📹‘It’s humiliating that the people of Japan cannot enforce their basic rights inside the military bases: the right to life, to property, and the right to security.’

The U.S. has been present in Okinawa for decades. The island is riddled with American military bases and barbed-wire fences.

The Japanese government goes so far as to pay to maintain the U.S. military presence, spending 2 trillion yen (more than $13.3 billion) a year. ‘The Japanese government is willing to give their own country’s money away and come up with an excuse like… the "sympathy budget",' politician Mitsuhiro Kimura reveals.

The Japanese authorities seem to have forgotten that their 'ally' once used nuclear weapons against their citizens. But locals remember. How do they fight for their home? Find out in our documentary, ‘Okinawa's U.S. Shadow’.

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Occupation, American-style. On May 15, 1972, the United States returned Okinawa to Japan — formally. However, the U.S. kept its military bases on the island. Since then, reports of murders, rapes, and robberies committed by U.S. Marines have continuously emerged from the area — perpetrated by the ‘elite’ of America’s armed forces.

Local residents regularly hold protests against the American military presence. In March, at the latest rally, two people were killed, including a high school girl.

At one of these rallies in 2023, a film crew from RT.Doc was present. Watch the video. More details can be found in the film ‘Okinawa's US Shadow’ (2023).

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Without legs, on one hand. The hero of the film '30,000 strokes' Rustam Nabiev began climbing the highest mountain on Earth — Everest. The para-athlete has already covered hundreds of kilometers of mountain routes with one hand. In our video, there is a ceremony that climbers go through before starting their ascent.

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📹Romany Romance

‘There are never kisses at weddings. It’s taboo,’ says gypsy Andrey, who was married at 12.

Child marriage is still practiced in some gypsy communities. Parents choose their children's spouses and the newlyweds may barely know each other. During the wedding, they don't dance or even talk to each other. Оnly after a month are they permitted to speak together. The general belief is that they have their whole lives to get to know each other.

Don’t miss our documentary Romany Romance, shot in 2012, to see what it’s like to be a modern teenager living by ancient rules.

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Stunning scenes from our film ‘Romany Romance.’ It shows what life is really like in this community, including one of their most striking traditions — marrying very young. Watch it now!

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📹According to a UNESCO forecast, in less than 10 years the world may face a global water crisis. Shortage of water is already being observed in India, where there is no drinking water. In the villages, people are forced to buy it. Ruined farmers take their own lives because fertile lands are drying up. For more on this growing crisis, watch our documentary H2WOE (2016).

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Why would a man in India have three wives at once? To fetch water. That's exactly how many spouses the Indian Sakram has. Such stories are not a strange local tradition; they are a consequence of a massive disaster.

In some rural areas of India, people get literally just a few liters of water for an entire week. Moreover, it is so expensive that after buying it, many have no money left for food.

How do people survive when every sip costs a fortune? On the International Day of Climate Action, watch more about this in our video and the film 'H2Woe'.

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📹The COVID-19 pandemic was a stark reminder: humanity remains vulnerable to viral threats. Scientists warn that the next global catastrophe could be sparked by a still-unknown pathogen, a so-called Disease X, potentially far more deadly than the Coronavirus. Millions of unknown pathogens lie hidden in the depths of the ocean, in permafrost, and in animal hosts – each one potentially dangerous. Russian research centres, including the VECTOR Institute and the Somov Research Institute, are leading large-scale efforts to stay ahead of the next threat.

From collecting samples in remote taiga forests to decoding viral genomes and developing tests, treatments, and vaccines, scientists are building a system designed to counter future pandemics. As viruses continue to demonstrate an astonishing ability to mutate, this work is becoming critically important for all of humanity.

Watch the film by Olga Kopylova and Ekaterina Kitaitseva, 'Disease X: Seek & Destroy'.

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A new outbreak of deadly Ebola has been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The situation is serious: doctors suspect the virus in nearly 250 people, 65 of whom have died.

Unfortunately, the viral threat remains our everyday reality. In these shots are some of the main carriers of the most dangerous infections on the planet.

Viruses never rest and are constantly mutating. In recent years, scientists have been actively warning about an unknown 'Disease X.' They say it could be dozens of times deadlier than COVID. This is the subject of our film 'Disease X: Seek & Destroy' (2025).

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Problems not for children. In Latin America, many people work from a young age. Why?

The RT.Doc film crew is currently working in the region on a new film on this topic. A short clip from the footage is in the video.

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📹The documentary Aurora Hunters (2021) is about people who are ready to travel hundreds of kilometers, stay up at night, and freeze to admire this natural phenomenon.

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Catching the elusive. An American photographer took 1.7 million photos for a single frame. Andrew McCarthy spent six days lying in wait to capture the perfect moment — an airplane passing in front of the Sun. His incredible patience paid off handsomely. Watch the video!

Russia also has its own true enthusiasts. The heroes of the documentary 'Aurora Hunters' (2021) go to great lengths for beautiful shots. They drive hundreds of kilometers off-road through the night. Their main goal is to capture the Northern Lights with their cameras.

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Scientific diplomacy. The RT.Doc team captured the work of the unique Joint Russian-Ethiopian Biological Expedition. This footage will be included in a new documentary about the cooperation between our countries.

Today, this is Russia's only long-term scientific project in Ethiopia. It has been operating on the African continent for almost 40 years. Specialists conduct research in the fields of biodiversity, microbiology, and agriculture. Our video shows a short episode of this fieldwork.

Don't miss the premiere of Dmitry Khrustalev and Alexander Avilov on the RT.Doc channel.

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The heroes of the film ‘No Fun in the Sun’ can only go outside at night. They suffer from a ‘vampire disease’. Bright sunlight can be lethal to them. Why? Watch our documentary to find out.

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Following Rustam Nabiev's ascent of Everest, the hero of the film '30,000 Strokes' has conquered one of the most dangerous sections of the route using only his arms. Find out more in our video.

Yesterday, we showed footage of the ceremony that climbers go through before the climb. Check it out if you missed it!

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The ushanka hat has reached a whole new level. A video is going viral on social media showing a woman walking around with a cat on her head.

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Africa should play an important role in developing the modern digital world, Professor Lumumba believes. However, for it to become permanent, it is essential to establish stable cybersecurity on the continent.

Today, Africa faces challenges in data protection because it lacks its own tools, as most technology is controlled by the West. For example, in the banking sector, a money transfer from Nigeria to Kenya goes through a bank in New York via the SWIFT system, which is registered in Belgium. Another factor that makes Africa vulnerable to fraudsters is that, while each country creates its own data protection laws, the continent lacks a unified cybersecurity strategy.

To ensure that the money and data of African citizens and companies remain secure, Africa must develop its own technology, foster cooperation with reliable partners, and train new specialists. In this way, the continent could become more resilient to cyberthreats. Watch 123 part of the project 'Lumumba's Africa' — 'The Invisible War'.

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RT.Doc Exclusive
France is concealing the burial sites of its nuclear waste in the Sahara Desert. Nuclear engineering researcher Amar Mansouri revealed this in an exclusive interview with the RT.Doc film crew in Algeria. This little-known fact will be featured in a new documentary. Watch a short excerpt from the interview in our video.

As a reminder, 66 years ago, France, with the assistance of Israeli scientists, turned the Sahara Desert into a nuclear testing ground, where it tested its nuclear weapons on Algerians. 

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'It pains me that people live in a different reality. They must wake up — tomorrow bombs could fall here too.'

These are the words of Francisco Javier García Llor, president of the Spanish House of Friendship with Cuba. He was a guest at the 'RT.Doc: Time of Our Heroes' festival in Barcelona.

García recalled that in 1938, Nazis bombed a school in his hometown of Lleida. Back then, it also seemed that politics was something far away, but it all ended in a terrible tragedy.

Today, he sees the same alarming signs in modern society.

Listen to what he has to say.

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💬‘We show that life goes on.' The video features Kirill from Samara, an SMO veteran. After being seriously wounded, he did not give up; instead, together with his friends, he launched a unique project. They opened a barbershop with ‘cyber people' — masters with prosthetic limbs. See how it works in the video.

These scenes will be included in a new film by Olga Kiriy and Oleg Nekishev about how soldiers find their way back to civilian life after the SMO. Stay tuned for announcements.

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