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kempinski my good twin should say look you. know. you're watching a recap of our top stories this hour. ministers meet to brussels to consider the bailout for struggling economies bottom euro skeptics say the single currency is broken beyond repair in several euro zone members. of the toxic claims that it was poised including depleted uranium. adriatic sea it's with silence from the alliance at italia government as locals and fishermen and deadly health risks. forms
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a new national unity coalition government days after widespread protests the previous president who is now in the regime will be the economic development of the country to its position as a beacon of stability in the region. coming up next a special report on the effort to bring back on track after years of conflict that's next on our. drug official never attempted to find out how those quick fortunes were made. so who could do it. why not the anti-corruption commission. it was led by a childhood friend of president karzai. a few months ago in september two thousand and eight the commission was dissolved when something went very wrong this was. such often. empty.
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so basically people. really give chips i had some phones heartlands for people to be calling in a case date failed or did see something going on that have been asking people for upright and what does that tell. flight ensued cooldowns. is a number that ritter numbers which we have a matter of mary production. cases to the fabs which is nigeria see. oddly enough the commission never investigated the ship or district. it was. all the same this whole says these. are serious. charges out because fish which has imposed as was if and has been built by the people to the majority of the people all the people they had for their worship in that demonstration office. say that because they say that they were the janitor it
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was. probably. your body that our he knew to show the poor that he was off to them touching it and just making it like. a skid out of it. look chief untouchable had to leave his post precipitously. according to the american press was sci fi spent three years in jail in the united states because of some shady business. see the receipt for jury duty. again if i don't talk out by the. car and we are about france i'm going to work. sure it's a moment ago drug. that's been asked so many time about this question once upon a time when i was an american and to not could say eighty four eighty five i learned on vacation with some friends and other people but there was not
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a drug trafficking or drug selling what i wanted there was were some friends together and some accident happened in the las vegas of course about integration they were in for some party and that is it i read the case and. in fact mr was he had the bad idea of selling six hundred fifty grams of heroin to an undercover f.b.i. agent. and for you if you want to make it to make sure there were a good video for your sofas than speak as much as you can if this is the case somebody had an accident happen to is that son and he care for what. was given us that his government thing and then he cannot work for his nation. it is estimated that four billion dollars circulating in the country's economy come from heroin trafficking. another four billion comes from internationally. this massive influx of money has triggered the arrival of bold speculators. afghanistan
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attracts war investors like sound business men that has made a fortune in the emirates. they're building these gilded shopping malls hoping to take advantage of the country's simmering opulence. a tell tale sign hundreds of brand new s.u.v.s in the streets. just. for by. the anticorruption deputy this sudden wealth is only the fruit of the eligible to prove his point he takes us somewhere to lunch. this is not an s.u.v. dealership it is a banquet organized in the owner of a member of parliament who was assassinated all those who count in kabul are attending want to cheer on it to. be tastefully surely these people are the richest people will pull his have exits
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the pub in a welcome way it. just shows this is how international aid is managed it's catastrophic. said to the only way does the money end up. in the pockets of those close to power the deputies the senate his ministers business is doing his job engineer of the united nations department heads still goes beyond this can waste of food or meal is paid for by a french or american english taxpayer. the same one who thought he was paying for the construction of roads of electric facility if the school. said to the money went into the pockets of the government in the behind sales the luxury hotel to tell do. go away if you can see with your nice how your money is wasted but it's something americans different people don't usually see. what do you see because they are there well that your
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money. is that if you gave them up this if your country would be kids. you know all fairness international aid has succeeded in many sectors. in health for instance the french alliance for children and the aga khan foundation have financed medical equipment that compared to what can be found in europe. even if the price of certain services like scanners are out of reach of many afghans. as for the americans they have built hundreds of kilometers of roads in record time. although it must be said that the first contracts went to american companies and that some funds were misappropriated. for instance the us a texas based company that provides security for road construction sites is being sued by the american government for forging invoices.
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a u.s. p.-i employee is accused of issuing false invoices for gas employees and current according to an f.b.i. investigation american taxpayers paid three million dollars for two years for services that were never rendered for managers of the company have been detained. met in film of the hidden camera u.s. p.-i mercenaries they say that they were trapped by the f.b.i. . these are just. a. drop. in the states of. these are the first of all the. corruption is largely endemic to the reconstruction sector. unscrupulous subcontractors sell contracts to each other. they take
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a commission for the sale and this leads to the reduction of the original budget. an employee for a construction company has accepted to describe the scheme under conditions of anonymity. when foreigners hand out a construction project to an afghan company they become partners and they want their share. they request a commission for each job they can represent up to thirty percent of the budget if you don't pay you you don't get the contract. that's why the quality of materials is so bad here. all the people who work in this field used poor quality products really to keep. they say they're going to use turkish french or german products but they don't you. know the materials come from pakistan everyone knows that that's why you see so many building schools bridges and roads falling apart. woman has
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noticed the poor quality of buildings and more than one occasion part of. his job is to control the quality of construction for the government has seen lots of substandard buildings but when he tried to denounce a shady company he had a long. and they were using low quality sand for the cement to build the walls also the walls were crumbling. we requested that they stop using this type of sand or didn't take our request into consideration they ignored our request. because they have friends in high places. over the. country i bet if you and i have to publicly declare that if see you show me one building i repeat just one building that was built correctly clinic. a school. see almost. surely one was completed all the way it was supposed to be this
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international norms. politics. for afghans the best example is the cane to come the hospital. the building is located in a working class suburb of compost it serves one point five million people. you see because bonded a bit crowded this building is sold all you can see everything is destroyed for us a.c.'s five years ago thanks to a gift from the international community hospital was renovated and a new wing added this building is not working speciated the second story today it is falling apart. you can see everything is this i thought that.
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the toilets and bathrooms are closed because of leaks they're currently being used to store broken furniture or case specific things stick on is a show this is nothing that off duty. just this you can see their watch atop this little fake way to help me if we used to tap hair then at their destroyed the first story the first thing the roof of the. building because of the earliest make up for that yes. there was there used to be there's some food still to this is this is the for a second tour of the road if we use the top it will leak to the first floor you see that's where it leaks. it's. as you see it's all become resistant to some of. this is the are leaks the story is about back good. as you see these the low quality of the day have to be used up
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if it is it's an destruction the site. is. the tiles are broken the electrical outlets going from there casing. as you see it says the operation. you can see right through. we have studied the hospital's reconstruction budget. total budget is two point two million dollars millions that will soon melt away. first the united nations agency that hands out the project with draws a two hundred seventy thousand dollar operating expense commission. that leaves one point nine million this money is allocated to an italian n.-g. o. that will supervise the work in-joke keeps one million dollars to buy wash boles
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electrical wire and washtubs. it pays nine hundred thousand dollars to an afghan company that will carry out the actual job. two million dollars is a staggering amount for afghanistan. as a point of comparison how much does it cost to build a palace in the ship or district. altogether four hundred thousand dollars. yet two million dollars will be spent to renovate an old building and add a new wing. a lot of money for the afghans to specially for a worn down building. who is responsible italian n.-g. o. the afghan subcontractor. the prosecutor's office in kabul has launched an investigation to answer that question. the italian n.-g. o. in a show goodwill accepted to meet with us. interests
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headquarters are in rome they have not been back to come. the water is leaking in it's we couldn't waterproof it because we didn't have the equipment so we did what we could. to tolle's a broken but that happens but i still can't understand it here. still the fact that it's still running amazes me i was sure that it was closed. she is the head of interest he did not oversee the hospital building site himself his n.g.o.s specializes in mine clearance. didn't get it in two thousand and two afghanistan was a rough place and no companies were capable of rebuilding the hospital so we accepted the job when i saw the report describing the final results oh i could say it was great you did a good job the report was written by specialists at least from the afghan
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government no no no from you know international technicians. and that's what i'm saying so if you see this this something that's not right. this is the field engineer who was in charge of operations he claims a lack of maintenance of the building among other things. like this and wonder they have to make it if something. that's not there nothing but it's not that it's an old lady and i did years old no no no. no no again we're going back to the reality this is the part that was built by you this is this part here so this part will destroy this where it was built by us
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a contractor four years ago. and you can see it's falling down and it's very bad cement but this is a mess this is for the. that's of the extent of. the stress this enough to say. there is no oil that should fold but you have never never seen. this time you think there's a that's the truth to her story. there was a major earthquake in two thousand and four in afghanistan but it's epicenter was three hundred kilometers away from the competition and no damages were reported in kabul. for afghan authorities the explanation is far more trivial the hospital is falling apart because of poor quality materials for use. the investigating prosecutor is one of the few officials genuinely fighting against corruption. on the morning we met him he was trying to get back salaries to
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teachers from a distant province. yes it's the government he told me teachers' salaries. yes six thousand dollars. at the prosecutor's request the control commission started looking into the ngos books. policy controllers. they came across a lot of expenses that had nothing to do with the hospital. and everything. the prosecutor keeps invoices of the ngos operating expenses in this plastic bag for him there are simply too high. fitted to this is the whole communications network. expansion that salaries computers travel funny television at rugs for their offices we can allocate those expenses to be original budget for the reconstruction in these items cannot be considered part of their
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mission borrowed out why the need for the heads of interest their normal operating costs for a western in geo of course he never be productive if you do that will ensure there is a company. the so-called supporting costs started their communication courses there because for the material there are so few computers a song that obviously a percentage of the all supporting c. standard n.g.o.s should should and should use it to do war. because you can only five percent is ok. afghan authorities are also surprised by the high cost of materials imported from italy. the admitting they said they had to an interior in italy. windows in its early lamps in pakistan water closet bathtubs in italy was all i didn't get him myself all this while the markets in afghanistan who filled with them that hard line italy have on us that are just
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a couple who is it sound economically too good to italy to bring some w.c. members is merely was impossible to come in by only live as they have gotten we have no bank. people from italy with the money in the pocket the need to pay the there was no no when banks. are in trouble. finally and that's the main problem the afghan subcontractor that performed nine hundred thousand dollars worth of work simply vanished. must have been in italy or that ecowas the company never existed as well it doesn't have an address one other child he would have said it all when i was able to join it at this company which is called and showed a rehabilitation is not likely as an agent is suffered so how can i make so much money i thought as he. apparently the subcontractor seems to overbuild some services like the demolition of an old building for eighty thousand
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dollars. that's three times the regular amount but the italian in geo continues to side with the afghan contractor even though it is fled don't secure receipts which surprises. he is that you continue to trust a subcontractor matter like a bandit. for it wasn't right it straight so it's really. correct men and they were good because they were. schooled know what they were nuts and they're not capable of giving the name of the guy who built the ospital you look so contracted him are not capable of giving me skill for longer for example which if number was provided to the attorney general or was unable to find in the prosecutor's though the the home how could a truck with a mobility phone and he was a thinking months or years last seen and they disappear if they tried his full yet this is what it. can only do. then
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a few months after this interview tonight it nations launched an investigation against the american official from un o.p.'s who had supervised the hospital budget apparently he had embezzled no less than five hundred thousand dollars. so how can you not be disappointed when the world asked us for help against the soviets we were there. and we have made so many sacrifices for us with these countries they came to help afghanistan reconstruct itself so they said unfortunately instead of that is what we faced with loss but it is almost as a. trust towards the reconstruction sector it is dwindling within the afghan population. expatriates are now synonymous with overblown salaries. and afghan n.g.o.s are suspected of running shady operations. when
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he was planning minister bash otto's confirmed that these operations were dishonest after investigating these n.g.o.s he requested that eight out of ten be closed. there are two thousand three hundred and fifty five n.g.o.s in every guy stop people so majority ninety percent a local. leader one thousand nine hundred and thirty five outright thieves which openly waste the phones that they are allocating public funds internationally your people need. to trust from people seventy percent of their budget is spent on images to boost cooke's busy body that. we requested was that easy to just be clear a film which will disappear as it is usually done only for one hundred twenty to be honest see on show us if we kick out the corrupt to the thieves to.
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give you the honest organizations a chance to work the e.g. . bashardost was never able to carry out his plan. he had to resign from the government after his proposition. among the few n.g.o.s that had the approval of the minister was afghanistan them out of afghanistan tomorrow a school run by a french afghan national. geo budget is ridiculously low but it provides an education to five hundred street kids that never went to school. for these children and afghanistan means one meal per day and learning how to read and write. stores have to give me the mark they got all marked out which is made of i used to look at other children going to school and i'd be frustrated i'm jealous but right now that i'm going
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myself i feel better to make them laugh. oh imply that i'm sure i had to work because my father cannot provide for the family i didn't have a choice i do it all year i feel much better now that i come to the center it's an earnings box i'm learning to regional lighter who was a star but he also made a good fifty. chaos and corruption are the taliban's best allies. and increasing number of us guns are regretting although not openly the islamists iron hand. under the taliban you didn't see such high levels of corruption go well you did come up to nuke went to the newly and it is today it's become a widespread system systems that i'm in was that of it's true we didn't always argue with their politics but when it came to economics there was less corruption
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and we had fewer problems. with them. in two thousand and one it took only a few weeks to oust the taliban from kabul. but already instant mortality and violence still remains. how can one be surprised that eight years later the taliban are coming back.
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