[WARNING] Almost 200 beached whales in Australia have died
Two hundred whales have died after being stranded on a beach in Tasmania, Australia. Previously, local authorities of the island state reported the discovery of at least 230 whales on the shore, half of them were without signs of life. Only 35 are still alive. Rescuers continue to fight for their lives. Marine biologists said they were hunting for new food sources due to changing water conditions.
Two years ago a similar case occurred in the same place amid the largest mass-stranding in Australia’s history. About 470 long-finned pilot whales were found stuck on sandbars. After a week-long effort, only 111 of those whales were rescued.
While some people work to save whales, others continue to kill them. On the Faroe Islands, for example, locals honor a 1,200 year old annual national tradition called Grindadrap that sees whales herded into shallow bays to be butchered. Why are locals still doing this? Find the answer in the documentary film Red Waters.
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Two hundred whales have died after being stranded on a beach in Tasmania, Australia. Previously, local authorities of the island state reported the discovery of at least 230 whales on the shore, half of them were without signs of life. Only 35 are still alive. Rescuers continue to fight for their lives. Marine biologists said they were hunting for new food sources due to changing water conditions.
Two years ago a similar case occurred in the same place amid the largest mass-stranding in Australia’s history. About 470 long-finned pilot whales were found stuck on sandbars. After a week-long effort, only 111 of those whales were rescued.
While some people work to save whales, others continue to kill them. On the Faroe Islands, for example, locals honor a 1,200 year old annual national tradition called Grindadrap that sees whales herded into shallow bays to be butchered. Why are locals still doing this? Find the answer in the documentary film Red Waters.
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Nothing strange here, just a teacher at a Canadian school.
Made up in such a way, trans teacher of technology Kayla Lemieux conducts classes at Oakville Trafalgar High School in Ontario, Canada. He clearly doesn't mind the impact his dress - complete with huge prosthetic breasts and tight-fitting clothes - will have on children.
The footage triggered a harsh reaction among Internet users. 'This man must be removed from the classroom and steps must be taken to prevent this from ever happening again', wrote one Twitter user. 'As the Ontario Minister of Education, it is your duty to protect Ontario students from being exposed to this teacher’s vulgar sexual fetish', remarked another.
The parents were also understandably worried. But the school administration hastened to reassure them, saying that there is nothing wrong with such behaviour, and to argue otherwise would be discrimination.
It seems that LGBT propaganda is gaining new momentum. Is it acceptable to teach children this way?
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Made up in such a way, trans teacher of technology Kayla Lemieux conducts classes at Oakville Trafalgar High School in Ontario, Canada. He clearly doesn't mind the impact his dress - complete with huge prosthetic breasts and tight-fitting clothes - will have on children.
The footage triggered a harsh reaction among Internet users. 'This man must be removed from the classroom and steps must be taken to prevent this from ever happening again', wrote one Twitter user. 'As the Ontario Minister of Education, it is your duty to protect Ontario students from being exposed to this teacher’s vulgar sexual fetish', remarked another.
The parents were also understandably worried. But the school administration hastened to reassure them, saying that there is nothing wrong with such behaviour, and to argue otherwise would be discrimination.
It seems that LGBT propaganda is gaining new momentum. Is it acceptable to teach children this way?
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Volunteers on Sakhalin rescue seals and sea lions from plastic prisons. The animals get trapped into nets, fishing line, and packing tape and this causes them to choke. Incapable of escaping these traps without human help, the animals die.
'Their necks catch in the net and they’re trapped! They get even more tangled, suffocated and can’t hunt. The net strangles them,' says Andrey Vitulin, head of a public environmental club.
Watch the video to learn how seals are rescued and tune in to see our new film Seal Empire Under Threat.
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'Their necks catch in the net and they’re trapped! They get even more tangled, suffocated and can’t hunt. The net strangles them,' says Andrey Vitulin, head of a public environmental club.
Watch the video to learn how seals are rescued and tune in to see our new film Seal Empire Under Threat.
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All this trash is from the Nile. There is so much of it there that local ecologists have built a giant pyramid out of 250,000 thousand plastic bottles. The structure weighs 7.5 tons.
Microplastic particles have already been found in 70% of fish from the Nile. Meanwhile, the catch of local fishermen is decreasing every day, thus causing their incomes to fall.
Garbage in Egypt is one of the main problems. In Cairo, there is even a whole block of hereditary scavengers — Zabbaleen. Many people suffer from hepatitis from their work, but for locals it is the only source of income. Therefore, even small children go to collect rubbish. Find out more in our film Zabbaleen: Trash Town (2016).
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Microplastic particles have already been found in 70% of fish from the Nile. Meanwhile, the catch of local fishermen is decreasing every day, thus causing their incomes to fall.
Garbage in Egypt is one of the main problems. In Cairo, there is even a whole block of hereditary scavengers — Zabbaleen. Many people suffer from hepatitis from their work, but for locals it is the only source of income. Therefore, even small children go to collect rubbish. Find out more in our film Zabbaleen: Trash Town (2016).
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Argentinian DNA: The Fracture
'These people were kept at military and police facilities. Many were tortured and murdered in cold blood. They were burnt or thrown out of planes alive.' The team of anthropologist Luis Fondebrider finds the remains of the missing in 1976-1983.
During this period, Argentina was under the rule of a military dictatorship. It's still spoken of as one of the most tragic periods in the history of the country. According to various estimates, from 9,000 to 30,000 went missing during this period. The children of the detained oppositionists were taken away and given to other people.
For many years, hundreds of mothers and grandmothers have been coming to the central square of Buenos Aires once a week with photos of stolen children. They hope someday they will return home. This is one of the episodes of our series Argentinian DNA (2019). We post it on the Day of the Political Rights of Argentine Women.
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'These people were kept at military and police facilities. Many were tortured and murdered in cold blood. They were burnt or thrown out of planes alive.' The team of anthropologist Luis Fondebrider finds the remains of the missing in 1976-1983.
During this period, Argentina was under the rule of a military dictatorship. It's still spoken of as one of the most tragic periods in the history of the country. According to various estimates, from 9,000 to 30,000 went missing during this period. The children of the detained oppositionists were taken away and given to other people.
For many years, hundreds of mothers and grandmothers have been coming to the central square of Buenos Aires once a week with photos of stolen children. They hope someday they will return home. This is one of the episodes of our series Argentinian DNA (2019). We post it on the Day of the Political Rights of Argentine Women.
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Photographs by Mohammad Amin, who is deaf and mute, describe better than words the dire situation with regards to poverty in Afghanistan. There are no jobs in the country, and more and more parents are forced to sell their daughters just to survive. Mohammad photographs the plight of these families and tries to draw attention to the problem.
It's not only Muhammad who thinks about how to fight poverty, but also other students of the Nashinavayan school for the deaf and dumb. They paint pictures, embroider canvases, and create donation boxes.
Watch our video and film Afghanistan’s Loud, Mute Voices on the International Day of Sign Languages.
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It's not only Muhammad who thinks about how to fight poverty, but also other students of the Nashinavayan school for the deaf and dumb. They paint pictures, embroider canvases, and create donation boxes.
Watch our video and film Afghanistan’s Loud, Mute Voices on the International Day of Sign Languages.
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Language of the Silk Road
The Great Silk Road is the mostfamous trade route in the history of mankind. It provided a link between Eurasian countries. Caravans with various goods were passing along it in both directions. First of all, with silk. Hence the name.
The length of the Silk Road is more than six thousand kilometres. It took more than one month for a trade caravan to pass it from start to finish. On the International Day of the Caravaneer, watch our film Language of the Silk Road (2017).
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The Great Silk Road is the most
The length of the Silk Road is more than six thousand kilometres. It took more than one month for a trade caravan to pass it from start to finish. On the International Day of the Caravaneer, watch our film Language of the Silk Road (2017).
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Saudi Arabia citizen has married more than 50 times
At first, Abdullah's intentions for marriage were good, he 'was looking for stability'. But after the first wife, something went wrong. He says that was the beginning of the problems, but doesn't specify what they were. Since then he has walked down the aisle 52 more times.
His first marriage turned out to be almost the longest – 3 years. It was followed by a second, a third, and so on, and the shortest of them lasted less than a day. Most of his marriages were with Saudi women, although he also married a foreign women when he travelled outside the Kingdom for his own work. That one lasted 3-4 months. It is not yet known whether the polygamist intends to stop in his search. Let's wish him a luck, and maybe one day he will find a woman who will make him happy.
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At first, Abdullah's intentions for marriage were good, he 'was looking for stability'. But after the first wife, something went wrong. He says that was the beginning of the problems, but doesn't specify what they were. Since then he has walked down the aisle 52 more times.
His first marriage turned out to be almost the longest – 3 years. It was followed by a second, a third, and so on, and the shortest of them lasted less than a day. Most of his marriages were with Saudi women, although he also married a foreign women when he travelled outside the Kingdom for his own work. That one lasted 3-4 months. It is not yet known whether the polygamist intends to stop in his search. Let's wish him a luck, and maybe one day he will find a woman who will make him happy.
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'Our employer doesn’t want pregnant women or responsibility for babies and workers’, says factory worker Roth from Cambodia. She’s one of hundreds of women who has to hide their pregnancy so as not to be fired.
Many female workers in Cambodia can earn $100-200 per month toiling in factories. ‘Don’t work if you don’t want to, we’ll just stop paying you’, Roth says, reciting the words of the company’s representatives.
On Cambodia's Constitution Day, watch our video and documentary Stitched up in Cambodia.
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Many female workers in Cambodia can earn $100-200 per month toiling in factories. ‘Don’t work if you don’t want to, we’ll just stop paying you’, Roth says, reciting the words of the company’s representatives.
On Cambodia's Constitution Day, watch our video and documentary Stitched up in Cambodia.
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'Kids picked on and laughed at me'. Lalit from India remembers how schoolmates bullied him. His body is covered with excessive hair due to a faulty gene. It was hard to be different when he was a child, but as he grew up, Lalit accepted his identity. Now he is a very famous person in India and has many friends. See what he says about how he overcame all the difficulties on the video.
There are more than 25,000 genes in human DNA. If one behaves differently, it can cause various changes. Watch our documentary We Are Different to learn the stories of Lalit and two other people whose appearance is different due to an altered gene and how it affected their lives.
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There are more than 25,000 genes in human DNA. If one behaves differently, it can cause various changes. Watch our documentary We Are Different to learn the stories of Lalit and two other people whose appearance is different due to an altered gene and how it affected their lives.
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Footsteps of the Amur Tiger
The Siberian tiger is known as the 'spirit of the forest ' in China, and they're the largest of the wildcats. They are also solitary creatures, which means that each animal needs its own territory spanning hundreds to thousands of kilometres to hunt.
Also of interest is that the tiger is the only species able to live in the harsh conditions of the far north.
By the middle of the twentieth century there were only about 30 of these animals left in the world. The main reasons for the sharp decline in their number are poaching and the deforestation of their natural habitats. The predator was listed in the Red Book of animals on the verge of extinction. But now its population is recovering.
What measures are being taken to save these amazing animals? Find out in our film In the Footsteps of the Amur Tiger.
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The Siberian tiger is known as the '
Also of interest is that the tiger is the only species able to live in the harsh conditions of the far north.
By the middle of the twentieth century there were only about 30 of these animals left in the world. The main reasons for the sharp decline in their number are poaching and the deforestation of their natural habitats. The predator was listed in the Red Book of animals on the verge of extinction. But now its population is recovering.
What measures are being taken to save these amazing animals? Find out in our film In the Footsteps of the Amur Tiger.
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Would you go on a gastronomic tour? To China, for example. There you can find really exotic food on the street stalls: scorpion kebab, fried grasshoppers, dried silkworms.
Today, the Chinese prefer rather conventional dishes. Grasshoppers and cockroaches today are more of a delicacy than part of a daily diet. The Chinese eat pork, beef, chicken with different sauces. They also like noodles and fried rice. Watch our video and the China on a plate documentary (2019).
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Today, the Chinese prefer rather conventional dishes. Grasshoppers and cockroaches today are more of a delicacy than part of a daily diet. The Chinese eat pork, beef, chicken with different sauces. They also like noodles and fried rice. Watch our video and the China on a plate documentary (2019).
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Until the age of 36, the Argentine Ignacio knew nothing about his real parents. From infancy, he was raised by a foster family. As an adult, Ignacio passed a DNA test. Fortunately, his grandmother was found in the database. All this time she hadn't stopped looking for him.
His mother and father went missing during the military junta of 1976-1983, immediately after the birth of their son. Ignacio was given to another family. Did the meeting with her own grandson make the grandmother happy? See our video.
It contains footage of one of the episodes of our series Argentinian DNA (2019). It shows how the children of political oppositionists were kidnapped and given to other families during the military junta in Argentina. Hundreds of mothers and grandmothers are still looking for their loved ones.
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His mother and father went missing during the military junta of 1976-1983, immediately after the birth of their son. Ignacio was given to another family. Did the meeting with her own grandson make the grandmother happy? See our video.
It contains footage of one of the episodes of our series Argentinian DNA (2019). It shows how the children of political oppositionists were kidnapped and given to other families during the military junta in Argentina. Hundreds of mothers and grandmothers are still looking for their loved ones.
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‘I had a two-year-old child. They threw him in the fire and burned him. They beat the five-year-old aтd threw him into the water. They killed my five-year-old, too.’
Myanmar refugee Momtay Begum recounts how the military wiped out her family. She is a Rohingya Muslim, one of the world’s most oppressed ethnic minorities. In 2017, there was a massacre in the country where Rohingya were burned alive, and many women were raped. Seven hundred twenty thousand people fled the genocide to Thailand and Bangladesh.
RT Documentary crew was invited on a press tour of the refugee camp to see that it was all rumour and exaggeration. But what did the journalists find out? Watch the film Rohingya: Unpeopled to see everything for yourself.
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Myanmar refugee Momtay Begum recounts how the military wiped out her family. She is a Rohingya Muslim, one of the world’s most oppressed ethnic minorities. In 2017, there was a massacre in the country where Rohingya were burned alive, and many women were raped. Seven hundred twenty thousand people fled the genocide to Thailand and Bangladesh.
RT Documentary crew was invited on a press tour of the refugee camp to see that it was all rumour and exaggeration. But what did the journalists find out? Watch the film Rohingya: Unpeopled to see everything for yourself.
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These children work as hard as adults.
At the brick factories in Afghanistan, the youngest are five years old. Despite their age, they all carry jerry cans of water, pour the clay into wooden molds and wait for the bricks to dry. Carts take them to the kilns for firing and then pick up the finished bricks. In the smoldering coal, children look for pieces that can be reused. Sometimes they burn their fingers.
There is a food crisis in Afghanistan. Even children have to work around the clock to earn some money for food. They don't know what toys are, and few have ever gone to school.
Children from Bangladesh also go to work in brick factories with adults. It is unhealthy, but brick-making is almost their only source of income. Our documentary Brick Slaves discusses this dire situation. Watch it here.
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At the brick factories in Afghanistan, the youngest are five years old. Despite their age, they all carry jerry cans of water, pour the clay into wooden molds and wait for the bricks to dry. Carts take them to the kilns for firing and then pick up the finished bricks. In the smoldering coal, children look for pieces that can be reused. Sometimes they burn their fingers.
There is a food crisis in Afghanistan. Even children have to work around the clock to earn some money for food. They don't know what toys are, and few have ever gone to school.
Children from Bangladesh also go to work in brick factories with adults. It is unhealthy, but brick-making is almost their only source of income. Our documentary Brick Slaves discusses this dire situation. Watch it here.
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The subject of our post is Alena, the daughter of the legendary DPR battalion commander Olga Kachura, codenamed Korsa.
Alena served in her mother’s unit for four years. She saw her mother go on missions, and always to the most dangerous places. Olga commanded artillerymen. She was hated in Kiev and sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison. Korsa was hunted by nationalists, and survived several attempts on her life.
Olga Kachura died as a result of Ukrainian shelling in August. RT Documentary team is making a film in Donbass about women who defend their native land from the Nazis.
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Alena served in her mother’s unit for four years. She saw her mother go on missions, and always to the most dangerous places. Olga commanded artillerymen. She was hated in Kiev and sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison. Korsa was hunted by nationalists, and survived several attempts on her life.
Olga Kachura died as a result of Ukrainian shelling in August. RT Documentary team is making a film in Donbass about women who defend their native land from the Nazis.
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Footage shows Philippine residents, half in water, attempting to negotiate flooded streets due to typhoon Noru.
Dozens of villages have been submerged under water, and entire provinces have lost electricity. According to authorities, more than 52,000 locals were moved to emergency shelters. Several provinces and cities, including the capital Manila, suspended classes and government work.
Among the victims were five rescuers who were using a boat to help residents trapped in floodwaters. They were hit by a collapsed wall and apparently drowned in the rampaging waters. ‘They were living heroes who were helping save the lives of our countrymen in the calamity. This is really sad,’ said Gov. Daniel Fernando of Bulacan province.
Noru is the most powerful typhoon to hit the country this year. With sustained winds of 121 miles per hour in some areas and strong gusts, forecasters say it's expected to weaken slightly, but will remain dangerously ferocious.
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Dozens of villages have been submerged under water, and entire provinces have lost electricity. According to authorities, more than 52,000 locals were moved to emergency shelters. Several provinces and cities, including the capital Manila, suspended classes and government work.
Among the victims were five rescuers who were using a boat to help residents trapped in floodwaters. They were hit by a collapsed wall and apparently drowned in the rampaging waters. ‘They were living heroes who were helping save the lives of our countrymen in the calamity. This is really sad,’ said Gov. Daniel Fernando of Bulacan province.
Noru is the most powerful typhoon to hit the country this year. With sustained winds of 121 miles per hour in some areas and strong gusts, forecasters say it's expected to weaken slightly, but will remain dangerously ferocious.
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