back upstream, you can t really see what is left of the dam and hydroelectric plant. so who did this? russia controls this area, but blames ukraine. kyiv is in no doubt. translation: the kakhovka hydroelectric power station. l it was an absolutely deliberate, prepared explosion. they knew exactly what they were doing. translation: tonight, i the kyiv regime committed another terrorist crime. the kakhovka hydroelectric dam was blown up, which led to the flooding of significant territories. so what is the significance of the dam? it provides water to huge swathes of agricultural land, including in crimea, and the reservoir behind it provides water to cool the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant further up river. both areas are under russia control. the reservoir is huge. the dnipro river is especially wide here. 150 miles long, and up to m miles across. this is what the dam looks like undamaged. our colleagues at bbc verify say this image of a smaller breach was taken just days ago. but
land now control it. and they re enforcing the diktat of their leader. this is a taliban anti narcotics unit. deep in eastern afghanistan, they stop when they see a field of poppy. while the men raze it, their commander shouts at the family that owns the land: i told you to destroy it yourselves.
what definitely comes flying is the sap from these buds. that s the opium residue. there is a very pungent smell of it in the air right now. the taliban go armed, and in large numbers. there have been incidences of clashes with angry locals. they re accused of profiting from opium when they were fighting against foreign forces and the former afghan regime a claim the taliban deny. but now, from what we ve seen, and from satellite images, there s evidence of an unprecedented reduction. this is helmand province. it used to be afghanistan s opium heartland. wheat stands where poppy was once grown. niamatullah dilsoz tells us that in this taliban controlled
translation: they should not link humanitarian issues - of political manners. opium isn tjust affecting afghanistan the whole world is affected by it. afghan ferried from afghan fields produces nearly all of the heroin sold to europe. how will prices be impacted? we went to kandahar, another major poppy growing province, to find out. we met a farmer holding onto a small stash of his harvest from last year. we re not naming him to protect him. he told us the price of each of these bags is now five times what it was before the ban. he s waiting for it to rise further so it can sustain his family longer. for now, the taliban appear to have accomplished what no one else could. but there are questions about how long they can sustain it.