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coming up next a special report on the effort to bring. after years of conflict. swords draw on the red carpet and t.v. cameras the lights are on. june two thousand and eight the countries of the coalition are presenting their spending program for the reconstruction of afghanistan. the friendly side of the war. americans french germans afghan politicians congratulating each other. after the photo they all disappear behind a partition. it's access is closely guarded so journalists are welcome to attend the conference on television if france is not only acting as the host in power the

president as usual has planned a spectacular announcement. simple question and that is why i am announcing off an increase of french aid for reconstruction and so french aid to the afghans will be more than double. more than doubled just ahead of the aga khan private foundation france is now the twenty first donor. the first donor being the united states. has displayed to the press put the emphasis on the positive results of reconstruction especially for schools for which the u.s. government announces impressive figures. in education under the taliban seven years ago there were less than one million children in school now there are six million children in school in the u.s. government has been pleased to be able to help the government of afghanistan to achieve these quick results by reconstructing or building

a new six hundred eighty schools. bernard the french minister for foreign affairs triumphs he's just announced a very high figure and so we weren't expecting such a large sum. twenty million dollars in fact. a for a country such as afghanistan twenty billion dollars is a lot of money but how will it be spent. when members of the conference dare cross the partition that separates them from the press unpleasant questions start flying around. why will corruption and opium trafficking be found mr president first c n n what kind of guarantees you offer in the international community we will we would all for all they're going to. do see go for us as far as you can is no it is the job of just a little on this is to kill people to deliver the goods services to get out of

corruption that interruption and drug trafficking is cond only be followed by us the afghans also have to be and also to. have a genocide was to make good use of this assistance we must to give it to the afghan people by bringing them to seeing it in a concrete examples there are coaches in the past or. present these things so i can a sense that it is stand back stand that queensland stand that. winter two thousand and nine we have come to afghanistan to follow the dollar train. the billions in international aid the mysterious fortunate enough star cast living in dollars step away to the dollars come from where do they go how much is really can vested in schools and hospitals. we're about to discover

a country where an ever poor population has lost all confidence in the authorities . a country where the taliban gain ground every day. this morning in a secured zone an american convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber. the marines have lost one man they're panicking. and. they seem afraid of being attacked by someone in the crowd for passers by were killed by the blast might. be the percent of the victims of the taliban or innocent civilians. who are is becoming more intense and poverty time high afghanistan remains one of the four poorest countries in the world and people in the streets do not believe the billions of international aid will change

their fate. the good of is even that good that money money money does not reach the people who pulled out it stays up there up to us that it's in the pockets of the government it was there for you where is the money that now maybe not. starving out of work people meet every morning on this crossroads they wait here for days hoping to earn three dollars for a day's work. to do work yesterday and the day before. i haven't worked in a week so money john's times web editor in the wall or die from bullets today they die of hunger they get them about their my children and i haven't eaten anything in two days i swear i haven't eaten anything in two days that's a good girl is your buddy fish people are dying of hunger but who's going to help us anyway and if i tell you i'm starving will you help me. where are the achievements put forward by the donating countries we want to see the schools that

were a priority of international aid. here is what sounded random in a working class neighborhood of the capital. it is roll call for the girls in the south of the country girls are attacked by the taliban but they can. when you to flock to school they are determined and come in numbers in large numbers here a few minor details missing from the situation to be perfect. details like woe and a roof. that's not god. these. little fish. that might not. know working in baghdad if you didn't want it you as it was nothing more to activity and swear at you now that there are no chairs no tables this is just them the hell can the girls learn anything in the schools and you know who my dad you know i still only want to

stay one not to listen to the teacher i. want him to lose be able to grow my stuff how can they be happy. winter is coming in the morning is cold. a light snow started to fall. i asked if he goes on will have to leave now but for now it's not much at all but when the snow falls like this we stay outside of a. new study under the snow. and ice but we don't have the choice. to how much i need thing for. learning. all of the afghan people want to do our country good to organise the caring here for making go. for who i dis. it's rare. but now we are trying to make things better for the school because it is really

important expensive for the school. one thing is certain funds for major national aid were not invested here. because there aren't enough classrooms this small school welcomes its ten thousand students over three ships i . was prince of. however i spotted a piece of land where the school could settle and expand. was i mean. this piece of land is owned by the state. but most of it was seized by people who have friends in high places well the rest of it belongs to the ministry of defense i mean we put in a request to the school. off camera a school official hints that the man who confiscated this land that is vital to the school is a commander in chief a warlord. the school official remain silent in front of the camera because he fears the warlord. this is his house it overlooks the slums.

to make the situation clear the warlord has put up military barbed wire even around the small garden on the sidewalk in front of the house. it's true afghan students are back in huge numbers where the school the hundreds of schools allegedly built thanks to international. reconstructing or building a new six hundred eighty school. we contact the u.s. a united states agency for international development. their offices are located behind these walls. a perimeter reserved to those holding the bag for those outside the walls it's traffic jams and danger. we want to see with our own eyes one of the six hundred eighty schools. we've been talking to julia the press agent for ten

days. she's having trouble finding one not always calling you because i live to have some addresses of schools too to be able to feel much. you put the address on it right. on our. own. great. ten days to get the address of a school in kabul a girls' high school that is under construction. we rush to it. we find ourselves in front of a magnificent billboard picturing a truly beautiful building. ok so where is the school. the school that gives you. who or where. i you know are that you.

could use the board's been here for one and a half years out of my whatever that was that when they put it up they promised the construction starts and everything would be completed. this all is well it's almost two years now and still nothing. good to me i've been calling saying the girls are freezing to death or they have the flu i've been here since six o'clock this morning we couldn't get my hands are completely dry from the cold but that's how it was i mean this early to. go. so far the american donors have only built restrooms and the school surrounding walls and of inaugurated a beautiful billboard. we call back usaid and this time we insist where the school's out of the six hundred eighty there has to be one in kabul we receive one last email from the agency it states that most of the schools were built in rural districts. too bad for us and for the afghan kids. the rural

districts are swarming with taliban who sometimes burn the schools down and often kidnap journalists furthermore because of the war many villages have been deserted their inhabitants fleeing to the capital whose population has doubled to about four million. case in point is the. place where schools are needed the most. i guess we need so many things the construction must go faster it's really necessary yes going too slow but as amok we lack so much space in our school that we have to refuse no admissions that is more of us an occupation is very high headed for such. yet there is one neighborhood in kabul where construction is thriving where there are no delays.

welcome to ship to the stronghold of afghanistan's new lords. for the past three years fortified thomases have mushroomed ensured. each still has its own private security. of course there is the taliban threat but that's not all. sheer poor is at the heart of a conflict that the new authorities would like to conceal. a war between those who are close to power and thousands of poor people who have lived in the area for several generations. of an immigrant to stop for maybe. going to these people who came would be americans before this and it wasn't for their planes and tanks but the minute they would have never made it here you know boy what. about michael when i mean they

should have built public housing for everyone but do it instead so that if they took the area by force with weapons put out it would i say the truth on the negativity and like. to point out about your showing up and one house as well enough some really have three or four. who are the owners of these houses the secret is well kept by guards armed with machine guns. you got by the way or a private security firm you cannot film here. but both gave me a bit about the so the other thing they. were here. was a great problem that's what is saved. we meet with a man who is having his house built. he's one of the architects who has designed the neighborhood surveillance by. his rich clients have paid him

in full now it is his turn to have his own palace built. all together it can't afford a five hundred thousand dollars from the top of the villa a splendid panoramic view over the slums which are scheduled to be demolished. but. these old houses are illegal i mean these people will leave the state will relocate them elsewhere that's the way it is but if the government wants to build a road and a house is on the path that is the house is raised and the land requisition. to speed up the evictions the police showed up one morning in two thousand and six with a bulldozer. and up on the lead but does that i mean how about on the bulldozers came without warning. on the top on aiken's they came to demolish the houses that were on the

road that i started raising here. that i got them and then we were told we had to leave them on the tough economy. if you don't leave we'll be back tomorrow and we'll. make. a man comes out of one of the villas is he one of the mysterious owners. he's a businessman back from exile he rents one of the palaces and uses it as an office for his company. that you see. this is the new. this is new building in this latest model called the facilities came with security guards appear there on edge what is the problem this is a middle of the street discipline experience why don't you want us to film explain to this is a house this is

a street this is public this is i'm sorry this is this is trade this is public this house is don't own the streets you know we are regular generalists we're doing our job we're in the middle of the street i'm sorry i'm not doing anything wrong tell them to shut the camera down because the journalist want to show that there are rich people also in kabul ok ok so if you. don't film the house. because of the people here it is just a building that investing money and houses and they're giving it in because it is very high note in google. well in europe all much as it was say this this. may be twenty thousand twenty thousand euro as though it was money. but it's hard to know who receives the money and in this case you know who the owner is is someone from the government or. just. especially.

because this is the area which was. taken by people in the us or some other people from women in the poor people who are skipped from d.c. to india and you see him in this state that make this. push that this man was one of the very first to inform on the sheer poor situation a member of parliament who is waging a war against corruption. by what is a gandhi like character modest and extremely popular some call him a populist in terms of number of votes his number three in the country today he's going to create quite a stir in parliament. indeed winter is here and with it comes famine and extreme urgency as he has just discovered that the food aid hasn't reached the villages yet . it was too much. to go it was so i

protest that for the same reasons as last year. your remember i was expelled asked you this moment if i'm not mistaken with the money you asked for last year has not been cleared by the budget divide this is illegal. to avoid a scandal the president of the assembly cut his microphone. on s.r.c. any thoughts i thought after the go fish that we've heard the figures you're quoting dozens of times i mean i had thought about it but if you want to we can check it right now and that's cool villages and the local authorities to see if the food supplies have a right to get there i would like to get it when it. is exactly the same as last year thought they had lived and they continue to do so caught up with that people are dying from hunger and here you are talking about millions of dollars that i cannot believe this these are nothing but life. but it. is a former minister four years ago he resigned to protest against the squandering of

international aid. from his stint as minister he's kept a highly sensitive document concerning the ship or district. the list of all those who were sold land for almost nothing. for quandary if you saw the first time i saw this document i was the planning he was at this i opened it to you i was alone and i became terrorized just that i could not believe the mafia was so powerful to be so seductive clearly show biz amount of public funding the fraud and the outrageous craven agency it's the first scandal of the cars i'd ministration exorbitant sin reformists got of those. cars i. see the. so this is the area nine hundred twenty four square meters schiff this is the foreign secretary is chief of staff is a figure of course. is the governor of a province official here this is the son of the general. the general here and

ambassador isidore president of public radio and television. four hundred fifty square meters. she's the chief of police. is a journalist for afghan television afghan. people by right because they can't be critical of the government up with news that. how can they. eat it up with it she was also pretty i'm laughing but i should really be crying because you know if it is specifically those gifts or do they still have to pay the ticket. because they paid something like two or three hundred dollars or something chris three hundred dollars for nine hundred square metres just about. who had enough power to ward such gifts to friends of the regime. since the land officially belongs to the defense ministry the generous donor must have been a military. search and all this all this land

was given by a motion for him who is defense minister and littlest vice president. one of the most powerful and feared men in the country. who are chief who first came to light during the soviet war which he fought alongside come under my suit against the taliban in september two thousand and one suit is assassinated by al qaeda and is replaced by fate. and other afghan war chiefs become the best allies of donald rumsfeld also known as mr war in america. they. of millions of dollars to oust the taliban. after the fall of kabul in two thousand and two fame the former war chief is named defense minister then marshal. this allows him to

distribute land in the ship or district. we tried to contact marshall fame several times he did not wish to give us his side of the story. one question remains how do you earn five hundred thousand dollars when you're a civil servant. a question looming in the streets of kabul. most. of them area where does the money for their palaces come from from their mothers belly. did they get the money to build it they will fall like me . how did they do it people in the streets are not the only ones who have become suspicious the role of the human rights commission is to monitor the government the commission's lawyers have officially requested that share poor's wealthy be investigated. to know sales the subject is way too sensitive.

should goes for you if you show it makes everybody as a bridge. not more than two thousand dollars are. going to be that close trio. well some of those houses are a million dollar. baby and that's the big question there is no base these people are. only a fun read. that indicates something there is a high level of corruption and misuse of public property and misuse of those monies to develop it and at the same time there are discussions about truck traffic when i look to some of these expensive houses it can't be. even the idea of corruption because one million dollars just building. in this town

is very much. corruption and embezzlement. but also drugs. it's impossible not to think about opium trafficking when you come across afghan nouveau riche. the country produces ninety percent of the world's heroin. seven thousand tons per year. sure the taliban profit from the drugs trafficking but according to the american press so do afghan government officials inside the administration. under the pressure of the international community the government has set up an anti narcotic special unit its means are considerable for such a country. even in the area of public relations in this laboratory we are shown the tricks used by drug mules that were caught by the police or by it all much as i should have. heard. is there. a shot you mean as that i need to see

did opium money fine in some of the luxurious villas of sure. that's a question no one wants to answer. we meet with the prosecutor in charge of finding money laundering. the official seems rather reluctant to talk money with that in mr. can include we cannot afford to not come adequate all well and ask people how they go that house but if someone comes up with proof i insist if anyone can prove that our house was built thanks to drug money then we go at it one hundred percent but the law says we need proof so if someone that abides that proof then yes we work at it with no problems going to. those who is looking for the evidence if it's not you and the according to the law we don't have the right to investigate people's private property wanted and but we can't touch them everyone is allowed tallahassee or city.

culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean i would like to give it real creative aspect to. all across the globe countries one after another claim foul play and help others are valuable.