forjoining us- the water levels continue to rise and that is the real concern at the moment. eight major towns being hit but president zelensky talking about 80 villages and towns in the wider area which need help. all of the heroin sound in europe is made from opium from afghanistan. now research suggests the taliban government has enforced a successful ban on growing the crop. satellite analysis from a uk based company shows that opium farming is down by as much as 80% compared our south asia correspondent yogita limaye reports.
from it when they were fighting against foreign forces and the former afghan regime a claim they deny. but now there s evidence, from what we ve seen and from satellite analysis, of an unprecedented reduction in opium farming. we met the main spokesman of the taliban government, who told us they banned opium because it s harmful and goes against their religious beliefs. farmers say they re not getting any support from your government. how do you plan to help them? translation: we know that people are very poor. - but opium causes a lot of addiction. we call on international organisations to help afghans facing losses. but then at the same time, you re making the operations and the funding of aid agencies in this country extremely difficult by the ban on afghan women working for them. you can t have it both ways. translation: they should not link humanitarian issues -
authority get into that location just about 30 kilometers south of where i am. now, that was extracted by emmanuel macron, the french president, during a phone call with the russian president. but it s actually a repeat of the pre-existing russian position, and it doesn t come alongside a concession from the russians to demilitarize the nuclear power station, which is what the international community has been demanding and requesting r. it doesn t solve the problem of how inspectors get in safely and out again. we know that is a location that s being used by russians to fire missiles against ukrainian targets. indeed, over the last month or so, they ve killed at least 13 civilians across the dnipro river from that location, and we have witnessed destruction caused by missiles much closer in. now, at the same time, the russians are claiming the ukrainians are firing back. there is no supporting evidence from that, either from satellite analysis that we ve done at cnn, nor from ukrainian