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Philippines Klondike #video#Philippines Pinut-an barangay is known as the Philippines’ underwater Klondike. For years, international corporations have been attempting to start mining operations here, but were driven away by unsteady weather conditions and low profit margins. Ultimately, the area was taken over by the gold divers. They search for gold nuggets on the seabed — a rather dangerous occupation that can cause injury or death. Besides, place mining is illegal, and divers form syndicates to work around the law. The truth is, residents have no choice — this is the only job they can have to provide sustenance for themselves and their families. Their only hope is that their children will get an education and do better. Tune in for the premiere of Diving for Gold right now on RT Documentary. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

The right to die #video#Peru Ana Estrada is confined to bed most of the time and can breathe only with a respirator. She lives with polymyositis, a rare muscle disease with no cure. Since 2016, Ana has been writing a blog called ‘Ana seeks a dignified death’. In addition, she started a legal battle to decide to end her life ‘when the time comes’. Assisted death is illegal in her country of Peru. Peru is primarily a Catholic country, where euthanasia is prohibited alongside same-sex marriage and abortion. However, in 2021 a court ruled in favour of Ana and cleared anyone assisting in her death of criminal charges. Ana says she would decide to die when she could no longer write her blog. On this day in 2000, the Dutch lower house of parliament voted to legalise euthanasia. Thus, the Netherlands became the first country that allowed mercy killings. Euthanasia is also legal in Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada and Colombia. 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

North Korea’s cult of personality #video#NorthKorea What happens when Kim Jong-un visits a North Korean school? Right, everything he comes in contact with becomes an exhibition item. We try to delve into Kim’s bizarre cult of personality in this short episode from our documentary about life in the world’s most isolated country. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Crawling up Kilimanjaro with no legs #video#Tanzania When Aleksandr was born with no legs and deformed fingers, his mother abandoned him. He grew up in an orphanage for kids with disabilities in a remote Russian town. However, Aleksandr has always aimed high and dreamed big. Aleksandr got lucky and was selected to take part in a US humanitarian project. At the age of 15, he walked on his new prostheses for the first time in his life. His temporary foster parents couldn’t let him go and adopted Aleksandr. To inspire kids with disabilities, Aleksandr and his friends from the orphanage took on the challenge to climb Africa’s highest mountain Mount Kilimanjaro at 5,895 metres. RT Documentary witnessed their incredible feat and made a film - https://youtu.be/v2Sz3k9gKp8 For now, Aleksandr lives and studies in Boston, USA, and has climbed Kilimanjaro for a second time! Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Diving for gold #video#Philippines The children in the small Philippine town of Paracale get used to working from an early age. They often skip school because they have nothing to eat. Then, to make $2-3 a day, they pan for gold. While kids work on the surface, adults dive into deep, narrow wells to extract the precious metal. Prospectors use diving masks with snorkels to breathe underwater. But if walls collapse, the divers have no way out. ‘While you’re down the mine, you have one foot in the grave’ is a popular saying in Paracale. Check out the full documentary to hear more! Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Peru Hundreds of thousands of Peruvian women were forcibly sterilised between 1996-2000 as part of President Alberto Fujimori’s family planning programme. The initiative was launched to reduce poverty and cut birth rates among the poor. While it was supposed to be consensual, women involved in the programme say otherwise. Most of the victims came from poor indigenous communities. Josefa was at home when nurses came and forced her to go to the hospital. She still recalls waking up after the procedure and seeing other women crying out their husbands’ names in pain. In the following years, Josefa suffered from infections and cancer. Decades later, Josefa and others are still seeking justice through a class action suit against the ex-president. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Have you ever wanted to go to the Arctic? #video#Arctic RT’s Konstantin Rozhkov travelled to the North Pole on a giant Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker to film the fascinating landscapes of one of the most beautiful but one of the riskiest places on our planet. Swimming in the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean and meeting a polar bear are just a few thrilling experiences he had there! However, a journey to the North Pole is not only about fun and beautiful views. It’s also about strong swell, extreme weather conditions, the polar day insomnia, and the complete absence of any communication services. How did Konstantin and his crew deal with their hardships? Watch North Pole: Inside a Russian Nuclear Icebreaker to find out! Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Russian ‘Baby Yoga’ 👶🏻 #video#Egypt Russian PE instructor Lena Fokina has come up with an unorthodox way of making babies strong and resilient, but her method makes a lot of people cringe. Elena grasps the little tykes by their wrists and feet and spins and flips them over and around her head like they were rag dolls. Lena teaches her bizarre ‘baby yoga’ to parents who want to discover their babies’ natural abilities, but some critics say her innovation is actually baby abuse. Videos of the PE teacher spinning newborns and dipping their heads in the sea have been removed from social media and petitions have appeared on the web calling for Lena’s methods to be banned. What do you think? Is it baby yoga or baby abuse? Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Inside North Korea #video#NorthKorea Everyone In North Korea says they owe everything to the Kim dynasty. North Koreans, young and old, take pride in all of the regime’s achievements: free education, free medicine, orphans are treated so well that even children with parents envy them! That’s what North Koreans say on camera to the few foreigners that come to the country. But what do you think they’d really say if they were free to do so? Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Egypt’s Garbage City #video#Egypt Meet the Zabbaleen, Cairo’s traditional garbage collectors. Generations of Zabbaleen have been recycling Cairo’s trash for more than half a century. They are so good at it that they recycle up to 85% of the capital’s waste. To give you some perspective, a whopping 20 million people live in the Greater Cairo area. Imagine how much waste they produce every day! Zabbaleen’s garbage industry is an organized network of tens of thousands of people, each playing their own part. They gather, transport, and sort the rubbish. Even pigs play an important role, as they are fed the organic food waste. The Zabbaleen garbage collectors are largely independent from the rest of Cairo and live by their own rules. For example, the Zabbaleen never collect waste from a colleague’s turf. They have their unofficial mayor, shops, cafes, shishas, and schools. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

40 years a man #video#Egypt Sisa is a woman, who pretended to be a man for more than 40 years. She was young and pregnant when her husband died. For an illiterate widow with a child in Egypt’s male-dominated society, Sisa had no choice but to remarry. However, Sisa disagreed! She shaved her head and started acting as a man. She was prepared to take any manual work. Now in her 60s, Sisa still works as a shoe shiner, runs a small kiosk in Luxor and remains the matriarch of her family. “I know she’s a woman, but I treat her as a man, because she works like a man,” a local said. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary