RT News - October 27 2021 (12:00 MSK)

The EU fails to agree on how to protect citizens and businesses from soaring energy bills but says it has launched a hunt for who's to blame for the heated market. A chilling warning from the United Nations, which says the situation in Afghanistan is so dire that half the country's entire population could face acute malnutrition this winter with many dying. We hear from the organization. Freedom or a possible 175-year prison sentence: Julian Assange's fate rests in the hands of the UK's High Court as an extradition-appeal-hearing to the US for the whistleblower starts today in London.