these, the premium finances come up with this may be about 1500 meters towards the ukranian positions from where we are right now. i'm talking about the town of save, ask, this is the main hold spot on this direction accrued because it's the frontline in don. but where russian lead forces are fighting ukraine's far right. kracken, italian, india and pakistan celebrated independence date 75 years off. the british colonial rule came to an end almost 1947. lastly, to align bothering him down and focused on 9 o. 4 divided by the way,

bob have been job dealing about with families and communities of the world faces of major tomato prices of california, leading protest struggles with serious drought prompting a big rise and tomato product prices like ketchup. i'm finding a, sorry for that, and i don't find that the thought of it i'll take bring spectral coverage of the chaotic us withdrawal from afghanistan. exactly one year after the taliban read took control of the country with a very good morning to you from all of us here at off he international in moscow. it's not, we're just off to 6 am on monday here in the russian capital. let's go straight to some frontline news for here on the program on

r t where russian lead forces at yvonne's and on bass a reaching t strongholds of ukrainian troops in the region. recently the town of pesky, which ukrainian fighters used to attack don yet residential areas of fell under the control of the don't ask republics, soldiers. russian lead forces have also taken a strategic point on the outskirts of several ask. and one or 2 crew visited the captured positions near there. but don't ask republic forces face kracken that his ukranian, neo nazi battalion cameras are a rare auditor here. commanding offices are dazzled by our unannounced visit, but seized the chance to parade the evolution of their advance. this may be about 1500 meters towards the ukrainian positions. from where we are right now, i'm talking about the town of save ask. this is the main hot spot on this direction . basically the russian forces and the forces of the guns people's republic. they

are advancing on a very wide section of the front. so this is the northernmost point of this advance. and basically what they're trying to do is they're trying to, well, in circle severson on this ration from the north, ukraine's internationalists battalions like kracken for instance. they're ukranian, nazis very much like to that of, as of, they are the ones who are holding off. they're the ones who are basically defending their the frontline defenses of the town of servers. the kracken proudly brands itself as an elite unit, but outside their promo videos. the battalions reputation is overshadowed by the cross at ease and lawlessness. its members and global notoriety when they were caught on video torturing russian prisoners of war. also in part,

the unit has been formed of current convicts who will move from theirselves to the frontline, vice president zalinski soda. and this video, a russian grown tracks. one of the kracken fighters to his companies trenches. from that point. the artillery takes over rounds from artillery. doors were back and forth routinely here to ukrainian tanks, flee from the shelling as 2 bright orange spots to the right suggest to moore didn't make it. no one wanted to fight people, submitted. rapport is to refuse service, but they just burned them. we had poor training. we were only taught to move by 2 or 3 people, assemble and disassemble our guns and shoot. we were not talked to advance at all. we were absolutely not ready for this. when we were shelled, we were told to retreat. something exploded behind me and wounded me. they left me under a tree and abandoned me. i waited until morning than realised that they would not come and get me. so i began to crawl through the forest. i crawled for 2 days until

the russian soldiers found me as we explore the captured town, 2 soldiers accompanying us notice a suspicious item, and in their words, it's better safe than sorry. it will leave as command as our dishing out new orders. the offensive goes on august, dawn of reporting from the don bass r. c. exactly 75 years ago, 2 centuries of british colonial rule over india came to an end ultimately giving birth to 2 independent states. one of them, of course, is pakistan. but tens of thousands of people gathered at a rally organized by the former prime ministers, political party, celebrating the country's independence day. protest as were seen, brandishing flags and banners slamming the current government. and condemning interference by quote foreign powers. the former pakistani prime minister iran con,

has vowed to fight for quote, real freedom and pledge to hold even more anti government protests all across the nation. o fight to real freedom will continue until we get rid of this imported government and elections are held. we will struggle together. i am against this slavery. let me make it clear. i won't let this nation based slave. i will unite this nation. we as a nation will pay off our debt by working together. this i got, i learning august on 70 a doctor when they leave, or the 5 years, i guess on it is sitting on the cross own. we don't have our direction, we on struggling funny one extra harby, i'm wrong. we say on this day it is august. i think this really because

he's reminding an exercise in begun me. i need a diesel extra data. brennan. i know this is a hot yesterday and was hockey's ever wagon and paper and i gather dodie martin x as in not accepting discovered and get our sovereign because he says a game is normally a privacy by the americans, henceforth, on my part of me and did you say really i is the morning. i'll present extra night a . i am here to tell that i am not a slave. i am

a free man. i came here with my children. i'm fighting for their future. only way out is to trust a leadership of him. ron kon, it looks like there is no other leader to discard the interest of the people. only enron con can lead us to success. 75 years ago, a line of separation that became known as the petition split india and pakistan. the drawing board a toll many families, a pod, ultimately changing many lives forever. but engine shot him. i visited villages just a few miles from the india pakistan border. i looked back at a troubled past amidst the triumphal skin, dell's independence in the summer of 1947. a line of separation was drawn by brutish barrister. it was called the partition august of 1947 ratcliffe draw a line bordering india and pakistan. that line also divided this way, part of punjab, tearing apart will edges, families and communities now hindu than seeks on one side and the muslims on the

other. 75 years own. we meet doors whose life was changed forever by hastily drawn borders. this is the north and in state of punjab. the historic homeland of de seeks. we visited to quadrille willis in the good das 4 district barely a few miles from the india pakistan. border 104 year old miller. rom is one of the few living partitions of i was in the which they were dealing with only a gun one we left our entire life across the border and our old life no longer existed than what we had to start afresh. now, memories of days gone by come back to me and that garden in spring when it was all that shit, a chatter. he may have left pakistan, but pakistan has stayed with him in more ways than one. not even today. he writes, he came in order and keeps them close to his heart. and in another which we meet, could pulsing, his grandchildren,

and great grandchildren have all moved to big cities. he's decided to steal his forest home. his ancestral village is only a few miles from your just across the border in pakistan. 3 years ago, he got his long awaited result. visiting his childhood home in pakistan was a dream come true. ah, brenda, i went to my village, my home, i cried. alarm those who live in the house that was once mine were happy to see me . they wanted to give me a gift of it, but i said i won't take but give a gift. i gave money and a blessing to the children living in the house. a few villages father, also by the border stands. the rules are shoddy style gull. the secret islamic shine fell on the indian side when the politician line was drawn. as many feet shines ended up on the block a sunny side. he or the entire willis around 80 families that came from c, all caught in, pakistan have maintained this structure for 75 years like their own. and you have

the whole village takes care of the dogger. we come here every day, clean it lights out, the lamp right here. oh, crossed the river, robbing the sun is setting in pakistan. it's hard to imagine that this line, this border didn't even exist 75 years ago, bought the borders of reality. and despite living to the pain of partition many, so i was of chosen to remember the love with the pain rooms and sharma 40 but job. germany must cut its use of natural gas by a 5th or potentially face crippling shortages and serious consequences for the economy. that is, according to the chief of germany's energy regulator. if we fail to reach our target of 20 percent gas savings, then there's a serious risk that we will not have enough gas. you need to try to figure out what effect cutting off the gas to certain companies will have on the supply chain for critical products. what the consequences will be for jobs for production,

for value chains. some production could move away from germany because gases become too expensive. and that's a difficult thing to happen. now, while natural gas prices have been rising since the thought of the year sanctions on russia that follow the start of the concert in ukraine. so e, u, prices triple, an arctic contributor rachel marston has more on how europe is trying to cope with the energy issue. after spain and italy ordered limits on air conditioning and heating in public and commercial buildings. recently, in an attempt to control energy use ahead of the winter gas crunch caused by the european union sanctioning its own russian gas supply. well, now it's germany's turn to micromanage. the daily lives of its citizens. with the new crackdown economy minister, robert havoc has announced a heating limit of 19 degrees celsius for public buildings. for the next 6 months. guess his previous strategy of bragging that he was taking ever shorter showers and that german ship to wasn't going to save the german economy and industry from

a potentially catastrophic energy shortage. he also told the german press that night time lighting of monuments and advertising displays would be banned across the country. so better bringing flashlights to berlin. meanwhile, germans are panic. buying electric heaters at a rate of 35 percent higher sales than last year, causing officials to fear the impact on the national grid. if a gas shortage causes a switch to electricity, switzerland, which isn't a member of the e u, but faces the same problems having to come to the use pressure to adopt similar sanctions against russia is already preparing citizens for and nightmarish scenario . the federal electricity commission chairman's says that us strategy of rolling blackouts in the winter time would be manageable and is currently on the table. it is certainly advisable to have enough candles in the house. and if you have

a wood stove, you should stock enough firewood, sticking it to russian president vladimir putin apparently now means europeans living like their back in the stone age until now switzerland strategy, admittedly included, considering germany and italy, suppliers of energy to countries currently. so concerned about shortages of their own, there now dictating the temperature of rooms nationwide grey down to the precise degrees centigrade. meanwhile, citizens of finland are trying to beat the price hikes by refueling their cars in neighboring russia, where fuel is much cheaper and are having to deal with being called traders as a result. one such gas trader, sir, for laura mo, parents felt obligated to point out that the money she saves it for vladimir putin . meanwhile, finland joined estonia and calling for a visa ban on russians visiting the european union with estonia. already having

made a unilateral move to stop issuing visas to russian, tourists, you officials responded with deafening silence to the blanket discrimination and dangerous precedent. it's unclear how far officials of european nations are willing to go in their anti russian virtue signalling, but what's already plainly evident is that they're willing to make their own citizens pay the price. another factor contributing to germany's commodity crisis is that of drought, which was now led to a fold in water levels of the rhine river. now the shrinking of this key waterway deprives the country of an effective transport route that is typically used for providing industry with raw materials on fuel. hot weather, along with a lack of ryan, has reduced our cargo shipments and ultimately raised the cost of logistics or california, the world's leading processor of tomatoes,

faces on historic drought combined with soaring costs for fuel labor and fertilizer . it's after they got produces worried about a shortage of product across the world. at ingrim, a packing in co, which supply some of the largest us food brands is not selling tomato paste. the price is 80 percent higher than a year ago. of course. can consumers still better costs with the price of tomato sauce and july, way up, compared to last year with catch up also seeing a big price jump as well. california peaked in tomato output in 2015 though it's been falling ever since. according to the u. s. department of agriculture. 2022 is shaping up to continue. the trend is the industry says this is harvest will fall below 11000000 tons. so we got reaction on the streets of america. a,

sorry for that. and i don't find a distort with probably more but more of an effect on the fast food industry than and then the household. unless there's a household with children, you know, as part of their, as part of their daily or weekly routine. every press paper, a restore are going to assume, turning in everything twice as high as it with the shelves are fully stocked either. so please come down so we can not just, you know, better benefit for us and our family have to leave more on price on food. and i just that get a global shortage of tomatoes is also expected due to high temperatures and key regions over the next few decades. of the u. s. italy and china are expected to see

the decline in further supply. it's all according to the nature food channel. oh, some other news for you here on the program on our t as we understand more than 750000 people have been displaced this year in somalia . following a severe drought is, brings a total number of refugees from the country to over $1000000.00. that is, according to the u. n. a refugee agency. it is the 2nd time in 2 years that somalia has been patched by droughts which is unprecedented for the last 4 decades. of course, migration is not the only consequence of the disaster. it's more and more families struggle from hunger caused by the drought. but we spoke to residents of mogadishu about how they've been affected their luncheon. i fled from the village because there is no water and no food. there are health problems there as well. some of us came here, buy food, and we left some of our children and old parents behind while i fled from muffle village into town where he district because of hunger. it took me for days and

nights to come here by foot, and we faced huge problems, misery, and affliction, that lack of water forced to flee from our village. lawful drought affected us severely. we are at adela idp center, some 1114 families live here in this camp. the displaced people who were affected by the harsh drought are here, and we expect an additional influx of drought affected people to arrive in the coming days. let's good to have your company for the program today. thanks for joining us yet. another american delegation has touched down in tie one for a 2 day visit to the island. now this of course, despite existing tensions, fueled by us. how speaker nancy pelosi is reason visit to the chinese territory and the delegation is led by us senate, the ed markey was accompanied by 4 other lawmakers from the states. and the group will meet with local politicians and discuss regional security bilateral relations and various trade issues. and high winds, ministry of defense reported several chinese military aircraft and naval ships near

the island just hours before the groups plain touched down. of course it was less than 2 weeks ago that policies visit to the territory sore. an outrage. china respond with full scale live fire military drills all around the island. we spoke with a asia affairs analyst, nelson, one who fears at ty, one's p. austin's, with washington, could end up hurting in the long run. this is quite apparent that the u. s. is trying to kind of hoped china to keep poking china, keep the irritating china to basically to parade attention to, to increase the patient across the taiwan strait. this is a serious move of the us that i think the international community should be fully aware of it. because this is not helpful to read, you know, security in the asia pacific. this is detrimental. they are playing with fire

and this is not good. and i think countries around the world and in this region should try their best to contain what the u. s. is trying to do. the leadership in taiwan might be welcoming such trips. i think the people in taiwan are fully aware of what's going on and they want to live a peaceful life. and if the leadership in collaboration was outside forces to try to stir up the fire, this is a very dangerous move and it's not good at all. and i think the people in taiwan should be against that. it is, i see international good, happy with us today. we do start our special coverage marking one year since the u . s. withdrew from afghanistan, ultimately leaving the taliban to re take control of cobble and the country

do not regret my decision to end america. war fighting against it and maintain

a laser focused on our counterterrorism mission there and other parts of the world

and a former afghan president, a shotgun, a who fled the country a year ago with suitcases stuffed with cash said in a recent interview that the afghan people need to be empowered to child their own way that the country still needs time to heal nazis. ritual blevins has more on how washington's bet on the former government failed in just 10 days. one year after the botched chaotic and deadly end of the u. s. war and afghanistan, there are still countless questions about how and why the world leading intelligence agency got it so wrong when the time came to leave the country, the u. s. had been occupying for 20 years, after all, even president biden express. nothing but confidence before he made the official call is a tale bob take over against that now, inevitable? no,

it is none. because you have the app can troops of 300000 well equipped as well as crypt is any army in the world and an air force against something like 75000 colored mine? it is not enough. weeks later, it was a very different story when the us withdrew from the country, the government, they had spent 2 decades building and supporting fell apart. and it took a taliban just 10 days to gain control of the country's capital. notably faster than it took the u. s. to do so when an invaded back in 2001. ah ah. so what happened is a claim from u. s. intelligence that the afghan government would be able to survive for at least 6 months if not longer and that the fall would likely be gradual with the taliban

getting more power over time. how is it possible that multiple reports from, for intelligence agencies in the u. s. managed to get this situation so wrong that even the same mainstream outlet to it's been 20 years justifying the u. s. military's presence in the country were forced to admit what a disaster it was. with some even calling it an intelligence failure of the highest order us intelligence officials are pushing back on the charge that they were caught off guard by the rapid collab. so afghans government, for 20 years, we know the taliban, we have people on the ground. and yet you, the u. s. was caught unaware, and completely off guard to the commander of us forces in afghanistan. alerted the pentagon. cobble could be surrounded within 30 days, on alarming prediction. that turned out to be way off. what he's talking about here is a failure of intelligence that we saw across the world we saw in washington. you know,

the pentagon had no idea this was happening. but for people who signed up to serve their nation, they're now looking at their commander in chief as a national disgrace is a national nightmare. however, what the us learn the hard way with that, just because it spent nearly $90000000000.00 training, the afghan defense and security forces did not mean that their army of around $300000.00 would be able to take on the taliban without the u. s. military there to support them. and yes, that's despite the claims made by the biden administration, that they just needed to strengthen their unity and political will in order to succeed. ultimately, the african national security defense versus had the equipment numbers and training to fight back. they have what they need, what they need to determine is if they have the political will to fight back. and if they have the ability to unite as a, as leaders to fight back. and that's really where it stands at this point. as it turned out, the 20 year long reliance on the u. s. military proved to be much more than the white house expected. and after they were abandoned by their allies,

the will of the afghan forces to attempt to fight back against the taliban fell apart in record time when the us announced a total withdrawal that sent a signal to afghan soldiers and police that the end was near. and converted chronically poor motivation into acute collapse. there's nobody wanted to be the last man standing after the others gave up. there was a all or nothing strategy employed by the u. s. in which it opted for a quick pull out from the country rather than withdrawing gradually and leaving a few and troops on the ground to help with the transition. after all was said and done, bite and denied that was ever an option. the pentagon had been considering your top military advisors war against, withdrawn on this timeline. they wanted to keep about 2500 tra no, they didn't. that was split though that wasn't true. and it wasn't just the u. s. the u. k. foreign office admitted last month and it made a number of mistakes in its own exit from the country. included on that list was the fact that the u. k. foreign secretary of the time was on holiday and didn't

take the afghan foreign ministers call when he reached out for help with with the benefit of hindsight, of course, is he's disabled and i wouldn't have gone on holiday, let alone. and we've come home of the government, the u. s. had been propping up for nearly 2 decades, was also supported by an embassy that housed around $4000.00 diplomats contractors and staff who provided a false sense of confidence even though they were relying on the intent security provided by the u. s. military. but then again, they didn't invade afghanistan looking to learn about the country. instead, the mission they claim to half was to force american values on the people. and after 20 years, it has become clear that they still haven't learned about the country they occupied for so long. it also appeared, though every assurance biden gave about the us accept plan was eventually proven wrong. there's gonna be no circumstance for you to see people be lifted off the roof of a embassy in the of the united states. from afghanistan. it is not at all

comfortable. and yet, it was the scenes of helicopters rescuing embassy staff in afghanistan that became a direct comparison to the fall of saigon in 1975. that's only fitting, given the fact that the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan has been called the worst intelligence failure since vietnam. proving that after a 20 year war, thousands of lives lost countless communities destroyed. and more than 2 trillion dollars spent, the u. s. still hasn't learned from its own actions. yeah, more information on that story at odd t dot com. it's right now ha, 6, monday morning here at moscow. thanks for joining us. we're not ah ah. so what we've got to do is identify the.