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Slaves of Bangladesh brickyards #video#Bangladesh Slavery exists in 2021. Workers of Bangladeshi brick factories are living proof. Men, women, and children mix the clay with water, fill wooden forms, and make bricks. Take this brickyard and compare it to one from the 19th century - there will be no difference. Brickyard workers complain about low wages and non-existent regulations. As a result, they breathe in the red dust that causes lung diseases and risk accidents. If someone dies, 'no one cares', they say, and the owners beat them and treat them 'as dogs'. Bricks are in high demand in Bangladesh, with a 160 million population rapidly moving to the cities. People need to live somewhere and need cheap building materials. Brick-making is seasonal, so workers toil away before the rains start. Then they go back to their homes that aren't even made of bricks. Watch the full documentary for more here. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Russian dream #video#Russia British trader John Kopiski came to Russia in the 1990s on a business trip that changed his life. ‘After Perestroika, everybody was so hospitable. It was a new life; capitalism hadn’t arrived’. So John jumped at the opportunity to move to Russia at the age of 42 because he felt at home. John eventually met a Russian woman, converted to Orthodoxy and fathered five children. Together they run a massive farm with more than 4,000 cows in the Vladimir region. They produce 50 tonnes of milk every day, and John has taken up cheese production following EU sanctions against Russia. ‘As an Englishman, I have no loyalty there. I have lots of anger and disappointment,’ John says. Nevertheless, he takes pride in his newfound motherland and says his relatives in the UK don’t get his love for Russia. Check out John’s extraordinary story in the full documentary here. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

What goes online stays online #video You leave digital 'breadcrumbs' every time you are online - birthdate, email, geotags, vacation photos, or a pet name. They might not mean much separately, but together they can reveal your digital portrait that scammers use. While a lot of people shrug off, internet security experts warn against the careless approach. Scammers may not target specifically you, but your company or someone you know. What is digital identity? How much does the internet know about us? How to not fall for a scam, and what human psychology has to do with it? If you don't know answers yet, make sure you check out our latest series, I am Hacked. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Russia Seeing the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights should be on anyone’s bucket list. The multicolour curtains of light have captivated people for thousands of years. Inuit, Norse, Finnish and Icelandic legends describe the most incredible origins of the dancing lights. However, the most recent myth has driven tourism for an Aurora hunt in Russia’s Murmansk region. According to Chinese superstition, if you conceive under the Northern Lights, it will be a boy. Others believe the Northern Lights baby is in for a happy life. Local businesses endorse the myth and offer rooms with North-facing windows and a transparent roof. Have you ever seen the Aurora Borealis? Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Bolivia’s child workers #video#Bolivia Nadia is a little girl from the suburbs of La Paz. She dreams of becoming a lawyer, but she hardly has time to do her homework. After classes, Nadia has to start her shift at a market. She helps her mum sell eggs and noodles. In Bolivia, children as young as ten are allowed to work under the controversial Children’s Code. As a result, child vendors and child cleaners are a common sight. They’d love to study more to pursue their dream careers in medicine, academia or finance, but they must support their families now. Ten-year-olds can work for themselves or their families, those older than 12 can work for others. Critics argued the law effectively legalised child labour. However, kids went out on the streets to protest their right to work when the government planned to raise the minimum working age to 14. Check out this heartbreaking film featuring legal child workers, as well as underage miners who have to operate outside the law. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video Thousands of migrants have amassed on the Belarus-Poland border. RT’s Konstantin Rozhkov @Spetscorr made a report about the migrant crisis: ‘After a long day shooting on the Belarus-Polish border, I’m going to a hotel in Grodno and see a group of Syrians. They were just refused check-in. So, under the pretext of helping them translate, I am driving around the town with them, searching for a place to sleep for the next couple of hours. Local taxi drivers are ripping them off ten times the price, but money isn’t the problem for them. A lot of them have the newest iPhones and expensive watches. In 12 hours, these Syrian migrants are going to cross into the EU illegally. All they care about is the situation on the border. When I ask how they are going to cross the border, they say: ‘ we’ll jump over.’ Are they being naive, or aren’t they saying something? We part ways at around 2 am. The next day Poland arrests more than 200 migrants on the border.’ Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

African prostitutes bound by voodoo ‘oath’ #photo These women ended up working as prostitutes in Europe out of fear of voodoo magic. Their traffickers use voodoo to manipulate victims into swearing obedience to a trafficker or a pimp. As a result, victims are slaving away to pay back thousands of euros they ‘owe’ to traffickers for the flight from Africa and other expenses. They have a lot of stories to tell, but it’s a challenge to make them talk. Women are afraid that the curse will fall on them and their families should they break the vow. In 2012, the Dutch police even had to bring in a Nigerian priest who lifted a voodoo ‘oath’ so the women could testify in a human trafficking ring case. These are a few pictures from the shooting of a new documentary by RT Documentary’s Natalya Kadyrova. Stay tuned for the film about the plight of African prostitutes in Europe. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Aviator Girl #video#Russia The profession of a pilot was inaccessible for women in Russia till the late 2000s. But once it opened, it became very popular. Girls fall in love with the sky and enter flying schools regardless of the imminent hardships and busy schedules. Some become acrobatics pilots and surprise the audience by performing deadly stunts; others join civil aviation and fly massive aircraft across oceans or transport people to remote villages and towns. Even being on the brink of an accident or fuelling up the plane in the 30 degrees C frost doesn’t scare them. So while Katya, an aerobatics pilot, is getting ready for the next competition and practices her dead loops surviving the g-load, Maria works long shifts on her Boeing 737, not knowing when she will make it home. Tune in for the premiere of Aviator Girl on RT Documentary and learn stories of other girls who joined aviation. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Wombs for rent #video#India In the Akanksha Hospital in Gujarat, pregnant women are waiting to deliver babies. But they won’t take them home once they’re born. So instead, they’re surrogate mothers, primarily poor and having no means to make money. They make $70 for each month of pregnancy and up to $8,000 for a successful surrogacy for one baby. The clinic takes care of the mothers’ living costs. Since India legalised commercial surrogacy in 2002, the country has become the largest surrogacy hub for childless foreigners. In 2015, surrogacy for foreigners was banned. While commercial surrogacy provided Indian women with opportunities (building a house, starting a small business, paying a dowry), the practice has raised numerous ethical concerns around exploitation, payment, and inequality. What do you think about commercial surrogacy? Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

How hackers steal money online #video Have you heard about website cloning? Anamika learned about it the hard way. She thought she was renting an apartment on Airbnb. Unfortunately, scammers tricked her into using a fake website and paying twice for a phoney apartment. As a result, she lost more than $4,000 and trust in online payments. What Anamika fell for was a social engineering trick. Such methods exploit human psychology to manipulate and lure unsuspecting users. Learn more about fraudsters’ cruel ways and how to keep your money away from them in the new episode of our weekly series. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Children of sex tourism #video#Philippines In Angeles City in the Philippines, many children have never seen their fathers and probably won’t ever meet them. That’s because their hometown is a sex tourism hotspot and their fathers travelled to buy sex. Once home to the largest American airbase outside the US, Angeles City in the Philippines is still teeming with foreign men. Children’s faces tell the story of their birth - fair skin, black skin, Caucasian or Korean features. A lot of sex workers are also children of sex tourism. These are video greetings some of the children in Angeles City recorded during our documentary filming in the hope their estranged fathers might see them. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Tajikistan It's hard to find a man in a tiny village of Pinyon in mountainous Tajikistan. All able-bodied men have left to work in Russia to earn five times as much as at home. According to some estimates, up to a million Tajiks leave the country searching for work every year. In the meantime, mothers, wives and sisters are left behind with households to take care of. Bibi Khamroeva is 57, and she spends six months in the mountains herding cows with other women. They take care of their homes, make cheese and butter and look after children. They wish their men didn't have to work abroad and could help at home. Tajikistan is the poorest country in Central Asia. It heavily relies on the remittance inflow, with cash transfers making up nearly half of its GDP. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary