. Soldiers from America, the UK, Denmark, Sweden, and Latvia. These instructors lived here! They trained Ukrainian soldiers to conform to NATO standards.’

Daniil Martynov is fighting in the Russian special operation as one of the commanders of Chechen divisions. He has vast experience, taking part in many significant combat operations. Daniil claims there are large quantities of drugs and NATO equipment at every captured Ukrainian checkpoint.

According to the commander, Kiev’s nationalist propaganda puts a lot of pressure on Ukrainian soldiers to enter the battlefield: ‘We captured soldiers and interrogated them... They all say: ‘You know, it was drummed into us that you are the enemy. That you want to destroy us, wipe us out completely’.

Daniil Martynov is a subject in the film 'We’re Fighting the World’s Evil' about the Russian special operation in Ukraine.

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Watch how newborn pandas are raised and become strong adults. The Giant panda is one of the wildlife protection symbols.

China is the only country where pandas still live in the wild. The panda breeding centre in Chengdu employs highly qualified specialists. As a result, the pandas live in safety and have the right conditions for successful procreation, and the cubs are given all the care to ensure they survive. The process of raising a panda is shown in our video.

To learn more about how China saves giant pandas in the documentary It's a Pandaful Life!

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‘As soon as you notice the change, when you’re lighter after using cream, you feel more beautiful’, these are the words of a black Senegalese woman Khuja, who bleaches her skin.

Many Senegalese women use skin whitening cream. They think they look prettier that way. But this procedure is hazardous, and it can lead to several terrible diseases. However, this does not stop women.

Doctors are calling for a ban on the import of brightening creams into the country. But the cosmetic business brings in billions of dollars, and no one wants to give up such profits.

See more about these women in the video and our film Beauty and the Bleach.

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‘Azov fighters deserve the death penalty. But the death penalty is not from a bullet but by hanging. Because they are not fighters, they are not warriors’.

Yashat lived with his family on the territory of Azovstal plant. For more than a month, they hid from the shelling of the Azov fighters in the basement. It was not safe to leave the shelter even at night. ‘They shoot at our legs, they just shoot with bullets, so we can’t even go to the toilet... We lived in dog conditions’, says Irina, Yashat's wife.

Memories of civilians of the actions of the Azov will be included in the new RT Documentary film premiering soon.

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Two years ago, the World Health Organisation excluded being transgender from the list of mental disorders. But is it the real salvation? In most cases, psychological problems are not being solved by changing sex.

A character in our film, Walt Heyer, says, '40% of people attempting suicide are people who regret ever-changing genders'.

Walt was suffering from gender dysphoria, the feeling of being uncomfortable with his original sex. Doctors insisted a sex transition would be the solution, but it didn't help. Changing the gender did not solve the internal problems but only made them stronger.

Watch our video to see why Walt didn't overcome gender identification problems by changing sex. You can learn more about transgender people who regretted changing sex in our documentary film I Want My Sex Back.

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'Our real life happens here. Our children grow up here. Raising kids in the tundra is tough, but children are still needed'. That what's our film's subject says about living in the far North.

Pavla lives in the tundra, and she is a ‘chumwife’, a housewife of Russia’s traditional far North nomadic people. She runs all the household and brings up children by herself. Her family also raise deer. Watch our video to learn more about their life.

Pavla's family story is in the documentary Tundra Wonder Mums.

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“These are the Nazis; they [the Armed Forces of Ukraine] tortured us for eight years before. Now they want to show that they are protecting Ukraine.”

When the Ukrainian military was in the city, Mariupol residents told how they lived without food, water, or heat. How relatives, friends, and neighbours who died from Ukrainian shelling were buried. “I want to convey to Zelensky personally: “Can this be allowed? After all, it was possible to solve everything humanly.” And he, the scoundrel, decided to destroy us? says a resident.

Only after the departure of the Ukrainian army, where possible, did they begin to restore the water supply and conduct electricity gradually.

Memories of Mariupol residents about the atrocities of the Ukrainian army will be included in our new film. And also the chronology of events and how the nationalist movement was formed in Ukraine. Premiere soon. Do not miss it.

#Mariupol #Ukraine

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‘They [Ukrainian military] hit their own people. Snipers shot from the factory from different... civilian passageways at people riding bicycles. It is not clear what for or why they suppressed civilians.’ In an exclusive interview with RT Documentary, a fighter of the Vostok battalion, codename ‘Iron’, described the behaviour of the Ukrainian military hiding at the Azovstal plant. The soldier took part in the liberation of the plant from Ukrainian forces after more than three months. Russian troops repeatedly offered the occupiers to surrender, but they refused. It was not until 20 May they laid down their arms and walked out with a white flag.

The Vostok battalion soldier thinks the captured Ukrainian soldiers should be taken to a tribunal: ‘They’re military, aren’t they? Yes. They [Ukrainian military] make a sack of meat and bones out of them.’ More fighters’ stories in our new film premiering soon.

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Rwanda has the highest percentage of women members of parliament in the world. More than sixty percent of elected representatives are women. It’s partly due to the genocide of 1994 when up to a million people were slaughtered. Since then, women have accounted for the bulk of the working population. Now they work everywhere: in government, commerce, and even construction.

Rwanda’s female population argues the country is now equal, and it is women who have made it happy and prosperous. Watch our clip and documentary Rwanda: Women in Charge about brave and decisive Rwanda women.

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Do you know what ‘take on the moustache’ means? And why are fishermen not afraid to fall through the ice when a nuclear-powered ship cuts it next to it? And why is there only one woman on some icebreakers?

Watch our premiere Iceline. Lifeline. It is about the ‘Siberia’, Russia’s newest icebreaker. At the beginning of this year, it went straight from the shipyard to the Arctic to escort convoys.

Maksim Zhitnyak serves as the first mate on the icebreaker. We talked about him in 2014 in documentary Seven Seas of Ice when he first joined the fleet. Maksim recalls that at that time, he was greatly tormented by seasickness. ‘For three weeks, I could not get used to pitching’, he said. Today he’s an experienced sailor, and his ‘Siberia’ solves the most difficult tasks in the Arctic. Which you can know from the post.

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‘It’s better to depend on yourself than on the government for protection. What is the downside here? The downside is your family members might not survive because you made the wrong choice of being prepared. You thought that your government would take care of you.’

Kansas businessman Larry Hall is convinced of this. He sells seats in a luxury bunker that used to be a ballistic missile silo. The underground shelter looks like a five-star hotel and perhaps even surpasses it. The bunker has luxurious apartments, a saltwater swimming pool, and even a clinic with an operating room. People can live here in comfort and safety for a year.

The demand for bunkers in the USA is high, and sellers are ready to supply rich clients and less wealthy buyers too. What bunkers are available in the USA, and what threats push Americans to buy them - watch the documentary Armageddon Ready to find out.

#Kansas #bunker

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When a tantrum is the only argument, Vladimir Zelensky’s adviser Oleksiy Arestovych says Ukraine will “arrange an exemplary tantrum” if America doesn’t supply it with missile systems.

Earlier, US President Joe Biden said, “We’re not going to send to Ukraine rocket systems that can strike into Russia.”

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May 31 is World No Tobacco Day, highlighting the problem of tobacco-related diseases. Some smokers have switched to vaping to solve their addiction. But experts say it can cause others as much harm.

'Having the tube down my throat was really uncomfortable, and in my drugged state, I wanted to rip it out,' said Alex, who spent three terrifying weeks on life support. He was a vape user, and his lungs failed after trying a new vape juice. Alex’s parents thought he was on his deathbed. Watch our video to know how his story ended.

What do we know about vaping? We talked to Alex, his parents, vape proponents, and health officials in our documentary EVALI, Vapes of Death. Watch the film to find out more.

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‘I don’t know what the Azov fighters were taking because they were going under their AGS, their SPG. Heavy shelling. An average person would hardly run towards their bursts because the chance of being hit is high,’ a Vostok battalion fighter, codenamed ‘Forest’, described the actions of Ukrainian nationalists at the Azovstal plant exclusively to RT Documentary.

The plant is enormous, covering 11 square kilometres. It has underground spaces and long tunnels where the Ukrainian military hid from the shelling. This footage shows a fighter from the Vostok battalion explaining the DNR army's tactics in overpowering Azovstal and describing how and from where the fighting was launched. He also points out the remains of ammunition, the destroyed workshop and other premises after the surrender of the Ukrainian military. This episode will be included in our new film, premiering soon.

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India’s Supreme Court has recognized prostitution as a profession. Therefore, the police should refrain from intervening if a sex worker is of legal age and is participating with consent.

But not every sex worker does the job on their own. India’s Muzaffarpur red-light district is home to more than 2,500 sex workers. Most are there due to poverty or were sold, kidnapped or coerced to follow in their mothers’ footsteps. Watch the story of Chandini, who was sold into prostitution by her parents in our video.

To learn more about the dark business, including prostitution and people trafficking, watch the documentary film Dance, Sex, Dance.

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‘Some Ukrainian soldiers located in the industrial zone wanted to leave. They got already tired of this war. They were ready to go to prison but not to fight’, says the LPR militiaman with the callsign Yugoslav. He says the Ukrainians who decided to lay down their arms were shot by their own side. ‘We assigned them a rallying point, and before adjusting the equipment for evacuation, they worked out Grads at this rally point. ‘Ukrops' fired the Grads on their soldiers’.

Yugoslav joined the LPR militia in 2014. Then he got his callsign because he fought in Yugoslavia in the 90s. The man is one of the characters in the new RT Documentary film about the Lugansk People’s Republic. Wait for the premiere.

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