blue a with this maybe about 1500 meters towards the ukranian positions from where we are right now. i'm talking about the town of sherry. this is the main whole sport on this direction, or croup is, it's the front line in dawn by where russian lead force is off fighting against ukraine's at the far right. kracken battalion leaked report by the u. s. how the foreign affairs committee does the blame, for example, russians on the white house, and it is intelligent services for boxing, the afghan hassan evacuation. exactly one year ago. india and pakistan

both celebrating independence day. 75 years off, the british colonial rule. we came to an end august of 1947 last him to align, bothering him down and focused on the guy and also divided this late bob been job during a bob with families and communities also in the headlines the world. faith is a major tomato crisis. that's california leading florida, struggles with serious drought from think a big rise in some auto product prices, just like ketchup, a tomato and make a visit with you for that. and i don't plan to start with the monday for your world wide headlines here, 190 international. it's a pleasure to have you with us today. let's go straight to some frontline news for you here to kick off the program. that's where our russian lead forces advance and

don bass reaching key strongholds of ukrainian troops in the region. recently, the town of pesky, which ukrainian fighters used to attack don't ask residential areas, fell under the control of that don't yet. square public soldiers. russian lead forces have also taken a strategic point on the outskirts of separate sc and one r t. crew visited the captured positions near there where don't yet republic forces face crackin and crackin isn't the ukrainian neo nazi battalion cameras. iran oddity here, commanding offices are dazzled by our on announced 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 wind of this advance. and basically what they're trying to do is they're trying to rule in circle servers on this ration from the north you cranes and nationalists 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 atrocities 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 were moved from theirselves to the front line. vice president zalinski is order. 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 to bright orange spots to the right suggest 2 more, didn't make it. no one wanted to fight. people submitted reports to refuse service, but they just burned them. we had poor training, we are only taught to move by 2 or 3 people, assemble and disassemble organs and shoot. we're not taught to advance at all. we're absolutely not ready for the. when 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, then 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. we'll leave as command as our dishing out new orders. the offensive goes on august dawn of reporting from the don bass r t it is good tabby with us today as we start our special coverage mocking one year since the u. s. withdrew from afghanistan, ultimately leaving the taliban to re take control of cobble. and the country

i do not regret my decision to end america's war fighting at garrison and maintain a laser focused on our counterterrorism mission there and other parts of the world

ah. no a report by the u. s. house foreign affairs committee has been leaked and is purportedly very critical of washington's plans and the execution of the african withdrawal. as we understand,

there are still many thousands of afghans stuck there waiting for special immigrant visas. this comes after they were allegedly only 36 state department officials on the ground at cobble airport a year ago to help all those on the list to get out. us. congressman michael, nicole lambasted the disconnect between us intelligence services and the white house to organizing the evacuation. there are many, since if you will, there was a complete lack of failure to plan. there was no plan and it was there was no plan execute. there's a disconnect between, you know, intelligence on the ground and what the white house is doing. and this report, the says, it all. there is no way we're going to evacuate embassy personnel from hell covers like we did in vietnam. you know, of course, we know that happened so his ortiz, rachel blevins with more and how washington's bet on the former afghan 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 one take over against that now, inevitable? no, it is none. because you have the african troops of 300000. well equipped as well as script is any army in the world. and an air force against something like $75000.00 bond. it is not inevitable 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 the 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, how is it possible that multiple reports from, for intelligence agencies in the us managed to get this situation so wrong? that even the same mainstream outlet who had spent 20 years justifying the u. s. military's presence in the country were forced to admit what a disaster it was. us intelligence officials are pushing back on the chars that they were caught off guard by the rapid collapse of afghanistan's 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. an 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. however. 6 what the us learned the hard way was i just because it spent nearly 90000000000 dollars 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 drinks and 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 u. s. 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 1000 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 turn. oh, they did. it 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, you case, foreign secretary at 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 it's easy to say but, and i wouldn't have going on holiday, let alone, and we've come home on the government. the u. s. had been propping up for nearly 2 decades, was also supported by an embassy that housed around $4000.00 and 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 scanning and looking to learn about the country. instead, the mission they claim to have 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 u. s. accept plan was eventually proven wrong. there's going to be no circumstance for you to see people being 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. withdraw from afghanistan has been called the worst intelligence failure since the non proving that after a 20 year war, thousands of lives loss, countless communities destroyed. and more than 2 trillion dollars spent, the u. s. still hasn't learned from its own actions. california, the world's leading processor of tomatoes phases on historic drought, combined with soaring costs for labor, fuel, and fertilizer. it's got producers worried about a shortage of tomato products all across the world. in grandma packing and co which supply some of the largest us food brands is selling tomato pasted well, price is 80 percent higher than last year. and of course,

are consumers are the ones bearing the costs with the price of tomato sauce in july, way up compared to last year, with ketchup. also seeing a big price jump as well. kinda fornia peaked in tomato output in 2015, but 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 year's harvest will fall below 11000000 tons. so we hit the streets of america to get some feedback, a, sorry for that and i don't find a distort. there's probably more but more of an effect on the fast food industry than and then the household. unless there's of the household with children. you know, as part of their as part of their, their daily or weekly routine. every press paper,

a restore are going to assume turning in everything twice as high as it was in the shelves are fully stocked. they're really expensive to come down. so we cannot just be in a better benefit for us and our families, and i have to wait more on the prices on food, and i just like, well, well, a global shortage of tomatoes is also expected to, to high temperatures and key regions in the coming years with the u. s. italy and china to see supplies for the decline. that's according to the nature food journal . so germany must cut its use of natural gas by a 5th. so potentially phase crippling shortages and very serious economic consequences. that's 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 gas has become too expensive, and that's a difficult thing to happen. and while natural gas prices have been rising since the thought of the year sanctions on russia, the follow the start of the conflict in ukraine. so e, u, prices triple an rti contributor rachel martin 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 cranks caused by the european union, sanctioning its own russian gas supply. well, now it's germany's term to micromanage the daily lives of its citizens. with a 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 should to wasn't going to save the german economy and industry from a potentially catastrophic energy shortage. he also told the german trust that night time lighting of monuments and advertising displays would be banned across the country. so better bring your 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 the gas shortage causes a switch to electricity, switzerland, which isn't a member of the you, 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 country is currently so concerned about shortages of their own. that now dictating the temperature of rooms nationwide, right down to the precise degree 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 freighters as a result. one such gas trader, sir, for laura mo,

apparently felt obligated to point out that the money she saves is it for vladimir putin. meanwhile, finland joined estonia and calling for a visa bound 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. ah, exactly 75 years ago, 2 centuries of british colonial rule than india came to an end, ultimately giving rise to 2 independent states. but this came at a cost to both pakistan and india. our correspondent runjun sharma, now reports amidst the triumphal skin. dale's independence in the summer of 1947,

a line of separation was drawn by british barrister. it was called the partition august of 1947 ratcliffe drew a line bordering india and pakistan. that line also divided this way. part have been job 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 was 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 cordial village in the good asp or 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 village there her mother here government. we left our entire life across the border. our old life no longer existed than what we

had to start afresh. no memories of days gone by. come back to me and that garden in spring. it was all that shit. her chatter. he may have left pakistan, but pakistan has stayed with him in more ways than one. even today, he rides thick haines in order and keeps them close to his heart. in another which we meet, could pulsing, his grandchildren and great grandchildren have all moved to big cities. he's decided to state his 1st 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 whizzing his childhood home in pakistan. was a dream come true. ah, brenda, i went to my village, my home, i cried aloud. those who live in the house that was once mine were happy to see me . they wanted to give me a gift, but i said i won't take but give a gift. i give money and a blessing to the children living in the house. a few villages father,

also by the border stands. the rules are shut if they're gone. the sacred islamic shrine fell on the indian side when the partition line was drawn, as many seeks shines, ended up on the pakistani side. he or the entire willing 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 and light up. the lamp right here, across 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 have chosen to remember the love with the pain range and sharma, arti, but job as india and pakistan both celebrate, perhaps the most significant moment in that country's history. people have taken to

the streets to mark the occasion. a parade are taking place on both sides of the border with people celebrating their national bulls and raising flags of both countries are hopeful this day will be a reminder, if indeed foreign rule should ever again infringe upon their sufferings. see, well, let's learn more and cross live to malaya. hush may. a journalist and political analysts are joining us live here on the international. thanks for joining us on this very special day. malia it is the 75th anniversary now of its independence day this year. now, how significant is this data packet on thank you very much. oh my goodness again, by the time independence day is pretty explicit. every thing that isn't boxed on, i mean it's, are they christian independent by the 2nd floor. so that we, the future generations would reason be empowered and independent and

cherishing this very precious gift. however, i wanted to seeking improvement in a few areas, for instance, with so striving to have that option b system a just and equitable justice to a more effective administrative system and a more inclusive society. so there are a few area where i think that it need huge amount of the movement of we need to strengthen our democratic system to which is claimed by the political bias that it's there. but it's not there in the literal sense of the word militia. if i could ask you, because it's interesting, you mentioned some of the issues that are still pertinent today. i mean, you mentioned politics maybe needs to be cleaned up a little bit. you said the economy and social standards, perhaps the, there's room for improvement on some of these areas, but it's 75 years since the british rule came to an end in pakistan. of course, the creation of pakistan when, when they drew the partition line through india,

d. g, a lot of promises were made 75 years ago. do you think some of them or even most of them have been implemented to they come true? i believe i don't show any 1947. what we do not exist in our, in the process of fighting is because it's in the hands of the elite but for i'm both. both is the fact that the younger generation of 5 over the years, the political elite actually spots on the system. they look like a system. and unfortunately, we grew up having this realization that we didn't do much about it. there's only so much that we could have done about it back in the day. but now things have changed in 500. the younger generation of

a son stood up with this strongly believe the vision and fiction debit to improve the system of august on to a certain extent. obviously some of the problems is have been re, people fed. but the fact that, as i mentioned earlier on the administrative improvement and the democratic improvement that needs to have in place, we're still in the process of achieving it. there's a long way to go and pretty hopeless that works, which ever i'm finished business, is there august? i'm younger generation ridiculous. well, it's good to get a sense of optimism with emily as, as, as both pakistan and india are celebrating 75 years now. since the end of british colonial rule, everyone here at r t and for national, by the way, wishing you a very big congratulations. you know, we've had a 4 day, we're having a 4 day celebration in moscow right now, celebrating the independence of india. and of course,

pakistan. so for me all of us here, thanks for joining us and enjoy your celebrations. i, thanks for joining us here on our team to national fort today's program. and moscow was joining in the historic day, as i just mentioned, to malaya hosting a 4 day celebration festival. and that's where we find all correspondence on your federal over enjoying it. just a little bit too much. russia is celebrating 75 years of diplomatic relations with india, with the bags a wonderfully hot day. what a better way that to celebrate all things india in moscow, i should think of india, they think about flavor, spices, color. all of it is available hay and with

to be very fair. there is a loss here. types of the life of i feel like especially does open a lot ice. they show we show real tradition and yoga meditation. we showed a real indian food, not one be think is a good a load, you go to, you know, will you go to this for will did, don't do much of that to open with all the self realization they really make you realize yourself and your body yes,

and i feel like a lot of russians have been going towards that section and we need a lot of people feel that if you go around, you will actually be like, right. this is how i can call myself the world's very stressful. we've been to 2 years have been demick, a lot of stress in general and is how you think about for some time. we've been great out and the really show you how to read i you know what i feel like such a star event right now. i'm not sure i know what i look like they still haven't seen myself in the mirror. i can see people taking a phase of me and filming me, which is actually a really nice thing. i know what that is. feel like now. oh good people with

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