this is the indian punjab's largest city. population, about a million. this is a part of india i have never seen, a place i have always been curious about, home to some pretty legendary cuisine. they have a saying, the best food isn't cooked in people's homes. you find it on the streets. ♪ >> punjabis are known for their adventurous spirit as brave warriors who spread throughout the world, bringing great food with them. ♪ in fact, much of the good stuff we refer to simply as indian food comes from here. ♪ the punjab of the early 20th century saw some of the most violent resistance to british rule. and when the british finally cashed out in 1947, they carved off a huge piece, what is now pakistan. and it remains a potential flashpoint for conflict. but that's easy to forget when you first smell the food. >> there we go. >> dhaba meaning side of the road food stall and there are countless dhabas to choose from in this town but this one is legendary. >> see tony eat vegetables. and like it. >> to eat around this part of the world, punjab in particular

the punjab is a fertile region in an otherwise dry country. this is india's bread basket with over a billion people currently residing in india, this is fertile land. suddenly your life became difficult? >> they can only grow some kind of crops and they can't farm more than eight hours in a day. >> how long does it take to go back and forth. >> they have times when they can enter and come out. how much farther can we go before they start to get worried? >> yeah, i think we should just go. >> when india and pakistan was separated the attempt was to try to draw a line across religious lines. drained by the huge task of fighting two world wars, in 1947, great britain decided to end their nearly 200 year rule over india. in an attempt to stop what the colonials saw as a war between the hindus and sikh, they had a lawyer draw up the border. >> he was given two months, basically. looked at the map. you know, people died because of the displacement. unofficially this says two million people, when they fight, they get trampled upon. >> in one of the l

wow. >> this part of punjab and that part of punjab were once the same so the cultures are very similar. >> it's a popular metaphor for india. pakistan is twins separated at birth. >> we were never twins. it was one country. you could say dismembered. if you cut a body in two, they are not going to become twins. >> right. >> it's sad, you know? you can see them. they are doing the same work as you are doing. they dress the same. they look the same. but you can't talk to them. >> it is an ongoing struggle, an enduring cause of paranoia, visible all across the region. two nations with atomic arsenals who have shown if nothing else, a terrifying willingness to use them. ♪ from the horrific 2006 train bombings to the militant attacks in mumbai, the threat of terrorism along this border is a daily concern. ♪ ♪ >>> want something good? really, really good? when in amritsar? something local, regional, iconically wonderful? you can't say you've had the amritsar experience until you've had a little kulcha in your life. kulcha, this is the iconic dish of punjab. >> yes. ♪ >> kulcha, a per

wow. >> this part of punjab and that part of punjab were once the same so the cultures are very similar. >> it's a popular metaphor for india. pakistan is twins separated at birth. >> we were never twins. it was one country. you could say dismembered. if you cut a body in two, they are not going to become twins. >> right. >> it's sad, you know? you can see them. they are doing the same work as you are doing. they dress the same. they look the same. but you can't talk to them. >> it is an ongoing struggle, an enduring cause of paranoia, visible all across the region. two nations with atomic arsenals who have shown if nothing else, a terrifying willingness to use them. ♪ from the horrific 2006 train bombings to the militant attacks in mumbai, the threat of terrorism along this border is a daily concern. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] this is jim. a man who doesn't stand still. but jim has afib, atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years, jim's medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get h

we go to the punjab province. >> reporter: the flood has hit the largest part of the punjab, it has marooned villages which is surrounded by large bodies of water. there is no escape except by boat. the government and the aid agencies are trying to provide as much relief as they can to try to alleviate the suffering of the people, but this is a large calamity, and it is not over. according to estimates a very large body of water is going to be passing through the river, which is in peak flood which endangers farmlands and villages along the way the emergency the not yet over. the government has been slow in response, however, organizations such as the fif and the military are active. they're trying to save lives and to provide what little care they possibly can. >> the africa union said the largest ebola outbreak in history is having a crippling effect on virus-stricken countries. holding emergency talks in the capitol. the regional block is concerned about the safety of healthcare workers. the a. usaid that efforts to stostart border bans have negatively effected countries. the virus has a

we are joined from waziristan in punjab province. have the authorities reached all those that are stranded now? >> not sure. villages surrounded by large bodies of water. the relief effort is not underway in full swing. the military is busy until certain people and certain areas. this is a very large scale catastrophe. we are told that thousands of villages in the punjab surrounded by water or submerged under water. we know that many of the cattle or livestock has been lost, because people were not able to evacuate the animals. most of the people that were evacuated were by private aid organizations such as the fif, which has been at the forefront of relief efforts. the government has been slow, because of the political crisis in islamabad. there are thousands of people waiting for relief supplies to arrive into punjab, which was the worst hit. that will be the next correction. once rescued, thousands homeless and sick, what is happening to them. that is going to be the change, because it appears that despite the fact that pakistan h

the floodwaters moved so cloly and in punjab province they breached major dyke areas, dispersing the water, flooding villages further north. by the time the floods reached here the tide of water lost two-thirds of its volume and the ind ris river has not been able to cope with it. fortunately there's not been a major disaster, the floodwaters are petering out. having said that, as you see behind me, many people have lost their homes, hundreds of villages, but not on a scale we see further north. i can see tents goodnight you and wondering what people have got, what they are supplied with. >> what we see here is an improvement from punjab province. seems the authorities had more time to plan, perhaps they were better prepared. tents seem well organised. there's solar electricity, toilets, clean water, people have enough food. also the authorities have not had as pane people to deal with as was the case in the north. there the floodwaters were more sudden. here people say the conditions were not bad. having said that they have been here for 10 days and wanted to get back to homs and vi

now to nicole johnson, live in pakistan's punjab province. we on al jazeera have been following the floods as they move south. what is the significance of where you are now? >> welling right here is the barrage where five of pakistan's riff, and the flood -- rivers, and the floodwaters from the north head south. they merge, and 30km downstream it's pakistan's largest river, the mighty. >> ndis river. to give you an idea of the extent of the floods, the flow of water is 25 times greater than usual, and it goes to show how big the floods have been. there are floods in pakistan every year. it's the worst since 2010. >> where is the worst-hit area now? >> it's not far from where we are, it's the southern punjab area, a center of problems at the moment, and it's an hour from here. it's a journey that would normally take 30 minutes from where we were this morning. because so many roads have been cut to divert the water, and so many of the dredges have been cut as well, so far it's taken four hours, and probably be another one hour. we are getting r

you eat around this part of the world, punjab in particular, get used to eating a lot of vegetarian. and india is one of the few places on earth where even for me that's not a burden. what's that? oh, i'll take that, yeah, right here, my good man. mm. that's good. in the punjab meat or no meat, you're almost guaranteed a free for all of intense colors, flavors, and spices. >> and anthony bourdain joins us now. welcome to the program. i'm a huge fan of yours. i love the program. this year it sounds like it's going to be another terrific year, india, mexico, russia, thailand, brazil are some of the countries i heard. it's a fascinating job. i'm jealous at times to see the places you go. how do you pick? >> literally i sit around looking at a map with my camera people, and we talk about where's interesting, where can we go and that we've been before and tell a story in a new way or where we can go that we've never been before. how could we look at places we think we know about in a different way. and also sometimes just simple as what would be fascinating and fun for us. if i'm not havi

has 48 hours to act, and wanted the arrest of the prime minister as well as the chief minister of the punjab for the killing of supporters. also importantly, imran said the final march is sunday, today, and if necessary his supporters would get into the red zone. that is the diplomatic enclave, the parliament, the senate, an important area. and what the government is saying is the red zone is the red line. in the evening the prime minister will meet his cabinet members, the defence minister, the interior minister, to talk out a program on how to deal with this crisis. >> i was going to ask you more about where this is leaving nawaz sharif, and if he's made any overtures to put an end to or look into the allegations. he recommended - the government has written to the countries, the supreme court, to formulate a panel of judges, to probe into allegations of corruption, but imran khan on the other hand says the judiciary it highly politicized and doesn't see justice there. the other important thing is prime minister nawaz sharif overreacted, bringing in tens of thousands of security forces, per

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kamal hyder joins us live with the latest from the punjab province. have the stranded now been rescued? >> [ inaudible ] >>> all right, we apologise. obviously we are having a bit of technical difficulties hearing our correspondent kamal hyder there from that area. we'll try to bring you back to the story and get the latest on what is happening with the stranded there as soon as we can re-establish contact. >>> to libya, where the u.n. special envoy has visited libya's officially elected parliament in tobruk. he is showing support against the rival assembly set up by armed groups that seized the capital. the parliament is led and seen as religiously conservative. they are now calling themselves libya's dawn. the officially elected parliament in tobruk is led by a former prime minister, who has been asked to form a government. it's seen as more moderate and supports halifa -- khalifa haftar, who launched attacks against extremists. >>> al jazeera has received a report outlining concerns and a furious situation in libya. we have more from the u.n. headq

groups in punjab the americans who have infiltrated or who have joined the ranks of pakistani taliban in a very big fashion. the number of in terms of the threat by the pakistani taliban all you need to see is read about the major terrorist attack at the karachi airport. the major attack on the milita military -- military headquarters destroying one of the most important aircraft that they had. the attack on the air force base and in one case they successfully attacked a location where pakistanis were believed to have kept some of its nuclear arsenal. the point is a case of the pakistani taliban there are linkages of security forces behind the scene in terms of some insiders and in terms of some people who are radicalized enough, that is a much more dangerous phenomenon. security analysts -- if i were security analyst i would spend more time looking at the pakistani taliban. there were attempts made to engage pakistani taliban during these issues. part of the reason the pakistani taliban art directed is because the only way pakistan attempted to get at them was through kinetic needs.

on august 1, 2009, 40 house and a church per were burned in punjab. nine christians were burned alive. the brave muslim governor of punjab province was outraged by abibi's blasphemy conviction and death sentence and he publicly and loudly campaigned for her release and for at least a rewrite of the blasphemy law. some in pakistan regard lawyers who defend blasphemers in court or anyone who publicly plead for mercy for blasphemers or changes in the blasphemy laws to be guilty of blasphemy themselves. and so after a couple of weeks of protesting abibi's death sentence, he was shot at point blank range 27 times by one of his own security guards standing right beside him. the security guard smiled upon completing the assassination of the governor and surrendered to the other police officers around him. when he made his first appearance in court, he was showered with rose petals by lawyers who treated him as a hero. and the judge, who had no choice but to convict him of murder then had to flee the country. not far from the pakistani capital, there is now a

but i went up to the punjab where the green revolution was trade out and so miraculous, and i made with the head of the green revolution there, who explained to me that to grow up a these crops fast, they dug a lot of holes in the ground to get water which they hate at 50-75 feet. and then went down to 150 and 250 and 500 feet when it got so expensive to drill and to pump, indian farmers started committing suicide, and i spent a day the punjab talking to widows of green revolution farmers who no longer can afford to keep drilling now below 1,000 feet to get to that rapidly depleting water. since 1995, their farm union told me, and i corroborated this with the indian government, 270,000 green revolution farmers have committed suicide in india, and they do it symbolicallily by drinking pesticide. the numbers have grown, water is diminishing, the use of chemicals to force feed the lan to get more food for us, this is serious stuff, which is why i -- i decided i had to write this book. but in the midst of it all, i was watching, as all of us now watch, what is going on with the atmosphere a

they shared the same in punjab. that's where the key is because you could have a similar situation in tunisia. again, something he talks about in his book. >> i am at the new america foundation. a question on the narratives are talking about the money being spent. the u.s. government has history of a successful narrative in the absence of a vibrant media in his population to the tune of $51 million with the university of nebraska to further a communism. since there has been lessons learned from successful narrative operations, how much money has been spent by the u.s. government was counting that narrative in the vibrant media in the country today? my second question is that the pakistani army since 1954, $21 million is the first amount of money given by the u.s. government and continuously have been that level of support. what would be a ballpark figure by the u.s. government to the pakistan army and how much is spent in education and pakistan tories the narrative in the media? unit that's a great question. i don't

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we have more from southern punjab. >> it's a terrible year to own a cotton factory. first came the rain, heavy and out of each. it knocked the plants around, damning the quality of the cotton. then the bloods hit, working away a third of the crop, and taking with it, 40% of the business's profits. >> because of the damage we are getting less raw material. the flood is costing us a fortune. the factory is barely running 12 hours a day. we don't have enough cotton. >> from the air, you can see the extent of the damage. farms, factories and villages, when the government diverted water to rural areas to protect cities. around 7,000 square kilometres of agricultural land is under water. everything from fruit and vegetables to rice and sugar. prices are going up. the worry is there won't be enough blask supplies to feed people. >> this farmer, who is a lawyer and politician, says the cost of some food items has doubled, and even tripled. >> from the farms to the market, the food stuffs are not coming. the crops are destroyed. so this will have a demand and supply impact. i

this, he doubled the salaries and doubled the forces in punjab and the crime also doubled in punjab in the same way. my question to you is, based on your recommendation for religious purlism and this law enforcement enhancement, my question is, that in most of the cases in pakistan, the prime ministers became prime ministers through an accident. if you become prime minister through an accident or if you are asked to make a recommendation pragmatically, what is something specifically those three or four steps and you will do to bring this kind of terrorism and instability to a closure? thank you. >> thank you very much. you're right about that. the issues. but the reason i would really like pakistan to thoroughly investigate and figure out who killed them because in the absence of a very clear answer, the conspiracy theories continue to be more popular and then those who are behind the killings continue to think they can kill and get away with it. and we have seen that in the recent past many of the politicians were killed, people of the national party, the party in that area, members o

punjab's a flashpoint. we go, eat, look at a beautiful part of the world but through food and i think ordinary conversations with ordinary people try in our small way to explain what the hell's go on there. >> hitch a ride to india and find out what other adventures anthony has in store for us, "parts unknown" 9:00 p.m. eastern. >>> investigation into what happened at flight 370. what happened if nothing turns up? experts back next. co: sometimes you don't know you need a hotel room until you're sure you do. bartender: thanks, captain obvious. co: which is why i put the hotels.com mobile app on my mobile phone. anyone need a coupon? i don't. at your ford dealer think? they think about tires. and what they've been through lately. polar vortexes, road construction, and gaping potholes. so with all that behind you, you might want to make sure you're safe and in control. ford technicians are ready to find the right tires for your vehicle. get up to $120 in mail-in rebates on four select tires when you use the f

yes missoula that the analysts would have been a component in his hometown of with his sons eastern punjab as we used to pay tv several interesting in any iraqi capital was a fan of bob the heart nineteen eighty six that i make something new soon to against india did not three hundred and fifteen to nineteen is giving people call is given the number to two weeks he tells in. so it is reported to have two of his supporters. cq do you really see it causes any team since nobody would not have been possible without state support. the new toy keys the distinctive security deed. just wish he'd get close to during the hijacking of the new tough minded teachable moment. focus on sport in office his status as the venue was the one thing you didn't get to skip the scrutiny in the north the dpj. what's an individual who belongs to the prospect of an entity says. i should talk to him concerning the oh so much. we did see the air force that he addressed the meeting. but probably this is vital to any land he owned this kid is cooked in the end he did it. but um i'm showing a little bit but his argumenta

eat around this part of the world, punjab, in particular, get used to eating a lot of vegetarian. india, one of the few places on earth where even for me that's not a burden what's that? i'll take that, right here, my good man. mmm, that's good. in the punjab, meat or no meat, almost guaranteed a free for all of intense colors, flavors, and spices. "parts unknown" 9:00 p.m. eastern tonight. >> this cnn breaking news.

the ancient city i see him rip off a widow and a papa some even to death with the forgotten in the punjab province of the owners of the village also shown that the dual focus on is the bb with practices to better lead the fop to normal was made as a punishment because of the bed and had a cavity on the other victim was not helping the house to find and buy the good account of which was the punishment meted out side. i did this with all five of the ngo victims of the most attention haven't had a fair bit in the second best in people the tournament of this dollars a head cold that he bobbed of punishment. some other developments now chinese community in a exuberant celebrations are in bed with a new era on friday to come up it might be sleeping tonight in most parts of eastern food but after clark helped easter lake city. nigel scott is only today did they danced the night. chinatown burst into song and dance to be here no force and said they'd been doing a new year to eighteen in the giants get into the spirit of represented by one of twenty islands from the chinese zodiac. i drink an ounc

across huge areas of southern punjab floodwaters are slowly starting to recede. but it's leaving behind dirty stagnant water which brings more disease and misery. >> reporter: people are usin using this water to bathe in and wash their clothes and dishes. in some areas they're drinking it. some people are already getting sick. >> they're living right next to their homes. not inside because there is water. but they have their beds right outside of their homes on the roads, and we have all the stagnant water and insects around them. that's what is making the decision worse, and these are the conditions they're living in. >> reporter: this medical center for flood victims is run by a charity. it's also in the middle of a major road. children have skin rashes and infections. this woman tells us that she suffers from vimtying and stomach cramps. all of these women have the same complaint. doctors are treating around 200 peopl2,000 people a day a loan. >> they are seeing abdominal problems and skin diseases. >> reporter: medical staff are pleading for more help. they s

two lessons of moscow's in the punjab province. the indy mediation has become a new duty of the monarch of the above listed. it's a good ally. which leaves me with the sun meaning that it didn't was that door and i will astound me with the village hall for jess's began tumbling into the concrete and docile cool book and even in seeking god and of course abducted by security forces and spy agencies but which affected his team some eighteen thousand people have gone missing in the pasta news from the province. i kissed me on appeal keypad minister chaudhry of the najib has accused the foxton government of hijacking the beaches democratic system to manipulation and intimidation prime minister najib also set to top officials appointed by tom abide in fealty this is not fixed yet after that the upa government in islamabad for the defeat of its candidate in the teaching team headed by a calling. monday i did that on this. we fed and stuff but the sky. then in eighteen ninety six he could not looking that the uk government to focus on rea

many of them in pakistan's punjab province. the floods are described as the worst in the area for a half a century. >> reporter: i'm on an indian air force helicopter carrying relief supplies to the flood victims. we've just taken off, and are flying over the mountains towards the kashmir valley to one of the worst affected. you can see over here, we are carrying supplies of food packed inside these sacks, tomatoes, eggplant, onion, supplies of fruits and vegetables that are urgently needed by communities that have been cut off for days, and are desperate for help. we've now landed at the main air base here, and the supplies we brought with us have been unloaded. you can see over here that apart from the vegetables, there are also cartons of milk, and over here chickens that have been brought by other flights. now, all of this is going to be loaded on to military trucks and then driven across to the villages in the mountains you can see there and beyond. ordinary levies would have come here by road from the main highway linking

the roads the windows were injured in a separate incident of the islands in the south eastern punjab province and friday. that's the benefit of continuing violence but the bottom. the index the ceasefire the unidentified man with the outside it does stick that is the italian solid eighty eight. the next day this is the second attack on a less than a mom the bomb attack. it's not the month actually i tot it would hit it. and two dogs and lots to eat it. the incident an explosion in a market in its dry heaving up and got stuck into that but did not want to get seventeen people. i didn't find it a shot was detonated by them would go into a device he said the bbc did that and i must use the condition of tools and is said to be treated small but c'mon. as might be getting. the stocks. i bought ten of the city government this is fine by the ttp defense and a diet of processed ended on cars deep inside inside the deal announced a five day extension. the name and fax it to say that these stocks have vowed to step up attacks in the country. this evidence that's what the gun is the best out of

that is what this indian state punjab is known for. also called the bread basket of india, it has played a leading role for the country's food security. but now there are fears that punjab may be paying a high price for that achievement. pollution from old and harmful pesticides is said to have become a major problem. pesticides, considered extremely dangerous, are still available in shops here in punjab and used in the fields. but the government claims india's needs are different from other countries. >> the international community, international bodies that banned it, i think india government does not necessarily have to ban it in the same way. because india is a diversified crop, and the agriculture system also different. >> reporter: it's not only about food security, needing to feed india's massive 1.2 billion population, but also about business. india is a multi-billion-dollar exporter of pesticides. and industry representatives deny there is a problem. >> i would like to clarify that not a single hazardous or banned pesticide is

the nhl's supplies much of the natural gas heating up songs like china textile industry in eastern punjab province and is home to a deepwater port on the other the boats as well as on the stand accused of preaching to the war. state run to pull the meat just falls into gold star launches punitive raids the torch and drawn up opponents on floating and dozed off at times the conflict is subject to far less than awesome scrutiny. then the army's second half against the boks the needs of the bump on the front here with us this time. nonetheless the defaults by human rights groups all abuses which is not based on impressions over the conduct of box on saturday. just received the most condemned billion dollars from washington since two thousand won to finance its budget audubon campaigns according to data compiled by don't stop all the congrats to episodes of this. strongly consider that the motives which is expedient. we use a report by the looks nice in this since being called widgetbox. on nineteen forty eight. so this is doubly mind off the road to the team on the pakistan state. great bibl

across huge areas of southern punjab, it's leaving behind dirty stagnant water which brings more disease and misery. >> people are using this for bathing and in some areas people are drinking it and many are getting sick. >> they are living right next to their homes, not inside because there's water over there. they have their beds right outside, and we have the stagnant water and insects around them. and cattle also around them. that's what's making the conditions worse and these are the conditions they are living in. >> this medical facility is for victims and in the middle of a major road. children have skin rashes and infections. this woman tells us she's suffering from vomiting and stomach cramps. all of these women have the same complaints. doctors are treating around 2,000 people in this tent alone. >> most of the problems are related to diarrhea and skin diseases like scabies. >> medical staff are pleading for more help. they say it's a crisis here. at least these flood victims have somewhere to go for medicine and to see a doctor. more isolated regions there's no one. and so so