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Hidden away in the USSR during China’s revolution, these children of China’s first communist revolutionaries were raised in a special Soviet boarding school and felt more Russian than Chinese. Now, more than 70 years on, Beijing residents and childhood friends Li Duoli and Zhao Qilian, aka Tolya and Ira, are planning a trip back to their fondly remembered second ‘homeland’.

RT Doc visits Angeles City in the Philippines, an infamous and popular sex tourism destination. The city is home to many children conceived by foreign holiday makers who took what they wanted and left offspring in their wake.

In the wild and perilous mountains of Caucasus, Russian soldiers train to survive and fight under the command of two competitive officers. They will need to learn to communicate with signals, cross rivers using ropes, fire at targets, and navigate the difficult terrain to become true mountain soldiers.

'Cleaning the Arctic isn’t just words, a bunch of slogans or something. For me, it’s my destiny', says Andrey Nagibin, Office Head of ‘Clean Arctic’ Project. Now he coordinates eco-volunteers whose goal is to restore the Arctic's nature. Back in Soviet times, Andrey was a navigator and ice assistant and participated in many northern deliveries. He knows the bitter truth about the Arctic pollution firsthand. Marines used to load lots of equipment, gear, barrels of fuel and never took them back — 'leaving ballast behind' — as they said at that time. What urgent action to avoid further pollution is needed now?

Hoping to inspire disabled children to aim high, three men with physical disabilities take on the challenge of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. At a towering 5895 m above sea level, the Tanzanian peak is the highest mountain in Africa.