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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 ag ....
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Hidden from view, a woman screams back in anger, but then retreats indoors. within minutes, it s all gone the poppy that this family spent months going. their son is detained for defying the ban, so now, we have to get to more remote areas, near the border with pakistan, to find standing crop. farmers here know how harmful opium is. there are high levels of addiction in their own country. but there s no other option, says ali mohammad mia, whose field was destroyed. translation: if you don t have enough food in your house, - and your children are going hungry, what else will you do? if we grew wheat instead, we won t earn enough to survive. when they hit those stalks hard, they sometimes come flying in the air. ....
And we re walking to another one, which they are in the process of destroying right now. farmers here know how harmful opium is. there are high levels of addiction in their own country. but there is no other option, says ali mohammed mir, whose field was destroyed. translation: if you don t have enough food in your house - and your children are going hungry, what else will you do? if we grew wheat instead, we won t earn enough to survive. when they hit those stalks hard, they sometimes come flying in the air. what definitely comes flying is the sap from these buds, that is the opium resin. there is a very pungent smell of it in the air right now. the taliban go armed and in large numbers. there have been instances of clashes with angry locals. ....
There are high levels of addiction in their own country. but there is no other option, says ali mohammed mir, whose field was destroyed. translation: if you don t have enough food in your house - and your children are going hungry, what else will you do? if we grew wheat instead, we won t earn enough to survive. when they hit those stalks hard, they sometimes come flying in the air. what definitely comes flying is the sap from these buds, that is the opium resin. there is a very pungent smell of it in the air right now. the taliban go armed and in large numbers. there have been instances of clashes with angry locals. they are accused of profiting from opium when they were fighting against foreign forces and the former afghan regime a claim the taliban deny. ....